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Choral Mattins from Beckenham
Parish Church.
Preacher: the Rev
Derek Carpenter.
All Hail the Power of Jesu's Name; 0 King
Most High of Earth and Sky; The Head That
Once Was Crowned with Thorns; Psalm 121 (Walford Davies );
Lessons: Jeremiah 31, w 1-13; Philippians II, w 1-18; Canticles:
Ireland in F; Anthem: Coelos Ascendit Hodie (Stanford). Organ scholar Silas Standage
Director of Music
Nigel Groome. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Carpenter.
Unknown:
Walford Davies
Unknown:
Silas Standage
Unknown:
Nigel Groome.

by Peter Terson.
With John Gielgud Sir George Sitwell was an autocratic recluse whose main preoccupations before the First World War were running the family estate at Renishaw, research into medieval pig-keeping and making sure his son Osbert wasn't allowed to do what he wanted to do ...
Director Shaun MacLoughlin BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Terson.
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Sir George Sitwell:
John Gielgud
Lady Ida Sitwell:
Renée Asherson
Osbert Sitwell:
Richard Pearce
Henry Moat:
Christopher Good

This week Scotland celebrates the invention of the pedal bicycle 150 years ago by Dumfries blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan. Last month, as a curtain raiser,
John Pinkerton and the Veteran Cycle Club held a Grand Weekend at Kidderminster. The event included a cycle jumble, an auction, and a colourful ride on lofty penny-farthings, tandems, tricycles, sociables, boneshakers and bantams.
Compiled by Lynn ten Kate Producer John Theochahs
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Kirkpatrick MacMillan.
Unknown:
John Pinkerton
Producer:
John Theochahs

Two programmes.
Dr Christopher Andrew discusses the strategic mistakes at Dunkirk with Professor Norman Dixon , military historian and psychologist, and introduces the second part of the programme, first broadcast to mark the 40th anniversary, in which survivors and eye-witnesses describe their experiences of the invasion. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Christopher Andrew
Unknown:
Professor Norman Dixon

Presenter Andy Crane. An African Adventure Paul Copley , with extracts from his Cat's Whiskers Diary, vividly describes life in Ethiopia and the Sudan.
Marlene Marlowe investigates ... The
Puddlethorpe Carnival Coup by Roy Apps.
Second of five episodes. Charlotte's Web by E B White adapted in seven parts by Mick Greenway. 3: An Explosion
Reader Kit Hollerbach. Research Lis Roberts
Producer Mary Kalemkerian BBC North. Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Andy Crane.
Unknown:
Paul Copley
Unknown:
Roy Apps.
Unknown:
Mick Greenway.

Nigel Forde on a new biography of Pooh and Piglet's creator A A Milne;
Alison Lurie uncovers hidden meanings in children's classics; and Watership Down author Richard Adams describes his childhood.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Alison Lurie
Unknown:
Richard Adams

by Christopher Frayling. Winner of the Society of Authors Award for the Best Original Script at the 1990 Sony Radio Awards.
With Martin Jarvis Could there be some connection between a mutiny on the high seas 200 years ago and one of the greatest and most mystical English narrative poems that begins 'It is an ancyent Marinere....'?
Director John Powell

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Frayling.
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Director:
John Powell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Martin Jarvis
William Wordsworth:
Richard Pasco
Captain William Bligh:
Norman Rodway
Sara Coleridge:
Alice Arnold
Edward Christian:
David King

In the third of her programmes on racism and faith, Rebecca de Saintonge introduces
Agnes Hofmeyr , an Englishwoman dedicated to racial reconciliation, whose commitment was tested to the full....
Producer Shirley Scott , BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Agnes Hofmeyr
Producer:
Shirley Scott

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