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Community Mass from the Chapel of the Dominican Convent, Portstewart, Co Londonderry. Celebrant and preacher Fr Brian Mullan. Readings OB): Acts 1, w 15-17 and 20-26; I
John 4, w 11-16; John 17, w 11-19. Music: Creator
Spirit; Psalm 102; Ag Criost An Siol; Eat
This Bread; Rejoice.
Organist and choirmaster Heather Montgomery.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Brian Mullan.
Choirmaster:
Heather Montgomery.

This week the team visits Shropshire, where members of the Ditton
Priors Women's Institute put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Fred Downham and Sue Phillips. Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Amanda Mares
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Producer:
Amanda Mares

The Importance of Being
Frank Ernest Worthing , a wit and aesthete bearing more than a passing resemblance to
Oscar Wilde , is prosecuted for indecent acts in the cloakroom of Victoria station. A comic account of the final years in the life of one of the great icons of the 19th century, as seen through the characters of his most famous play.
Written by Tom Holland.
Director Paul Schlesinger Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Ernest Worthing
Unknown:
Oscar Wilde
Written By:
Tom Holland.
Director:
Paul Schlesinger
Ernest:
Jack Klaff
Algernon:
Alex Jennings
Lady Bracknell:
Margaret Robertson
Gwendolen:
Jenny Howe
Judge:
David King
Piano player:
David King
Merriman:
Angus Wright
Sir Edward:
Nigel Carrington
Lane:
Simon Treves
Prism:
Denys Hawthorne

Over the Rainbow
Latin America's economic prosperity looks more assured now than it has for years, but the region's poor are getting poorer. Roland Dallas asks: will better economic management under democracy ever deliver improved living conditions?

From Buddhist tracts to the Beatles - poets, politicians and priests have had their say about women.
Tony Slattery and Haydn Gwynne present a four-part anthology of abuse.
2: Trouble and Strife 'The ideal wife is a beautiful, sex-starved deaf-mute who owns a liquor store.' (More Playboy Party Jokes)
Producer Sara Conkey. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Slattery
Unknown:
Haydn Gwynne
Producer:
Sara Conkey.

Since his death 20 years ago, the tenor Wilfred Brown has become identified almost exclusively with his acclaimed recording of Gerald Finzi 's cantata, Dies Natalis.
Andrew Green tells the story of this distinguished singer, broadcaster and lifelong Quaker, in music and anecdote.
Producer Claire Campbell-Smith Stereo

Contributors

Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Unknown:
Gerald Finzi
Unknown:
Andrew Green

Survivor of the Year The winner of the In
Business Survivor of the Year is announced - the business hero or heroine who looked disaster in the face during the past year... and survived. The last in the present series, presented by Peter Day .
Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Day

Margaret Drabble and D J Enright discuss how the nature of friendship has been expressed by writers from Dryden to Dickinson, from Shaw to Spark. Also, a survey of new travel guides for the holiday season.
Presented by Nigel Forde.

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
D J Enright
Presented By:
Nigel Forde.

Boswell's voluminous
Journal, the basis for his Life of Johnson (published 200 years ago this year), was neglected and repressed for generations. It resurfaced as the result of a series of dramatic discoveries which continued right up until 1940.
John Wain tells the story of the re-emergence of Boswell's true Journal. Producer David Perry. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wain
Producer:
David Perry.

A celebration of the life and work of the much-loved Austrian tenor who was born 100 years ago this week. Written and presented by Nigel Douglas with illustrations from some of Tauber's
700 recordings and memories from
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Felix Aprahamian.
Robert Nesbitt and Robert Stolz.
Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Presented By:
Nigel Douglas
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Unknown:
Felix Aprahamian.
Unknown:
Robert Nesbitt
Unknown:
Robert Stolz.
Producer:
Gillian Hush

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