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The country comes to town each year for The Royal Smithfield
Show. It's a blend of what's best in stocksmanship and what's new in farm machinery. By way of a preview, Steve Howe visits the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering. Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
(Revised re-broadcast Monday 7.20pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Howe
Producer:
Allan Wright

Presented by Cliff Morgan England's cricketers are in Perth for the Second Test against Australia, with The
Ashes at stake. Reports from the ground on the second day's play and also a look at the sporting news nearer home.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Producer:
Emily McMahon

Radio 4's travel and leisure programme presented by Bernard Falk with Susan Marling ,
Nigel Coombs and Patrick Stoddart. Producer HELEN ROBSON
For information on items in this week's programme please send sae to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Unknown:
Patrick Stoddart.
Producer:
Helen Robson

with Ned Sherrin , and the likes of Victoria Mather, Stephen Fry and Craig Charles.
Including Nigel Farrell with Farrell's Travels and the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward Additional material from
JAMES HENDRIE andIAN BROWN Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Craig Charles.
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell
Unknown:
James Hendrie
Unknown:
Ian Brown
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Producers:
Cathie Mahoney

Rookery Nook adapted by PETER KING from the novel and stage farce by BEN TRAVERS
With the confetti hardly brushed from his tail coat and his new wife nursing his new mother-in-law, Gerald Popkiss motors to Chumpton where his new sister-in-law can keep her eye on him. The question is - can he explain the beautiful, barefoot, pyjama-clad girl sleeping in his bed ...
Music composed and played by ED WELCH (piano) with RON ASPERY Directed by PETER KING. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Peter King
Unknown:
Ben Travers
Unknown:
Gerald Popkiss
Piano:
Ed Welch
Directed By:
Peter King.
Gerald Popkiss:
Ian Lavender
Clive Popkiss:
Brett Usher
Gertrude Twine:
Anne Jameson
Harold Twine:
John Grillo
Mrs Leverett:
Elizabeth Bell
Putz:
Carl Duering
Conrad the dog:
Percy Edwards
Clara Popkiss:
Helena Breck
RhodaMarley:
Melinda Walker
Poppy Dickey:
Jenny Funnell
Chumpton villager:
David Garth
Rector:
Colin Starkey
Baby:
Thomas King

Four programmes looking at film versions of famous novels 2: Rebecca
A celebrated dream taking us, and the heroine, back to Manderley, is the shared beginning of both
Alfred Hitchcock 's film of Rebecca and Daphne du Maurier's novel. But what follows is entirely different. Christopher Cook considers these differences, with soundtrack illustrations and readings from the book by Joanna David.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Hitchcock
Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Book By:
Joanna David.
Producer:
Wendy Clay

by LUDVIG HOLBERG (1684-1754) freely adapted by HECTOR MACMILLAN from the translation by OSCAR JAMES CAMPBELL with 'Your Lordship has had a commotion in the blood which has set the brain in such a whirl that your Lordship imagines himself to be a peasant ... Have the musicians play the music he most likes to hear.'
Music by ROBERT PETTIGREW and ROBERT HANDLEIGH
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ludvig Holberg
Adapted By:
Hector MacMillan
Translation By:
Oscar James Campbell
Music By:
Robert Pettigrew
Music By:
Robert Handleigh
Directed By:
Stewart Conn
Jeppe:
John Shedden
Nille, his wife:
Maureen Beattie
Widow Shoemaker:
Anne Downie
Baron Nilus:
David McKail
Factor:
Derekanders
Secretary:
Ralph Riach
Valet:
Michael MacCallum
Senior doctor:
James Cairncross
Junior doctor:
James MacPherson

Deep and Crisp and Even by PETER TURNBULL , abridged in six parts by ANDREW SIMPSON Read by Bill Paterson 4: The Fifth Murder
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Turnbull
Read By:
Bill Paterson
Producer:
Pamela Howe.

The third of six programmes in which a team of specialist reporters 'sound out' the religious and moral implications of major current issues.
Researcher AMANDA HANCOX Producer EDWARD LUCAS
Series editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH

Contributors

Unknown:
Amanda Hancox
Producer:
Edward Lucas
Editor:
Beverley McAinsh

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