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Tony Lewis introduces his weekly magazine programme that takes a different look at the world of sport. Featuring
Golf: A look back on the first day of the Ryder Cup match at Walton Heath - the combined GREAT
BRITAIN AND EUROPE team against the USA. Hear from some of the personalities. Also the rest of the up-to-date news from around the world plus an off-beat and sometimes humorous look at other sports stories.
A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis

Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING , takes a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene. News at 9.0
Producer IRENE MALLIS Editor GEOFF DOBSON
For information sheets send a large sae to: Breakaway, [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Ian Lyon
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Editor:
Geoff Dobson

At the end of perhaps the most crucial Liberal
Party Assembly for years, two of the delegates review the week with BBC Political Correspondent David Coss.
After the Llandudno
Assembly, where do they think the future of the Liberal Party lies?
Producer PETER ROBINS

Contributors

Unknown:
David Coss.
Producer:
Peter Robins

Tim Brooke-Taylor Willie Rushton Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer bring their own unique brand of sandwiches to this antidote to panel games.
Accompanied by COLIN SELL. Chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS (Rptd: Monday 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Accompanied By:
Colin Sell.
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

A Triangle Squared by TESSA KRAILING withand
We open in Venice.
Garfield has come here to write a play but how can he be expected to create immortal drama when his characters get completely out of hand, argue over every line and simply refuse to co-operate? It's enough to drive a poor author to murder.
Directed by JOHN CARDY
(Repeated: Tucs 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tessa Krailing
Directed By:
John Cardy
Garfield:
Nicholas Courtney
Angela:
Patience Tomlinson
Peter:
David McAlistcr
Daphne:
Denise Bryer
the Chambermaid:
Rosalind Adams

Let Neil Landor. together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC Reference Library, sort out your queries.
Producer SIMON ELMES
(Rptd: Thurs 11.50 am) Questions on a postcard to: Enquire Within. BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Landor.
Producer:
Simon Elmes

James Boswell 's London Journal 1762-1763 abridged in three parts by CLARE LAWSON DICK with Part 2: In which Boswell falls out of love and into a sickness.
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN (First broadcast on R3) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
James Boswell
Unknown:
Clare Lawson Dick
Producer:
John Tydeman
Boswell:
Gary Bond

this week visits Dundee. where employer attitudes towards employing disabled people are decidedly positive and the local authority goes to great lengths in providing accessible accommodation.
John Mills presents the programme from Dundee, and while he was there he came across several novel ideas which other people may like to investigate - for example, growing potatoes without the bother of digging. Editor MARLENE PEASE long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mills
Editor:
Marlene Pease

Series of six programmes Gwyn Richards puts the questions to Derek Jones and Bill Perry.
2: Making Money WorkYou can put a lot of money into your business. but how do you make sure of seeing it again? Producer
GORDON HUTCHINGS

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwyn Richards
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Unknown:
Bill Perry.
Unknown:
Gordon Hutchings

by J.C.W. Brook
with Michael Cochrane, Christopher Scoular and Angela Down

Bill and John were schoolfriends. Bill was always domineering. extrovert and aggressive, John the reverse. The play follows their lives as children, as teenagers leaving school, and as young married adults, up to the present, when their involvement has disastrous consequences.
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
J.C.W. Brook
Director:
Ian Cotterell
Bill as a boy:
Rosalind Adams
John as a boy:
Patience Tomlinson
Anders:
Gordon Reid
John:
Christopher Scoular
Pait:
Andrew Secombe
Sarah:
Angela Down
Bill:
Michael Cochrane
Christine:
Frances Jeater

An account of one of the most audacious financial conspiracies ever attempted.
In the summer of 1869 two American businessmen, Jay Gould and ' Jubilee ' Jim Fisk tried to corner the New York Gold Market. The prize was more wealth than they could imagine. Narrator JOHN ROWE
Other parts played by PATRICIA GALI .IMORE and members of the cast
Written and produced by PETER WINDOWS
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Jay Gould
Unknown:
Jim Fisk
Played By:
Patricia Gali .Imore
Produced By:
Peter Windows
Jay Gould:
Peter Whitman
Jim Fisk:
Blain Fairman
Henry Adams:
Don Fellows
Historians:
Paul Maxwell
Historians:
Douglas Lambert

A childhood attack of polio left rock singer Ian Dury physically handicapped in a way that could have made any career seem impossible, let alone the demanding life of a touring musician. He talks about his life, the part that music plays in it, and his struggle against physical disability. Producer
FRANCES DONNELLY

Contributors

Singer:
Ian Dury
Unknown:
Frances Donnelly

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