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From Wesley Methodist Church, Plymouth, led by Rev Kenneth Hext.
Preacher Edgar Daniel.
Hymns: Shine Jesus Shine; Love Divine; Go Tell
Everyone; Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory. Lessons: Ezekiel 37, vv 1-14;
I Corinthians 12, w 4-13.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev Kenneth Hext.
Unknown:
Edgar Daniel.

Chairman Clay Jones digs into the postbag, and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips to solve listeners' gardening problems.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo .WRITE on postcards only to
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27. Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

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

To mark the bicentenary of Shelley's birth this month:
Blood and Ice
A tale of the creation of Frankenstein, by Liz Lochhead.
In 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft eloped with her lover Percy Shelley to the shores of Lake Geneva; they moved into a villa close to Lord Byron....
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Liz Lochhead
Music:
Robert Pettigrew
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
Gerda Stevenson
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Stephen Boxer
Lord Byron:
Jack Klaff
Claire Clairmont:
Stella Gonet
Elise:
Tilly Vosburgh
The Creature:
Peter Kelly

Last November the British Communist Party voted itself into history and brought to an end one of the institutions of our times. The CP had been a landmark on the political map. Andy Croft assesses the significance of the party to poets, dramatists and novelists, with the voices of Graham Greene , Stephen Spender , C Day
Lewis, Hamish Henderson , Hugh MacDiarmid , Roger Woddis , Jackie Kay and Charles Poulson.
Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Andy Croft
Unknown:
Graham Greene
Unknown:
Stephen Spender
Unknown:
Hamish Henderson
Unknown:
Hugh MacDiarmid
Unknown:
Roger Woddis
Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Unknown:
Charles Poulson.
Producer:
Dave Sheasby.

Six tales of North Africa by Vaughan Purvis. 5: Alley Number 13
"There are immaculate alleys with neat cobbles that appear in tourist brochures and alleys with open sewers where children run barefoot.
Producer Simon Elmes. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Purvis.
Producer:
Simon Elmes.

Olympic Games far different from those in Barcelona, and lions which do not roar....
Margaret Howard begins a journey along the Cotswold Way from Chipping Campden to Bath. Producer Anthony Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Anthony Smith

The first collaboration between UK and US radio documentary-makers. An eight-part series.
5: Following David Duke
In Louisiana, they rush to shake his hand. He is
David Duke , ex-Ku Klux Klansman who remains a favoured son. How does this man affect the nature of Southern racism? Producer David Islay for
Soundprint and American Public Radio
Editor Sharon Banoff. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Duke
Unknown:
David Duke
Producer:
David Islay
Editor:
Sharon Banoff.

Niall Sean O'Casey 's son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his 21st brithday. For four years the Irish playwright kept a journal of his grief, which was finally published last year. Denys Hawthorne reads.
Producer Ned Chaillet. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Niall Sean O'Casey
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
Ned Chaillet.

Four plays by John Peacock based on characters from
Toulouse-Lautrec's posters. 4: Aristide Bruant
Aristide, in his club the Cafe Mirliton, has become a fashionable success. with and Music: Stephen Warbeck
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peacock
Unknown:
Aristide Bruant
Music:
Stephen Warbeck
Director:
Jane Morgan.
Aristide Bruant:
Bernard Hill
Yvette Guilbert:
Julie Covington
Toulouse-Lautrec:
Clive Merrison
Max Schiller:
Brett Usher
Albine:
Pauline Letts
Alexandre:
Robert Portal
Chopinette:
Alice Arnold
Chopinette:
Irene Sutcliffe
Chopinette:
Jane Whittenshaw
Chopinette:
Fraser Kerr

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