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Barry Norman takes a critical look at this week's nominations for sporting Oscars. Best film in town has to be 'Gunfight at The Oval Corral' but will
David Gower or Allan Border win the best director award? And is it 'New York or Bust' for
John McEnroe ? Box office success is assured, but can the star take the best actor trophy for 'Flushing Meadow 85'? Producer DAVE GORDON

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
David Gower
Unknown:
Allan Border
Unknown:
John McEnroe
Producer:
Dave Gordon

Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to holidays, travel and leisure with help from Frank Barrett , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD including at 9.0 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Frank Barrett
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart.
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

For the last programme in this summer series of conversations, Anthony Howard , Deputy
Editor of The Observer, joins
Paddy Ashdown , Liberal mp for Yeovil, at his South London home to talk about his origins, his interests and his life outside politics.
Producer JULIAN COLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Howard
Unknown:
Paddy Ashdown
Producer:
Julian Coles

A two-part documentary by David Wade Parti
Forty-five years ago hundreds of thousands of British children found themselves in homes very different from the ones they had known. They were the evacuees. David Wade has been talking to some of them to find out how much they remember of what happened.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Wade
Unknown:
David Wade

The Corsaint
A Tale of Miracles by ADRIAN MOURBY
It is 995 and Aldhun, exiled
Bishop of Lindisfarne, has been warned in a dream to flee Cunacaestir before it is destroyed by the Danes. He is to take with him the body of Saint Cuthbert: but for Cuthbert to desert his own land is considered a bad omen....
With BILLY FELLOWS
STEPHEN HANCOCK , ANNE JAMESON
ALAN MASON
Music composed by STEPHEN HANCOCK Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Mourby
Unknown:
Billy Fellows
Unknown:
Stephen Hancock
Unknown:
Anne Jameson
Unknown:
Alan Mason
Composed By:
Stephen Hancock
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
Uhtred Oslacsorum:
Ian Hogg
Aldhun:
John Woodvine
Eoderic:
And Colin Douglas
Edric/Eadmer:
Terry Molloy
Priest:
Ronald Herdman
Haf Haraldson:
Coun Meredith

Street hockey - played on roller skates with ice hockey sticks - is fast becoming a popular sport. Players and organisers discuss the evolution of the game from street corner to organised leagues and sponsored tournaments, and talk about their ambitions for the future. Researched and compiled by AMANDA WILLETT
Producer ED THOMASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Amanda Willett

The first in a series which revisits the scenes of celebrated murders, scandals and intrigue. 1: Villa Madeira, Boumemouth Fifty years ago this bijou residence was the scene of a sensational killing.
Roger Wilkes meets the present owner and recalls the Rattenbury Case. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 9. 30pm) 0 HEAR THIS! page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Wilkes
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Seven programmes written by JOHN KEAY
2: 'Go, 'said I, 'and wander'
Narrator John Rowe
Early in 1821 John Dundas
Cochrane set off from Dieppe to walk the several thousand miles to the north-east tip of Siberia. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (R) Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
John Keay
Narrator:
John Rowe
Unknown:
John Dundas
John Dundas Cochrane:
Patrick Stewart

A Case of Spirits by PETER LOVESEY adapted for radio by GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS
In well-to-do London Victorian society, Spiritualism is all the rage. Thefts follow two seances and Cribb is drafted in to make discreet enquiries. He suspects the young medium. Peter Brand , but Brand's mysterious death means that other agencies are at work.
Directed by PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Lovesey
Unknown:
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Unknown:
Peter Brand
Directed By:
Peter Windows
Sgt Cribb:
With Barry Foster
Con Thackeray:
John Cater
Insp Jowett:
Roger Hume
Dr Probert:
William Eedle
Winifred Probert:
June Tobin
Henry Strathmore:
David Garth
Miss Crush:
Frances Jeater
Alice Probert:
Melinda Walker
William Nye:
Geoffrey Collins
Peter Brand:
Robin Summers
Prof Quayle:
Ronald Herdman
Dr Benjamin:
Alan Thompson

10: Primate Territories
Alison Jolly , Rockefeller
University, New York, and David Chivers , Cambridge
University, show how the wail of the indri is used to defend home territories, while the bark of the howler monkey serves to space out family groups.
Narrator David Attenborough Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBC Bristol (R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Jolly
Unknown:
David Chivers
Narrator:
David Attenborough
Produced By:
Michael Bright

with Peter Evans
Why adults can't recall being infants, at what stage babies begin to understand numbers and how toddlers come to imagine a banana is a telephone, are the concerns of psychologists at the Medical Research Council's Cognitive Development Unit in London. Producer DEBORAH COHEN (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

with Steve Brown
Helen Lederer , Clive Mantle and Nick Wilton
Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN , PAUL B. DAVIES . HUNTER AND
DOCHERTY. MURRY. RIX, WILTON. ROGER PLANER. JAMES HENDRIE and others Producer JAMIE RIX (R)
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Brown
Unknown:
Helen Lederer
Unknown:
Clive Mantle
Unknown:
Nick Wilton
Music By:
Steve Brown
Written By:
Arnold Brown
Written By:
Paul B. Davies
Written By:
Docherty. Murry.
Unknown:
Wilton. Roger Planer.
Unknown:
James Hendrie
Producer:
Jamie Rix

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