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with Tony Lewis featuring news, views and the personalities in the limelight in the sporting world.
Today in Rugby Union, a match to commemorate the completion of the National Stadium, Cardiff. Wales meet a President's xv. And Motor Racing the South African-Grand Prix at Kyalami.
Producer DAVE GORDON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Producer:
Dave Gordon

Introduced by , Bernard Falk , with help from SUSAN MARLING , ROBIN DEWHURST and PATRICK STODDART Producer
JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Robin Dewhurst
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart
Producer:
Jenny Malunson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

A new series of the antidote to panel games Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton lose to Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden Chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton At the piano COLIN SELL
This new series is recorded in super-wide track binaural Quad which is of wonderful quality, incredibly expensive and far too advanced for any listener's radio. Producer
PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm) W FEATURE: page 3
... and now, Boardo - the game none of the family wants to play

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
Paul Mayhew Archer

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

The weekly environment programme presented by Hugh Sykes
This week a report on acid rain and the latest political moves to combat its effects; and news of a campaign to clean up the water's edge.
Producer MICK WEBB
(Repeated: Tues 11.0 pm VHF)

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh Sykes
Producer:
Mick Webb

Eight programmes in which BBC correspondents investigate important current issues.
6: Keeping the Lid On Why have unions and workers acquiesced at the high level of unemployment? Why are there not daily marches and protests across the country? A survey commissioned specially for Radio News indicates that high levels of redundancy pay may be part of the answer to why unemployment is not the burning issue it might have been.
Reporter Nicholas Jones Producer ADAM RAPHAEL

Contributors

Reporter:
Nicholas Jones
Producer:
Adam Raphael

Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present.
3: Where the Early Pumpkins Blow
Charles Causley explores the singular genius of Edward Lear.
Reader HUGH DICKSON Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Causley
Reader:
Edward Lear.
Reader:
Hugh Dickson
Producer:
Fraser Steel

by CYRIL HARE dramatised for radio by JAMES PICKLES
with Benjamin Whitrow as Mr Justice Barber
Mr Justice Barber receives various threats on his life during the course of his circuit. The question is: how seriously should he take them?
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Radio By:
James Pickles
Unknown:
Benjamin Whitrow
Unknown:
Mr Justice Barber
Unknown:
Mr Justice Barber
Unknown:
Sheila Bartram.
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Sheriff/Sebald-Smith:
John Linstrum
Beamish:
Timothy Bateson
Pettigrew:
Haydn Jones
Derek Marshall:
Paul Wilce
Hilda Barber:
June Barrie
Michael/Dr Fairmile:
Michael Jenner
Mrs Habberton:
Ellen McIntosh
Insp Mallet/Martin Flack:
William Eedle
Lord Chancellor:
Conrad Phillips
Commisioner:
Rex Holdsworth
Sheila Bartram:
Moir Leslie

Are the multinationals bogeymen or benefactors? John Roberts reports on the efforts of governments to come to terms with the multinational companies that are bigger than they are and of those companies to come to terms with tomorrow's world.
Written and narrated by John Roberts

Contributors

Unknown:
John Roberts
Unknown:
John Roberts

A series of six overheard conversation pieces by ALUN OWEN with
2: Peter and Paula
with Clive Swift as Peter, Phyllida Law as Paula, Jim McManus as Jake and Moir Leslie as Emma
The casual observer would not think that Peter and Paula were brother and sister - they seem from worlds apart, but Mr Emmanuel , at the next table, is more than a casual observer and by the end of the meal he has overheard their conversation and knows a great deal more about them.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Owen
Unknown:
Clive Swift
Unknown:
Peter Phyllida Law
Unknown:
Paula Jim McManus
Unknown:
Moir Leslie
Unknown:
Mr Emmanuel
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Mr Emmanuel:
Hugh Burden

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