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with Tony Lewis
From the world of sport and leisure, a magazine programme which looks forward to a major weekend in racing, with the Irish Sweeps Cambridgeshire today and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe tomorrow.
A Radio Sport and ob production
8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

mediumorjy
Robert Carvel reports from Brighton where the Liberals are holding their first Assembly since the establishment of their parliamentary pact with Labour. He discusses the Party's future and the key issues of the week's debates with Liberal mps and delegates. Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carvel
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only
A series of programmes featuring the best in Royal Variety Performances over the past 25 years. Introduced by David Nixon.
This week: 1953, with Vivian Blaine, Eve Boswell, Max Bygraves, Jimmy James, Stubby Kaye, Alfred Marks, Ethel Revnell and Ronnie Ronalde

Contributors

Introduced by:
David Nixon.
Written by:
Michael Pointon
Producer:
Griff Rhys Jones
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Sandra Hale

Norman Green has won first prize in a newspaper competition and he plans to spend his prize in a day spent at his local bookshop. Neither he, nor the other customers at the shop, know what a momentous day it will be for them all.

BBC Manchester
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Contributors

Writer:
Sandra Hale
Director:
Tony Cliff
Mr Lacey:
Leonard Fenton
Miss Hogarth:
Janet Dale
Norman Green:
Alan Rothwell
Professor Plover:
Paul Webster
Primrose Plover:
Rosalind Knight
Hal Burton:
David Mahlowe
Source: Radio Times
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Marilyn Alan presents a new programme for and with disabled people. As well as giving information on aids and services, it will serve as a forum for the discussion of issues concerning the disabled, whether it is the complexity of welfare benefits, or the inability of able-bodied people to treat them as normal human beings. Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Marilyn Alan
Producer:
Thena Heshel
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A serial in eight episodes Author ISAAC ASIMOV
Book 3: Second Foundation 8: Stars End
The Mule has gone and the Foundation develops as Seldon calculated. Yet some people still fear the unknown power of the Second Foundation and while the fear remains The Plan cannot succeed. Of the Foundation
Encyclopedic read-out DAVID VALLA
Audio adaptation MIKE STOTT Directed by DAVID CAIN
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaac Asimov
Unknown:
David Valla
Unknown:
Mike Stott
Directed By:
David Cain
Arkady Darell:
Sarah Frampton
Dr Darell:
Carleton Hobbs
Pelleas Anthor:
Gabriel Woolf
Homir Munn:
David March
Tubor:
Michael Kilgarriff
Of Kalgan Lord Stettin:
Peter Pratt
Of KalganLady Callia:
Prunella Scales
Of KalganMeirus:
Fraser Kerr
Of Trantor Preem Palver:
Cyril Shaps
Of Trantor Mrs Palver:
Katherine Parr
Of the Second Foundation Student Planner:
John Rowe
Of the Second Foundation Hari Seldon:
William Eedle
Source: Radio Times

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