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Gerald Williams is in the chair to get your sporting weekend off to the right start.
There's first news of the ENGLAND cricket tourists game against VICTORIA in Melbourne, talk with the personalities at The Coral United Kingdom
Professional Snooker
Championship from the Guild Hall, Preston and some of the more off-beat moments in the world of sport.
Producer DAVE GORDON

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Williams
Producer:
Dave Gordon

Today. Bernard Falk and the rest of the team are at the World Travel
Market at Olympia to see how this extravaganza can help you choose where to spend your holiday.
Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings and the financial problems of everyday life. A Financial World Tonight production
(Repeated: Mon 10.2 am)

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Took to Alan Coren Ann Leslie
Michael White and David Taylor
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:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
David Taylor
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Danny Greenstone
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

from the Oxford Union Debating Chamber Marghanlta Laski Ken Livingstone Anthony Quinton and Michael Winner
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Marghanlta Laski
Unknown:
Ken Livingstone
Unknown:
Anthony Quinton
Unknown:
Michael Winner

by Nick Fisher
with Geoffrey Collins as the young nobleman, Fortunato, and David March as the merchant, Montresor

When an arrogant young nobleman decides to play a trick on his genial and unsuspecting host, his love of the pleasures of the vine leads him into unanticipated depths.
This chilling tale of 19th century Venice is loosely based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.
(Repeated: Tues 11.3 am)

Contributors

Writer:
Nick Fisher
Based on a story by:
Edgar Allan Poe
Director:
Richard Wortley
Fortunato:
Geoffrey Collins
Montresor:
David March
Montresor's wife:
Miranda Forbes
First lady:
Victoria Wicks
Second lady:
Alexandra Mathie
Montresor's butler:
Stephen Thorne

A ten-part adventure serial by JAMES FOLLETT and Android Surgeon General Kraken, designed by the Challenger's giant computers Angels One and Two to control the starship. has suffered severe logic failure and decided to destroy both the Challenger and crew. 8: Megalomania
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
James Follett
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
with 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 Gooderson
Kraken:
Crawford Logan

Third of five programmes Dr Martin Bax of St
Mary's Hospital Medical
School, London, examines the process by which humans acquire language. Thoughts into Words
Babies may use sounds as words earlier than we realise. How do they learn that a particular noise can be used to refer to a particular object? How soon do they realise that words stand for things that aren't there?
Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Martin Bax
Producer:
Alison Richards

by Paul Bryers
A play to celebrate English Maritime Year
In 1797, a series of naval mutinies shook the nation at a time when England stood alone against Revolutionary France. By far the most serious of these was the Nore Mutiny, led by Richard Parker. Outraged by the conditions of service for the ordinary seaman, Parker became the elected spokesman against the Admiralty. But his volatile nature was to make him many enemies...
(Repeated: Mon 3.2 pm) (Brian Cox is a National Theatre player)
Woddis On: page 93

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Bryers
Directed:
by Cherry Cookson
Richard Parker:
Brian Cox
John Blake:
Bernard Hill
Earl Spencer:
Julian Curry
Lt Platt:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Charles Fox:
Stephen Thorne
Ann Parker:
Jennifer Piercey
Capt Bligh:
Henry Stamper
Will Davies:
Crawford Logan
Tom Hockless:
Stuart Organ
Admiral Buckner:
Anthony Newlands
Master at Arms/Rector:
David Peart
Jeannie:
Alexandra Mathie
Wife:
Jean Trend

Six programmes
Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East
Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of some of those who were there.
3: The Ulu: Upriver and Inland, to the Clearing in the Jungle
' There certainly was a very great drama in the way we were living when I first went out there.
These stations were tiny clearings in an endless. interminable. tall, dense, wild jungle ... high, old impenetrable jungle - its denseness cannot be overemphasised.' Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS , BBC
Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by Charles allen Producer Michael mason

Contributors

Music By:
Jonathan Gibbs
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Producer:
Michael Mason

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