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Presented by George Hamilton this week and Includes a look ahead to the first Rugby League Test between GREAT BRITAIN and AUSTRALIA at Hull, and news from ENGLAND'S cricketers Down Under. Producer JOANNE WATSON

Contributors

Presented By:
George Hamilton
Producer:
Joanne Watson

Introduced by Bernard Falk, with help from Susan Marling and Ian Lyon, taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.

Contributors

Presenter:
Bernard Falk
Reporter:
Susan Marling
Reporter:
Ian Lyon
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson Duff
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, tax, mortgages, Insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life.
A Financial World Tonight production

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren EvePollard,JohnWells and Richard Ingrams
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and DANNY GREENSTONE Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Danny Greenstone
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

The Rt Rev
David Sheppard. The Bishop of Liverpool. Paul Boateng Richard Needham. MP and Katharine Wnltehorn
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
David Sheppard.
Unknown:
Paul Boateng
Unknown:
Richard Needham.
Unknown:
Katharine Wnltehorn

The Principles of Rocketry by BOB COUTTIE with Clare has a tyrranical mum. a dim boyfriend and a dead-end job.
There is a way out. but first she must build herself a space rocket. \
Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Couttie
Directed By:
Jeremy Mortimer
Clare:
Rosalind Adams
Del:
And Ray Burdls
Mother/Queen,:
Jean Trend
Father/King:
Hugh Dickson
Shirl:
Kim Clifford
Doctor:
Nigel Graham

A ten-part adventure serial by JAMES FOLLETT
The Challenger's two giant computers, Angel One and Two, have created a flood on Paradise in an attempt to force Telson, Sharna. Darv and Astra back to the starship. 3: Surrender
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
James Follett
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Commander Telson:
Sean Arnold
Sharna:
Amanda Murray
Darv:
Haydn Wood
Astra:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Angel One:
Sonia Fraser
Angel Two:
Gordon Reid
Bran:
Michael Maloney
Elka:
Jill Lidstone
Tidy:
David Cooderson
George:
Stephen Garlick

Supermen
In the fourth of six programmes Anthony Curtis looks at two towering figures, one from the ancient world - Alexander the Great - and one from the modern - Winston Churchill. With their respective biographers, Robin Lane Fox and Martin Gilbert , he raises questions about myth, reality and public Image - how does the biographer hope to arrive at a substantial truth? Reader RONALD BADDILEY Series producer PRUDENCE SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Curtis
Unknown:
Winston Churchill.
Unknown:
Robin Lane
Unknown:
Martin Gilbert

Undesirable Allen by ALLEN SADDLER
Homer Lane breezed into England from the American middle-west in 1913, bringing with him a passionate Idealism in the educating of children, an approach which was to inspire a new school of progressive educators, including A. S. Neill. But Homer's fundamentally simple faith was later to be misunderstood, with disastrous consequences ...
, CAROLINE NELSON and AMANDA-JANE TOMLINS With THERESA STREATFEILD
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Allen Saddler
Unknown:
A. S. Neill.
Unknown:
Caroline Nelson
Unknown:
Amanda-Jane Tomlins
Unknown:
Theresa Streatfeild
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Homer Lane:
Don Fellows
Mabel Lane:
June Barrie
Sergeant/Humphreys:
Stephen Thorne
Alice Jones:
Patiticia Gibson
James/William:
Ian Silbiger
Magistrate:
Paul Nicholson
David:
Scott Wilson
Montague:
Conrad Phillips
Florence:
Wendy Cook
May:
Libby MacHen
Eva:
Jean Trend
Chapman:
David Adery
Rawlinson:
David Gooderson
Dr Norris/Bennet:
Peter Tuddenham
MUSkStt:
Edward Cast
Amy:
Catherine Owen
Collins:
Nigel Graham
Children:
Richard Bell
Children:
John Brewer
Children:
Amardeep Kaushal

A Consumer Guide to
Furnishing Your Home at Auctions
Furnishing your home takes a long time and a great deal of money. Carpets and curtains alone can knock a huge hole in your budget. But a whole house can be furnished throughout for under £ 2.000 by going to auction sales, where you can buy everything from beds to bookcases; cookers to cupboards-but it's advisable to study form before you make your first bid.
Norman Tozer has been talking to experts and some keen amateurs around the sale rooms and learning how to find the best bargains.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM followed by an Interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Producer:
Susan Snailum

Noel Edmonds presents a six-part series
Pirate Radio changed the face and tempo of British broadcasting.
Survivors from the era of swashbuckling DJs including Tony Blackburn, Paul Burnett,
Kenny Everett, John Peel and Johnnie Walker recall their bizarre lives aboard the offshore stations.

Contributors

Presenter:
Noel Edmonds
Interviewee:
Tony Blackburn
Interviewee:
Paul Burnett
Interviewee:
Kenny Everett
Interviewee:
John Peel
Interviewee:
Johnnie Walker
Researcher:
Brian Thompson
Writer/Producer:
Trevor Dann

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