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A Baptist Assembly
Service celebrating the bicentenary of the founding of the Baptist
Missionary Society. From Ramsden Road Baptist Church, Balham.
Led by Rev Edwin
Boddington. Preacher Rev Eric Westwood.
Readings: Isaiah 55, vv 1-7;
I Thessalonians 1; God Is Love. Let Heaven Adore Him; Praise You Lord;
We've a Story to Tell; The Servant King.
Organist Ian Boddington.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev Edwin
Unknown:
Eric Westwood.
Organist:
Ian Boddington.

This week the team visits Leeds Castle in Kent, where members of the Leeds Castle and Hollingboume Garden
Society put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward.
Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Diana Stenson
● WRITE on postcards only to
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Adapted from the novel and stage play by Peter King.
In 1925 an innocent couple are mistakenly forced into a bed of shameful sin...
Music Ed Welch (piano) with Ron Aspery.
Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Ben Travers
Adapted by:
Peter King.
Music (piano):
Ed Welch
Saxophone:
Ron Aspery
Director:
Peter King
Mrs Bone:
Joan Hickson
Major George Bone:
Freddie Jones
Peter Wykeham:
Ian Lavender
Margaret Hickett:
Phoebe Nicholls
Mrs Spoker:
Margaret Tyzack
Barbara:
Yvonne Antrobus
Hickett:
Brett Usher
Rev Sloley Jones:
Ellis Dale
George:
James Kerry
Alfred:
Henry Stamper
Noony:
Timothy Bateson
Gladys:
Alex Marshall
The Garage:
James Bryce
Newsagent:
Maggie McCarthy
Pansy the Dog:
Percy Edwards

At 23, the poet W B Yeats fell passionately in love with the beautiful
Maude Gonne. She refused to marry him, but their long friendship influenced and inspired his work. Nigel Forde talks to
Maude Gonne 's grand-daughter Anna MacBride White and his biographer, Norman Jeffares , about their joint edition of the Gonne/Yeats Letters.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maude Gonne.
Talks:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Maude Gonne
Unknown:
Anna MacBride
Unknown:
Norman Jeffares

The Royal Smut-Hound by Kenneth Tynan.
Read by Stephen Fry. The famously acerbic attack on the play-censoring activities of the Lord Chamberlain.
Producer David Benedictus

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Tynan.
Read By:
Stephen Fry.
Producer:
David Benedictus

Chaucer's glorious blend of romance, farce and morality tales in a four-part series by Colin Haydn Evans.
1: The Pardoner's Tale
The pilgrimage begins ... the Pardoner tells a tale of temptation and betrayal.
Music composed and played by Sue Harris
Director Nigel Bryant Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Haydn Evans.
Played By:
Sue Harris
Director:
Nigel Bryant
The Wife of Bath:
Rosemary Leach
The Miller:
Freddie Jones
Chaucer:
Steve Hodson
The Pardoner:
Simon Carter
77k Host:
Roger Hume
Jean:
Peter Meakin
Roger:
Terry Molloy
Alain:
Neal Foster
Serving boy:
Alex Jones
Death:
Robert Eddison

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