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Breakaway from routine with Bernard Falk, intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas on ways and means of spending your leisure hours, including: Tom Boswell's assessment of the merits and weaknesses of home video recorders; and a report from a holiday on a coastal steamer chugging up the coast of Norway.

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Contributors

Presenter:
Bernard Falk
Reporter:
Tom Boswell
Producer:
Deborah Christie
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

' What's good for General Motors is good for the United States.' By inference, the international motor industry is important for the world. The BBC's Economics Editor, Dominick Harrod , introduces reports from the industrial economies, the Communist societies where the motor industry is heavily controlled, the new competition to the West from Korea, and the great Third World economies, like India.
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only

Contributors

Editor:
Dominick Harrod
Production By:
Richard Anthony Baker

Johnny Morris
Nicholas Scott , MP Nesta Wyn Ellis Jack Straw , mp
Chairman David Jacobs
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? Thursday
4.15, to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
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Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Unknown:
Nicholas Scott
Unknown:
Nesta Wyn Ellis
Unknown:
Jack Straw
Unknown:
David Jacobs

Nursery School by MARTIN WORTH
Geoffrey's had enough of office life in the city. However the mortgage is finally paid off and Rosemary has plans too. But is Geoffrey going to charter boats in Majorca, or is Rosemary going to start a playgroup, or are they going to separate, or even do nothing at all? At all events, when their daughter Susan turns up unexpectedly what she finds is an adults' nursery school.
Directed by ANTON GILL long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Worth
Directed By:
Anton Gill
Rosemary Adams:
Ellen McLntosh
Geoffrey Adams:
Michael Spice
Tricia Dale:
Naomi Buch
Clifford Dale/Mr Harris:
Adrian Egan
Alec Stratton:
Struan Rodger
Sophie:
Sally Knyvettk
Juliet Hazleden:
Amanda Murray
Roger:
Hazleden Bill
Hewitt:
Martyn Read
Caroline/susan:
Rowena Roberts
Mary Hunter:
Petra Davies
Ted Hunter/Mr Hudson:
John Bott
Peter:
Peter Marinker

For disabled listeners Presenter Marilyn Alan Reporter KEVIN MULHERN
Citizens' Advice Bureau Phone-in: Monday 2.0-4.1 pm [number removed], Ext 2531
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
Editor MARLENE PEASI long wave only

Contributors

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

An Actor's Commentary
In 1978 the actor Alec McCowen gave his first solo performance of St Mark's Gospel from memory. It was an instant success. He toured America with it; it was broadcast on radio and televised. In this shortened extract from his book Double Bill he analyses the gospel from an actor's point of view, Producer JOHN TYDEMAN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec McCowen
Producer:
John Tydeman

Seven programmes exploring the working world of the classical musician. 1: The Pianists
An impression of the pianist's life as soloist. accompanist, ensemble player, teacher, repetiteur and ballet accompanist. 1 It's not all peaches and cream, though it's a marvellous life.' (STEPHEN
BISHOP-KOVACEVICH)
Interviewer
Ian Horsbrugh
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 8.30 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Interviewer:
Ian Horsbrugh
Producer:
Gillian Hush

with Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sheila Steafel, David Jason and The David Firman Trio
(Hear The Jason Explanation Thursday 12.27 pm)
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Contributors

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

A Resistance to Pressure by STEVE GALLAGHER
Dr Lewis is a rising star, not only in the medical profession, but also on the social scene. Lauded by the smart set. there is, however, a section of society that regards him simply as an exploiter. Then a telephone call on New Year's Eve changes things completely.
Directed by GERRY JONES (Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Gallagher
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Peter Lewis:
Gareth Armstrong
Insp Stoker:
John Rowe
Sgt Reid/TV producer:
Michael McStay
David Foster/Mr Payne:
John Church
Victoria Foster:
Jane Knowles
Mr Farmer:
John Baker
Catherine Lewis / Mrs Farmer:
Eve Karpf
Petrov Sr:
Brian Haines
Petrov Jr/TV editor:
Gordon Reid
Spalinski:
Danny Schiller
Telephone caller/TV reporter:
Peter Baldwin
Lianski:
David Timson
Mr Freeman:
Lee Harrington
Mrs Freeman/Mrs Wynd-ham:
Eva Stuart

The second of two programmes written and narrated by June Knox-Mawer. 2: Paradise Lost In the 19th century the noble savage becomes the brute savage. A new kind of European arrives in the South Seas: the black-coated missionary and his family, followed by planters, slave traders and colonial administrators and artists and writers such as Gauguin and Stevenson. Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNINC

Contributors

Directed By:
Christopher Venninc

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