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Places of the Passion
A series of devotional services for Lent, featuring places which have associations with the Passion story.
3: Caesarea Philippi, the source of the river
Presented from St Giles's
Church, Bredon,
Gloucestershire, by the Rev Canon John Ridout , with The Rt Rev Jeremy Walsh , Bishop of Tewkesbury, and James Butterworth.
Matthew 16, w 13-28; Here I Am, Lord; Believe Not
Those Who Say; Through All the Changing Scenes of Life; Take Up Thy Cross.
Organist Derrick Grainger. Choirmaster
Andrew Chapman.

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon John Ridout
Unknown:
Jeremy Walsh
Unknown:
James Butterworth.
Organist:
Derrick Grainger.
Choirmaster:
Andrew Chapman.

Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward to solve gardening problems sent in by listeners.
• Questions on a postcard to
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward

Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare. A story of love and obsession in three parts, in which Miss M struggles to find her place in Victorian society. 1: Miss M
Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Director Martin Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter de la Mare.
Dramatised By:
Stephen Wyatt
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Miss M:
Emma Fielding
Sir Walter Pollacke:
John Church
Pollie:
Melanie Hudson
Young MissM:
Sian Jenkins
Adam Waggett:
Matthew Morgan
Gypsy Woman:
Susan Brown
Mrs Bowater:
Jill Graham
Bates:
John Baddeley
Fanny Bowater:
Sylvestra Letouzel
Dr Phelps:
John Webb
Young Man:
David Holt
Harold Crimble:
Keith Drinkel
Lady Pollacke:
Maureen O'Brien
Mrs Crimble:
Pauline Letts

In the third of four talks, Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum deciphers the secrets of wedge writing from Mesopotamia, discovering cuneiform recipes for fertility, pregnancy and childbirth, plus a bonus cure for premature hair-loss in harassed parents.

Contributors

Speaker:
Dr Irving Finkel
Producer:
Penny Lawrence

Second of two documentaries by David Dabydeen , who was bom in Guyana, and presents an outsider's view of England today.
Mandevitte's Hive
England has been absorbing foreign influences ever since the Angles settled these islands. Can this subconscious tradition be harnessed to create a more positive attitude to modem immigration? Contributors include: Dan Gidwany ,
Harry Goldbourne ,
Vaya Naidu and Marina Warner. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
David Dabydeen
Unknown:
Dan Gidwany
Unknown:
Harry Goldbourne
Unknown:
Vaya Naidu
Producer:
David Perry

Thirty Years of Honesty A Lent series to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of the controversial paperback Honest to God, by the then Bishop of Woolwich, John Robinson.
3: A Loss of Nerve
John Bowden , Managing
Director of the SCM Press, who published the book, considers how honesty has fared since then.
Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

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

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