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From the world of sport and leisure Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter.
Including today's Prudential World Cup final and a look ahead to Wimbledon which starts on Monday.
Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and 0* production

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis

Facing the Crisis
The heads of government of the leading industrial nations hold a Summit meeting in Tokyo this week. They confront sharp questions on energy, employment, prices, and the world distribution of wealth.
Presented by the BBC's Economic Editor, Dominick Harrod
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only

Contributors

Editor:
Dominick Harrod
Production By:
Richard Anthony Baker

First Impressions
The poet Patricia Beer presents the first of two selections of the poetry which fired her imagination in her formative years.
Readers
John Franklvn Robbins and Frances Horovitz Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Beer
Readers:
John Franklvn Robbins
Readers:
Frances Horovitz
Producer:
Fraser Steel

"Can you tell me why birds such as flamingos, ducks and waders, so often rest on only one leg?"
Our carefully balanced team of naturalists answers your wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

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

The antidote to panel games. Slightly less than half-an-hour of wit, wisdom and panic from Tim Brooke-Tavlor, William Rushton, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton with the twiddly bits of Colin Sell at the piano
Producer Geoffrey Perkins
(Repeat)

12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Tavlor
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton

Lord Mancroft
Air Vice-Marshal Menaul Derek Robinson Sue Slipman
Chairman David Jacobs from British Forces Berlin, Germany, in co, operation with BFBS
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Menaul Derek Robinson
Unknown:
David Jacobs

Reading Without Eyes
Frank Delaney investigates recent developments in publishing, printing and recording books for the blind.
Producer DENYS GUEROULT (Rptd: Sun at 11.15 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

The Wild Horses by MICHAEL DAVIES
The setting of this play is on the North side of the Cower peninsula, South Wales. Upwards of 500 wild horses live their lives in freedom on these thousands of acres of marshland. With the Spring and Autumn tides, however, the horses take to the high ground - and it's there that the horse dealers are waiting.
Directed by GERRY JONES long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Davies
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Steffan:
Gareth Armstrong
Sonja:
Elizabeth Proud
Harry Morgan:
Gerald James
Megan:
Heather Bell
Verner Sobieski:
Ronald Herdman
Mrs Sobiesk:
Elizabeth I Morgan
David Huxley:
Martin Friend

This week the programme asks if Britain can learn anything new from the welfare of disabled and handicapped people in Sweden,
Presenter 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:
Kevin Mulhern
Editor:
Marlene Pease

Attach a small magnet to the side of a pigeon's head, and it cannot navigate on cloudy days. Demagnetise a bee, and it will fail to recognise its own hive. What is the source and function of these magnetic effects? Dr Jim Gould of the Department of Biology at Princeton University, in conversation with Peter Evans. explains the causes.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jim Gould
Unknown:
Peter Evans.
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

Best seller? Box-office success? Top of the charts? Top of the ratings? Tony Palmer introduces a selection from the books, films, plays, music and other arts reviewed during the past week.
Editor ROSEMARY HART long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Palmer
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on record: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Rev rpt: Friday 9.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann with Angela Pleasence as Olivia and Simon Cadell as Rollo 'I was always thinking something awful would happen to Rollo, he'd be snatched away from me behind an official barricade of lawful friends and relations.. Because I loved him he was threatened - by life, by me - I don't know .'Part 2 and Fred Bryant, Brian Carroll, Eva Stuart, Gregory De Polnay and Roger Hammond
Music arranged and directed by Mike Steer
Directed by Jane Morgan (Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosamond Lehmann
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Simon Cadell
Unknown:
Fred Bryant
Unknown:
Brian Carroll.
Unknown:
Eva Stuart
Unknown:
Gregory de Polnay
Unknown:
Roger Hammond
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Mrs Curtis:
Monica Grey
Kate:
Marian Diamond
Etty:
Rosalind Ayres
Ivor Craig:
Tom Wilkinson
Anna:
Susan Engel
Simon:
Jonathan Newth
Colin:
Sylvester Morand
Lady Spencer:
Maxine Audley
Mr Tredeaven:
Peter Baldwin

Peter Ustinov reads extracts from his best-selling autobiography adapted in eight parts by JACK SINGLETON
1: 'I weighed nearly 12 pounds as a consequence of a reluctant and tardy birth. Once I had actually been cajoled to enter this world, I apparently behaved as though I had never hesitated and held up my head to look round, even when suspended by my feet like a bat.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Jack Singleton

I Grow Old, I Grow Old by BERNARD KOPS with Andiew Sachs as Paul PAUL : If you're destined to drown you'll drown in a tea-spoon.
Age is something we have to face. It may be something we dread. Paul goes to visit his father in a geriatric ward, but on this particular day he is filled with a strange fear and foreboding.
Directed by LIANE AUKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Andiew Sachs
Unknown:
Paul Paul
Directed By:
Liane Aukin
Claire:
Marion Diamond
First nuise:
Eva Stuart
Second nurse:
Jenny Twigge
Mr Turner:
Peter Baldwin

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