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with Clive Jacobs and Andrew Green
Producer NORMAN WINTER Editor DAVID COOMES BBC Manchester FM joins at 8.00 including at 8.00 News
8.10 Sunday Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Andrew Green
Producer:
Norman Winter
Editor:
David Coomes

from the Central Church, Torquay, Devon conducted by THE REV GERALD BOWERMAN Preacher
THE REV DR HARRY JOHNSON
Introit: May the words of my mouth (Price)
Hymns (HP): With gladness we worship (19); I sing the almighty power of God (334); Make me a channel of your peace (776);
Love divine, all loves excelling (267); Anthem: Lift the strain of high thanksgiving (Watkinson)
Readings (niv): Psalm 104, w 1-15 and 24; Mark 12, vv 28-34 Musical Director STEPHEN PRICE BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Bowerman
Unknown:
Dr Harry Johnson

One's best ideas seldom play up in practice to one's expectations, especially in gardening....
V. SACKVILLE WEST
In Your Garden, 1951
A chance to check your knowledge of gardening and related subjects against two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting.
This week's guests include Zandra Rhodes , Vince Hill Mollie Weir and Elizabeth- Jane Howard. Questionmaster
Dr Stefan Buczacki Producer IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday 10.00am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Norman Painting.
Unknown:
Zandra Rhodes
Unknown:
Vince Hill
Unknown:
Mollie Weir
Unknown:
Jane Howard.
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Producer:
Ian Strachan

by ALAN AYCKBOURN
The PA system is down.
The first aid tent isn't up.
And the cubs and brownies are everywhere....
Directed by CLIVE BRILL BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn
Directed By:
Clive Brill
Gosforth:
Gordon Reid
Scoutmaster Stokes:
Terry Molloy
Milly:
Sarah Thomas
Councillor Pearce:
Delena Kldd
Vicar:
Graham Blockey

In the third of four programmes, Graham Swift visits the Fens with Christopher Somerville.

A similar landscape formed the background to Swift's fictitious Waterland.

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Swift
Unknown:
Christopher Somerville
Reader:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Producer:
Jude Howells

5: A Necklace from Northumbria This week, Brian Redhead examines the seventh century and the world of Hilda the bishop-maker. On the way he meets the first recorded
Loch Ness monster eye-witness as well as the only Englishman identified by Dante's Paradise. He also explodes some Celtic myths, explores the effect of Islam on the Eastern Church and finds out why royal boiled eggs precipitated a theological clash.
Reader Norman Bird
Studio production AMANDA HANCOX Series producer FRANCES GUMLEY (Re-broadcast Tuesday 8. OOpm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Frances Gumley

A life of the queen in seven parts, with Narrator Robert Powell 4: Family Life
With DONALD DOUGLAS. GARARD
GREEN. KATE LEE. HILDA SCHRODER Compiled and written by RICHARD MULLEN and JAMES MUNSON Producers ALAN HAYDOCK and GILLLAN HUSH. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Narrator:
Robert Powell
Unknown:
Donald Douglas.
Written By:
Richard Mullen
Written By:
James Munson
Producers:
Alan Haydock
Queen Victoria:
Anna Massey
Prince Albert:
Paul Daneman

The second of four programmes in which Sheila Hancock and Guildhall students Xanthe
Gresham and Peter Wingfield explore the craft of the actor. Dialect with Joan Washington Producer MERILYN HARRIS (R) revised (e)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Peter Wingfield
Unknown:
Joan Washington
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

with Marjorie Lofthouse 8: ARK
An instant decision taken on a business trip to America led to the setting up of ARK. Now the company specialises in making maps to help in the search for oil and gas around the globe. Producers LUCY LUNT and ROSIE GREENHAM. BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Unknown:
Rosie Greenham.

Where some have found their paradise, others just come to harm
The words of Joni Mitchell could serve as a description of religious conversion.
Trevor Barnes explores the phenomenon, talking to converts and casualties, evangelists and psychologists. Producer and series editor DAVID COOMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Joni Mitchell
Unknown:
Trevor Barnes

The poet Tony Harrison discusses how and why he returns obsessively to ancient Greek myths and literature to confront his very modern preoccupations.

Was the tragedian Euripides bribed to suppress a more feminist version of the story of Medea? What is the role of the poet today in trying to prevent a nuclear war destroying even the memory of Troy?

Readings by Robert Eddison, Glenda Jackson, Barrie Rutter and Michael Tudor Barnes

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Harrison
Reader:
Robert Eddison
Reader:
Glenda Jackson
Reader:
Barrie Rutter
Reader:
Michael Tudor Barnes

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