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Places of the Passion A series of devotional services for Lent, featuring places which have associations with the Passion story.
This week, The Palm
Sunday Temple. Elizabeth Templeton reflects on religion under threat.
From Stockbridge Parish
Church, with the Edinburgh University Chamber Choir, directed by Nicholas Jones. Hymns: All My Hope on God Is Founded; The Merchants' Carol; The
Tree of Life; Travelling the Road to Freedom; Ubi
Caritas; Ride On, Ride On, in Majesty. Readings: I Kings 8, v 42 to 9, v 3; Matthew 21, w 6-17.

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Templeton
Directed By:
Nicholas Jones.

This week, a postbag edition: chairman Clay Jones with Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Producer Amanda Mares
• Questions on a postcard to
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

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

Emile Zola 's classic thriller dramatised in three parts.
With Michael Maloney as Jacques, Martin Head as Roubaud, and Imogen Stubbs as Severine.

"Every time I went by, a cold shiver passed through me: I somehow knew this house was.... waiting - for me."

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Contributors

Author:
Emile Zola
Dramatised by:
Sally Hedges
Music:
Barrington Pheloung
Director:
Nigel Bryant
Jacques:
Michael Maloney
Roubaud:
Martin Head
Severine:
Imogen Stubbs
Henri Dauvergne:
Andy Hockley
Flore:
Rebecca Wright
Aunt Phasie:
Sheila Kelley
Misard:
Jonathan Wyatt
Moulin:
Patric Turner
Pecqueux:
Peter Meakin
Philomene:
Vikki Chambers
Dabadie:
Laurence Rew
Cauche:
Gerry Hinks

Losing Our Marbles? David Walker asks: how long before we need to worry about the coming age of the old when the baby-boom generation retires on private pensions, while its parents grow ever older?

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker

Michael Rosen meets
Betsy Byars , one of America's most popular writers for children, and inventor of such characters as Bingo Brown and Mary Hammerman. Producer Jill Burridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Unknown:
Betsy Byars
Unknown:
Bingo Brown
Unknown:
Mary Hammerman.
Producer:
Jill Burridge

Simon Rae introduces a selection of popular requests with readers Virginia McKenna and Peter Jeffrey , and guest Jenny Joseph.
Producer Pat Pryor
0 REQUESTS TO: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Rae
Readers:
Virginia McKenna
Readers:
Peter Jeffrey
Unknown:
Jenny Joseph.
Producer:
Pat Pryor

Prize Performance
Companies large and small are waking up to the cult of quality, and the new glittering prize in the quality race is the award from the European
Foundation for Quality Management. Peter Day finds how Rank Xerox Limited went about winning it, and what the company learned about itself in the process.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day

Evenings in the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz often travelled across Europe with an orchestra, and the tales told on these travels were recorded by him and published in 1852. Tim Pigott-Smith reads a selection of these stories.
The scene is the orchestra pit of a provincial opera house, the cast the conductor and musicians. Translated by C R Fortescue Abridged by Davena Briggs Producer Tracy Neale

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Abridged By:
Davena Briggs
Producer:
Tracy Neale

Richard Stilgoe presents a personal view of 60 years of the radio quiz.
Just why should anyone, precocious child or exhibitionist adult, want to become Top of the Form or Brain of Britain? And why should millions actually choose to listen to their attempts?
Producer Richard Edis

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Producer:
Richard Edis

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