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A Wimbledon flavour this morning as Tony Lewis introduces the magazine programme that takes a different look at the world of sport.
From the All-England Club. news of the world's greatest tennis championships and interviews with personalities in the news. Plus CHRIS REA 'S news-letter on the British LIONS' Rugby Union tour and a look ahead to tonight's world middleweight title fight at Wembley between ALAN MINTER and VITO ANTUOFERMO.
A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Chris Rea
Unknown:
Alan Minter

from routine with Bernard Falk. and intrepid reporters and enthusiasts with ideas on ways and means of spending your leisure hours. A critical look at the leisure industries and news of things to do and entertainment that simply shouldn't be missed.
Including this week: a new and popular holiday for the family on the French waterways.
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
For information sheets, send a large sae to: [address removed]

Contributors

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

America's domination of aircraft manufacture is now being seriously challenged by European countries which have banded together to produce new planes.
James Wilkinson reports Producer JOHN WILLIAMS
(Postponed from 31 May) (Ncrt prog: Fri 10.2 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Wilkinson
Producer:
John Williams

The art, science and business of sound recording.
A series of eight programmes presented by Peter Clayton, featuring personalities and sounds from the world of tape and disc.
This week:
The New Digital Battle by Adrian Hope
Transfer of Cylinders by Joe Pengelly
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf talks about the career of Walter Legge.
Record of the Week by Derek Jewell

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Clayton
Speaker:
Adrian Hope
Speaker:
Joe Pengelly
Speaker:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Speaker:
Derek Jewell
Producer:
Arthur Johnson
Editor:
Lawrence Stapley

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Joan Bakewell and Jonathan King
Compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)
12.55Weather: programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

Lord Thornevcroft The Rt lion
Denis Healey. MP
Dame Josephine Barnes and Sir leuan Maddock Chairman David Jacobs
Listeners' vieivs for use in Any Answers?, Thursday
4.15, to: Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Healey.
Unknown:
Dame Josephine Barnes
Unknown:
David Jacobs

... The fishes were clustered at the ivater's edge, their mouths agape, and a bird was in the act of dropping a grub in one of the open mouths. Could such a curious event occur in nature? The team untangle some more of nature's knots. Introduced by Derek Jones
Producer BRIAN LEITH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Brian Leith

by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised in tenepisodes by BETTY DAVIES starring and 9: The Shadow of the Marshalsea
The police handbill stated that a foreign gentle. man of the name of Blandois, last from Venice, had unaccountably disappeared on such a night in such a part of the City of London; that he was known to have entered such a house at such an hour; that he was stated by the inmates of that house to have left it, about so many minutes before midnight; and that he had never been beheld since. The name mentioned in connection with the house was that of Clennam & Co. with and With EVE KARPF and JOHN CHURCH Directed by JANE MORGAN
(Repeated: Tues 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Davies
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Little Dorrit:
Angela Pleasence
Arthur Clennam:
Daniel Massey
Mrs Merdle:
Sylvia Syms
Mr Merdle:
Philip Stone
Jeremiah Flintwinch:
Patrick Troughton
Affery Flintwinch:
Avril Elgar
Mrs Clennam:
Pauline Letts
Blandois:
Philip Voss
Mr Pancks:
Douglas Livingstone
Mr Casby:
Jack May
Flora Finching:
Thelma Whiteley
John Chivery:
William Nighy
Fanny:
Heather Bell
Charles Dickens:
Simon Cadell
Miss Wade:
Sonia Fraser
Tattycoram:
Shona Morris
Cavalletto:
Graham Faulkner
Edmund Sparkler:
Philip Fox
Bar:
Adrian Egan
Physician:
Gordon Reid
Mr Rugg:
Rex Robinson
Mr Chivery:
John Bott

A series ofsix programmes on spoken English 1: I Gotta Use Words
Randolph Quirk looks at the very basis of English: the words we use - learned. fashionable, polite and not-so-polite. Series producer ALAN WILDING
(First broadcast on R3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Randolph Quirk
Producer:
Alan Wilding

An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis David Tate
Sheila Steafel Jon Glover 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:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
David Firman

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records; 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

Over the Moon/Sick as a Parrot by NEVILLE SMITH
At the time of going to press, it isn't known how the two main characters will be feeling, since that depends on how the ENGLAND team do in the European Football Championship in Italy. The play will be written and performed on location - and who knows what will happen to the two football fans who travel far to see the game ...
Then strip, lads and to it, though sharp be the weather
And if, by mischance you should happen to fall
There are worse things in life than a tumble in heather
And life is itself but a game of football.
(SIR WALTER SCOTT ) with and Technical presentation by CEDRIC JOHNSON (Italy) and DAVID GREENWOOD (London)
Directed by JANE MORGAN (Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Smith
Unknown:
Sir Walter Scott
Presentation By:
Cedric Johnson
Presentation By:
David Greenwood
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Niall Grogan:
Tony Osoba
Kenneth Oakley:
Neville Smith

Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas HUGH FALKUS and KEITH ALLAN see the return of the sea trout to the rivers of Cumbria; LYNN TEN KATE gathers watercress in Hampshire; HARRY SOAN savours the scents of summer in Herefordshire; MOLLIE HARRIS picks Wild flowers for pressing in Oxfordshire; ERIC simms visits the Bedfordshire headquarters of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; and MARTIN MUNCASTER goes badger-spotting with FRED SHEPHERD , wildlife photographer.
Producer JOHN HASLAM
HELP! page 15

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Introduced By:
Hugh Falkus
Introduced By:
Keith Allan
Unknown:
Harry Soan
Unknown:
Mollie Harris
Unknown:
Martin Muncaster
Unknown:
Fred Shepherd
Producer:
John Haslam

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