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Tony Lewis is your host. Following the World Championships in Helsinki, this weekend sees the most important Athletics event to be staged in this country since the 1948 Olympics. Eight leading nations compete for the European Cup at Crystal Palace.
Also taking place are the European Swimming
Championships in Rome, the Benson and Hedges International Golf
Tournament at Fulford and the FA Charity Shield at Wembley -
LIVERPOOL play MANCHESTER unitedInthetraditional curtain-raiser to the football season.
Producers DAVE GORDON and EMILY MCMAHON

Contributors

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

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from
SUSAN MARLING and NIGEL COOMBS.
Passage to India
In his second look at tourism in India, PAUL
WADE goes shopping, rows up the Ganges at dawn and meets an astonishing astrologer.
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALO

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs.
Producer:
Helen Robson
Editor:
Roger MacDonalo

Anthony King continues his series of conversations with leading politicians about their lives outside politics. This morning he joins the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt lion Nigel Lawson , mp, at Number 11, Downing Street.
Producer MARGARET BUOY

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Unknown:
Nigel Lawson

Jeanlne McMullen continues her journey around the green roads of rural Britain where she learns the secrets of yoghurt-making, finds the best cattle breeds, has her fancy taken by a yardofducksandhears from people who live and work in the country.
For information sheet, send a large sae to [address removed]
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanlne McMullen

Six programmes of themes and variations from the lives of the British In South East Asia in the days of the Empire.
4: The Men Who Would Be Kings
'In 1925 1 was posted to Perak to relieve
Humphrey Berkeley. I was received by Berkeley, who was dressed, as he always was, In Malay costume. He used to drive himself In an English landau and pair.... I think he seemed to regard himself as a combination of an English squire and a Malay chief.' Narrator GARARD GREEN
Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS , BBC Radiophonlc Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Berkeley.
Music By:
Jonathan Gibbs
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Producer:
Michael Mason

Soft Impeachment by ALUN OWEN
Two elderly Anglo-Irish Protestant sisters are caught in the aspic of their better days in Dublin.
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Owen
Directed By:
Enyd Williams
Miss Phoebe:
Rachel Kempson
Miss Susan:
Pauline Jameson
Bridie:
Peggy Marshall
Sheba, the budgerigar:
Percy Edwards

Five programmes 4: The Criminal
If women who write so successfully about crime have little personal experience of it, how fair or real are their books? Are real criminals at all like the fictional ones?
Jessica Mann investigates, with Anthony Storr
Sarah Caudwell , James Barnett , Zena Scott. Archer, P. D. James Elizabeth Ferrars
Margaret Yorke and Janet Morgan
Readers MADI HEDD and FRANCES JEATER Title music by JOLYON JACKSON Producer
MARGARET WINDHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Mann
Unknown:
Anthony Storr
Unknown:
Sarah Caudwell
Unknown:
James Barnett
Unknown:
Zena Scott.
Unknown:
P. D. James
Unknown:
Elizabeth Ferrars
Unknown:
Margaret Yorke
Unknown:
Frances Jeater
Music By:
Jolyon Jackson
Producer:
Margaret Windham

The last of seven programmes.
SusanCollier and Sarah Campbell
Sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell joined forces in 1979 to become one of the most formidable partnerships in textile design. They talk to Marjorie Lofthouse. Producer JOCK GALLAGHZR BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Campbell
Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse.

by Tim Grana

August 1911. Ishi, the 'last wild Indian', startled the sleepy mid-West town of Oroville by wandering into it from the Stone Age. His entire tribe had been massacred by the white man some years earlier. Put on display in a museum, and ogled by high society, he eventually formed a friendship with the anthropologist Dr Kroeber. Although It was now safe, he refused adamantly to return to his homeland, In fear, It seemed, for more than his life...

Contributors

Musician:
Iain Kendall
Musician:
Steuart Allin
Musician:
Felix Cobbson
Director:
Alec Reid
Ishi:
Geronimo Sthm
Dr Kroeber:
Kerry Shale
Waterman:
Blain Fairman
Pope:
Don Fellows
Miller:
Toria Fuller
BatWi:
Terry O'Brien
Sheriff/Governor:
Alan Gifford
Bruff:
Robert Beatty
Good:
Bruce Boa
Kelsey:
Johnny K
Mrs Hearst:
Lynk Webster
Flint Woman:
Jame Knowles
First reporter/Loud:
James Kerry
Second reporter:
Alan Tilvern
First patient,:
Clive Panto
Second patient:
Scott Cherry
Nurse:
Hilda Schroder

Catch salmonella food poisoning and antibiotics will help to ensure that the offending bacteria are eliminated; catch chicken-pox or glandular fever and the virus stays with you for the rest of your life.
Geoff Watts examines the supreme biological cunning of these and the other, more notorious, members of the herpes family of viruses and reports on the efforts of the scientists in their bid to outwit them.
Producer ALISON RICHARDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Alison Richards

A weekly series looking at current Issues and their religious Implications. 5: Children and the Church
Sunday schools have come, and if not yet altogether gone, seem to be disappearing fast. Is there a future for a Church which does not educate its young people in the faith? Philip Crowe looks at the ways In which children take part In the life of the Church and asks whether their needs are best met in worship or In education. Producer
MICHAEL SHOESMITH Series editor JOHN NEWBURY
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Crowe

The Blazing forge
' First among the Tillage workers comes the blacksmith ...' But he's only one of the country craftsmen whose skills are celebrated in this selection of poetry, prose and song.
Readers DILYS PRICE
RAY SMITH , JOHN DARRAN Producer
HERBERT WILLIAMS
BBC Wales

Contributors

Readers:
Dilys Price
Readers:
Ray Smith
Readers:
John Darran
Producer:
Herbert Williams

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