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Introduced by Tony Lewis live from
Manchester. A different look at the world of sport with a distinctly
Northern bias, at the start of Radio 4's week from the region.
Russell Harty : the tables are turned on the chat-show star who talks about sport and one of his life-long ambitions in football.
Don Mosey: the Manchester-based
Yorkshireman, on tour with England's cricketers, previews the Second Test in Georgetown and in his weekly newsletter looks at some of the off-beat moments so far. A Radio Sport and OB production
(Mid-Week: Russell Harty 's People: Wed 9.5 am)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Russell Harty
Unknown:
Russell Harty

with Bernard Falk
Including NIGEL COOMBS with the latest news on the travel and holiday scene, ERIC TOBITT with leisure ideas for the coming week and a look at what's worth watching on ' the box
Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor GEOFF DOBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt
Producer:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Geoff Dobson

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren, Richard Ingrams, Gillian Reynolds and Bill Tidy
Compiled by John Langdon and producer Alan Nixon
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm)

12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Chairman:
Barry Took
Panellist:
Alan Coren
Panellist:
Richard Ingrams
Panellist:
Gillian Reynolds
Panellist:
Bill Tidy
Compiled by:
John Langdon
Compiled by/Producer:
Alan Nixon

by EMILY BRONTE dramatised in four parts by WILLIAM ASH with Derek Jacobi Fiona Walker Gabriel Woolf and Shirley Dixon
2: Old Mr Earnshaw has died, Hindley is now the owner of Wuthering
Heights and Heathcliff begins to suffer denigration and ridicule at his hands.
Cathy has discovered Thru'shcross Grange, home of the Lintons, and becomes acutely aware of the contrast between the ordered existence of that house and the wildness of the Heights.
Directed by KAY PATRICK BBC Manchester
(Repealed: Tucs 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jacobi
Unknown:
Fiona Walker
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Shirley Dixon
Unknown:
Mr Earnshaw
Directed By:
Kay Patrick
Lockwood:
Gabriel Woolf
Nelly Dean:
Shirley Dixon
Cathy:
Fiona Walker
Heathcliff:
Derek Jacobi
Edgar:
David Timson
Isabella:
Sue Jenkins

The third of six programmes recounting the adventures of remarkable 19th-century travellers in the Himalayas, with Cyril Shaps as Joseph Wolff
Narrator John Rowe
With FRED BRYANT , ROGER HAMMOND and EVA STUART. Joseph Wolff had a sense of divine mission - to find the ten lost tribes of Israel and to build a new Jerusalem in the Vale of Kashmir. Nothing deflected him from his goal. not even the humiliation of being dragged across the desert at a gallop, stark naked and tied to a horse's tail. The series has been adapted by JOHN KEAY from his book When Men and Mountains Meet.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
: long ware only

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Narrator:
Joseph Wolff
Unknown:
With Fred Bryant
Unknown:
Roger Hammond
Unknown:
Eva Stuart.
Unknown:
Joseph Wolff
Adapted By:
John Keay
Producer:
Alan Haydock

Major Brian Urquhart was the Airborne Forces Intelligence Officer who advised against the Arnhem operation. Thirty-six years later he is the Under-Secretary-General at the United Nations who has to tell the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the South Africans and the Namibians when they are pushing their luck.
Keith Hindell presents a Profile of tire highest ranking Briton at the UN who's in charge of the peace-keeping forces around the world.
Producer CHRISSY SMITH long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Major Brian Urquhart
Unknown:
Keith Hindell
Producer:
Chrissy Smith

by Stephen Fagan

Sir Edward Downing learns that his student son Charles has been kidnapped, and that there is inevitably a price to pay. This is no ordinary kidnap however, and there is much more than money involved.
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Stephen Fagan
Director:
Gerry Jones
Charles Downing:
Tim Woodward
Eddie:
Tony Selby
Sarah Maxwell:
Heather Bell
Sir Edward Downing:
Patrick Barr
Sir Michael:
Cyril Shaps
Payne:
John Church
Tutor:
David Timson
Kidnapper on phone:
John Webb
Maid:
Kathryn Hurlbutt

1: Down and Out
Fifty years ago George Orwell lived for several months as a vagrant sleeping in lodging houses, in ' spikes ', and on the streets of London. This programme, in two parts, sets his descriptions alongside voices from the present. ' According to the law in London, you may sit down for the night, but the police must move you on if they see you asleep. The Embankment and one or two odd corners.... are special exceptions.'
(GEORGE ORWELL , 1932)
' There's Camberwell - the ' spike ' - Dean Street , the Salvation Army, but you have to pay there.
None of them are all that clever. The majority of people, rather than go there, will sleep on the Embankment.'
(LONDON DOSSER, 1981)
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
(Part 2: Sun 10.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
George Orwell
Unknown:
Dean Street
Producer:
Peter Everett

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