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from the Catholic Radio and Television Centre, Hatch End, Middlesex
Celebrant FR SEAN O'KELLY Preacher FR ANTHONY SACRt
Readings: Isaiah 56, vv 1, f-7; Romans 11, vv 13-16, 29-32; Matthew 15, vv 21-28
Hymns: All people that on earth do dwell; 0 thou who at thy Eucharist; Now the green blade rises
Introduced by the Director, FR AGNELLUS ANDREW , OF11

Contributors

Unknown:
Preacher Fr Anthony
Director:
Fr Agnellus Andrew

Introduced by jim PESTRIDGE
How Do You Plead?: motoring lawyer CHARLES BRANDRETH deals with appeals and answers queries
Electronic Money: GEORGE FOX describes a new way to buy your petrol
Insuring the Young Driver: advice from RONALD BEALE
Seat-belt Design: by ERIC TOBITT together with topical news and at 11.43* the latest traffic report Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Charles Brandreth
Unknown:
George Fox
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

Cliff Michelmore invites you to ring him on [number removed]to exchange ideas live by phone on any subject bar party politics with studio guests:
Patrick Moore , author of 59 books, mainly astronomical, including Atlas of the Universe; cricket and chess enthusiast
Dilys Powell , author, film critic and a former President of the Classical Association
Brian Connell , journalist, interviewer and commentator
[number removed](16 lines) will take calls from 11.0 am onward. Or send your question to Whatever You Think, Room 4066, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA
12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Brian Connell

A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KENNETH FORD recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year: with FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL (Repeated: Tuesday, 4.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Ford
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell

New Grub Street by GEORGE GISSING adapted for radio In three parts by GABRIEL WOOLF with Robert Powell and David Collings
2: Failure and Success
REARDON: The difference between the man with money and the man without is simply this: the one thinks, ' How shall I use my life? ' and the other, 'How shall I keep myself alive? '
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(David Collings is in ' Move Over, Mrs Markham ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Gissing
Unknown:
Robert Powell
Unknown:
David Collings
Producer:
Jane Graham
Unknown:
David Collings
Unknown:
Mrs Markham
Jasper Milvain:
Robert Powell
Amy:
Caroline John
Edwin Reardon:
David Collings
Biffen:
Hugh Dickson
Carter:
Brian Raines
Mrs Edmund Yule:
Sheila Grant
Jack Yule:
Michael Kilgarriff
Whelpdale:
Michael Graham Cox
Dora:
Joanna David
Marian:
Valerie Sarruf
Alfred Yule:
John Bryans
Mrs Alfred Yule:
Katherine Parr
Maud:
Kate Binchy

A series of programmes on four men whose rise to fame was swift and sensational and whose money-making talents awed their contemporary world. 2: Carnegie - the star-spangled Scot by ERIC EWENS
By the end of his life Andrew Carnegie had given away $324,657.399. This programme shows how, and why, he did it. Andrew Carnegie JOHN ROWE Carnegie, as a boy.JUDY BENNETT The story is narrated by ALAN ROWE with the voices of MANNING WILSON
MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
FRASER KERR , GARRICK HACAN PETER WELCH , BARRIE COOKSON and TONY LEARY
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Ewens
Unknown:
Andrew Carnegie
Unknown:
Judy Bennett
Unknown:
Alan Rowe
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Michael Kilgarriff
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Unknown:
Garrick Hacan
Unknown:
Peter Welch
Unknown:
Barrie Cookson
Unknown:
Tony Leary
Producer:
Christopher Venning

A series in which
Edgar Lustgarten reconstructs six of the most famous murder trials of this century
2: Death on the Crumbles (1924) 'She got very angry. Angry and excited. Before I knew where I was she flung the axe at me ... She followed up. leaped across the room, clawing at my face ... '
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten

A weekly magazine of special interest to blind listeners
DO It With EggS: JILL ALLEN talks about gadgets which blind housewives might find useful when cooking eggs. Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Talks:
Jill Allen
Introduced By:
David Scott Blackhall
Producer:
Thena Heshel

A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring TERENCE BRADY, PAULINE YATES and JOHN GRAHAM with GORDON LANGFORD at the piano
The lines are contributed by: TONY BILBOW and MIKE FENTIMAN, GUY BOAS, TERENCE BRADY, DAVID CLIMIE, JOHN GRAHAM, CHARLES GRIFFIN, KEVIN PAUL and HAROLD ARPTHORP ALLAN SCOTT and CHRIS BRYANT, PETER SPENCE, GERALD WILEY
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Friday, 11 15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Terence Brady
Unknown:
Pauline Yates
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Gordon Langford
Unknown:
Tony Bilbow
Unknown:
Mike Fentiman
Unknown:
Terence Brady
Unknown:
David Climie
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Charles Griffin
Unknown:
Kevin Paul
Unknown:
Harold Arpthorp
Unknown:
Allan Scott
Unknown:
Chris Bryant
Unknown:
Peter Spence
Unknown:
Gerald Wiley
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson

The third of four programmes of ' gospel mission ' music, old and new.
3: Contemporaries of Sankey and Moody
Introduced by LEONARD PEARCEY .With the UPPER NORWOOD BAND and SONGSTER BRIGADE OF THE
SALVATION ARMY
Conductor COL BERNARD ADAMS Producer HUBERT HOSKINS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leonard Pearcey
Conductor:
Col Bernard Adams
Producer:
Hubert Hoskins

conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra gramophone records
Rossini Overture: The Silken Ladder
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1, in c
SOlOist CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH
Franz Schmidt Intermezzo (Notre Dame)
Johann Strauss Thunder and Lightning Polka

Contributors

Soloist:
Christoph Eschenbach
Soloist:
Franz Schmidt
Unknown:
Johann Strauss

by JOHN BUCHAN adapted for radio in six episodes by WINIFRED CAREY from The 39 Steps and Mr Standfast with Fraser Kerr as Richard Hannay
2: The Hawk Swoops
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(For cast see Tuesday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Winifred Carey
Unknown:
Mr Standfast
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Unknown:
Richard Hannay
Producer:
Norman Wright

Great houses and great people A series of five programmes
5: Charles I at the Banqueting House in Whitehall presented by Roy Strong with Godfrey Kenton as Charles I GERALD CROSS, ROLF LEFEBVRE
The place from which Charles stepped on to the scaffold is now scarcely distinguished among the ministries and buses in Whitehall. It is also the place where Charles Haunted the grandeurs of his court, and where the machinery of the European stage was first developed by Inigo Jones. And it contains some of the finest baroque ceiling paintings in the world.
Producer RICHARD KEEN

Contributors

Presented By:
Roy Strong
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
Inigo Jones.

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