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Places of the Passion A series of services for Lent, featuring places which have associations with the Passion story. 2: The City
Presented from St
Margaret's Lothbury in the City of London by Rev Rob Marshall. Psalm 122: 2 Corinthians 8, vv 8-16:
My Song Is Love Unknown; Immortal, Invisible; When I Needed a Neighbour; Blessed City. With the London University Church Choir led by Richard Leigh.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev Rob Marshall.
Unknown:
Richard Leigh.

Members of the Oldham
Garden Suburb Association, Lancashire, put their questions to
Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward. Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Amanda Mares

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.
Producer:
Amanda Mares

Persuasion by Jane Austen.
Starring Juliet Stevenson. Final part:
Friendly Persuasion. Louisa Musgrove has become engaged to Captain Benwick, and Anne Elliot dares to hope that Captain Wentworth's affections might once again be hers.
....Dramatised by Michelene Wandor
Director Vanessa Whitburn

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen.
Unknown:
Juliet Stevenson.
Unknown:
Louisa Musgrove
Unknown:
Anne Elliot
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:
Claire Faul Conbridge
Mr Elliot:
Peter Harlowe
Mary Musgrove:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Charles Musgrove:
Auster Cameron
Mrs Musgrove:
Sheila Grant
Henrietta Musgrove:
Alison Dowling
Lady Russell:
Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Smith:
Carole Boyd
Mrs Clay:
Hedli Niklaus
Sophia Croft:
Tina Gray
Captain Harville:
Paul Alexander

In the second of four talks, Dr Irving Finkel deciphers the secrets of wedge writing from Mesopotamia. Digging into the history of Babylonian dentistry, he reveals how toothache took root when the gods granted the worm rights to suck on human gums. Producer Penny Lawrence

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Irving Finkel

Simon Parkes explores four creative communities.
3: Stives
In the late 19th century artists started to go to
St Ives in Cornwall, attracted by the light, the sea air and the landscape. Today the town is preparing for the opening of the new Tate Gallerv St Ives. Producer David Prest

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Parkes
Unknown:
St Ives
Unknown:
Tate Gallerv St Ives.
Producer:
David Prest

Two documentaries by David Dabydeen of Warwick University. Bom in Guyana, he presents an outsider's view of England today. 1: A Green Thought in a Green Shade
The archetypes that resonate in the English mind are still powerful, despite the changes of recent decades: the garden landscape, royalty. episcopacy and parliament. Contributors include: Lord
Palumbo, Marina Warner. Lord Desai, Paul Bailev and Dr Christopher Lamb. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
David Dabydeen
Unknown:
Paul Bailev
Unknown:
Dr Christopher Lamb.
Producer:
David Perry

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. 2: Life Was Never the Same Ruth Robinson traces the path her own spirituality has taken since her husband's book was published in March 1963. Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

Unknown:
John Robinson.
Unknown:
Ruth Robinson
Producer:
Norman Winter

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