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Tony Lewis presents this magazine programme on 'he world of sport and leisure. Today featuring the Gillette Cup Final at Lord's; and from Flushing Meadow, Gerald Williams on the closing stages of the us Open tennis tournament.
A Radio Sport and os Production
8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Gerald Williams

I've alwavs thought that swallows fly south in the autumn to spend six months' rest from then domestic responsibilities, but a friend from Johannesburg tells me she watches swallows feeding their chicks in the South African spring and summer. Please explain.'
This week Janet Kear. Michael Chinery and Pat Morris field another over of your natural history questions.
Introduced byDerekJones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Kear.
Unknown:
Michael Chinery
Unknown:
Pat Morris

' Learning to perform in public is in a very real sense learning to live with fear - gracefully and if possible, completely invisibly.'
Sue MacGregor talks to the American violinist Isaac Stern about his life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (Shortened repeat

Contributors

Violinist:
Isaac Stern
Producer:
Gillian Hush

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Claire Rayner Russell Davies
Compiled by the producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Claire Rayner
Unknown:
Russell Davies
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Tony Britton raises the cry of Hip Hip Hooray for ... Telegraphy and the Two-penny Tube!
A seriously lighthearted look at some of the inventions which helped to change the 19th century into the 20th. and to those days when so many of the things we now take for granted were marvels, novelties - or yet to come. With TIMOTHY BATESON
OLIVE GREGG , FRASER KERR and songs by SHEILA MATHEWS, -PETER REEVES and CHARLES YOUNG WITH HIS SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Devised and compiled by GERALD FROW
Producer JOHN DYAS (Repeated: Wed 8.45
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
See letters: page 83

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Olive Gregg
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Songs By:
Sheila Mathews,
Songs By:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Gerald Frow
Producer:
John Dyas

Crete
The centre of the mysterious Minoan civilisation where excavations this summer continue to probe for a deeper understanding of the island's past. Presented by Malcolm Billings
Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol

Contributors

Presented By:
Malcolm Billings
Producer:
Roy Hayward

by Ken Methold
With Stephen Murray as Len Williams and Peter Egan as John Hughes

'All I'm saying is that in the village they have to work together as a mutual help society. Leprosy is a horrible disease, but it does not make people totallv incapable... If the leper is an outcast there is still no reason to institutionalise him. Let him live in a community to which he can belong. where he can live a reasonably normal life. and have the same freedoms as the people outside.'
(Repeat) (long wave only)

Contributors

Writer:
Ken Methold
Director:
John Theocharis
Len Williams:
Stephen Murray
John Hughes:
Peter Egan
Suchitra Hughes:
Elizabeth Proud
Morrison:
Stephen Thorne
Thai doctor:
Paul Meier
Lady chairman:
Mary Wimbush
Mrs Wilson:
Joan Matheson
[Actor]:
Rod Beacham
[Actor]:
Walter Hall
[Actor]:
Jeffrey Segal
[Actress]:
Irene Sutcliffe
[Actor]:
James Thomason

Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed], ext 2531
Correspondence address: BB('. Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed]
Producer JANE WOOD Editor MARLENE PEASI long wave only

Contributors

Presenter:
Marilyn Alan
Reporter:
Kevin Mulhern
Producer:
Jane Wood
Editor:
Marlene Peasi

In his reminiscences of a boyhood on Harris in the Hebrides, Finlay J. Macdonald remembers one of the great characters of island life - Calumn the postman, bringer of glad tidings and harbinger of doom.

(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Speaker:
Finlay J. Macdonald
Producer:
Leslie Robinson

Johnny Morris recalls with records and mixed memories, the days when he had drifted away from the musical world, but wherever he went there was always more than a whiff of musical nostalgia. long wave only
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Morris

A second chance to hear some lighthearted words and music originally heard in the new writing programme Just After Noon. Introduced by Brian Thompson
With RUSSELL DIXON
CAROLE HAYMAN and PETER WHEELER
Music from Benjamin Britten 's Alpine Suite for three recorders played by JOHN TURNER
DAVID PUGSLEY , VALERIE BUTT Music producer ANN STANGAR
Producer KAY JAMIESON
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Thompson
Introduced By:
With Russell Dixon
Introduced By:
Carole Hayman
Introduced By:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Played By:
John Turner
Played By:
David Pugsley
Producer:
Ann Stangar
Producer:
Kay Jamieson

Joe by Michael Toft
with Paul Copley as Joe, Elizabeth McKenzie as Mrs Beever and George A. Cooper as Mr Harper

Joe Carter, at 21, is a dreamer on his own. The whole of Leeds in 1953 is at his feet. He's looking for a home, a career and love. He finds all of them, but not as he'd intended.
BBC Manchester
(Liz Goulding is a National Theatre player; Paul Webster is a member of the RSC)
(Repeated: Mon 3.5 pm)

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Toft
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Joe:
Paul Copley
Mrs Beever:
Elizabeth McKenzie
Mr Harper:
George A. Cooper
Lorna:
Liz Goulding
Mr Beever:
Graham Roberts
Arthur:
Russell Dixon
Mr Turvy:
Paul Webster
Mavis:
Sylvia Brayshay
Freda:
Margo Gunn
Mr Arnold:
Geoffrey Banks
Clive:
Will Tacey
Mrs Popplewell:
Rosalie Williams

Three programmes on the history and development of Science Fiction, compiled and presented by Bryan Silcock
1: New Hells on Earth
' Contemporary Science Fiction takes a whole lot of things that we know and imagines them for us. And the function of keeping the imagination alive has far more virtue than predicting clones or the space race. The imagination most readily feeds on the hopes and terrors of the present day and Science Fiction can show us what will happen if that sort of situation develops and gets out of hand.'
(Brian Aldiss)
In this first programme Bryan Silcock talks to a number of Science Fiction writers and examines the art of writing alternative history and how SF can comment on contemporary problems.
Extracts performed by PETER BALDWIN BRIAN HAINES
ROGER HAMMOND and JENNY TWIGGE
Producer MICHAEL BARTLETTT

Contributors

Presented By:
Bryan Siicock
Talks:
Bryan Silcock
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Unknown:
Roger Hammond
Unknown:
Jenny Twigge
Producer:
Michael Bartlettt

A series of plays for late-night listening.
Lally Bowers and Nigel Stock in Thank you for your
Support by MARTYN READ From Laetitia Plum ...
Dear Sir, I shall be much obliged if you would send me: one pair of your surgical stockings, plus your Oo-la-la from France.
Directed by PETER KING

Contributors

Unknown:
Lally Bowers
Unknown:
Martyn Read
Directed By:
Peter King
Laetitia Plum:
Lally Bowers
Col Foskett:
Nigel Stock
Arthur Trumpington:
Ellis Dale
The Rev Wilfred Lupin:
Roger Hammond
The Bishop:
John Bott
Narrator:
Gordon Reid

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