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Tony Lewis takes the chair as Cup Final fever sweeps the country. At Wembley, Everton defend the FA Cup against
Manchester United, while at
Hampden, Celtic and Dundee
United contest the 100th Scottish Final. News, too, of England's Rugby tourists in New Zealand and of the preparations for the Monaco Grand Prix.
Producer JOANNE WATSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Lewis
Producer:
Joanne Watson

Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with help from FRANK BARRETT. SUSAN MARLING and PATRICK STODDART
Producer HELEN ROBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Frank Barrett.
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart
Producer:
Helen Robson
Editor:
Roger MacDonald

Presented by Louise Botting
The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Money Box keeps a watching brief on your money problems, including pensions, tax, social security and investment in general. Write to: Money Box
Room 4058, Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

The antidote to panel games. Another thrill-a-light-year contest in which Barry Cryer Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton struggle against this week's winner Kenny Everett
The Chairman is Humphrey Lyttelton
The pianist is COLIN SELL
The producer is USELESS
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Kenny Everett
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton

by NICK DARKE
A Cornish fisherman is tempted by hard times and the lure of easy money to fish in more troubled waters -the smuggling of illegal contraband....
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Darke
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Swiddles:
Donaw McBride
Leadwell:
Nick Brimble
Thelma:
Rowena Roberts

A portrait album of the people of a small Scottish country town in the years between VE Day in 1945 and the Coronation in 1953. Written and introduced by Robin Bell , with readings by FULTON MACKAY. EILEEN MCCALLUM MARY RIGGANS and ROBERT TROTTER Winner of the Best Feature Award-TVand Radio Industries Club of Scotland
Producer JOHN ARNOTT
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland) Stereo
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Robin Bell
Unknown:
Fulton MacKay.
Unknown:
Eileen McCallum
Unknown:
Mary Riggans
Unknown:
Robert Trotter
Producer:
John Arnott

Marjorie Lofthouse looks at this year's finalists in the Radio 4 competition.
6: Microspark Machine Tools
Walter Laver and Gary Fletcher have designed and marketed a new machine that offers large savings in the engineering industry.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The judges for the Enterprise competition are Stuart Young ,
Chairman of the BBC: Alan Stote ,
Chairman of the CBI's Smaller Firms Council; and Georgina Von Etzdorf and John Nettleton (joint winners of the 1984 award)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Lofthouse
Unknown:
Gary Fletcher
Unknown:
Stuart Young
Unknown:
Alan Stote
Unknown:
Georgina von Etzdorf
Unknown:
John Nettleton

Russell Harty and his guest Sir Harold Acton , aesthete, scholar and host to many of the most famous names of the 20th century -from Gertrude Stein to The Prince and Princess of Wales - choose pieces of music for each other as stepping-stones in a conversation that is free-ranging and sometimes surprising.
Producer LAN GARDHOUSE
Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Harty
Unknown:
Sir Harold Acton
Unknown:
Gertrude Stein

Love's Old Sweet Song by OWEN HOLDER with Mary Wimbush Jenny Funnell and Godfrey Kenton
Isabel and Olive are identical twins in their 80s. Life is serene. But when Frank, a retired doctor, comes on the scene they discover that it's not too late at 80 for love to disrupt their friendship.
GEOFFREY BRAWN (piano) Directed by IAN COTTERELL
Stereo
(Godfrey Kenton is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Jenny Funnell
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Olive/Isabel:
Mary Wimbush
Young Olive/Isabel:
Jenny Funnell
George:
Bernard Brown
Lilian:
Gwen Cherrell
Florence:
Tessa Worsley
Thomas:
Colin Starkey
Harry:
Simon Hewitt
Frank:
Godfrey Kenton

Every Easter Monday the villagers of Hallaton and Medbourne in Leicestershire go bottle-kicking on Hare Pie Bank. Phil Smith investigates this boisterous custom.
Researcher PATRICIA SCHOLES Producer JOHN LEONARD BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Smith
Unknown:
Patricia Scholes
Producer:
John Leonard

The last of five programmes. Forty years after the end of the Second World War,
Richard Mayne reports on the men who helped bring Europe out of the ruins and into the peace.
Jean Monnet
A modest Frenchman becomes the 'father of Europe'. Producer JULIAN HALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Unknown:
Jean Monnet
Producer:
Julian Hale

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