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Sand, Seagulls and Toads
Within five miles of Liverpool's city centre it is possible to see two of Britain's rarest species.
Nick Davies goes to the docks to see little gulls feeding beside a breaker's yard and to the dunes for the natterjack toad chorus. Producer MILES BARTON. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Davies

with Clive Jacobs and Ted Harrison
Producer NORMAN WINTER Editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH FM joins at 8. 00 including at 8.00 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Producer:
Norman Winter
Editor:
Beverley McAinsh

Mass for the fifth Sunday after Easter from St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin Celebrant and preacher FR DERMOD MCCARTHY. ADM
Readings: Acts 10, vv 25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1 John 4, vv 7-10; John 15, vv 9-17
Music: Christ, be near at either hand (Trad); Ego sum panis (Palestrina); Praise, my soul, the King of heaven With the PALESTRINA CHOIR directed by ITE O'DONOVAN Organist GERARD GILLEN BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Dermod McCarthy.

by JOHN P. ROONEY with 'I saw your advertisement for an Irish pen pal in the paper last night. So here I am: I'll start by telling you all about myself and my family....'
But John tells Betty everything but the truth, with disastrous results.
Directed by JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John P. Rooney
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
John Smith:
John Lynch
Dan:
Peter Quigley
Ma:
Stella McCusker
Deirdre:
Tracey Lynch
Betty:
Sue Broomfield

Robin Ray celebrates the centenary of the gramophone 3: War and Peace
How the gramophone spread propaganda, boosted morale and gave us the chance to escape from it all.
"Whenever the enemy guns went quiet, we'd get out the gramophone and remind ourselves of home," First World War Soldier.
BBC North East Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Robin Ray
Producer:
Jeff Link

Dickens - a life reflected in his writings and the words of his family and friends. A seven part series compiled by MICHAEL BAKEWELL with 4: No Time to Breathe
'After balancing, considering and weighing the matter in every point of view, I have made up my mind to go to America.
Kate cries dismally if I mention the subject. But. God willing, I think it must be managed somehow.'
Other parts played by GWEN CHERRELL.ZELAH CLARKE SIMON CUFF.
ALAN DUDLEY
POLLY JAMES. JOAN MATHESON
EMILY RICHARD and EVA STUART Researcher MELISSA BAKEWELL
Directed by ROSEMARY HART. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Played By:
Gwen Cherrell.Zelah Clarke
Played By:
Simon Cuff.
Played By:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Polly James.
Unknown:
Joan Matheson
Unknown:
Emily Richard
Unknown:
Eva Stuart
Unknown:
Researcher Melissa Bakewell
Directed By:
Rosemary Hart.
Charles Dickens:
Martin Jarvis
John Forster/Narrator:
Paul Daneman
Macready:
Harold Innocent
Squeers:
Anthony Jackson
Fagin:
Garardgreen
Oliver:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Quilp:
John Baddeley
Martin Chuzzlewit:
Valentine Pelka
Mark Tapley:
Stephen Rashbrook
General Choke:
Peter Marinker

The last of six programmes in which Stanley Ellis discovers the wealth of ways in which people talk about their lives, their landscape and their local language.
Cork - Blarney Groves and Talking Stones
'The Cork people have a great ear for music and for sound and so the environment is going to create in them a rhythm in their voices which will be different to what it was in the past....' Researcher JAMES N. HEALY
Producer WILL CANTOPHER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Ellis
Unknown:
James N. Healy

The last programme in the series, in which one of this country's leading chamber ensembles takes the opportunity to remove their tail-coats, loosen their bow-ties and display the lighter side of their repertoire.
Producer RICHARD EDIS Stereo (R) revised

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Edis

Mitterand or Chirac?
Today French voters decide who will be their President for the next seven years - Francois Mitterand. the outgoing
Socialist President, or his right-wing opponent. Jacques Chirac. Live from Paris, Gordon Clough and Philip Short get reaction to the result and assess its implications for France and her European partners.
0 HEAR THIS: page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Francois Mitterand.
Unknown:
Jacques Chirac.
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Philip Short

Words and music for Sunday For the Love of God In this series of four programmes, Colin Semper talks to people who have experienced major changes in their lives.
4: Helen Larkin continues to reflect on her own experience of constant pain, her work as a fundraiser, and her deep love of God.
Producer JUUA BROSNAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Colin Semper
Unknown:
Helen Larkin

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