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Presented by Tony Lewis direct from Perth where ENGLAND and the reshaped AUSTRALIAN team are well into the second day of the first full Test.
The very latest news of the match: a look at the tour so far and interviews with the personalities behind the headlines. Plus all the rest of the news at home and abroad. A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Presented By:
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.
Including this week TOM BOSWELL on car maintenance, and Morocco for a winter sun holiday.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets send a large sae to [address removed]

Contributors

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

In Strasbourg this week the European Parliament has been looking closely at the outcome of the EEC Summit in Dublin and what was decided there about Britain's contribution to the Community budget.
John Sergeant reports from Strasbourg on what the European mps have had to say.
A Radio News production by BOB DORAN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Sergeant
Production By:
Bob Doran

Presented by Louise Botting
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 productton
(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am)
HELP! page 15

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

A show scripted by new writers for
Peter Wheeler David Casey
Carole Hayman Geoffrey Banks and Marlene Sidaway Producers JAMES CASEY and RON MCDONNELL BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave- only

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
David Casey
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Unknown:
Geoffrey Banks
Unknown:
Marlene Sidaway
Producers:
James Casey
Unknown:
Ron McDonnell

The Rt Hon
Denis Healey , mp Clive Jenkins The Rt Hon
Edward Du Cann , mp and Detta O'Cathain tackle the issues raised by the audience in Corby, Northants.
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Healey
Unknown:
Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
Edward du Cann
Unknown:
Detta O'Cathain
Unknown:
David Jacobs

' It was soft and orange, with a black stripe down the back. It changed colour and suddenly its head blew off. What was it, and why did it exploder'
DAVID GEORGE , HUMPHREY GREENWOOD and TONY SOPER ward off another salvo of listeners' questions. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol [Postcode removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
David George
Unknown:
Humphrey Greenwood
Unknown:
Tony Soper
Duced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Michael Bright

Winter Elegy by susan HILL with Pauline Letts and Lewis Stringer
' When Maurice dies we shall both be free.' ' Free? Don't we have all we want here? I don't want to go anywhere.'
'I wasn talking of going.' I I have never wanted more than this. You. This place. The work I. do. There's nothing more I could possibly want. '
Bernard LEWIS STRINGER MOlly PAULINE LETTS Directed by GUY VAESEN (First broadcast in 1973) (Susan Hill regularly writes the RADIO TIMES Preview column)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
Bernard Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
Molly Pauline Letts
Directed By:
Guy Vaesen
Unknown:
Susan Hill

A practical and topical magazine for and with disabled listeners.
Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Mon 2.0-4.0 pm [number removed], Ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Producer JANE WOOD Editor MARLENE PEASE

Contributors

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

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis. David Tate Sheila Steafel Chris Emmett and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
8.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis.
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Chris Emmett

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
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

A comedy for radio by Wally K. Daly
with Peter Jones, Lockwood West. John Pullen, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Hewlett.
Trouble abounds when two elderly members of a Prisoners' Aid Society decide to use their unique knowledge to pull off 'the robbery of the century'! They rapidly find themselves involved with rival gangs, the Mafia and nude shop assistants.
(Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)
(Give or Take by Wally K. Daly starts Mon 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Wally K. Daly
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Charles Forbes:
Peter Jones
Governor Smith:
Donald Hewlett
George Evans:
Lockwood West
Bullet Head:
Bernard Bresslaw
First/Second twin:
David Timson
Brian Thompson:
John Pullen
Perkins:
Adrian Egan
Delia:
Elizabeth Rider
Simpson:
John Rye
Lift man/Tommy:
Gordon Dulieu
Adams:
Philip Voss
Bella Thompson:
Diana Bishop
Angelo Callont:
Gordon Reid
Sanjo Patel:
Danny Schiller
Doreen/Dolly:
Josie Kidd
Eric:
Brian Haines
Barry:
Trevor Cooper
Nick the Greek:
Roger Hammond
Fingers:
Charles Hawtrey
Billy:
John Bull
Ex-Lance Corporal:
Fraser Kerr

Sheridan Morley re-plays and reflects on the movies, music, books, television, radio, plays and personalities from the nightly review of the arts - Kaleidoscope.
Editor ROSEMARY HART
Sheridan Morley 's Films: page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Editor:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley

Tony Davis. Mick Groves Cliff Hall and Hugh Jones with John McCormick (bass) sing some songs and tell the odd story - in the company of a few friends.
Producer
JOHN FAWCETT WILSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Davis.
Unknown:
Mick Groves
Unknown:
Cliff Hall
Unknown:
Hugh Jones
Bass:
John McCormick
Unknown:
John Fawcett Wilson

Top of the Heap by PETER GIBBS
John Hollis as Baines and Lee Harrington as Topley Mr Baines has returned to his old school. It's not nostalgia that has brought him back. however - quite the opposite.
Directed.by GERRY JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Gibbs
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Lee Harrington
Unknown:
Topley Mr Baines
Directed By:
Gerry Jones

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