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Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
News and prospects of all the day's big events including:
Cricket: scores and flashes from the Test Match
Racing from Royal Ascot
Tennis: Rothmans London Grass Court Championships at Queen's Club
Athletics: Women's AAA Championships from the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre Golf: Carrolls International Tournament from Woodbrook Golf Club. Co Wicklow, Eire Produced by JOHN HASLAM (Sport on 2: 2.30-5.45 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries
Produced By:
John Haslam

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Semi-Final (ii)
BARRY DAVIES , Nottingham policeman
ROGER HAWORTH , Westmorland automation engineer
IAIN MATHESON , Ross and Cromarty, retired surgeon
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by JOAN CLARK (Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Barry Davies
Unknown:
Roger Haworth
Unknown:
Iain Matheson
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A spontaneous discussion by BARONESS STOCKS RUSSELL BRADDON
CAMPBELL ADAMSON
DES WILSON
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Henbury School, Bristol
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers* should be addressed to the BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR, marked Any Answers?

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Stocks
Unknown:
Russell Braddon
Unknown:
Campbell Adamson
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

by RALPH PETERSON adapted for radio by JOY HOLI.YER
An Australian play about boxing and boxers -their hopes, successes, disasters, and defeats. with DAN CROSBY , MAX OSBISTON and JOHN GRAY
Produced by FRANK ZEPPLE
An ABC production

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Peterson
Unknown:
Dan Crosby
Unknown:
Max Osbiston
Unknown:
John Gray
Produced By:
Frank Zepple
Danny Felton:
Edward Heppell
Frank Ford:
John Armstrong
Eddie Burke:
Robert MacDara
Happy Coombs:
Alastair Duncan
Rick Martell:
Richard Meikle
Sailor Johnson:
Ben Gabriel
Docker Starkie:
James Congdon

Introduced by Marrbrie Anderson Guest: Joss Ackland The great snail race: PEARL JABRI
Bookshelf: JOAN YORKE and KELLOW CHESNEY on his book The Victorian Underworld
Press Conference:
IAN TRETHOWAN , BBC Managing Director, Radio, talks to ANNE ALLEN and PAUL FERRIS
DUNCAN CARSE reads Myself a Mandarin by AUSTIN COATES (Fourth of 10 instalments)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marrbrie Anderson
Unknown:
Joss Ackland
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Kellow Chesney
Unknown:
Ian Trethowan
Unknown:
Anne Allen
Unknown:
Paul Ferris

TONY BILBOWdiscusses the new film categories with JOHN TREVELYAN and talks to film actors aod directors about censorship in general.
Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE (Repeated: Wed, 7.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Trevelyan
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

LESLIE PHILLIPS and MARJORIE PROOPS play BASIL BOOTHROYD and MURIEL PAVLOW
Chairman ROBIN RAY who devised the game Questions supplied by PETER MOORE
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Unknown:
Marjorie Proops
Unknown:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
Peter Moore
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

A look at life on the funnier side, as observed by Al Read Guest singing star ROSEMARY SQUIRES
GEORGE BRADLEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA Script by RONNIE TAYLOR
Produced by JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Squires
Unknown:
George Bradley
Script By:
Ronnie Taylor
Produced By:
John Browell

The Days That Are Gone A memoir of the Busson-du Maurier family based on the books of DAPHNE DU MAURIER and adapted as two plays for radio by PHILIP LEAVER
1: The Blowing of the Glass with David Buck and Jane Wenham From their 18th-century French ancestors, the Busson-du Mauriers were to inherit talents far removed from the ancient craft of glass-blowing, practised by generations of the family.
with JONTY MILLER. GODFREY KENTON and JAMES THOMASON
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL (Jane Wenham is a National Theatre Player)
(Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm. The second play, ' The Fire in the Glass Saturday 11 July)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne du Maurier
Radio By:
Philip Leaver
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Jonty Miller.
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
James Thomason
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Narrator:
Barbara Bliss
Mathurin Busson:
Frederick Treves
Madeleine, his wife:
Cecile Chevreau
Robert, their eldest son:
David Buck
Pierre and Michel, their younger Sons:
Alan Barry
Pierre and Michel, their younger Sons:
John Rye
Michela as boy:
Imon Sturner
Sophie, their daughter:
Jane Wenham
Sophie, a child:
Audrey Murray
Cathie:
Patricia Gallimore
Edmi:
Deborah Dallas
Louis XV:
John Gabriel
Marie- Francoise:
Margaret Wolfit
Madame de Luart:
Mary Allen
Francois Duval:
John Bentley

A late-evening conversation in which CHARLES F. CARTER
WILLIAM W. ALLEN and DIGBY JACKS freely exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices With BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by BRIAN BLAKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles F. Carter
Unknown:
William W. Allen
Unknown:
Digby Jacks
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Produced By:
Brian Blake

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