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Holy Communion from St Andrew's Church, Oxford, led by The Rev Colin Bennetts. The first in a series of sermons in Lent based on Luke 4, w 14-30.
The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me
Preacher, The Rev David Winter.
Readings: Isaiah 61. vv 1-4; Luke 4, vv 14-29
Introit: Open thou mine eyes; I heard the voice of Jesus (AMNS 247); The Servant King (SOF 120); There is a Redeemer (SOF 534); Lead us, heavenly Father (AMNS 224)

Contributors

Service led by:
Rev Colin Bennetts
Preacher:
David Winter
Director of music:
Veronica Bennetts
Organist:
Pippa Mayfield

visits Buckinghamshire, where members of the Marsh Gibbon
Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki
Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by CHARLES DICKENS concluded by LEON GARFIELD and dramatised in five parts by DAVID BUCK. 1: Orphans
The arrival in Cloisterham of Neville and Helena Landless sets in motion a chain of events leading to murder. Stereo (Part 2 this Friday at 3.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwin Drood
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Leon Garfield
Unknown:
David Buck.

Is there a life for the independent publisher today? Following a shake-up at Viking
Penguin, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson , a pillar of London's literary establishment, decided to leave and set up his own company.
Christopher Cook talks to Sinclair-Stevenson, his authors and publishing colleagues. Producer FIONA MCLEAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson
Talks:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Presenter Andy Crane. Paul Copley reads
Stanley Bagshaw and the 22-Ton Whale by BOB WILSON.
Andy discovers a tropical rainforest.... in London! Plus part 4 of The Witch's Revenge by NIGEL HINTON adapted in six parts by NEIL SHENTON.
Taking part
Marc Murphy
Elizabeth Mansfield
John Bramwell
David King , David Ross and James Greene. Researcher LIS ROBERTS Serial directed by CAROLINE SMITH
Producer MARY KALEMKERIAN BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Andy Crane.
Presenter:
Paul Copley
Unknown:
Stanley Bagshaw
Unknown:
Bob Wilson.
Unknown:
Nigel Hinton
Unknown:
Neil Shenton.
Unknown:
Marc Murphy
Unknown:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Unknown:
John Bramwell
Unknown:
David King
Unknown:
David Ross
Unknown:
James Greene.
Directed By:
Caroline Smith

with Nigel Forde.
John Mortimer talks about his latest book Titmuss Regained, a tale of greed versus conservation; and Edward de Bono explains what's gone wrong with the way we think!

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde.
Talks:
John Mortimer
Talks:
Edward de Bono

The last of four programmes.
The Leyhill Debate from Leyhill
Open Prison in Gloucestershire, where the minister responsible for prisons, prison reformers, prison officials and inmates considers the proposition that: 'Our present prison system cannot rehabilitate offenders.'
Proposing:
Vivien Stern (Director, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders) and Dr Rod Morgan
(Reader in Criminology, Bristol University). Opposing:
David Mellor , QC. mp (Minister of State at the Home Office) and Ian Dunbar
(Director of HM Prisons, South West Region). Chairman
Brian Redhead. Producer
LAWRENCE SIMANOWITZ Editor MARGARET HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivien Stern
Reader:
Dr Rod Morgan
Unknown:
David Mellor
Unknown:
Ian Dunbar
Unknown:
Brian Redhead.
Unknown:
Lawrence Simanowitz
Editor:
Margaret Hill

The Batman is dead.
Police Commissioner
Gordon makes a journey through the background of Gotham's famous vigilante.
Starring and Featuring
Stereo

Contributors

Alfred Pennyworth:
Michael Gough
Commissioner Gordon:
Paul Maxwell
Bruce Wayne:
Garrick Hagon
Barbara Gordon:
Shelley Thompson
Dick Grayson:
Kerry Shale
Selina Kyle:
Lorelei King
Jason Todd:
Alan Marriott
The Batman:
Bob Sessions

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