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Become a success with a disc and hey presto ! You're a star ... . Rolly sings with

assuredness " Bella Bella Marie " ( Parlophone ) , a lively song that changes tempo mid-way

I don't think he will storm the charts with this one , but it's a good start .

CHRIS CHARLES , 39 , who lives in Stockton-on-Tees , is an accountant .

He is also a director of a couple of garages . And he finds time as well to be a lyric

writer . He writes with Tolchard Evans , composer of " Lady of Spain " and other big hits .

Tolch , as he is known in Tin Pan Alley , likes songs with a month in the title . He wrote

" My September Love , " the big David Whitfield hit of 1956 .

The numbers include " Scotland the Brave , " " Men of Harlech , "

" McNamara's Band , " " Greensleeves " and " English Rose . "

Fay Compton stars in " No Hiding Place " ( ITV , 9.35 p.m. ) .

She plays the possessive mother of a man whose hobby revolves

round a doll's house .

THREE people will be hypnotised in tonight's " Lifeline "

( BBC , 10.15 ) .

They will be asked to comment on the design of everyday articles

such as a chair and a motor-car . The idea is to see what happens when

parts of the mind not normally available without hypnosis are used .

ITV have postponed Malcolm Muggeridge's " Appointment with

playwright Arnold Wesker . " Instead , Muggeridge's appointment

will be with Sir Roy Welensky the Premier of the Federation

of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ( 10.30 p.m. ) .

Say Granada TV , the producers : " We decided to make

the switch because of the topicality of African

affairs . The Wesker interview will be seen at a later

date . " ACTOR Tom Courtenay was an outstanding

success last night in ITV's " Private Potter , " his

first big TV part . The play was a brilliantly-written

essay on soldiering which stated that a fighting

man could only be regarded as a machine .

Potter screamed during an action , and was arrested . He

claimed he had seen a vision of God - only the padre and his

CO believed him . Courtenay played the part with a gawky ,

Northern defiance . The cameras played continuously on his

craggy face , and obstinate , baffled eyes . They stripped

him of his ugly battle-dress , to leave him for

what he was - Potter , a frightened boy who had a

vision .

The film replaced " What's My Line ? " and " Be My

Guest " programmes because of an electricians'

strike . It showed Britain today through the eyes

of an American TV reporter , Eric Sevareid , and

British personalities . Among them - Professor

Dennis Brogan , Shelagh Delaney , and Alan Sillitoe .

The film covered a wide aspect of the British

scene , ranging from pubs , the Eton wall game ,

to the European Common Market .

Shelagh Delaney and Alan Sillitoe attacked

education . It was left to reporter Sevareid

to make the strongest criticisms . He said

that in the race of the modern nations ,

Britain was slipping behind ... .

ALSO present is a London journalist who

arrived two hours earlier by appointment

to talk to the author of Borstal Boy and

The Hostage about his new work , if any ,

and who is now being pluckily convivial

to fight off the frustration . The telephone

has rung a couple of times , calls from

other chums sniffing the wind and

offering to drop by for a chat .

The second said that the problems which arise from the comparisons with

the Synoptics can be reasonably solved by paying due regard to the time and

plan and to the different public for which , or against which , the author wrote .

The third article excluded any allegorical interpretation of the Gospel .

There is a whole group of theories which attempt to explain the problems of the

Fourth Gospel by explanations based on assumed textual dislocations . The

present state of the Gospel is the result of an accident-prone history . The

original was written on a roll , or codex , which fell into disorder or was

accidentally damaged . An editor , who was not the author , made what he

could of the chaos by placing the fragments , or sheets , or pages , in order .

The one real weakness of the Commentator's

case is that , in common with all his colleagues ,

he has not , until now , been able to exhibit exactly

how this enlargement was effected nor has he

been able to explain the textual movements by

showing that such changes are part of a

simple and coherent plan . To understand how

this is possible it is necessary to examine the

text of the Gospel .

THE Fourth Gospel was almost certainly

written in Greek . A modern text of the

Gospel represents the work of generations of

scholars who have compared the many manu-

scripts of John and worked out the version

which is most likely to have been the original

wording . It is not possible to establish any one

text with absolute precision .

The bar was the commonest marking , but others

were also used . Dots sometimes served in place of the

bar , and there are cases where spacing is used as

it is now used to mark a paragraph ending . Frequently

paragraphos markings were omitted . C. H. Roberts is of

the opinion that in the original of the Fourth Gospel

some markings would be used , although which , it is

impossible to say .

Professor E. G. Turner is inclined to take the view that

the original of the Gospel would be unmarked . The

original of the Gospel , whether written on a roll or codex ,

whether paragraphed or not , would be laid out in