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Presented by Tony Lewis , wholooksforwardtothe final of the Benson and Hedges one-day cricket competition at Lord's: wonlastyearbySomerset. Also on today the AAA
Athletics championships at Crystal Palace. the Royal International Horse Show and The King
George VI and Queen
ElizabethDiamondStakes at Ascot. Meet some of the personalities Involved and consider the lighter moments that make up the sporting world.
Producers DAVE GORDON and EMILY MCMAHON

Contributors

Presented By:
Tony Lewis
Producers:
Dave Gordon
Producers:
Emily McMahon

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from
SUSAN MARLING and NIGEL coombs taking a critical look at the holiday and leisure scene. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALO

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson Duff
Editor:
Roger MacDonalo

Jeanlne McMullen on the track of Best Layers.
Good Milkers and Choice Eaters not to mention tips from pig rearers. sheep shearers, cheese-makers and country people par excellence in the programme for people with dirt on their hands. Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanlne McMullen

Including mind-boggling eavesdroppings, dreadful cliches and the occasional outbreak of foot-in-mouth. Panel Christopher Martin-Jenkins Alan Melville
Rosemary Anne Sisson and Julia Langdon Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer ALAN NIXON

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Unknown:
Julia Langdon
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Alan Nixon

The Rt lion David Steel , MP The Rt lion Tony Benn The Rt lion
Norman St John-Stevas . mp and Ann Leslie tackle the questions raised by the audience in Aberdeen. Chairman David Jacobs

Contributors

Unknown:
David Steel
Unknown:
Tony Benn
Unknown:
Norman St John-Stevas
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
David Jacobs

The Big Wheel by NAN WOODHOUSE
Jessie Pollard had one great ambition on her pensioners' day trip to the seaside, but her friend Hester thought she was just being silly. Only Sweaty Albert was prepared to take her dream seriously.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Woodhouse
Unknown:
Jessie Pollard
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Hester:
Kathleen Helme
Jessie:
Paula Tilbrook
Albert:
Geoffrey Banks
Harper:
John Jardine

1 ... there were millions upon millions of moths swarming around the street lights. The effect hadtheIllusionoffog,the cloud was so dense An explanation is requested from the team of naturalists.
Presented by Derek Jones

Contributors

Presented By:
Derek Jones

' Kipling was a knowing young man and what he did not know at first hand he could invent to a lifelike marvel from a nod, a hint or an overheard word.'
In the last of four programmes Marghanita Lasklexplorestheworld of 19th-century India which is brought to life in the writings of Rudyard Kipling. The Indians
Readers JOHN SAMSON DENYS HAWTHORNE
NIGEL ANTHONY , JOHN ROWE CARARD GREEN
SURENDRA KOCHAR
Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling.
Readers:
John Samson
Readers:
Denys Hawthorne
Readers:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Surendra Kochar
Producer:
Helen Fry

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Tel [number removed]. Ext 7048 (Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Mills
Editor:
Marlene Pease

A series of seven programmes about people who succeed against the odds. 3: Debbie Moore
From the improbable environment of an old pineapple warehouse in Covent Garden,
DEBBIE MOORE has built up one of the most successful dance studios in the country. She talks to
Marjorie Lofthouse
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Debbie Moore
Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse

a comedy by Barbara Foxe
with
Edward H. Govenden - Guffy to his friends - Estate Agent, amateur impresario, and a man who casts a rather jaundiced eye on the 'ethos' of the age is in search of peace but...

Contributors

Comedy By:
Barbara Foxe
Producer:
Piers Plowright
Edward H. Govenden, Guffy:
Martin Jarvis
Lisa:
Carole Boyd
Brian:
James Kerry
Walt:
Michael Spice
Mrs Sanders:
Madi Hedd
Sid:
David Peart
Kathy:
Suzie Cerys
Mrs Bennett:
Hilda Schroder
Policeman/Walter:
Neil McCaul

The Voyager spacecraft. after their close photographic encounters with Jupiter and Saturn, will swing off into interstellar space.
It's a remote possibility they may eventually be found by an alien intelligence but Carl Sagan and some friends decided to attach a message just in case.

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Sagan

The first in a ten-week series of religious documentaries that investigates current issues and their religious implicatons. Survival
Ted Harrison meet$ Christians who are preparing for the olocaust. and training themselves for life after a nuclear war. Christians believe life Is a gift from God, but In the struggle for survival how far will they go to preserve themselves? In other words: What price life?
Researcher JULIA BROSNAN Series editor JOHN NEWBURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Unknown:
Julia Brosnan

An Acre of Land
Behold the apples' roundedworlds: juice-green of July rain. LAURIE LEE 'S poem Autumn Apples Is included in this evocation of life In the countryside - the first of seven programmes of poetry and song. Works by Edward Thomas.
John Clare , Christina Rossettl and Thomas Hardy are also included.
Readers Ray Smith and Dilys Price Producer
HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Lee
Unknown:
Edward Thomas.
Unknown:
John Clare
Unknown:
Christina Rossettl
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Readers:
Ray Smith
Unknown:
Herbert Williams

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