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Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the people in the news and the issues that matter, including today's final in the John Player Rugby Union Cup, the Swimming international between Great Britain and the USSR, and a look at the new Cricket season.
A Radio Sport and OB production

8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Lewis

Spcedbird 287
Every day hundreds of jumbo jets take off all over the world on long-distance flights. This is the. story of one of them. BBC Air Correspondent James Wilkinson reports from the flight-deck of Speedbird 287 as it flies "from London to San Francisco. A Radio News production by JOHN WILLIAMS long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
James Wilkinson
Production By:
John Williams

As the political armies fire off round after round of ammunition at each other in the march towards Downing Street, Anthony King , Professor of Government at the University of Essex, takes a detached view of the battle and assesses the underlying strategies of the campaign. Producer
JOSHUA ROZENBERG
Editor ANNE SLOMAN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Unknown:
Joshua Rozenberg
Editor:
Anne Sloman

The sixth of seven programmes about
The Englishman Abroad compiled and presented by Anthony Thwaite with the poems read by GARY WATSON 6: India
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Anthony Thwaite
Read By:
Gary Watson
Producer:
Fraser Steel

'I know that " cuckoo spit " is nothing to do with cuckoos, but what is it that leaves this froth on my garden shoots? '
The team answers your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Monat 10.5 am) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren Richard Ingrams Michael Billington Valerie Jenkins
Newsreader JOHN MARSH Compiled and produced by DANNY GREENSTONE and ALAN NIXON
(Rev rpt: Tues 10.40 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Valerie Jenkins
Unknown:
John Marsh
Produced By:
Danny Greenstone
Produced By:
Alan Nixon

A Book from Beelzebub A comedy by GEOFFREY PARKINSON
Mr Newton bought the book for 30 pence at the Church Bazaar. It told an intriguing tale of love and jealousy that appeared to be based more on fact than on fiction.
MRS CORNISH: Don't tempt providence, Mr Newton. It always picks the wrong side.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
(First broadcast in 1977) long wave only

Contributors

Comedy By:
Geoffrey Parkinson
Unknown:
Mr Newton
Unknown:
Mr Newton.
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Mr Newton:
Dinsdale Landen
Mrs Cornish:
Sheila Grant
Mr Cornish:
David March
The Vicar:
Timothy Bateson
The Gypsy:
Kathleen Helme
Mrs Pitt:
Irene Sutcliffe
The Colonel:
William Eedle
The Waiter:
Michael Harbour

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A series of eight programmes.
The guests in this programme are
The Polyphonic Choir conductor
RICHARD ELFYN JONES
Music by Victoria, Palestrina. Mathias, Hoddinott and Richard Elfyn Jones. Presented by John Huw Davles
Written by JEAN POSTON Producer ALUN JOHN BBC Wales long wave only

Contributors

Conductor:
Richard Elfyn Jones
Unknown:
Richard Elfyn Jones.
Presented By:
John Huw Davles
Written By:
Jean Poston
Producer:
Alun John

By education most have been misled. David Jason with the help of Stephen Moore Royce Mills and Sheila Steafel and the music of JOHN OWEN EDWARDS continues to mislead
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK -SMITH, ANDY HAMILTON and BARRY PILTON Lyrics by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Stephen Moore
Unknown:
Royce Mills
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
John Owen Edwards
Script By:
Colin Bostock
Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

by Mike Walker
with Sian Phillips, Christopher Blake, Paul Gregory and Richard Hurndall

During the First World War two cousins - one from Germany, the other from England - find themselves victims of wartime 'games'.
'Mr Summerfield is a deeply honest man, he is also extremely fond of his cousin. I simply presented him with a choice: help us prove his cousin innocent or ignore us and see him shot as a spy. Of course there was only one choice and he made it.'

(Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)
(Preview by Sian Phillips: page 27)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Mike Walker
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Pianist:
Stuart Hutchinson
Paul Von Kleist:
Paul Gregory
Richard Summerfield:
Christopher Blake
Tom Walshe:
Nigel Anthony
Katharyn Rolfe:
Sian Phillips
Geoffrey Buckland:
Philip Voss
Rear Admiral Old:
Richard Hurndall
Novalis:
Garard Green
Clairmont:
Andrew Branch
Patty:
Hilda Kriseman

by VIC GAMMON
Narrators William Rushton and John Hollis
A story of the drinking habits of the English working class told in poetry, prose, song and statute law. with DAVID BRIERLEY DAVID SINCLAIR and PETER CRAZE. Music by THE PUMP AND PLUCK BAND Producer JOHN SCOTNEY

Contributors

Narrators:
Vic Gammon
Narrators:
William Rushton
Narrators:
John Hollis
Unknown:
David Brierley
Unknown:
David Sinclair
Producer:
John Scotney

A nine-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
1: Invitation to the Dance With a panoply of sounds from the Renaissance to the present day, tonight's programme ventures where angels fear to tread and asks: What precisely is an orchestra? Producer ARTHUR JOHNSQN gramophone records Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Producer:
Arthur Johnsqn

The Devil to Pay by JAMES FOLLETT with Norman Rodway and Derek Seaton
A car crash on a hot deserted road; a camper on hand to drag the driver from the blazing wreck. The start of an action-packed adventure play? .. Not quite. Listen on. Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Writer:
James Follett
Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Unknown:
Derek Seaton
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman

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