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Suitably attired In a blue and white hooped T-shirt and canvas shoes, Tony Lewis presents this morning's programme from the Cowes waterfront on the Isle of Wight. Sample the atmosphere before the start of the Fastnet race, the traditional climax to the Cowes Week Regatta. Also a look forward to the Inaugural World
Athletics Championships starting tomorrow in Helsinki.
Producers EMILY MCMAHON and CAROLINE ELLIOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Producers:
Emily McMahon
Producers:
Caroline Elliot

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from
SUSAN MARLING and NIGEL coombs taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Producer:
Helen Robson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Among the mps defeated on 9 June, some fell back on their second
Jobs - others Joined the ranks of the unemployed. John Harrison asks whether It pays politicians to maintain outside careers. And If so, is It fair on the voters?
Producer MARGARET BUDY

Contributors

Producer:
Margaret Budy

Jeanine McMullen with the latest from her forays down the byways of rural living. Stockbreeders, poultry enthusiasts. writers, folklorists and storytellers all come together to give their tips on the stamina. wit and wisdom needed to make A Small Country Living.
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 10.0 am) For information sheet, send a large sae to [address removed]

Quotations out of the mouths of babes and sucklings... and Glenda Jackson, Isabelle Lucas, Norman Painting and John Lahr
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Nigel Rees
Panellist:
Glenda Jackson
Panellist:
Isabelle Lucas
Panellist:
Norman Painting
Panellist:
John Lahr
Reader:
Ronald Fletcher
Producer:
Alan Nixon

Six programmes of themes and variations from the lives of the British in South East Asia in the days of the Empire.
2: Chummeries, Sarongs and Bajus: Settling In
'My first impressions of the country were... It's like a large greenhouse... The colours were splashes against the green - purple, orange, yellow - oh, everything clashed but it didn't. it looked like a great bed of zinneas... the stars were so bright you could almost read by them. The strange thing was, the moon was sideways.'
Narrator Garard Green Special music by Jonathan Gibbs, BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Gibbs.
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Producer:
Michael Mason

Five programmes
2: The Lady Writers
From Agatha Christie to P.D. James, the detective story seems a form for which women have had a special gift. How and why has this happened? Under brown paper covers, could you tell which whodunits were written by women?
Jessica Mann investigates, with contributions from P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Margaret Yorke, Anthony Storr, Dulcie Gray, Elizabeth Ferrars, Heather Jeeves,
Marghanlta Laski, Joyce Allingham, Janet Morgan, Sarah Caudwell and James Barnett
Readers KATHERINE PARR, MADI HEDD, JEAN TREND and HUGH DICKSON Title music by JOLYON JACKSON Producer MARGARET WINDHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Unknown:
P. D. James
Unknown:
Jessica Mann
Unknown:
P. D. James.
Unknown:
Ruth Rendell
Unknown:
Margaret Yorke
Unknown:
Anthony Storr
Unknown:
Dulclegray Elizabeth Ferrars
Unknown:
Heather Jeeves
Unknown:
Marghanlta Laski
Unknown:
Joyce Allingham
Unknown:
Janet Morgan
Unknown:
Sarah Caudwell
Unknown:
James Barnett
Unknown:
Readers Katherine Parr
Unknown:
Madi Iiedd
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Music By:
Jolyon Jackson
Producer:
Margaret Windham

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence addresj: 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. 5: Peter Kukla and Steve Robinson
Friends since childhood, Kukla and Robinson have brought their different skills to bear in the design and marketing of ' The Jimp '.
Marian Foster reports on a smalt British company in Sandbach, Cheshire, which produces a modern utility vehicle, using traditional coach building principles.
ProducerAnntennant BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Kukla
Unknown:
Steve Robinson
Unknown:
Marian Foster

A comedy by Peter Terson
with Sandra Clark as Jean Rennie, a lady who brings a meal to your table with her catering service.

Jean Rennie provides an immaculate meal, but when she gives service she often takes something away from your life. This happens with the Dias family, who begin by needing her food, and end by needing her.

(BBC Bristol)
(Repeated Mon 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Terson
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Jean Rennie:
Sandra Clark
Her Assistant and Sweets Chef:
Tony Robinson
Waitress (and Starters):
Kay Adshead
Mrs Dias, her client:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mr Dias:
Eric Allan
Paul, their wandering son:
Patrick Malahide

Presented by Astley Jones
Vitus Bering led an expedition of 3,000 men and one woman across Siberia 250 years ago.
His party was to explore and survey the arctic coasts; to study the wildlife and to establish the existence of the straits that now bear his name and divide Alaska from Russia. The two naturalists in the expedition, Gmelin and Steller, collected a huge quantity of plants, most unknown to science. Today many of these, still in perfect condition, are stored in a strong room, protected from fire and flood beneath
Piccadilly. This is where the story begins...

(Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)

BACK PAGE: 70

Contributors

Presenter:
Astley JonesWritten and compiled from original sources by: John Massey Stewart
Producer:
Geoffrey Sherlock

The third ot a ten-week series that looks at religious Issues and people in the news.
Heresy and Romanism Rosemary Hartill examines the background to the rise of the fundamentalist protestantism of
The Rev Ian Paisley In Ulster.
Written and produced by ERNEST REA
Series editor
JOHN NEWBURY
BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Romanism Rosemary Hartill
Unknown:
Ian Paisley
Produced By:
Ernest Rea
Unknown:
John Newbury

The Flowing Bowl
The village inn, the dear old inn ... But some disapprove of the rustics' over-indulgence. Poetry, prose and song about the joys and temptations of the tavern. Readers RAY SMITH ELIZABETH PROUD JOHN DARRAN
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Readers:
Ray Smith
Readers:
Elizabeth Proud
Readers:
John Darran
Producer:
Herbert Williams

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