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Places of the Passion A series of devotional services for Lent featuring places which have associations with the Passion story.
The Mountain Top From Fisherwick
Presbyterian Church,
Belfast. Hymns: Immortal Invisible; 0 Thou who Camest from Above;
Almighty Father who Dost Give; All Earth Was Dark; Psalm 84 - How Lovely Is the Dwelling Place; Within Our Darkest Night (Taize); God Be in My Head. The service is led by Rev Dr David Lapsley with the choir of Fisherwick Presbyterian Church and Jubilate directed by David Stewart.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Lapsley
Directed By:
David Stewart.

Members of the Goostrey Women's Institute, Cheshire, put their questions to
Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward. Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Amanda Mares
(Repealed on Wednesday at
11.30am)
Send sae for factsheet to
[address removed]

Contributors

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

Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare. 2: Mr Anon
Miss M finds herself torn between the demands of her young suitor and the "evil" Fanny Bowater.
Flemming...SANDRA JAMES YOUNG Susan Monnerie ...FEDERAY HOLMES Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Director Martin Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter de la Mare.
Unknown:
Mr Anon
Unknown:
Sandra James Young
Unknown:
Susan Monnerie
Dramatised By:
Stephen Wyatt
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Miss M:
Emma Fielding
Sir Walter Pollack:
John Church
Fanny Bowater:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Mr Anon:
Robert Glenister
Mrs Bwater:
Jill Graham
Lady Pollack:
Maureen O'Brien
Mrs Monnerie:
Anna Massey
Harold Crimble:
Keith Drinkel

Simon Rae and guest poet Matthew Sweeney whet their appetites with a selection of poetry on the theme of food. They taste fresh plums, a Welsh vindaloo and a few edible insects.
Reader Denys Hawthorne. Producer Julian Wilkinson
.Requests to Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Matthew Sweeney
Reader:
Denys Hawthorne.
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson

The Tight Red
Rope
The subject of motherhood inspires poems of extraordinary passion and vitality. Katie Campbell presents a special collection for Mother's Day: from the formal musings of the 17th-century literary ladies to the elation and despair of contemporary women poets. The readers are Jenny Agutter and Adjoa Andoh.
Producer Claire Grove

Contributors

Unknown:
Katie Campbell
Unknown:
Jenny Agutter
Producer:
Claire Grove

Throughout history, snakes have been symbols of both religious belief and sexuality, inspiring mixed emotions of horror, fear, admiration and reverence.
What is it about them that stirs the deepest recesses of the human psyche? Contributors include psychoanalysts Ann Baring and Andrew Samuels , male exotic speciality act Terry Brannigan , snake keeper Jack Comey , egyptologist Rosalie David , and anthropologist
Stephen Hugh-Jones . Original music based on snake sounds by Peter Howell of the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop. Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Samuels
Unknown:
Terry Brannigan
Unknown:
Jack Comey
Unknown:
Rosalie David
Unknown:
Stephen Hugh-Jones
Unknown:
Peter Howell
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

30 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. 4: The Aweful Truth
Ruth Etchells responds to the book's challenge to the image of God as transcendent and absolute. Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

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

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