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Tennis: from Buenos Aires GERALD WILLIAMS reports on the first day of the Davis Cup semi-final between GREAT
BRITAIN and ARGENTINA and looks ahead to today's vital doubles.
Racing: a look ahead to tomorrow's French Classic - the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Unknown:
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
Producers JENNY MARSHALL and GEOFF DOBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Ian Lyon
Unknown:
Susan Marling.
Producers:
Jenny Marshall
Producers:
Geoff Dobson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

This week Labour Party supporters gathered in Brighton for their annual discussion on party policy.
The BBC's Political
Correspondent, Peter Hill, has spent the week with two of the delegates.
How do they think the conference has affected morale among members, and the prospects for a future Labour Government?
Producer ELLIE UPDALE

Presenter Louise Botting The economy is still finely balanced and the personal financial scene as competitive and complex as ever: can inflation be brought down to single figures? Will interest rates rise again? These are the sort of questions the Money Box team tackles each week. Listeners' letters will feature and there's another chance to test your investment skill in the Unit Trust Investor of the Year Competition. Write to: Money Box,
BBC. London W1A 1AA
A Financial World Tonight production

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Botting

Warren by MARTYN WADE with and Kenneth and Pauline are expecting their first child. Pauline is blossoming with the prospect of motherhood. Kenneth is a little more dubious, but cheers himself up by thinking that there's a 50/50 chance that it'll be a boy - not so bad once he's grown up a bit and they can have man-to-man chats. But when the dreaded day dawns ...
Director CHERRY COOKSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Martyn Wade
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Kenneth:
David Collings
Pauline:
Nerys Hughes
Assistant/midwife:
Wendy Murray

The BBC Television production of Othello will be shown tomorrow evening on BBC2 at 7 15. Bob Peck. a highly acclaimed lago in last year's production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, gives a personal view of the play's qualities and characters.
' I feel there's always an enormous temptation in the audience to get up and shout to this black man - " Its obvious, why can't you see what's going on? " ' Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Peck.
Producer:
Gordon Hutchings

Gwyn Richards puts the questions to Derek Jones and Bill Perry Accounts
A guide to the basic principles of an accounting system. Series producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
(First broadcast on R3) long wave only

Contributors

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

by P.G. Wodehouse (born 15 October 1881)
Blandings stands as ever, bathed in fragrant and gentle summer. Love shimmers, skulduggery lurks. Lord Emsworth desperately attempts to escape the efficient Baxter and the place seems rife with poets doing poems. Then, of course, someone steals that necklace...
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm) (Caroline Langrishe and David Troughton are National Theatre players)

Contributors

Author:
P.G. Wodehouse
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Peter King
The Author:
John Gielgud
Lord Emsworth:
Michael Hordern
Lady Constance:
Joan Greenwood
Psmith:
Simon Ward
Baxter:
Christopher Godwin
Freddie:
David Troughton
Joe Keeble:
Bryan Pringle
Beach:
Ellis Dale
Eve:
Caroline Langrishe
Miss Peavey:
Zoe Wanamaker
Cootes:
Stuart Milligan
McTodd:
Peter Marinker
Susan:
Alex Marshall
Briggs:
Alan Dudley
Newspaper employee:
Haydn Wood
Flowered waistcoat:
Michael Spice
Snuff-coloured suit:
George Parsons
Waiter:
Ronald Herdman
Young lady:
Patience Tomlinson
Young man:
Spencer Banks

Orer the Hill, or Over the Topf Jack Jones , leading campaigner for pensioners' rights, argues before an invited audience, that Britain's pensioners will never achieve a decent standard of living unless, like the ' Gray Panthers ' of America, they capitalise on their number, their voice and their vote.
Desmond Wilcox referees the ensuing debate. This, the first of four outside broadcasts, comes from Brighton
Lions' Community Centre. Research VIRGINIA HENRY Producer
SHARON BANOFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Topf Jack Jones
Unknown:
Desmond Wilcox
Unknown:
Sharon Banoff

by JOHN and JULIA KEAY The second in a series of five programmes on Scottish explorers. A Matter of Despair The story of Captain John Ross
Other parts played by NICHOLAS COPPIN and BROWN DERBY
Music by BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Producer PATRICK RAYNER (First b'cast R Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Keay
Unknown:
John Ross
Played By:
Nicholas Coppin
Played By:
Brown Derby
Producer:
Patrick Rayner
Narrator:
Patrick Malahide
ROSS:
Leonard Maguire

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