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Tony Lewis anticipates the third day's play in the Third Cornhill Test Match at
Headingley.
Last night, some of Britain's
Olympic athletes were in action at the Talbot Games at Crystal Palace.
And Tony Adamson has made a pilgrimage to the spiritual home of the golfing world,
St Andrews , in advance of the Open Championship.
Producer CAROUNE ELUOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Unknown:
Tony Adamson
Unknown:
St Andrews

Introduced by Susan Marling with help from PATRICK STODDART and FRANK BARRETT taking a practical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene, including What's On with ERIC TOBITT.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart
Unknown:
Frank Barrett
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Jeanine McMullen is back on the road in hot pursuit of all that's best in rural Britain.
Architecture, stock, shows, how to make it and where to buy it, who does what and how it's done - everything is covered in this programme which is essential listening for everyone who makes a small country living.
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen

Without hesitation, the least repetitious and most undeviating programme on radio with Kenneth Williams
Clement Freud , Derek Nimmo and John Baddeley In the Chair
Nicholas Parsons
Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer PETE ATKlN

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Pete Atkln

Molly Parkin , novelist; Sam Toy , chairman and managing director, Ford Motor Company Ltd;
Clive Jenkins , General Secretary, ASTMS; and Robert Adlevp from Fishguard. Dyfed

Contributors

Unknown:
Molly Parkin
Unknown:
Sam Toy
Unknown:
Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
Robert Adlevp

Philately Will Get You Nowhere
A farcical comedy by ANDREW SACHS with Barbara Mitchell and Edward Kelsey Producer
BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Comedy By:
Andrew Sachs
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
Unknown:
Betty Davies
Sid Vane:
Edward Kelsey
Wally Potter:
Bunny May
Sheena:
Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Grace Lorrimar:
Barbara Mitchell
George Henderson:
Peter Tuddenham
Froelich:
Manning Wilson
Gayton Faucit:
Gerald Cross
Veronica:
Jo Manning Wilson

David Jason provides a thorough half-hour examination free of charge in your own home. Ministering angels arrive in the shape of Sheila Steafel , MalcolmTerrisandJon Glover. Music by DAVE COOKE
Lyrics by ALiSTAm BEATON Producer JIMMY MULVILLE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Malcolmterrisandjon Glover.
Music By:
Dave Cooke
Unknown:
Alistam Beaton
Producer:
Jimmy Mulville

Six lurches round England by Ray Gosling - not quite in the wake of J. B. Priestley 's English Journey.
3: Gigantic Sooty Pigs in Chocolate Bus Country
Gosling's progress through the north west in 1983 found culture mills replacing cotton mills.... and other mills which have blown the wheels off William Blake 's chariot of fire....
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Gosling
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
William Blake
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

Tom and Rose Odley are of 'Kai' or gypsy blood. When the call became too strong, they ceased being house dwellers and went back on the road. They raised ten children in their caravan and travelled from farm to farm to earn a living.
With Tom's poems and songs to season the pot, they talk about their Romany way of life. Producer GWYN RICHARDS BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Rose Odley

Six lighthearted talks in which David Moreau recollects his largely unsuccessful attempts to come to grips with life. 3: War of Attrition
'My first experience of bacterial warfare concerned a thrusting young executive called
Trugg Lee. We were colleagues in the trenches of a giant drug company in the days when you could make a product in the kitchen sink one evening, package it in the morning, and sell it internationally the following afternoon.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Moreau
Unknown:
Trugg Lee.

The Armenian Purchase by ARNOLD YARROW
Istanbul, Easter 1932. The finances of Georgi and Leila Gashvili are in need of renewal, as they are in trouble with their sinister Turkish partners. They travel to Manchester and quickly charm Harold Seddon , an ambitious bank manager into a new and exciting financial venture. Could it all be one huge confidence trick?
Directed by DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Yarrow
Unknown:
Leila Gashvili
Unknown:
Harold Seddon
Directed By:
David Spenser
Georgi Gashvili:
Edward De Souza
Leila Gashvili:
Narissa Knights
Harold Seddon:
George Baker
Sami Bey:
David March
Grace Seddon:
Jane Wenham
Narrator/Joe:
Colin Starkey
First brother:
Clifford Norgate
Second brother/Mortensaul:
David Garth
Lord Axmuir:
Tony Mathews
Prinsepp:
Bernard Brown
French cashier/Purser:
Brett Usher
Tefler:
Clive Panto

Today's motion: The sponsorship of sport by tobacco companies should be banned
Proposer Mike Daube Opposer Peter Lawson
The two advocates each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned; and the jury votes at the beginning and end of the trial. Producer MAGGIE REDFERN

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Daube
Unknown:
Opposer Peter Lawson
Producer:
Maggie Redfern

Five readings by CYRIL HAYWOOD-JONES adapted by MICHAEL DAVIES Read by Garard Green 3: Breaking the Ice
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Haywood-Jones
Adapted By:
Michael Davies
Read By:
Garard Green
Producer:
Herbert Williams

The first in a series of three entertainments starring Sheila Steafel with monologues and songs from her one-woman shows.
Music from The Paul Maguire Quartet
Written by DAVID NOBBS , ALISTAIR BEATON , COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH , BARRY CRYER , ALAN MELVILLE , DICK VOSBURGH and SHEILA STEAFEL
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
Stereo
FEATURE: page 76

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Steafel
Unknown:
Paul Maguire
Written By:
David Nobbs
Written By:
Austaik Beaton
Written By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Written By:
Barry Cryer
Written By:
Alan Melville

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