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Cliff Michelmore takes to the river this morning for the Henley Royal Regatta. He meets competitors and supporters who ve travelled from all over the world to be at Britain's leading rowing event.
Also. Dilly Barlow keeps up to date with all the latest news of the waterworld.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Caroline Elliot

Religious news and views from home and overseas with Clive Jacobs and Ted Harrison
Producer ANDREW GREEN Editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH FM joins at 8.00 including at 8.00 News
8.10 Sunday Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Editor:
Beverley McAinsh

A celebration of Holy
Communion according to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer from St Bride's Church Fleet Street, London
Celebrant CANON JOHN OATES Hymns (AMR):
Angel-voices ever singing (246); Immortal, invisible (372); Bright the vision that delighted (161) Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (296)
Sanctus and Benedictus: Darke in E
Gloria: Mozart in B flat
Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Byrd)
Readings (av): I Peter 3, w 8-15; Luke 5, vv 1-11

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon John Oates

A comedy by RHYS ADRIAN
The price of property in the south of England has soared and many householders are sitting on a fortune in bricks and mortar. The problem is when to sell? And where to move to?
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo (R)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Rhys Adrian
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Gerald:
Norman Bird
Jane:
Eva Stuart
Jack:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Frank:
Richard Tate
Eric:
William Simons
Walter:
Stephen Tompkinson

Six judges from different levels of the court system talk to
Hugo Young about their lives, their personal feelings about their jobs and the professional dilemmas they face every day. 1: Judge Alan Simpson
A circuit judge who sits in the Crown Court in Sheffield. Producer ANNE SLOMAN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugo Young
Unknown:
Judge Alan Simpson
Producer:
Anne Sloman

Robert Booth summons the writer and comic actor Stephen Fry to his study for a quiet word about his school reports.
'P.E.: The most energetic part of his visits (rare) to the sports centre is generally the stroll through town.'
Producer NIGEL ACHESON (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Booth
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

by RICHARD J WEISS with Robert Beatty as Benjamin Franklin
1789: the sage of Philadelphia, close to death, sifts through his treasured mementos ... a kite ... a key ...a garter....
Directed by COLIN MCLAREN Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard J Weiss
Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Unknown:
Benjamin Franklin
Directed By:
Colin McLaren

by E.W. HORNUNG
Six stories dramatised by DAVID BUCK with and 5: A Trap to Catch a Cracksman When an American pugilist boasts that he has invented a trap to catch the cleverest cracksman alive, he is issuing a challenge that Raffles, for one, is quite unable to resist.... with disastrous consequences. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
E.W. Hornung
Dramatised By:
David Buck
Raffles:
Jeremy Clyde
Bunny:
Michael Cochrane

Seven true stories of travel and adventure, compiled and written by JULIA KEAY. 5: Scarcely a Sacrifice
The story of Daisy Bates with Narrator Edward de Souza 'The pioneers of Western
Australia were noble men and women, and nearly all of them were above reproach and more than kindly in their treatment of the Aboriginal. But it was a kindness that killed as surely as cruelty would have done. The Australian native can withstand all the ravages of nature - fiendish droughts and sweeping floods, horrors of thirst and enforced starvation: but he cannot withstand civilisation.'
Producer JOHN POWELL Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Julia Keay.
Unknown:
Daisy Bates
Producer:
John Powell
Daisy:
Sinead Cusack

Sunburnt Spirituality 1: The Aboriginals
Two hundred years ago, Christianity arrived in Australia through the chaplains aboard the first fleet. In this series of four talks. contemporary Australian
Christians reflect on the way the faith has developed in their distinctive country. Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC Manchester. Stereo

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