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Presented by Tony Adamson
Live cricket this morning as England's cricketers have now moved on to Pakistan. TONY LEWIS reports from Karachi on progress of play on the second day of the First Test.
England's Rugby Union players are in Paris for the match against France and the Scots play Ireland in Dublin.
Plus the stories and off-beat moments in the world of sport.
Producer DAVE GORDON

Contributors

Presented By:
Tony Adamson
Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Producer:
Dave Gordon

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING and ROBIN DEWHURST. taking a critical look at the holiday 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

Presenter Louise Botting Latest news from the world of personal finance, covering mortgages, pensions, tax, insurance, and a look at some of your particular money problems.
Address: Money Box,
Room 4058, Broadcasting
House, London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Botting

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 John Wells
Oliver Pritchett and Ann Leslie
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Oliver Pritchett
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Jennie Campbell
Producer:
Jennie Campbell

The Purple Suit by ROBERT MCFARLANE
'Just because I was one of the gang, I got lumbered with Isa. A couple of evenings later, in the doorway of a disused church halfway up the street - she ambushed me. From a nearby open window Frankie Laine was singing....'
Directed by STEWART CONN

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McFarlane
Unknown:
Frankie Laine
Directed By:
Stewart Conn
Mark:
Jonathan Watson
Isa:
Kirsty Miller
Tiger:
Ray Dunsire
Gus:
Steven Whinnery
Mrs Diamond:
Anne Downie

Tips and techniques to help you save time and money if you do-it-yourself from
Tony Wilkins Lynn Davis
Jack Widgery in response to questions from members of the Clwyd/Flint Federation of Women's Institutes at
Bryn Coch School. Mold. In the Chair
Pamela Donald
Producer ROS COPLAND Editor JIM BLACK

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Wilkins
Unknown:
Lynn Davis
Unknown:
Jack Widgery
Unknown:
Pamela Donald
Producer:
Ros Copland
Editor:
Jim Black

A new series of eight programmes by BBC correspondents investigating important current issues.

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive, unique in the UK, plans to renew 27,000 homes in Belfast alone and will spend £102 million this year, rebuilding and replacing 4,500 houses in a city shattered by 15 years of fighting. So why is this government body being attacked from both sides as 'sectarian'?
Will HE's plans change political boundaries and will they add to tension between the communities?

Contributors

Reporter:
David Capper
Producer:
Adam Raphael

with Barry Norman
What is happening in the world of computers?
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 8 from
The Chip Shop, BBC, London [Postcode removed]
(Extended repeat on Tuesday 11.0pm VHF)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

by Peter Simpkin.

Two boys from the same background grow up together and become inseparable. But something causes a split - and their lives take parallel, but very different paths.

(Repeated Monday 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Simpkin
Director:
Christopher Venning
Terry Marcus:
Ray Brooks
Mike Bull:
Billy Murray
Simon Mount:
Phillp Barnes
Trevor/Ted/Dave:
William Hope
Bull (as a boy):
Joe Sullivan
Marcus (as a boy):
John Drummond
Bull (as a youth):
Richard Huw
Marcus (as a youth):
Martin Phillips
Supt Gates:
Jon Strickland
Carol:
Kerryann White
Anita/Sue/Barmaid:
Helena Breck
Marilyn (as a girl):
Sarah Doyle
Marilyn:
Carole Boyd
Simpson:
Colin Starkey
Phil:
Russell Keith-Grant
Beaky/Doctor/Chief Supt:
Douglas Blackwell
June:
Teresa Collard
Fred/Fat man:
Gilbert Harrison

'Davis is the only community where you can go to a cocktail party and be asked how many therms you used the day before.' Even among ecology-conscious Californians Davis is regarded as an exceptional town where the American dream is pursued most successfully. There.
Margaret Horsneld discovered that energy-saving is a cult - almost every house has a solar panel and even air-conditioning is rationed voluntarily - and the environment is protected with near-fanatical zeal.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Californians Davis
Unknown:
Margaret Horsneld

A 13-part series. Narrator David Attenborough 10: A Warbler Would a Wooing Go ...
Clive Catchpole of Bedford College. London, John Krebs of Oxford University, and Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York, discuss bird song.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Clive Catchpole
Unknown:
John Krebs
Unknown:
Peter Marler

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