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Tony Lewis introduces the magazine programme that takes a different look at sport and searches for the offbeat items. Not forgetting the day's main events, including the University Boat Race in which Oxford will be hoping for a fifth successive win over Cambridge.
A Radio Sport and OB production

Contributors

Introduces:
Tony Lewis

Introduced by Bernard Falk. with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING. Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk.
Unknown:
Ian Lyon
Unknown:
Susan Marling.
Producer:
Jenny Marshall
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Willie Rushton and Tim Brooke-Taylor compete against
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer for the title Top of the Form 1969 Humphrey Lyttelton puts the questions accompanied by COLIN SELL at the piano Producer
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

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

Reversed Charges by MERVYN WATSON
Harry and Thelma's relationship is rocky at the best of times, but when the telephone boxes refuse to work and you are 200 miles apart, what do you do? Especially when the might of the law is onto the reversed charges trick!
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Tues 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mervyn Watson
Directed By:
Pat Trueman
Harry:
Andy Rashleigh
Thelma:
Sally Edwards
Constable:
Nick Malomey
Sergeant:
Robert Austin
Romy:
Sally Watts
Telephone operator:
David Kitchen

A history in 26 parts 11: Missing, Lost and Saved
Men and ships are small; the sea is vast, merciless, and terrifyingly powerful, and there is very little you can do about it. But that little has often included miracles of courage and skill which have proved just enough. Readers NIGEL LAMBERT ,
GORDON GOSTELOW. LEONARD MAGUIRE , RONALD BADDILEY ,
GARARD GREEN, DAVID CASEY DOUGLAS BLACKWELL ,
MALCOLM TERRIS ,
ROBERT LANG , MICHAEL GOLDIE , HENRY KNOWLES , ROBERT TROTTER and ANTHONY NEWLANDS 1 The ship in distress '
Sung by CHARLES PARKER : ' The unseaworthy ship ' sung by STORMALONG JOHN : producerstanAmbrose
Special sound DICK MILLS, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Consultant and presenter Robin Craig , lecturer in Economic History,
University College, London Series composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON. in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum
Book (same title) f5.95 paperback, 19.95 hardback from booksellers

Contributors

Readers:
Nigel Lambert
Readers:
Gordon Gostelow.
Readers:
Leonard Maguire
Readers:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
David Casey
Unknown:
Douglas Blackwell
Unknown:
Malcolm Terris
Unknown:
Robert Lang
Unknown:
Michael Goldie
Unknown:
Henry Knowles
Unknown:
Robert Trotter
Sung By:
Charles Parker
Sung By:
Stormalong John
Presenter:
Robin Craig
Directed By:
Michael Mason.

Four programmes looking at the effects that parental separation and divorce can have on children.
3: Wendy and her Brothers
Wendy is 21. Ten years ago her parents divorced. She failed her 11 plus directly afterwards and her mother now feels that due to the divorce none of her children did as well as expected at school.
Jenni Mills talks to Wendy and her family about how they feel the break-up has affected them.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Mills
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

by Michael Davies
A nuclear submarine is about to leave on routine sea trials- sea trials which will not only lead the submarine into terrible danger, but will also reveal the truth behind the crash of the aircraft RJ101.
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Davies
Director:
Gerry Jones
Dr Rosemary Helman:
Shirley Dixon
Henry Maslin:
Alan Dudley
John Saunderson:
Peter Jeffrey
Lord Glengower:
Cyril Luckham
Dr Nigel Morgan:
Gareth Armstrong
Harry Anderson:
Jim McManus
Duncan McManus:
David Graham
Graham Bowles:
Michael Maloney
Cathy Bowles:
Theresa Streatfeild
Mrs Bowles:
Katherine Parr
Philip Maitiand:
Clifford Norgate
Gordon Harkness:
Michael McStay
Helen:
Tammy Ustinov
Mrs Helman:
Pauline Letts
First Lieutenant:
George Parsons
Captain of Dorsal:
Gregory de Polnay
Cox'n:
Ronald Herdman
Wren Officer Carn:
Frances Jeater
Officer Swinburn:
David McAlister
Captain of Fearless:
Crawford Logan
Naval policeman:
Andrew Secombe
Signalman:
Spencer Banks
First seaman:
Stephen Garlick
Second seaman:
Hugh Dickson
Laboratory assistant:
Michael Tudor Barnes

Seven travellers' tales
3: Nepal - Rooftop of the World
Nepal, with its smiling peoples, its arresting physical beauty from Everest and the snow-capped Himalayas, through the Kathmandu valley to the jungle lands of the Terai, is also one of the poorest countries in the world.
Anne Catchpole recalls a visit to this tiny Hindu kingdom. She set out as a tourist but returned with much more than glossy snapshots for the holiday album.
Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Catchpole

Maurice Mason talks to
Teresa McGonagle about his search for rare and exotic plants and about the challenge of propagating those he brings back from places like South America, New Zealand, the West Indies and New Guinea. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE

Contributors

Talks:
Maurice Mason
Unknown:
Teresa McGonagle
Producer:
Paddy O'Keeffe

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