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Presented for the next three weeks by Tony Adamson
Part Three of the Five Nations Rugby Union
Championship: England meet Ireland at
Twickenham and at
Cardiff, Wales entertain France.
The Fifth Round of the FA Cup: which teams will go through to the first eight in one of the most open competitions for years?
Plus cricket, the first one-day international between New Zealand and England in Christchurch. Producer DAVE GORDON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Adamson
Producer:
Dave Gordon

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST , taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Robin Dewhurst
Unknown:
Jenny Mallinson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

The news of the last seven days examined by the people who write it, with searching questions put in a curious way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren
Stan McMurtry Peter Hillmore and Gillian Reynolds
Announcer EUGENE FRASER Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Stan McMurtry
Unknown:
Peter Hillmore
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Announcer:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Jennie Campbell
Producer:
Jennie Campbell

by Graham Holliday
with Trevor Bannister as Trevor Leybourne and Clive Panto as John Campion

Taking a driving test is usually a nerve-racking experience. Who would have thought it could be eased by a spot of marital strife?
(Repeated: Tues 11.0 am)

Contributors

Writer:
Graham Holliday
Director:
John Cardy
Trevor Leybourne:
Trevor Bannister
John Campion:
Clive Panto
Joyce:
Carole Boyd
Man in the test centre:
Michael Garner
Receptionist:
Helen Atkinson Wood

Tips and techniques to help you save time and money if you do-it-yourself from
Tony Wilkins Claudia Bloom David Holloway in response to questions from diy enthusiasts at
Tamworth Town Hall, at the invitation of the Mayor.
In the Chair
Pamela Donald
Producer ROS COPLAND Editor jim BLACK

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Wilkins
Unknown:
Claudia Bloom
Unknown:
David Holloway
Unknown:
Pamela Donald
Producer:
Ros Copland
Editor:
Jim Black

A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address:
BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Mills
Editor:
Marlene Pease

with Barry Norman
A weekly look at the new technology and its impact. Producer TREVOR TAYLOR The Chip Shop's
Takeaway service offering Basicode computer programs is broadcast at
12.23* am on Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Factsheet No 6 available from The Chip Shop, BBC, London [Postcode removed]
(Extended repeat on Tuesday 11.0 pm VHF)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

by James Douglas

Doone House in Ireland has been in the Pym family for generations, but now the damp, crumbling edifice ruled over by the impoverished and eccentric Eva Pym has become the centre of Kelly's acquisitive ambitions. The fight for Doone will be bitter and bloody...
BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: Mon 3.0pm)

Contributors

Writer:
James Douglas
Director:
Robert Cooper
Mrs Pym:
Sheila Burrell
Freddie:
Valerie Lilley
Brigid:
Catherine Gibson
Toole:
Louis Rolston
Georgina:
Doreen Hepburn
Brogan:
Denys Hawthorne
Mervyn:
Jonathan Scorr
Kelly:
Michael Duffy
Uncle George Fitzmaurice:
James Greene
The Rev Armstrong:
Anthony Finigan

in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors. Today's motion:
Public examinations at the end of compulsory education should be abolished
Proposer Tyrell Burgess Opposer Dr John Marks The two advocates will each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned and the jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial.
Producer JOHN GETGOOD (Repeated: Fri 11.0 om)

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Robertson
Producer:
John Getgood

A 13-part series Narrator
David Attenborough 8: Song Dialects
Peter Slater of Sussex
University, Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York, and Robert Payne of the University of Michigan consider local variations in bird song. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Peter Slater
Unknown:
Peter Marler
Unknown:
Robert Payne

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