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On Sea Sunday a service from the Lowestoft Bethel is led by Rev James MacDonald
, Principal Chaplain of the British Sailors' Society.
0 God of Bethel; Will Your Anchor Hold; Master the Tempest is Raging; Be Still My Soul; Brightly
Beams our Father's Mercy; Eternal Father.
Director of Music
Margaret Durrent.
Organist Cheryl Scarff.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lowestoft Bethel
Unknown:
Rev James MacDonald
Organist:
Margaret Durrent.
Organist:
Cheryl Scarff.

This week from the Royal Show in Stoneleigh,
Warwickshire, where visitors put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips. Chairman Clay Jones.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo
.WRITE on postcards only to
Gardeners' Question Time. BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Producer:
Diana Stenson.

Singing and Dancing in Kanpur
In a Kanpur nautch-house - where men go to enjoy the music and the favours of the young singers -
Banu and her friends are determined to survive as their client and protector
Inspector Baksh is ordered to supervise closure. A play by David Mowat.
Music Gauri Bapat. Barathi Sethi. V Chandran
Director Peter Kavanagh. Stereo

Contributors

Play By:
David Mowat.
Director:
Peter Kavanagh.
Banu:
Sita Ramamurthy
Nimmi:
Mamta Kaash
Ara:
Rita Wolf
Baksh:
Madhav Sharma
Ashwat:
Tariq Yunus
Mehta:
Bhasker
Shanvaz:
Heather Emmanuel
Various voices:
David Bannerman

Six tales of North Africa by Vaughan Purvis.
2: The Snake-charmer's
Daughter
"Kader signalled us to be still and swept the lid from the basket, flooding it with light to arouse the cobra...."
Producer Simon Elmes. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Purvis.
Producer:
Simon Elmes.

The first collaboration between UK and US radio documentary-makers: a series of eight programmes juxtaposing stories from Middle America and provincial Britain.
2: The Two Presidents
A row is raging at the University College of North Wales at Bangor. Reporter: John Dryden. Producer Chris Paling
Editor Sharon Banoff. Stereo

Contributors

Reporter:
John Dryden.
Editor:
Sharon Banoff.

A version of Djordje Lebovic 's 1985 Italia Prize-winning documentary. A montage of secret notebooks and letters, written and buried by a detachment of prisoners in Auschwitz who were made to carry the corpses from the gas chambers to the ovens for burning.
English translation by John and Ruzica White
Adapted by Isabel Aitken Producer Louise Purslow
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Djordje Lebovic
Adapted By:
Isabel Aitken
Producer:
Louise Purslow
Anonymous:
David de Keyser
Salmen Gradowstd:
Lee Montague
Chaim Herman:
Allan Corduner
Salmen Lewental:
David Swift
Rudolf Hoss:
John Moffatt
Johann Kremer:
Hugh Dickson
Jewish women:
Paula Jacobs
Polish Resistor:
Natasha Pyne
Narrator:
Richard Pasco

Four plays by John Peacock based on characters from Toulouse-
Lautrec's posters. 1: May Belfort with Bonnie Langford as May Belfort, the girl from Ireland who really only had the one song, Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow, and relied more on her beauty than her voice. with Emma Gregory.
Terence Edmond , Peter Penry Jones and Bertie the dog.
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peacock
Unknown:
Bonnie Langford
Unknown:
Emma Gregory.
Unknown:
Terence Edmond
Unknown:
Peter Penry Jones
Music:
Stephen Warbeck
Director:
Jane Morgan.
May Milton:
Jane Whittenshaw
Michael Donovan:
Charles Simpson
Footitt:
Dermot Crowley
Angel:
Alice Arnold
Madame Baron:
Irene Sutcliffe
Pujol:
Eric Allan

The panel game in which leading business figures battle it out. Panel: Peter Day , Alastair Ross Goobey ,
Nigel Whittaker. Chairman Nigel Cassidy. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Unknown:
Alastair Ross Goobey
Unknown:
Nigel Whittaker.
Unknown:
Nigel Cassidy.

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