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Gerald Williams is on the centre spot blowing the whistle for the start of the football season; while team captain Tony Lewis Is positioned on the wing at Trent Bridge marking the ritual end of the summer - the final Test match against New Zealand
Peter Jones takes an early bath at the European Swimming
Championships in Rome. Managers DAVE GORDON and EMILY MCMAHON

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Williams
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Dave Gordon
Unknown:
Emily McMahon

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST
Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

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

Six programmes
5: The Land of the White Rajahs
. A Dyak longhouse contains as many dogs as people and in any one longhouse there may be anything from 30 to even 100 families; ... so that the noise and grunting and yelps tend to make for a somewhat disturbed night.... Reader GARARD GREEN
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

A Sepia Photograph by CHRIS HAWES
■Istoodbehindhim.I took my box Brownie and peered down into the little ground-glass square, and squared It up onto his massive shoulders and the squat head " Gotcha " I thought.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
(Repealed: Tues 11.0 am)

Contributors

Directed By:
Tony Cliff
David/Young Andrew:
Jason Littler
Andrew/His father:
John Rowe

Dead End
If the Golden Age ' of women crime writers Is past. what of the future? Has the old-fashioned thriller died, or Just changed? What do the readers want and how do the critics and publishers judge? In the final programme of the serves, Jessica Mann Investigates, with Marghanlta Laskl , P. D. James ,
Vera Hopewell. Ruth Rendell , Sarah Caudwell , Julian Symons , Janet Morgan ,
George Hardingc , Heather Jeeves , Anthony Storr and Elizabeth Ferrars Readers MADI HEDD and FRANCES JEATER Title music by JOLYON JACKSON Producer
MARGARET WINDHAU

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Mann
Unknown:
Marghanlta Laskl
Unknown:
P. D. James
Unknown:
Vera Hopewell.
Unknown:
Ruth Rendell
Unknown:
Sarah Caudwell
Unknown:
Julian Symons
Unknown:
Janet Morgan
Unknown:
George Hardingc
Unknown:
Heather Jeeves
Unknown:
Anthony Storr
Unknown:
Frances Jeater
Music By:
Jolyon Jackson
Producer:
Margaret Windhau

visits the seaside when Marlene Pease accompanies the LONDON TAXI BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION FOR WAR
DISABLED on their annual outing to Worthing, and meets a group of disabled servicemen and the Forces' Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn.
Correspondence and Enquiries: BBC
Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 om-5.0 pm) Editor MARLENE PEASE

Contributors

Unknown:
Marlene Pease
Unknown:
Dame Vera Lynn.
Editor:
Marlene Pease

The CricKet Match by HUGH DE SELINCOURT Dramatised for radio by JOHN RETALLACK
The best story about cricket or any other game that was ever written.
(J. M. BARRIE )
In the high Sussex summer of 1921, the Tillingford village cricket team meets its arch-rivals from neighbouring
Raveley. It is to be the game of the season.
Music composed and played by ROBERT PETTIGREW Directed by PATRICK RAYNER
(David Rintoul Is a National Theatre player) (Repeated: 4 Sept 2.30)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Retallack
Unknown:
J. M. Barrie
Played By:
Robert Pettigrew
Directed By:
Patrick Rayner
Directed By:
David Rintoul
Peter Cairie:
Jill Lidstone
Gauvinier:
Stephen MacDonald
Sid Smith:
Michael N. Harbour
John McLeod:
Geoffrey Matthews
Francis:
Peter Woodthorpe
Tom Hunter:
Nigel Anthony
Henry Waite:
David Rintoul
Edgar Trine:
Sean Arnold
Fred, the scorer:
David March
Dick Fanshawe:
Stephen Thorne
Sam Bird:
Roger Hammond
Liz Smith:
Theresa Streatfeild
Maria McLeod:
Madi Hedd
Ted Bannister:
Alan Dudley
Mrs Cairie:
Jane Wenham
Bill Bannock:
Eric Allan
Jim Saddler:
David Peart
Eddie White:
Michael Jenner
Jim Slater:
Peter Alexander
Raveley wicket-keeper:
Christopher Scott

Narrated by Barry Paine A great white shark can smell its prey at a quarter-of-a-mile. hear and locate it at 500 yards, see movement in the dark at 20 yards and in the last few inches, before biting. It candetectelectrical activity in a victim's muscles. But why do great whites, the largest predatory fish in the sea. seek out and attack humans? Do they see us as a threat or merely as a convenient meal?
Written and produced by MICHAEL
BRIGHT BBC
Bristol
(Repeated: Fri 11.0 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Paine

A series of religious documentaries.
The Lords Bishops
The link between the state and the Church of England is very clearly seeninthepresenceof bishops in the House of Lords. Ted Harrison investigates their role In the parliamentary process and asks whether they are an effective symbol of Christian responsibility or an expression of improper meddling in politics.
Producer ROGER HUTCHINGS Series editor
JOHN NEWBURY
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Producer:
Roger Hutchings

Nine O'Clock Bell
Sixth of a seven-part selection of words and music about the countryside. Village schools past and present....
Readers SION PROBERT and ELIZABETH PROUD
Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Readers:
Sion Probert
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Produced By:
Herbert Williams

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