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Tony Lewis Introduces the magazine programme featuring:
Cup Football: it's Fourth Round day in the FA Cup, and Sport on 4 talks to the men who have their hearts set on Wembley. Motor Racing:
SIMON TAYLOR previews the South African Grand Prix at
Kyalami at the start of a motor racing season that promises as much controversy as incident.
Cricket: DON MOSEY reports on the second day of England's match against Central Zone at Indore. A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Simon Taylor

Today Bernard Falk takes a Cook's tour and visits Britain's oldest travel company as the booking season for 1982 summer holidays reaches its peak. Holiday news from Ian Lyon and Patrick Stoddart with the television preview.
Producers GEOFF DOBSON and JENNY MARSHALL
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Ian Lyon
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart
Producers:
Geoff Dobson
Producers:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

A Question of Money Following Radio 4's week on tour, the Money Box team visits the West Country to answer questions on personal finance put by listeners at The Guildhall. Plymouth. The Panel: Louise Rotting
Philip Hardman
Christopher GUchrlst and Vincent Duggleby AFinancialWorld Tonight production

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Rotting
Unknown:
Philip Hardman
Unknown:
Christopher Guchrlst
Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby

A new series of the panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the chairman
Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Derek Nimmo endeavour to prevent each other from talking on this - or that.
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Pete Atkin

A Galway Girl by GERALDINE ARON with Stella McCusker as Maisle and Colm Meaney as Dermot
A sad and humorous play for two voices, in which a Galway girl's romantic visions of marriage are pitted against the coarse reality of her husband's Dublin wit.
Musical adviser TONY MCAULEY
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Tues 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geraldine Aron
Unknown:
Stella McCusker
Unknown:
Colm Meaney
Unknown:
Tony McAuley
Directed By:
Robert Cooper

A history in 26 parts in the words of those who have made the history. 2: Canvas, Hemp and Wood
The three-masted wooden sailing ship is ' the space capsule of the Renaissance '. How she was made, how she worked, where she could go and what she could do shaped the sailor's life for him from the 15th century to the 19th. And she was She: not It. Readers MICHAEL GOLDIE, ANTHONY HALL ,
TIMOTHY BATESON , RONALD HERDMAN , LEONARD MAGUIRE , ROBERT LANG , DAVID MARCH, DAVID ASHFORD,
ANTHONY NEWLANDS , HENRY KNOWLES , MALCOLM TERRIS , RONALD BADDILEY , GARARD GREEN, CAROLE BOYD and DOUGLAS BLACKWELL
Programme consultant and presenter:
Basil Greenhill, Director, National Maritime
Museum. Greenwich Special sound by DICK MILLS of the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON , in collaboration with the National
Maritime Museum.

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Hall
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman
Unknown:
Leonard Maguire
Unknown:
Robert Lang
Unknown:
Anthony Newlands
Unknown:
Henry Knowles
Unknown:
Malcolm Terris
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
Carole Boyd
Unknown:
Douglas Blackwell
Unknown:
Dick Mills
Directed By:
Michael Mason

Joy Larkcom talks to
John Murray about the more unusual range of vegetables and salads she grows in East Anglia; her travels in France, Italy and Portugal in search of the crops and techniques of the European peasant farmers - and her efforts to introduce their varieties to British gardens.
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Murray

Eight programmes on the novel since the war. 4: Staying on the Island Anthony Curtis looks at what he calls ' the desert Island school of fiction novels In which the characters are immured by a set of circumstances from which there is no escape. Among the novelists are L. P. Hartley , Susan Hill , John Fowles , and William Golding.
Extracts read by ELIZABETH PROUD and GAVIN CAMPBELL Producer
FRANCES DONNELLY (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Unknown:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
John Fowles
Unknown:
William Golding.
Read By:
Elizabeth Proud
Read By:
Gavin Campbell
Unknown:
Frances Donnelly

In the Days of my Father by PAUL M. LEVITT
If you change houses you need only change your shirt; if you change lands,
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm) (John Bennett is in' The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul M. Levitt
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Meyer Cohen:
Martin Friend
Esther, his wife:
Doreen Mantle
Ben, his son:
Anton Lesser
Simon Litman:
John Bennett
Harry Sobleman:
Geoffrey Collins
you change your whole lije (MOSES IBN EZRA, SIIIRAT YISRAEL):
Andrew Secombe
a girlEsther:
Miranda Forbes
Immigration officer:
Ronald Herdman
Mr Kagan:
Alan Dudley
RABBI/INDIAN:
David Graham
Ray:
Crawford Logan
Pete:
John Livesey
Sergei:
Geoffrey Collins
Silone/Rabbi:
Adrian Egan
Jenny Litman...:
Julia Swift
Eva Litman .:
Linda Polan
Meyer Cohen's mother:
Katherine Parr

with Robin Soans as Hilaire Belloc
In June 1901, the young writer HILAIRE BELLOC walked in pilgrimage ' by the straightest possible line ' from Toul in Lorraine to Rome, the Eternal City. He covered 750 miles in 23 days ... orsohewroteInhis classic The Path to Rome. In June 1981,
John Stonborough followed In Belloc's footsteps.
Producer HUGH FURCELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Soans
Unknown:
Hilaire Belloc
Unknown:
Hilaire Belloc
Unknown:
John Stonborough
Producer:
Hugh Furcell

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