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Claire Powell breakfasts with Rosemary and Richard Harward who rear organically produced beef and lamb on their 56-acre farm near Morecambe Bay. Producer Sue Smith BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Powell
Unknown:
Richard Harward
Unknown:
Morecambe Bay.

from the Parish Church of St Andrew and St George, Edinburgh with The Rev
Andrew McLellan.
The fourth in a series of sermons in Lent based on Luke 4, w 14-30:
The Promised Day of God Preacher: The Very Rev Gilleasbuig Macmillan. Readings:
Exodus 24, w 12-18
Colossians 1, vv 15-20
Introit: We wait for thy loving kindness (McKie) Hymns (CH3): Lord from the depths (65); Thy kingdom come
(323); Lord of light (510) Anthems: Hear my prayer, 0 Lord (Purcell); Nunc Dimittis
(Gibbons: Short Service) Scottish Philharmonic Singers, directed by Ian McCrorie
Organist Leon Coates BBC Scotland. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McLellan.
Unknown:
Gilleasbuig MacMillan.
Organist:
Ian McCrorie

visits Surrey, where members of the Limpsfield, Oxted and District 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. With Ian Holm.
4: A Performance
John Jasper continues to search for proof that his nephew Edwin has been murdered by Neville Landless.
Eventually, in the most tragic of circumstances, he obtains that proof.... Stereo (Final part on Friday 3.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwin Drood
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Leon Garfield
Unknown:
David Buck.
Unknown:
Ian Holm.
Unknown:
John Jasper

Why did Fat Is a Feminist Issue change many women's attitudes towards food and their bodies for ever? The author, Susie Orbach , is co-founder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London and discusses her work with Barbara Myers.
Producer Cathy Drysdale

Contributors

Unknown:
Susie Orbach
Unknown:
Barbara Myers.
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

Malcolm Bradbury 's first university lectureship was at Hull, near the minster town of Beverley. In his day, it was a run-down market town, but recent urban renewal brings shoppers out from Hull as well as tourists from the Yorkshire Wolds. Producer Kate Whitehead BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Bradbury
Producer:
Kate Whitehead

Cat's Whiskers
Spring Special
Presenter Julia Mayer featuring stories with music.
Three Aesop's Fables told by Willie Rushton Su Pollard
Brian Blessed and Derek Griffiths.
With the BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Michael Cole.
Set to music by Paul Reade.
Plus competitions, features and club members' birthdays.
Producer Brian Scott-Hughes Series producer
Julia Brooke. Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Julia Mayer
Told By:
Willie Rushton
Told By:
Su Pollard
Told By:
Brian Blessed
Told By:
Derek Griffiths.
Conductor:
Michael Cole.
Music By:
Paul Reade.
Unknown:
Julia Brooke.

A Jesuit in the Tower by John Gerard. Reader
Michael Williams. In April 1597,
John Gerard , a member of the Jesuit Mission in England, was tortured in the Tower of London. He displayed both courage and wit and refused to betray any of his fellow Catholics.
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Reader:
John Gerard.
Reader:
Michael Williams.
Unknown:
John Gerard

The Way the World Is A series of six programmes for Lent, with The Rev
Dr John Polkinghorne , FRS, President of Queens'
College, Cambridge.
4: God after Auschwitz 'We live in a world which is a strange mixture of both terror and hope.'
Reader Alan Sykes. Producer Norman Winter BBC Manchester. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr John Polkinghorne
Reader:
Alan Sykes.

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