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From the world of sport and leisure, Desmond Lynam presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter, including the Prudential World Cup cricket competition - today's matches decide who goes into the semi-finals-and the Benson and Hedges show jumping championships at Cardiff Castle.
Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Lynam

Where else, you ask, can
England's game be seen
Rooted so deep as on the village green.
Cricket may be rooted on the village green, but it's played with flair and watched with fervour from Trinidad to Tasmania, and from Holland to Hyderabad. As the world's cricketing nations battle for the Prudential Trophy, one of the great all-rounders, Trevor Bailey , explores the worldwide appeal of ' England's game '.
A Radio News production by BOB DORAN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Bailey
Production By:
Bob Doran

Robert Hudson describes the celebration in London of the Official Birthday of HM The Queen
The Queen's Colour of the 2nd Battalion the Scots Guards is being trooped.
Music played by the Massed Band of the Guards Division and the Massed Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry.
From Horse Guard* Parade, London. long wave only See page 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hudson

Joan Bakewell is your radio travel agent with advice on where to go and how to cut the cost. Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets, send a large sae to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Producer:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Tim Brooke-Taylor Jonathan Lynn Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer fill in the gaps between the chairmanship of Humphrey Lyttelton and the piano of DAVID FIRMAN. Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Revised repeat)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Jonathan Lynn
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
David Firman.
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Lord Hill Patrick Hutber Anna Raeburn Frpnk Chapple
Chairman David Jacobs from Pebworth, Warwicks Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Hill Patrick Hutber
Unknown:
Anna Raeburn
Unknown:
Frpnk Chapple
Unknown:
David Jacobs

Somebody Else's Smile bv ELIZABETH KAY
'The trouble with us all is that we've been institutionalised. They create neuroses here. They're meant to cure them. I had a bit of trouble with my legs, that's why they put me here. No room in an ordinary hospital at the time. Been here ever since - 25 years. It's not just a geriatric unit either. Some of the patients are a bit funny. Psychiatric.'
Pianist STUART HUTCHINSON Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(A sequel to this play, 'A Day at Sea', can be heard on Thursday at 3.35 pm' (Patricia Hayes is tn ' Filumena ' at the Lyric Theatre. London) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Kay
Pianist:
Stuart Hutchinson
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Mary Bradley:
Sylvia Coleridge
Sarah Jane:
Patricia Hayes
Betty:
Susan Richards
Agatha:
Joan Matheson
Amy/Penelope:
Anita Sharp-Bolster
June:
Aimee Delamain
Nurse O'Hara:
Jennifer Piercey
Therapist:
Heather Bell
Miss Stanley/Ann:
Hilda Kriseman
Daphne/Meg:
Margot Boyd
First lady:
Petra Davies
Second lady:
Brenda Kaye

A practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners.
Presenter Mary Craig
Reporter KEVIN MULHERN Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed]. ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only

Contributors

Presenter:
Mary Craig
Reporter:
Kevin Mulhern
Editor:
Marlene Pease

The Weather in the Streets by ROSAMOND LEHMANN dramatised in two parts by ELSPETH SANDYS
' It was then the time began when there wasn't any time. The journey was in the dark, going on without end or beginning, without landmarks, bearings lost: asleep? ... waking? '
An affair with a married man: the secrecy, the acceptance of half-a-life, the cutting off from one's friends - how can you settle for that? Part
With BRUCE PURCHASE, PHILIP FOX and MICHAEL MCSTAY Music arranged and directed by MIKE STEER
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm) (Part 2 next Saturday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elspeth Sandys
Unknown:
Philip Fox
Unknown:
Michael McStay
Directed By:
Mike Steer
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Olivia:
Angela Pleasence
Rollo:
And Simon Cadell
Kate:
Marian Diamond
Etty:
Rosalind Ayres
Mrs Curtis:
Monica Grey
Lady Spencer:
Maxine Audley
George:
Peter Wickham
Lady Mary:
Lolly Cockerell
Sir John:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Marigold:
Valerie Sarruf
Anna:
Susan Engel
Simon:
Jonathan Newth
COlin:
Sylvester Morand

Dr Jack Dominian
Rosemary Anne Sissons and Professor John Weightman in conversation with Brian Redhead
Producer GILLAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jack Dominian
Unknown:
Rosemary Anne Sissons
Unknown:
Professor John Weightman
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Gillan Hush

A nine-part series in which Jeremy Stepmann follows the changing fortunes of the orchestra and the society whose tastes it has always mirrored.
9: Davids and Goliaths, or Where Do We Go From' Here
In the last programme of the series 20th-century puritans take aim at the gargantuan excesses of romanticism and dare to suggest that 'Less is More Combatants tonight include Strauss, Mahler. Webern and Stravinsky.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Stepmann
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

A series of plays for late-night listening. The Visitor by NICHOLAS ALLAN with Night. A five-star hotel. Two men talking business. Sidney's business. But who is Sidney? What is his business?
Directed by BRIAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Allan
Directed By:
Brian Wright
Sidney:
Nicholas Ball
Thompson:
Jeffry Wickham

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