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Jim Rosenthal introduces the magazine programme that takes a different look at sport
ENGLAND'S cricketers - having finished their series against Australia and West Indies - have just arrived in Bombay. Henry Blofeld has news of preparations for the Golden Jubilee Test with INDIA which starts next Friday. Also the rest of the news at home and abroad
A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Introduces:
Jim Rosenthal

from routine with Barry Norman and intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas and advice on ways and means of spending your leisure hours.
Including Jenny Marshall on a two-week trip across the United States in a Greyhound bus - hell or holiday?
Tom Boswell with news and advice on hi-fi
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets, send a large sac to: Breakaway. BBC. Portland Place, London VIA 4WW long wave only

Contributors

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

How do the world's big charities spend the money they collect? What are the political overtones surrounding their work? And what are their relations with the governments whose people they help? Mike Wooldridge compares notes with BBC Correspondents in the Indian sub-continent, and Latin America, about some of the more striking projects the charities have devised. A Radio News production by BOB DORAN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Wooldridge
Production By:
Bob Doran

Presenter 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.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.5 am)
HELP! page 23

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Botting

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams John Pardoe and Claire Rayner
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)

12.55 Weather; programme news
(long wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Took
Panellist:
Alan Coren
Panellist:
Richard Ingrams
Panellist:
John Pardoe
Panellist:
Claire Rayner
Compiled and produced by:
Alan Nixon

Lord Parry
Dr Tessa Blackstone Patrick Cosgrave and Michael Clayton tackle the issues raised by the audience in Hadleigh. Suffolk. Chairman Michael CharBon
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers?, Thursday 4.15, to: Any Answers!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Parry
Unknown:
Dr Tessa Blackstone
Unknown:
Patrick Cosgrave
Unknown:
Michael Clayton

' How can whales dive to such great depths and yet not get the bends" when they return to the surface?
The team takes a deep breath before answering your wildlife questions. Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

No Moon ... No Sun by OLWYNNE MACRAE
' Even in the hospital - he'd laugh and joke with the staff ... but never with me. Id walk into the ward and they'd whistle - and he'd ask " What's she wearing today? "."
Directed by DICKON REED
(This play was a runner-up in the 1979 World Service Drama Competition) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Olwynne MacRae
Directed By:
Dickon Reed
Jamei:
With Denis Lill
Julia:
Nicolette McKenzie
Tom:
Paul Haley
Bess:
Jasmine Greenfield
Margaret:
Lorae Parry
Mullins:
Patrick Barr
Don:
Adrian Egan
Air hostess:
Sonia Fraser

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 W1A 4WW
Editor MARLENE PEASI long wave only

Contributors

Presenter:
Marilyn Alan
Reporter:
Kevin Mulhern
Editor:
Marlene Peasi

Disaster
The third of five programmes about these remarkable craft, from their invention and development to the position of pre-eminence they have attained among the fighting ships of modern navies.
When the us submarine Squalus sank with all hands in 1939, those of her crew who were rescued owed their survival in large part to the dedicated work of us Navy diver Lieut-Cmdr Charles Momsen. with Robert Beatty as Lieut-Cmdr Momsen JOHN BADDELEY
DAVID BUCK
MALCOLM GERARD
DAVID HEALY
ANTHONY NEWLANDS
JONATHAN SCOTT STEPHEN THORNE and TOM WILKINSON Narrated by Lieut-Cmdr Peter Kemp
Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Malcolm Gerard
Unknown:
David Healy
Unknown:
Anthony Newlands
Unknown:
Jonathan Scott
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Unknown:
Tom Wilkinson
Produced By:
John Bridges

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

Contributors

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

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

The Sleeper and the Swallow by JOHN ASHE
' Doctor Channon. as you surmise you've been looked over very carefully for a number of years by our people, and I wouldn't even mention the name Omicron if we weren't pretty sure that you were ...'
A loyal subject of the Queen? '
' Your name was Czernik. Why did you change it? '
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol
(Postponed from 24 Nov)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ashe
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Joseph Channon:
Sandor Eles
Maria:
Elizabeth Bell
Claire:
Karen Ford
Major Webb-Austen:
John Abineri
Lodge:
Roger Snowdon
Blanke:
Brian Haines
George:
Michael Cochrane
Mother:
Sally Lahee
Radio announcer:
Geoffrey Serle

Michael Billington 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

Contributors

Editor:
Rosemary Hart

A six-part series, which takes you on a merry progress through London - prying into its secrets, its mysteries and its many surprises, in the company of Bernard Miles
Illustrations unearthed and performed by The Barrow Poets 1:The Streets
-being the sound of the streets and the ' musicians ' thereon!
Research SYBIL HARPER
Compiled and written by BARRY PILTON Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sybil Harper
Written By:
Barry Pilton
Unknown:
Danny Greenstone.

In the first of seven programmes, David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune. the musical key which so often opens the door on radio and television, as well as in the cinema and the theatre.
Producer RAY ABBOTT (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Producer:
Ray Abbott

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