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Tony Lewis introduces this magazine programme that takes a different look at the world of sport. Featuring the offbeat; the humorous and the up-to-date news at home and abroad.
A Radio Sports Unit production

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis

from routine with Barry Norman and an assembled multitude of personalities, experts and intrepid reporters who suggest ways and means of spending your leisure hours with advice on where to go, things to do and news of entertainment that simply shouldn't be missed.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(For information sheets send a large sae to Breakaway, BBC, Portland Place, London [Postcode removed])

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman
Producer:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

At the monthly meeting of the European Parliament, held this week in Strasbourg, British members have been criticising the Common Market budget. It's estimated that over the next year, we are likely to pay into the EEC about £1,000 million more than we receive in payments of one kind or another.
A special report on the session from John Sergeant of the BBC's political staff.
(See also: Talking Law Sunday 7.30)

Contributors

Reporter:
John Sergeant
Producer:
Joshua Rozenberg

Presenter Louise Bolting Radio's key to the ever-present problem of how to get the best from your money. Whether it concerns a mortgage or an insurance policy, an investment bond or a bank loan, a tax dispute or a social security squabble, Money Box gets the answers.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am)
HELP! page 22

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Bolting

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Simon Jenkins
Clement Freud , mp and Claire Rayner
Compiled by ALAN NIXON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Simon Jenkins
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Claire Rayner
Unknown:
Alan Nixon
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

Lord Chalfont, Polly Devlin, Lord Willis and Russell Braddon tackle the issues raised by the audience in Northern Ireland

Chairman David Jacobs

BBC Bristol

1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)

Contributors

Chairman:
David Jacobs
Panellist:
Lord Chalfont
Panellist:
Polly Devlin
Panellist:
Lord Willis
Panellist:
Russell Braddon
Producer:
Carole Stone

' In the glow of the declining sun it looked like a silvery expanse of water flowing over the grass. What could it be? ' JOHN CLOUDSLEY-THOMPSON
MALCOLM COE and TONY SOPER discuss listeners' questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cloudsley-Thompson
Unknown:
Malcolm Coe
Unknown:
Tony Soper
Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Michael Bright

The Fishing Party bv PETER TERSON
' We might be rough-and-ready miners on a fishing trip but we're staying at one of them there hotels, you know. Cliff View. Very nice it is. It's got its standards, but we can live up to them.'
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY
BBC Manchester. (First broadcast on R3 in 1971) Preview: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Terson
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley
Art:
Wilfred Fickles
Abe:
Harry Markham
Ern:
Geoffrey Banks
Audrey:
Stephanie Turner
Brian:
Ray Mort
Teaman:
Anthony Boden
Waitress:
Cleone Rive
Fisherman:
James Garbutt

A practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan 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 Producer JANE WOOD Editor MARLENE PEASK

Contributors

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

Five programmes presented by Peter Russell
4: Go berserk - for ten minutes!
PETER RUSSELL looks at tWO contrasting techniques. In his dynamic meditation, Bhagwan Rajneesh believes that many Westerners cannot meditate properly until they have worked off their hang-ups. Baba Muktananda 's approach is in many ways the exact opposite and part of the traditional Indian attitude to devotional meditation.
Producer SUSAN PATON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Russell
Unknown:
Peter Russell
Unknown:
Baba Muktananda
Producer:
Susan Paton

Trees have inspired poems of infinite variety. Works by JOHN CLARE and the Welsh bard EIFION wyN are included in this programme - the second in a series about aspects of a landscape.
Presenter Frank Lincoln Reader John Darran Producer
HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
John Clare
Reader:
Frank Lincoln
Reader:
John Darran
Unknown:
Herbert Williams

Christopher Grier talks about Smetana's symphonic cycle Ma vlast (My Country) and chooses from it the symphonic poem Vltava, which describes the course of the river flowing through Prague.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT gramophone records
(Repeated: Tues 8.30 pm)

Contributors

Talks:
Christopher Grier
Producer:
Patrick Lambert

with David Jason Bill Wallis David Tate and Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
David Firman

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

by James Fairfax

When Judge Latimer tries to help his son, who is suspected of murder, he puts his own career in danger and gains some insight into dealings between the police and suspects.

(BBC Manchester) (Repeated: Mon 3.15)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
James Fairfax
Director:
Alfred Bradley
Judge Patrick Latimer:
Ronald Baddiley
Keith Latimer/PC Yarnold:
Tim Bentinck
Eileen Blaydon:
Elizabeth Bell
Inspector Mackenson:
Russell Dixon
Detective-Sergeant Collins:
Alan Meadows
Justice Halyard:
Geoffrey Banks
Mary Lunt:
Jane Lowe
Bob Lunt/Henson:
Kenneth Alan Taylor
Kathy:
Meryl Hampton
Anna/Mrs Barraclough:
Carolyn Pickles
John Wentford:
Paul Webster
Bellerby/Fenby:
Peter Wheeler
Nick Barber:
Jack Carr

Michael Billington re-plays and reflects on the movies and music, books, television, radio, plays and personalities from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope.
Editor ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Billington
Editor:
Rosemary Hart

entertainment for an autumn evening.
Music and merriment provided by DAVID BARLOW , PETER CHRISTIE , ALAN MARYON-DAVIS and MILES KINGTON , with their special guests this week, Music Deco
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE

Contributors

Provided By:
David Barlow
Provided By:
Peter Christie
Provided By:
Alan Maryon-Davis
Provided By:
Miles Kington
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

Eskimos by DAVID CAMPTON withand
' Daddy brought Mummy back after a trip to the North.'
Mummy, In fact, is from Salford. But her_ son's school essay makes her out to be an Eskimo. What does this mean?
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
David Campton
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Father:
Christopher Benjamin
Mother:
Ingrid Hafner
Monica:
Rosalind Adams

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