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FA Cup Final day - and Tony Lewis gets an early flavour of the atmosphere at the big Wembley event - where this afternoon 100,000 fans will be divided in their loyalties between the finalists. Meet some of the personalities from both camps. A Radio Sport and OB production
See feature: page 72 and Peter Brookes ' View: p 82

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Peter Brookes

from routine with Bernard Falk , intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas on ways and means of spending your leisure hours, including today:
Miami Beach, America's Benidorm - what does it really offer for a holiday? The price is cheap but are there hidden extras? Find out on Breakaway this week.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Producer:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

BBC Arts Reporter Gerry Forsey examines the world's symphony orchestras: how they are financed in the United States: how they are administered in Austria; and what they enjoy playing in China.
A Radio News production by RICHARD ANTHONY BAKER long wave only

Contributors

Reporter:
Gerry Forsey
Production By:
Richard Anthony Baker

'I'm astonishingly lucky. My forebears chose the place to settle. I never can make up my mind which is the prettiest: Lismore, Bolton Abbey or Chatsworth t .. and then I've got a very small house in London, but that's the only one that does actually belong to me, that I'm entitled to sell, if I want to.'
The Duke of Devonshire talks about his life and work to Sue MacGregor. Producer GILLIAN IIUSH BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.

Lord Willis, Jean Rook
John Selwyn Gummer , mp Sir Arthur South
Chairman David Jacobs
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? Thursday
3.30, to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Rook
Unknown:
John Selwyn Gummer
Unknown:
David Jacobs

by CHARLES piCKENS dramatised in ten episodes by BETTY DAVIES starringand
2: The Child of the Marshalsea
Three people haunted Arthur Clennam's thoughts: his father, with the steadfast look with which he had died; his mother. with her arm up, warding oft his suspicion: and Little Dorrit. with her hand on her degraded father's arm and her drooping head turned away. What if his mother had an old reason she well knew for softening to this poor girl? What if the prisoner should trace back his fall to her? What if any act of hers. and of his father's, should have even remotely brought the grey heads of the two Dorrit brothers so low? withand
With MICHAEL GOLDIE
GODFREY KENTON , GORDON REID and PEGGY PAIGE
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Tucs 3.15 pm) (Selina Cadell is a National Theatre player) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Michael Goldie
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Gordon Reid
Unknown:
Peggy Paige
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Unknown:
Selina Cadell
Little Dorrit:
Angela Pleasence
Arthur Clennam:
Daniel Massey
Jeremiah Flintwinch:
Patrick Troughton
Affery Flintwinch:
Avrll Elgar
Mrs Clennam:
Pauline Letts
Mr Casby:
Jack May
Flora Finching:
Thelma Whiteley
Mr Pancks:
Douglas Livingstone
Mr Mcagles:
Michaelgraham Cox
Charles Dickens:
Simon Cadell
Maggy:
Selina Cadell
Barnacle Junior:
John Dallimore
Tito Barnacle:
Stephen Thorne
Mr Wobbler:
Tony Osoba
Bright Young Barnacle:
Anthony Hyde
Daniel Dovce:
Michael McStay
Mrs Plornish:
Josie Kidd
Mr Plornish:
Peter Baldwin
Mr F's Aunt:
Gladys Spencer
Cavalletto:
Graham Faulkner
Prostitute:
Diana Bishop

with Bill Wallis. David Tate Sheila Steafel , Jon Glover 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:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
David Firman

by Julia Jones
During the 1930s depression, Ifor and David, in spite of excellent qualifications, cannot find work as teachers. So they set out for London to find fame, fortune and romance. The play demonstrates the humour and courage of young people who laugh and enjoy themselves in spite of a dearth of material things which today are thought necessary for a happy life.
With members of the CARDIFF POLYPHONIC CHOIR
BBC Bristol
(Mary Wimbush is a National Theatre player)
(Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)
Preview by Sian Phillips: page 23

Contributors

Writer:
Julia Jones
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Mrs Evans:
Sian Phillips
Ifor:
Sion Probert
David:
Phillip Joseph
Maudie Swallow:
Mary Wimbush
Woodcrutch:
Malcolm Hayes
Ethel:
Louise Jameson
Betty:
Meg Davies
Aunt Wyn:
Ruth Madoc
Crad Jones:
Haydn Jones
Rachel:
Christine Pritchard
Doctor:
Roger Hammond

with Judi Dench as Edith Holden and the poems read by Michael Williams.
Edith Holden lived in the Warwickshire village of Olton and it was there, in 1906, that she wrote and illustrated a naturalist's diary which reflects her deep love of the countryside.

Contributors

Author:
Edith Holden
Producer:
John Knight
Edith Holden:
Judi Dench
Reader:
Michael Williams

On 12 May 1940, in the interests of national security, the British Government interned 2,000 Germans and Austrians living in this country. This was the start of a curious. occasionally comic, often painful and tragic experience for nearly 30,000 ' friendly enemy aliens who were eventually interned - some for a few weeks, others for the rest of the war. Eric Robson introduces some of their stories.
' It was the older people who really suffered. For them it was a humiliation, and the irony was that Britain had no greater friends.'
(SIR CLAUS MOSER)
Interviewer Celia Thomson Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Introduces:
Eric Robson
Interviewer:
Celia Thomson
Producer:
Gillian Hush

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