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As winter and summer sports continue to merge, Tony Lewis introduces the magazine programme that takes a look at both.
Featuring a look ahead to this afternoon's SCOTLAND V ENGLAND Home International; the latest British Lions tour news and cricket.
Plus the rest of the up-to-date news at home and abroad. A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis

from routine with Bernard Falk , intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas on ways and means of spending your leisure hours; including today: a report on a holiday for would-be cowboys on a ranch in Arizona, USA
Producer DEBORAH CHRISTIE Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets send a large sae to: [address removed]long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Producer:
Deborah Christie
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

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 - Money Box gets the answers from the people in the know.
A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated; Mon 10.2 am)
HELP! page 10

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Botting

' I find life enormously exciting. I'm a terrific optimist and I always think something even more exciting is just around the corner - and I look forward to it.'
Sir Fitzroy Maclean , writer and former diplomat, soldier and mp, talks about his life and work to Sue MacGregor.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Fitzroy MacLean
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.

Malcolm Muggeridge Lady Barnett Ann Mallatieu Lord Melchett
Chairman David Jacobs
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:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Lady Barnett Ann Mallatieu
Unknown:
David Jacobs

'If I try singing under the bath water my voice is lost in gtug-glugs. How do whales manage to make their sounds beneath the sea? '
The team immerses itself in some more of your wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones

by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in ten episodes by BETTY DAVIES starring and 4: The Stranger
Arthur Clennam had come to attach to Little Dorrit an interest so peculiar - an interest that removed her from, while it grew out of, the common and coarse things surrounding her - that he found it disappointing, disagreeable, almost painful, to suppose her in love with young Mr Chivery in the backyard. or any such person. and Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Tues 3.15 pm) (Selina Cadell is a National Theatre player) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Arthur Clennam
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Unknown:
Selina Cadell
Little Dorrit:
Angela Pleasence
Arthur Clennam:
Daniel Massey
with:
Patrick Troughton
as:
Jeremiah Flintwinch
Affery Flintwinch:
Avril Elgar
Mrs Clennam:
Pauline Letts
Blandois:
Philip Voss
Mr Meagles:
Michael Graham Cox
Flora Finching:
Thelma Whiteley
Mr Casby:
Jack May
Mr Pancks:
Douglas Livingstone
John Chivery:
William Nighy
Charles Dickens:
Simon Cadell
Mr F's Aunt:
Gladys Spencer
Mr Plornish:
Peter Baldwin
Mr Rugg:
Rex Robinson
Daniel Doyce:
Michael McStay
Henry Gowan:
Brian Carroll
Mrs Gowan:
Antonia Pemberton
Maggy:
Selina Cadell
Pet Meagles:
Rowena Roberts
Tattycoram:
Shona Morris
Miss Wade:
Sonia Fraser
Old woman:
Peggy Paige
Cavalletto:
Graham Faulkner
Mrs Plornish:
Josie Kidd

Introduced by Bill Breekon 4: Making the Best of It
From kitchen-style cooking to factory-style processing, the aim is the same - to make the best of the raw materials. But how successful are we? (First broadcast on R3)
Book, (same title), £2.75, from bookshops long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Breekon

Stephen MacDonald describes the spell cast on him by Homer's arena, where Alexander stood at the start of his Persian campaign, and where civilisations later, half-a-million men were to be killed during the Gallipoli fighting.
Producer STEWART CONN
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen MacDonald
Producer:
Stewart Conn

A comedy and a philosophy by BERNARD and John Tanner finds himself entrapped by the wiles of a very vital ' new woman Ann Whitefield. The loquacious Tanner is also the mouthpiece for many aspects of Shaw's own ' philosophy not only on the relationship between men and women and the enslavement of marriage but on society in general.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(The Doctor's Dilemma, is on Monday at 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tanner
Unknown:
Ann Whitefield.
Directed By:
John Tydeman
John Tanner:
Alec McCowen
Ann Whitefield:
Anna Massey
Roebuck Ramsden:
Michael Denison
Mrs Whitefield:
Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies
Octavius Robinson:
Gary Bond
Mr Malone:
Norman Rodway
Henry Straker:
Nigel Anthony
Miss Ramsden:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Violet Robinson:
Carole Boyd
Hector Malone:
Peter Whitman
Maid:
Norma Ronald
Narrator.:
Denys Hawthorne

An account of the life and achievement of the Quaker reformer. Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), based on a new biography by JUNE ROSE
'I am a dissipated, idle, contemptible, fine lady ... I desire " to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with my God", but none can know until they are tried the extreme difficulty of doing right.' (ELIZABETH FRY) ' She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living virtue disturb our repose and give birth to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.' (SYDNEY SMITH) with Elizabeth Bell as Elizabeth Fry
John Pullen as Narrator and EVE KARPF. AMANDA MURRAY , JOHN BOTT. BRIAN CARROLL and JOHN CHURCH Written by JUNE ROSE
Producer ANNE HOWELLS

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Bell
Unknown:
Elizabeth Fry
Unknown:
John Pullen
Unknown:
Eve Karpf.
Unknown:
Amanda Murray
Unknown:
John Bott.
Unknown:
Brian Carroll
Unknown:
John Church
Written By:
June Rose
Producer:
Anne Howells

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