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Gerald Williams takes the Chair this morning while TONY LEWIS reports from Headlngley on the SecondTestbetween England and New Zealand. Also on this weekend are the Women's AAA
Championships and the British Motorcycling
Grand Prix. Hear from some of the personalities involved and those making the headlines In the sporting world.
Producers DAVE GORDON and EMILY MCMAIION

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Producers:
Dave Gordon
Producers:
Emily McMaiion

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from
SUSAN MARLING and NIGEL COOMBS taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Passage to India: in the next few weeks,
Paul Wade looks at four facets of India, the country that is attracting tourists thanks to the success of films like Gandhi. Heat and Dust and Octopussy. He begins his travels in Delhi.
Producer Helen ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Unknown:
Paul Wade
Producer:
Helen Robson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Jeanine McMutlen 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
(Repealed.- Mod 10.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMutlen

Quotations ranging from the sublime to the gorblimey identified and provided by Celia Haddon, Ludovic Kennedy, Dr John Rae and Colin Welland
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees

(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Nigel Rees
Panellist:
Celia Haddon
Panellist:
Ludovic Kennedy
Panellist:
Dr John Rae
Panellist:
Colin Welland
Reader:
Ronald Fletcher
Producer:
Alan Nixon

Six programmes on themes and variations from the lives of the British in South East
Asia, in the days of the Empire, in the words of some who were there. 1: Slow Boat to China: Foundations and Beginnings
' And at last over the horizon about 12 D'clock in the morning a little cluster of trees appeared. Brilliant sunshine, blue sea. huge enormous
Asian sky of clouds, and clustering under it this little block of land:
South East Asia, The very beginning of the great romantic east. the Island empires of which I dreamed.'
Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS , BBC
Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by Charles ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON (Krpeat. ' Chummertes. Sarongs and Bajus ' next Saturday)

Contributors

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

by Anne Goring

Carol buys an antique wedding dress from Mrs Brent, who had worn it at her wedding 60 years earlier. It is no longer in good condition and causes a break-up between Carol and her fiance. The dress, however, has not outlived its usefulness...

BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Tues 11.0 am)

Contributors

Writer:
Anne Goring
Director:
Alec Reid
Mrs Brent:
Margery Withers
Carol Marshall:
Julia Hills
Tony:
Richard Huw

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect?
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the gps surgery.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts

' Is the size of a tree determined by the size of the fruit from which it grows? '
The germ of an idea to puzzle Peter Moore. John Andrews. Stephen Sutton. Presented by Derek Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Moore.
Unknown:
John Andrews.
Unknown:
Stephen Sutton.
Presented By:
Derek Jones

1: Queen of Crime In five programmes
Jessica Mann investigates women crime writers and why such gentle women are so good at murder. Agalha Christie is not merely the Queen of Crime, but the archetype: retiring, genteel - and uniquely successful. To what extent did she establish the tradition? Janet Morgan. A. L.
House, Julian Symons. Anthony Storr and Marprhanlta Laskl investigate the Christie phenomenon.
Reader FRANCES JEATER Title music by JOLYON JACKSON Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Mann
Unknown:
Agalha Christie
Unknown:
Janet Morgan.
Unknown:
Julian Symons.
Unknown:
Anthony Storr
Unknown:
Marprhanlta Laskl
Reader:
Frances Jeater
Music By:
Jolyon Jackson
Producer:
Margaret Windham

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

Seven programmes about people who are successful against the odds. 2: Michael Peters
Michael PETERS always wanted to be an artist but after failing his Art O-level, he left school to work in what he thought was an architect's office. It turned out to be a commercial art studio and he had accidentally stumbled into the career he wanted. Today he runs one of the most successful design companies in the world with clients ranging from Fisons to Gauloises and from Sellotape to bp.
Producer JOCK GALLAGMER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Peters
Unknown:
Michael Peters

The Gortys Triangle by ROD BEACHAM , with Crete is the background to a mysterious death that involves the world of the very rich, the world of archaeology, and a strange girl named Candy who Knows the secret of it all.
Directed by GERRY JONES (Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rod Beacham
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Nick:
Patrick Mower
Captain Stavrakis:
David March
Mikos:
Neville Jason
Becky:
Jane Knowles
Candy,:
Marilyn Milgrom
Katrina:
Hilda Schroder
FellX:
Alex Jennings
Erica:
Joanna Wake
First salior:
Clive Panto
Second sailor:
Rod Beacham

For the orphaned and abandoned babies of the Third World countries, one route to comfort and security is via adoption - in the West. Inter-country adoption has often been the last choice for childless couples - equally it has sprung from an altruistic desire to help.
Andy Price meets some of the children who were brought to Britain in this way, a decade or more ago. As they grow towards adulthood in a new country, with a new culture, how do they, and their families, look back on their experiences - and forward to new identities?
Producer Sharon Banoff (Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)

Contributors

Producer:
Sharon Banoff

The second of a ten-week series that looks at religious issues and people in the news. Selling God
Can religion be sold like lager or filter cigarettes? This week Robert
Foxcroft goes to a top advertising agency to find out how the religious message could enter the market place. Can they do it? Would you want it' Or is it Impossible to sell God?
Research JULIA BROSNAN
Series editor JOHN NEWBURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Brosnan

Mine be a cot beside the hill ...
But what is the besetting sin of the cottage woman, the mischief that threatens too ambitious a gardener?
Second of seven programmes of poetry, prose and song. including words by Edmund Blunden, W.H. Davies, Thomas
Campion and Mary Russell Mitford and ballads sung by Owen Catley and John McCormack

(BBC Wales) (Repeat)

Contributors

Author:
Edmund Blunden
Author:
W.H. Davies
Author:
Thomas Campion
Author:
Mary Russell Mitford
Singer:
Owen Catley
Singer:
John McCormack
Reader:
Ray Smith
Reader:
Dilys Price
Reader:
John Darran
Producer:
Herbert Williams

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