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with Tony Lewis , Today featuring the climax of Wimbledon - the Men's Singles Final. Also rowing: Henley Royal
Regatta: and Rugby Union CHRIS REA's news-letter from the BRITISH LIONS' HQ in South Africa. A Radio Sport and OB production
(Breakaway to Henley: 9.5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis

with Bernard Falk at Henley Royal Regatta, where he samples some of the pleasures and pastimes of High Society.
Sir John Junor on running your own yacht: how to pack an upper-class hamper: and how to obtain tickets for the unobtainables.
Producer STEPHEN PHELPS Editor ROGER MACDONALD long wave only
HELP! page 19

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Sir John Junor
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

The art, science and business of sound recording. Presenter Peter Clayton
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH talks about the British Library of Wildlife Sounds.
Hi-Fi News by ADRIAN HOPE. When Sound was Cylindrical by JOE PENGELLY.
Record of the Week by TIM RICE.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON Editor LAURENCE STAPLEY

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Clayton
Talks:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Joe Pengelly.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson
Editor:
Laurence Stapley

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren, Bel Mooney,
Michael Billington, John Wells
(Repeated: Mon 10.30 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Took
Panellist:
Alan Coren
Panellist:
Bel Mooney
Panellist:
Michael Billington
Panellist:
John Wells
Compiled by:
John Langdon
Compiled by/Producer:
Danny Greenstone

The Rt Hon Michael Foot, MP, David Frost, Teddy Taylor, MP and Bonnie Angelo tackle the issues raised by the audience in Acocks Green, Birmingham.
Chairman David Jacobs
1.55 Shipping forecast (long wave only)

Contributors

Panellist:
Michael Foot, MP
Panellist:
David Frost
Panellist:
Teddy Taylor, MP
Panellist:
Bonnie Angelo
Chairman:
David Jacobs

by Charles Dickens, dramatised in ten episodes by Betty Davies
Starring Angela Pleasence as Little Dorrit and Daniel Massey as Arthur Clennam

The door of the prison room was swung open and in the doorway stood the missing Blandois, the cause of many anxieties. 'You villain of ill-omen!' said Arthur, 'You have purposely cast a dreadful suspicion upon my mother's house. Why have you done it? What prompted you to the devilish invention?'

With Pauline Letts as Mrs Clennam, Patrick Troughton as Jeremiah Flintwinch, Avril Elgar as Affery Flintwinch, Philip Voss as Blandois, Jack May as Mr Casby, Douglas Livingstone as Mr Pancks, Michael Graham Cox as Mr Meagles, William Nighy as John Chivery and Simon Cadell as Charles Dickens

(Repeated Tues 3.15 pm)
(Title music: the second movement of Finzi's Cello Concerto)
(Selina Cadell is a National Theatre player)
(Next Sat: A Dance to the Music of Time)
(long wave only)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Betty Davies
Technical Presentation:
Peter Novis
Assisted by:
David Hitchinson
Assisted by:
Richard Beadsmoore
Director:
Jane Morgan
Little Dorrit:
Angela Pleasence
Arthur Clennam:
Daniel Massey
Mrs Clennam:
Pauline Letts
Jeremiah Flintwinch:
Patrick Troughton
Affery Flintwinch:
Avril Elgar
Blandois:
Philip Voss
Mr Casby:
Jack May
Mr Pancks:
Douglas Livingstone
Mr Meagles:
Michael Graham Cox
John Chivery:
William Nighy
Charles Dickens:
Simon Cadell
Cavalletto:
Graham Faulkner
Maggy:
Selina Cadell
Daniel Doyce:
Michael McStay
[Actress]:
Shona Morris
[Actor]:
David Timson
[Actor]:
Anthony Hyde

Six programmes on spoken English
2: The Sounds We Make
David Crystal looks at the sounds we use when we speak English, how we make them, and what happens when we put them together.
(First broadcast on R3) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Crystal

David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tale , Sheila Steafel and THE DAVID FIRMAN TRIO long wave only
5.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tale
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
David Firman

The final edition in the current series, in which Richard Baker presents music that listeners have judged the most popular from the programmes over the past 18 months. Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated: Wed 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

by David Parker
Jamie Flyn is a shop steward struggling to operate a bad working agreement against a foreman who is an ex-union man, and who helped draw it up. One man becomes the centre of a dispute in which Flyn is pressured from all sides - by his workmates, his union, his management and the wife.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Mon 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
David Parker
Director:
Tony Cliff
Anne Flyn:
Carole Hayman
Jamie Flyn:
Russell Dixon
Sandra:
Reggae Ranjha
Maren:
Geoffrey Hinsliff
McGregor:
Robert McIntosh
Sanderson:
Malcolm Hebden
Mrs McGregor:
Margo Gunn
Jones:
Alan Rothwell
Automatic:
John Jardine
First striker:
Martin Oldfield
Second striker:
Colin Meredith
Mrs Atkinson:
Anne Reid
Atkinson:
Peter Wheeler
Jacobson:
Geoffrey Banks

A portrait of General Morris Abraham Cohen compiled and presented by Polly Binder
The story of a man born to Jewish immigrant parents in Whitechapel in 1899. who became body-guard to the father of the Chinese Revolution, Dr Sun-Yat-sen. and a General in the Chinese Army, with the voices of BERNARD BUCKMAN. REBECCA CASKET QUEENIE COHEN, VICTOR AND JEREMY COOPER , CHARLES AND ENID DRAGE , REUBEN ELVY , BILL FISHMAN , JOHN STOWELL KENYON. MORRIS AND SARAH RICH, and WILLIAM AND HILDA SEWELL Readings by Bernard Bresslaw as Cohen and Reuben Elvy as the reporter Producer
PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Morris Abraham Cohen
Presented By:
Polly Binder
Unknown:
Bernard Buckman.
Unknown:
Rebecca Casket
Unknown:
Jeremy Cooper
Unknown:
Enid Drage
Unknown:
Reuben Elvy
Unknown:
Bill Fishman
Unknown:
John Stowell Kenyon.
Unknown:
Hilda Sewell
Unknown:
Bernard Bresslaw
Unknown:
Reuben Elvy
Unknown:
Piers Plowright

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