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Places of the Passion A series of devotional services for Lent, featuring Places having associations with the Passion story. 1: In the Wilderness
Presented from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales by Rev Andrew Morton.
Genesis 2, vv 7-9 and 3, vv 1-7; Matthew 4, vv 1-11; Guide Me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah; Forty Days and Forty Nights; Father, Hear the Prayer; How Firm a Foundation; Through the Love of God; All Hail the Power; I to the Hills; As the Deer Pants for Water.

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Morton.

Institute of Arable Crop Research members and employees at Rothamsted Experimental Station put questions to
Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Amanda Mares

Contributors

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

Persuasion by Jane Austen.
Starring Juliet Stevenson 2: Accidents and Encounters Captain Wentworth has returned to the village of Uppercross and has become the centre of social life for the Musgrove family. Only Anne Elliot appears to remember the past and her rejection of his love, eight years ago. But is it indifference or coldness which she now senses in his attitude towards her?
Captain Harville.....PAUL ALEXANDER Square piano: Kenneth Mobbs
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor Director Vanessa Whitburn

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen.
Unknown:
Juliet Stevenson
Unknown:
Anne Elliot
Unknown:
Paul Alexander
Piano:
Kenneth Mobbs
Dramatised By:
Michelene Wandor
Director:
Vanessa Whitburn
Anne Elliot:
Juliet Stevenson
Captain Wentworth:
Tim Brierley
Jane Austen:
Sorcha Cusack
Sir Walter Elliot:
Roger Hume
Elizabeth Elliot:
Clare Faulconbridge
Mr Elliot:
Peter Harlowe
Mary Musgrove:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Charles Musgrove:
Alister Cameron
Louisa Musgrove:
Jayne Dowell
Henrietta Musgrove:
Alison Dowling
Mrs Musgrove:
Sheila Grant
Lady Russel:
Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Clay:
Hedli Niklaus
Admiral Croft:
Jeffery Dench
Sophia Croft:
Tina Gray
Captain Benwick:
Tony Turner
Mrs Smith:
Carole Boyd

In the first of four talks,
Dr Irving Finkel of the British
Museum deciphers the secrets of wedge writing, and bridges the millennia between us and ancient
Iraq. Through the dust he detects the tears of Babylonian princes and tales of courtesans and wily grain merchants. Producer Penny Lawrence

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Irving Finkel

The second of two programmes with extracts from Longfellow's Hiawatha. Simon Rae also presents readings from native
American poets Joy Harjo and Luci Tapahonso. Producer Julian Wilkinson
0 Requests to Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Hiawatha. Simon Rae
Unknown:
Luci Tapahonso.
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson

Jack Trevor Story died in 1991 with over 400 short stories and 40 novels to his credit, including Live Now Pay Later and The Trouble With Harry. After a chaotic life, he spent his last years in a farmhouse in Milton Keynes - where producer Alastair Wilson found him, with his memories and a malfunctioning tape recorder.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Trevor Story
Unknown:
Milton Keynes
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

Simon Parkes explores four creative communities. 2: TriBeCa. An artificially created district in New
York, where loft living is the vogue and artists splash their canvases in former peanut warehouses. Producer David Prest

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Parkes
Producer:
David Prest

Thirty Years of Honesty A Lent series to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of Honest to
God, by the then Bishop of Woolwich, John Robinson. 1: The Flowering of Honesty. Canon Eric James remembers "Honest John". Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

Unknown:
John Robinson.
Unknown:
Canon Eric James
Producer:
Norman Winter

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