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Tony Lewis presents his magazine programme of sport, taking a personal look at the people and the stories that make the news.
This week:
Football - on the first full Saturday of League matches, a look ahead to prospects for the new season.
Athletics - a look back on last night's star-studded Coca-Cola International Meeting at Crystal Palace. Racing - LORD OAKSEY previews the day's racing and highlights the major topics.
Also, the rest of the sports news at home and abroad.
Producer IAIN THOMAS A Radio Sport and or production

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Producer:
Iain Thomas

Bernard Falk with ideas on how to make the most of your time off.
Eric Tobitt and the travel trouble spots; Joan Bakewell - holidays in Egypt; Patrick Stoddart with the best on the ' box '; and Richard Hudson-Evans on changing your car oil.
Producers GEOFF DOBSON and JENNY MARSHALL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Including at .8.59 Continental Travel Information
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Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt
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Joan Bakewell
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Patrick Stoddart
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Richard Hudson-Evans
Producers:
Geoff Dobson
Producers:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

3: The President and His Staff
In the third of seven occasional programmes about the American Presidency, Anthony King visits the West wing of the White House to examine the role of some of the most influential people in any government anywhere in the world - the senior members of the White House staff.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Producer:
Anne Sloman

The art, science and business of sound recording. Presented by Peter Clayton Twenty-one Years of St Martin-in-the-Fields: IONA BROWN
Hi-Fi News: ADRIAN HOPE
Acoustic Records (4): PETER ADAMSON
Record of the Week: ROBIN DAY
Series devised by LAURENCE STAPLEY
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Clayton
Unknown:
Peter Adamson
Unknown:
Laurence Stapley
Producer:
Arthur Johnson

Six programmes in which writers and travellers consider the pleasures and perils of their journeys. 3: Burma
In recent years Burma has been comparatively cut off from the outside world. Now things are changing. Anne Catch-pole charts her gradual discovery of this little-known land of rice fields, teak forests and pagodas, from the market of Rangoon and the ruins of Pagan, to the chimney-pots of Maymyo and the glory of Mandalay. Producer HELEN FRY
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Contributors

Producer:
Helen Fry

A comedy show including a recording of embarrassing intestinal noises set to Elgar's music.
Written and performed by Robert Bathurst Martin Bergman Rory McGrath
Jimmy Mulville and Emma Thompson long wave only
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5.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Martin Bergman
Unknown:
Rory McGrath
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Jimmy Mulville
Unknown:
Emma Thompson

Presented by Brian Thompson
A seasonal look at the life on Britain's coastline in the holiday season - seabirds in Scotland, the Lincolnshire saltmarsh in flower; the work of a Hampshire air-sea rescue unit; Shanklin's sunshine and a 50 year history of amusement arcades; and scuba-diving off the Western Isles.
Producer DON MOSEY BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Thompson
Producer:
Don Mosey

2: Tactics and Strategy
The second of five programmes about these remarkable craft, from their invention and development to the position of Pre-eminence they have attained among the fighting ships of modern navies. with and Eric Allan
John Baddeley David Buck
Garard Green
Peter Wickham
Narrated by Lieut-Cmdr Peter Kemp , OBE
Series written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Allan
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Peter Wickham
Unknown:
Lieut-Cmdr Peter Kemp
Duced By:
John Bridges
Lieut-Cmdr Nasmith:
Tom Wilkinson

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