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A different look at the world of sport in this magazine programme introduced by Jim Rosen -that. Featuring the offbeat and the humorous. All the news at home and abroad including a report from GERALD WILLIAMS as the Winter Olympics draw to a close at Lake Placid. A Radio Sport and ot production

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Rosen
Unknown:
Gerald Williams

Breakaway from routine with Barry Norman and intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas and advice on ways and means of spending your leisure hours.
Richard Vaughan consumer tests orienteering as a hobby, and Bill Breckon examines travel pills - a cure or a menace?

For information sheets, send a large sae to: [address removed]: long wave only

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Norman
Reporter:
Richard Vaughan
Reporter:
Bill Breckon
Producer:
Deborah Christie
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Barry Took questions Alan Coren. Simon Hoggart, Richard Ingrams and Gillian Reynolds

(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)

12.55Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Chairman:
Barry Took
Panellist:
Alan Coren
Panellist:
Simon Hoggart
Panellist:
Richard Ingrams
Panellist:
Gillian Reynolds
Compiled by/Producer:
Alan Nixon

Barbara Woodhouse, Austin Mitchell, MP, Woodrow Wyatt and Russell Profitt
Chairman David Jacobs

1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Chairman:
David Jacobs
Panellist:
Barbara Woodhouse
Panellist:
Austin Mitchell, MP
Panellist:
Woodrow Wyatt
Panellist:
Russell Profitt

Between the snow and frost, recently there have been some half-sunny days. On these, without fail, midges come from somewhere to dance above my lawn. Could you please tell me where they come from and are they always the same ones?
CHRIS MEAD , DICK VANE -WRIGHT and MIKE STODDART answer some mid-winter queries.
Presented by Derek Jones Producer BRIAN LEITH BBC Bristol long waveonly

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Mead
Unknown:
Dick Vane
Unknown:
Mike Stoddart
Presented By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Brian Leith

Luxury Weekend by ALEC KARON
' What do you plan to do on this special weekend leave then. Corporal? '
' Birds and grub. In that order.'
' But when you get a bird. how are you going to talk to her? '
'French money speaks French. So I'm very fluent.'
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec Karon
Directed By:
Alfred Bradley
Frank Lush:
George Layton
Barney Weinberg:
Christian Rodska
Sgt Mace/Albert/MP:
Paul Webster
It Morton / Sergeant/major/porter:
Peter Wheeler
Taffy/Colonel/M Desvalliers:
Peter John
Charlie waiter:
David Threlfall
Mme Desvalliers:
Valerie Georgeson
. Christienne:
Stephanie Fayerman
Murielle:
Athene Fielding

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 2351
Correspondence address:: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only

Contributors

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

adapted in two parts by MICHAEL Foss from The Truce and If This is a Man by PRIMO LEVI with Kenneth Cranham as Primo Levi
David Troughton as Cesare and Wolfe Morris as The Greek
1: The Journey Begins
Early in 1944 Primo Levi , an Italian chemist, a Jew, was deported to Auschwitz. Almost one year later the first Russian patrol came in sight of the camp, signalling a liberation which for Levi would take eight arduous months to realise. With PETER BALDWIN JOHN CHURCH
LEONARD FENTOTf
SONIA FRASER , JOSIE KIDD
MICHAEL MCSTAY , CYRIL SHAPS and JENNY TWIGGE
Directed bv MAURICE LEITCH long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Foss
Unknown:
Primo Levi
Unknown:
Kenneth Cranham
Unknown:
Primo Levi
Unknown:
David Troughton
Unknown:
Wolfe Morris
Unknown:
Primo Levi
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
John Church
Unknown:
Leonard Fentotf
Unknown:
Sonia Fraser
Unknown:
Josie Kidd
Unknown:
Michael McStay
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Unknown:
Maurice Leitch

Nuclear Stand-Off
The last of five programmes about these remarkable craft. Over four centuries the submarine has developed from a crude submersible shell to its pre-eminent position among the fighting ships of modern nuclear navies. Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGooch, former NATO Commander, Submarines, Eastern Atlantic, introduces an assessment of the submarine in an age of near-confrontation and deterrence between East and West. with Ed Bishop , Garard Green, John Baddeley, David Buck, Geoffrey Matthews, David Graham and Admiral Ike Kidd. US Navy Captain John Moore, Editor Jane's Fighting Ships Lieut-Cmdr Peter Kemp
Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Ed Bishop
Unknown:
Garard Green
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unknown:
David Graham
Unknown:
Admiral Ike Kidd
Unknown:
Captain John Moore
Produced By:
John Bridges

with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel, David Jason
and The David Firman Trio
(long wave only)

5.50 Shipping forecast
(long wave only)

5.55 Weather: programme news
(long wave only)

Contributors

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

A radio version of Paul Scott's novel
'Three things are to be considered. A man's estimate of himself, the face he presents to the world, the estimate of that man made by others. Combined, they form an aspect of the truth.'
India: during the 1939-45 war

Contributors

Adapter:
Donald McWhinnie
Director:
John Tydeman
Major Craig:
Patrick Barr
Esther, his wife:
Eva Stuart
Bob Ramsay:
Michael Cochrane
Lawson:
Michael McStay
Sergeant-Major Thompson:
Brian Haines
Martin:
Trevor Cooper
Everett:
Gordon Reid
Dyson:
Graham Faulkner
Colonel Manville:
Godfrey Kenton
Lieutenant Blake:
Brian Carroll
Havildar Baksh:
Danny Schiller
A voice:
John Church

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Billington
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
3: Disasters, Food and Drink - being a ' tale of frost fairs, wine fountains and beer drownings!
Research by SYBIL HARPER and PATRICK BEAVER
Compiled and written by BARRY PILTON
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Miles.
Unknown:
Sybil Harper
Unknown:
Patrick Beaver
Written By:
Barry Pilton
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

In the third 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

Unknown:
David Rider
Producer:
Ray Abbott

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