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with Gerald Williams
International Athletics:
Steve Ovett , Sebastian Coe and company line up for Britain against the top nations in the European
Cup Final at ZagrebALAN PARRY and BRENDAN FOSTER assess the medal chances. Test Cricket: DON MOSEY reviews the second day's play and discusses prospects for the Fifth Cornhill Test.
Plus news of the Irish
Open Golf Championship. A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Ovett
Unknown:
Sebastian Coe
Unknown:
Alan Parry
Unknown:
Brendan Foster

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from NIGEL COOMBS and SUSAN MARLING. Including Continental Travel Information and News at 9.0
Producer JENNY MARSHALL

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Unknown:
Susan Marling.
Producer:
Jenny Marshall

A four-part series
2: The Labour Party
The headlines insist that the Labour Party is tearing itself apart. Activists around the country talk to
Robert Carvel and telljiim that this is no more than democracy at work. Producer
CAROLINE MILLINGTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carvel

The last seven days put by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren and a panel including
"el Mooney written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON. Producer BANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated. Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather;
Programme news.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
John Langdon.

Thora Hird in Trouble at Hive Nine
A comedy by MIKE PARKER with John Hollis , Gordon Gostelow , Peter Baldwin and Philip Voss
Life at Hive Nine is all
Work and no play for the bees whose job it is to 'an the hive. Then they hear about Socialism and the power of the unions. And when deadbeat
Sydney gets the sack....
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(First broadcast in 1979)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thora Hird
Comedy By:
Mike Parker
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Gordon Gostelow
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
Philip Voss
Queen Bee:
Thora Bird
Equerry:
Phillp Voss
Albert:
Peter Baldwin
Arthur:
John Hollis
Fred:
Gordon Gostelow
Sydney:
Bill Monks
Einstein:
Gerald Cross

Light programmes on the novel since the war. 5: The Long View
Anthony Curtis discusses some of the most popular novels published since the war, the novel cycles or sequences.
Extracts read by ELIZABETH PROUD and GAVIN CAMPBELL Producer FRANCES DONNELLY long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Curtis
Unknown:
Gavin Campbell
Producer:
Frances Donnelly

According to the latest
United Nations estimate, the vast majority of the world's 450 million disabled people live in developing countries.
Anne Catchpole visits one of them - the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal
Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Editor:
Marlene Pease

Until the 1930s there was no systematic archiving of the cinema. and two thirds of all films made between 1895 and 1930 were lost or destroyed. Even today film is in danger - older films can ignite spontaneously, modern colour films fade as they age. As the financial belt tightens. choices have to be made about what we can afford to preserve.
Written and presented by Colin Ford
Producer RICHARD DUNN (First broadcast in Kaleidoscope) long wave only

Contributors

Presented By:
Colin Ford
Producer:
Richard Dunn

The Factory by J. G. O'MALLEY with Liam O'Callaghan and Niall Buggy
A small village in Ireland is about to receive a much-needed injection of wealth in the form of a new factory. Naturally everyone is delighted, until one man discovers a little more about the company that will own and run it ...
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
J. G. O'Malley
Unknown:
Liam O'Callaghan
Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Bruddy Murphy:
Liam O'Callaghan
Toe Graham:
Michael Duffy
Pat O'Neill:
Louis Rolston
Malachy Moran:
Niall Buggy
Phil Murray:
John Hewitt
Sheelagh Murray:
Stella McCusker
Una Murphy:
Angela Harding
Mrs Murphy:
Trudy Kelly
Fr Conlon:
Harold Goldblatt
Mr Webster:
Eric Erskine
Mrs Lacy:
Catherine Gibson
Tim-Pat Garrihy:
Mark Mulholland
Villagers:
John Keyes
Villagers:
Peter Henry
Villagers:
Aingeal Crehan

Chronic kidney failure can strike suddenly at both the young and the old with frightening. sometimes fatal effect.
Geoff Watts examines the range of treatments available - from dialysis to transplantation - in conversation with a surgeon, consultants. patients and relatives. and asks whether the system of treatment is as healthy as it might be. Producer RICHARD ELLIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Richard Ellis

Four young people challenge one another's opinions.
3: Politics - Are There Any Solutions? Taking part
Freda Chapman.
Lvnne Cuthbert , William Hague , Ian Wright In the Chair
Barbara Myers
Producer JULIAN HALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Freda Chapman.
Unknown:
Lvnne Cuthbert
Unknown:
William Hague
Unknown:
Ian Wright
Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Producer:
Julian Hale

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