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Introit: I am the first and the last (Rose); In Christ there is no east or west
(Bangor) (BP 38); Luke 13, w 22-30; Anthem: Prevent us, 0 Lord (Alan Ridout ); Come, labour on (Ora Labora) (BBC HB 388) Director of Music BARRY ROSE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ridout

Eight programmes on the story of the poet's life as told in his own letters. With Robert Powell as Lord Byron.
5: Evolutions and Revolutions
Selected and introduced by Brian Gear.
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Powell
Introduced By:
Brian Gear.
Producer:
Margaret Bradley

A series of six quests in search of a weird, exotic and endangered animal in the company of Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams.
3: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
This week our heroes are to be found in the backwaters of the Amazon, searching for a creature that cannot make up its mind whether it is animal, vegetable or mineral.
It's a totally harmless, somewhat stupid mammal called the manatee. Additional music by STEVEN FAUX
Series producer
GAYNOR SHUTTE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Carwardine
Unknown:
Douglas Adams.
Music By:
Steven Faux
Unknown:
Gaynor Shutte.

by Guy Merideth
With Maurice Denham as Alec Leeland, Ian Targett as young Alec, Philip Voss as Maxwell Vine and Petra Davies as Helen Holloway

A young composer working in the British film industry in the 30s finds himself up against a number of eccentric types involved in a seemingly doomed picture. Can he save the day with a magical score?
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Guy Meredith
Music arranged and played by:
Trevor Allan
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Alec Leeland:
Maurice Denham
Young Alec:
Ian Targett
Maxwell Vine:
Philip Voss
Helen Holloway:
Petra Davies
Claude Leroux:
Neville Jason
Jack B Nimble:
Michael Graham Cox
Nellie Browne:
Joan Walker
Billy:
Ian Michie
Other parts:
Philip Sully
Other parts:
Richard Tate

Elizabeth Wright presents six programmes in which the Chinese people recall 40 years of Communist rule and great events that shaped their lives. 3: Bombard the Headquarters
Red Guards and their victims talk about the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 and how the violence and resulting chaos brought China to its knees.
Producer DAVID POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Wright
Producer:
David Powell

Tabloid journalist Byline Brown is Ian Dury 's creation in his musical
Apples; Dietrich Fischer. Dieskau publishes his autobiography;
Joyce McMillan reports on new directions in the USSR.
Presenter Anne Theroux. Producer JOHN BOUNDY. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Byline Brown
Unknown:
Ian Dury
Unknown:
Dietrich Fischer.
Unknown:
Joyce McMillan
Presenter:
Anne Theroux.
Producer:
John Boundy.

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