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Tony Lewis is your host for the programme which blends the serious side of sport with the lighter, off-beat moments. Just six weeks after the World
Cup Final, the domestic football season is prefaced by the traditional curtain-raiser at Wembley, the FA Charity Shield. Cup-winners SPURS play the League champions,
LIVERPOOL. Meet some of the personalities involved as well as having a 'sideways' look at the rest of the weekend's sport. Producer DAVE cordon

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis

Introduced by Bernard Falk, with help from SUSAN MARLING and IAN LYON Including weather; travel; continental travel and at 9.0 News
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Jenny Mallinson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Jeanine McMullen talks to all kinds of people who live and work in the countryside. Many rear livestock, keep bees, grow herbs,orrunasmall rural business.
Find out how they are successful and why making A Small Country Living adds a new dimension to their lives. Written and compiled by JEANINE MCMULLEN Producer SARAH PITT BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)

Contributors

Talks:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen
Producer:
Sarah Pitt

In which an extraordinary edifice Is erected upon the English language by Kenneth Williams Clement Freud Derek Nimmo and Graeme Garden under the helpless gaze of site foreman
N cholas Parsons
Architect IAN MESSITER Property developer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Unknown:
Pete Atkin

by Gilbert Leautier, translated by Kitty Black
with Prunella Scales as the Little Girl
Although a child may not be as articulate as an adult, inside her own head she can experience a startling depth of feeling, especially when faced with a double tragedy
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)

Contributors

Author:
Gilbert Leautier
Translated by:
Kitty Black
Director:
Martin Jenkins
The Little Girl:
Prunella Scales
Mother:
Miranda Forbes
Father:
Crawford Logan
Martine:
Theresa Streatfeild

by J. R. R. TOLKIEN prepared for radio in 13 episodes by BRIAN SIBLEY starring Ian Holm as Frodo
6: The Breaking of the Fellowship
' This at feast is plain,' said Frodo aloud to himself. ' The evil of the Ring is already at work even In the Company. and the Ring must leave them before it does more harm. I will go alone.
Some I cannot trust, and those I can trust are too dear to me. Strider will be needed at Minas Tirlttl now Boromlr has fallen into evil. I will go alone. At once.'
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN OLIVER
Episode adapted by BRIAN SIBLEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN and PENNY LEICESTER
(Gerard Murphy is a member of the RSC) Music from the series
(record REH 415, cassette ZCR 415), from record shops

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Ian Holm
Conducted By:
Stephen Oliver
Adapted By:
Brian Sibley
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Unknown:
Gerard Murphy
Aragorn:
Robert Stephens
Sam:
William Nighy
Gollum:
Peter Woodthorpe
Boromir:
Michael Graham Cox
Glmll:
Douglas Livingstone
Legolas:
David Collings
Merry:
Richard O'Callaghan
Pippin:
John McAndrew
Treebeard:
Stephen Thorns
the Narrator:
Gerard Murphy
Eomer:
Anthony Hyde
Eothaln:
John Livesey
Ugluk:
Brian Haines
Snaga:
Gordon Reid
Grlshnakh:
Martyn Read
Lugdush:
Sean Arnold

A magazine of Interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views of concern to them. Presenter John Mills
Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Tel: [number removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
John Mills
Editor:
Marlene Pease

With a history degree, a diploma In archaeology and two years' excavation experience behind him.
Paul Gosling successfully applied for a post as an Assistant Inspector of Ancient Monuments. Now a full Inspector, Paul travels some 30.000 miles a year in the course of his work, visiting a wide range of monuments and ensuring their continued protection and preservation. Malcolm Billings joins him for a few hectic days to find out what It means to be
Keeping the Past Present.

Contributors

Guest:
Paul Gosling
Presenter:
Malcolm Billings
Producer:
Christopher Stoni

Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Repeated; Wed 11.3 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

by Richard Maher and Roger Michell
with Gary Waldhorn as Ray Damon and Miranda Forbes as Evelyn Morse

America in the 20s, and it's an era of high jinks, frenetic flappers and bootlegging. In Lake City, gangsters rule and corruption is rife. If you're a private eye there's a lot of work, as long as you stay alive. Ray Damon waits for the next piece of dirty linen to walk in off the streets of the Windy City.

(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Maher
Writer:
Roger Michell
Music composed and played by (piano):
Ed Welch
Musician (Saxophone):
Ron Aspery
Director:
Peter King
Ray Damon:
Gary Waldhorn
Evelyn Morse:
Miranda Forbes
George Remus:
Nigel Graham
Klug:
Hal Galili
Forbes Randolph:
Alan Tilvern
Benno Macaliskey:
Ronnie Letham
Frank Ollivetti:
Anthony Newlands
Sylvie Lennox:
Madi Hedd
Scales:
Tom Hunsinger
Landlady:
Miriam Margolyes
Fix Guinan:
Gay Baynes
Albert:
Ellis Dale
Lt Powell:
Stuart Milligan
Carlo:
Roger Michell

by JOANNA RrCHARDSON
' What marvellous dancing! You would think her a rose leaf borne on the wind ... If my name were not on the posters. what praises I should sing of this enchanting
Carlotta! ' Gautier's passion for the young dancer who created the role of Giselle in his ballet lasted for the rest of his life, and she responded with a warm friendship and deep regard. Gautier's biographer brings their relationship to life through their letters and thecrmments of their friends.
Narrator BRETT USHER with ALEX JENNINGS and JIM REID Directed by MARGARET ETALL
(Repeated: Thurs 11.3 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Rrchardson
Unknown:
Alex Jennings
Unknown:
Jim Reid
Directed By:
Margaret Etall
Theophile Gautier:
Freddie Jones
Carlotta Grisi:
Isabel Dean
Judith Gautier:
Madi Hedd
Maurice Dreyfous:
Peter Tuddenham
Emile Bergerat:
Nigel Graham

Seven programmes about people who have made a dramatic change in their lives.
2: Doris Wheatley
DORIS WHEATLEY had been a Cambridge don for 20 years when a chance meeting in a pub led to a chain of events which completely altered the course of her life. Now, 15 years later, she has rescued an ailing company from bankruptcy and is chairman and managing director of a thriving business.
Presenter Anne Brown Producer JANE MAHSHALL BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Wheatley
Unknown:
Doris Wheatley
Presenter:
Anne Brown
Producer:
Jane Mahshall

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