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Parish Mass from
St Peter 's Church, Bloxwich, West Midlands.
Celebrant and preacher: the Rev Bernard Anwyl. Music from Celebration Hymnal: All People That on Earth Do Dwell (10); Pilgrim's Mass (371);
In Bread We Bring You, Lord (135); This Is My Body (623); Colours of Day Dawn into the Mind (45). Readings OB):
Isaiah 42, w 1-4, 6-7; Mark 1, vv 7-11.
Folk group leader:
Christopher Bradbury.
Organist: Samuel Bridgen

Contributors

Unknown:
St Peter
Unknown:
Bernard Anwyl.
Organist:
Christopher Bradbury.
Organist:
Samuel Bridgen

This week from Essex, where members of the Ingatestone and Fryerning Horticultural Society put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer Diana Stenson
(Repeated Wednesday 10.00am) Questions on postcards only: 'Gardeners' Question Time', BBC, [address removed]

Contributors

Expert:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Expert:
Fred Downham
Expert:
Daphne Ledward
Producer:
Diana Stenson

The Emperor of Ice-Cream
A dramatisation of Brian Moore 's novel.
Belfast, 1939: young
Gavin Burke decides to break with his family's republicanism and do his bit by joining the ARP. He has to learn to cope with new people and a tougher world.
Dramatised by Bill Morrison
Producer Michael Heffernan (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Moore
Unknown:
Gavin Burke
Dramatised By:
Bill Morrison
Producer:
Michael Heffernan
Owen Burke:
Brian Munn
Gavin Burke:
Stephen Rea
Mrs Burke/Maggie:
Catherine Gibson
Aunt Lil:
Elizabeth Begley
Mr Burke:
Allan McClelland
Craig:
Michael Duffy
Soldier McBride:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Frank Price:
Mark Mulholland
Jimmy Lynan:
Derek Lord
Mick Gallagher:
Wesley Murphy
Captain Lambert:
Nigel Anthony
Freddy:
Sean Barrett
Mrs Clapper/Lili:
Trudy Kelly
Sally Shannon:
Dense McKenna
Mr Harkness:
Harold Goldblatt
Mathew Ware:
Raymond Campbell
Dr McLanaghan:
John Hewitt
Willie:
Bill Hunter

The Clopton Hercules was salvaged from the slush pile at publishers Faber and Faber. Nigel Forde talks to editor
Robert McCrum and author
Duncan Sprott about the one that - nearly - got away. And best-selling novelist Judith Krantz talks about her new blockbuster, Dazzle.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McCrum
Unknown:
Duncan Sprott
Talks:
Judith Krantz

Each year tens of thousands of Orangemen take to the streets of Northern Ireland to celebrate King William's victory at the Boyne.
Barry Cowan considers the influence and role of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland now, 300 years after that decisive battle.
Producer Robert Tosh (First broadcast on Radio Ulster)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cowan
Producer:
Robert Tosh

'It's my profession to make you feel that I'm enjoying myself. You cannot force mirth....'
In the second of six programmes on singers and singing, the Swedish soprano
Elisabeth Soderstrom chooses music to illustrate her reflections on laughter. Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo

Contributors

Soprano:
Elisabeth Soderstrom
Producer:
Gillian Hush.

Jenni Mills talks to
Damien and Debbie, who on 22 August 1985 boarded a flight for Corfu at Manchester Airport with two friends. But fire and choking fumes spread through the passenger cabin. Damien and Debbie got out - their friends didn't. Producer Sarah Rowlands (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Mills
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

Words and music for
Sunday night.
God and Gothic
In the second of four talks, Dr George Pattison considers the message medieval art has for the modern church architect.
Producer Alastair Simmons. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr George Pattison
Producer:
Alastair Simmons.

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