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Rosemary Presbyterian Church , with the Rt Rev
Dr John Dunlop. Jeremiah 31, vv
10-17, Matthew 2, w 13-21. See In Yonder Manger Low; Meekness And Majesty; The Great Love Of God; I Waited For The Lord; We Lay Our Broken World; As With Gladness Men Of
Old. Organist/Choirmaster William Cairns. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Presbyterian Church
Unknown:
Dr John Dunlop.
Choirmaster:
William Cairns.

Members of the Diss and District Horticultural Society in Norfolk put their questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward. Chairman Clay Jones.
Producer Diana Stenson. Stereo •Send sae for factsheet to
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Contributors

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

Brave New World Aldous Huxley's 1931 masterpiece foresaw a world 600 years hence where procreation would be by test tube, and emotions drug-controlled.
Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine Music: Wilfredo Acosta
Director Marilyn Imrie. Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Aldous Huxley
Dramatised By:
Stephen Mulrine
Music:
Wilfredo Acosta
Director:
Marilyn Imrie.
The Savage:
Gary Cady
Mustapha Mond:
Jack Klaff
Lenina Crowne:
Moir Leslie
Bernard Marx:
Jonathan Tafler
Linda:
Frances de la Tour
Helmholtz Watson:
Sean Pertwee
Director of Hatcheries:
Hugh Dickson
Henry Foster:
Nigel Carrington
Fanny Crowne:
Jane Whittenshaw
The President of Worship:
Susan Sheridan
Benito Hoover:
Andrew Wincott
The Headmistress of Eton:
Petra Markham
The Archsongster of Canterbury:
Timothy Carlton
Primo Mellon:
Mark Straker
The Nurse:
Joanna Myers
The Boy:
Richard Pearce
The Spanish Guide:
Walter Acosta

On 10 April 1912 the Titanic sailed her maiden and only voyage, to New York. Four days later she struck an iceberg and smashed into the ocean floor. Peter Rawlings has compiled eyewitness accounts of survivors; a contemporary view by Commodore John Wacher of the navigational difficulties experienced by the captain and his crew; and a description of his discovery of the wreck by oceanographer
Dr Robert Ballard , to mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy.
Producer Rosemary Hart. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Rawlings
Unknown:
John Wacher
Unknown:
Dr Robert Ballard
Producer:
Rosemary Hart.

Simon Rae presents poetry and music from the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. The readers are Elizabeth Kelly and David Goodland, and musician Deirdre Carney plays the fiddle.
Producer Julian Wilkinson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Stephen Joseph Theatre
Unknown:
Elizabeth Kelly
Musician:
Deirdre Carney
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson.

At 33 years per minute the Roman occupation of Britain lasted 12 minutes, Queen Victoria reigned for nearly two minutes, and Mrs Thatcher was gone in the bat of an eyelid. In this dramatised feature the history of the past 2,000 years is squeezed into a single hour as time flies by at 33 ypm.
Producer Chns Wines

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher

A Smell of Burning
In December 1942, a 17-year-old Russian girl left her high school to join an Airfield Maintenance
Battalion in the Leningrad region. For three years
Inna Froug kept a diary: the account of a spirited girl quickly maturing in the face of harsh reality. Abridged and read by Elizabeth Morgan.
Director John Theocharis

Contributors

Unknown:
Inna Froug
Read By:
Elizabeth Morgan.
Director:
John Theocharis

Through hills and desert, a group of tourists head for the annual Pushkar Camel
Fair in Northern India, not taking the easy route by coach, but using the traditional steed of the Rajput warriors - the hot-blooded Marwari horse.
Producer Chris Hipwell. Stereo

Contributors

Producer:
Chris Hipwell.

Forty years ago this month, a yellow, clammy smog descended on London for four days and nights. Buses needed lighted flares to see their way, cinemas closed because screens were obscured by smog inside buildings. Fred Pearce talks to Londoners about the experience that prompted the introduction of the Clean Air Bill.
Producer David Perry Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Fred Pearce
Producer:
David Perry

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