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Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday
6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Peter Day
Read By:
Charlotte Green
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Is the present moratorium on commercial whaling working? In the run-up to the annual meeting of the International
Whaling Commission, Fergus Keeling talks with whale biologists and asks if whales are now safe from over-exploitation or whether they have new dangers to face. He also finds out where whale-watchers can see whales and dolphins around the British Isles.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
(Re broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Talks:
Fergus Keeling
Producer:
Michael Bright

5.A.S.Neill
A S. Neill, world-famous educationist and founder of Summerhill, the most admired of all progressive schools. His belief in freedom and self-government for children has had a profound effect on teaching throughout the world. Presented by Hugh Sykes Researcher MIKE WOOLF
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (R)

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh Sykes
Unknown:
Mike Woolf
Producer:
Gaynor Shutte

Bruce Sandison talks of fishing, wildlife and history with Christopher Lowell.
4: Fionn Loch, Sutherland
The Viking's 'Southland' is a rugged comer of Scotland with high hills, remote lochs and turbulent rivers.
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Talks:
Bruce Sandison
Unknown:
Christopher Lowell.

devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Antonia Fraser and Denis Norden
In the Chair Michael O'Donnell Questions compiled by PETER MOORE Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Michael O'Donnell
Unknown:
Peter Moore
Producer:
Pete Atkin.

Introduced by Sonia Beesley
Clara Hale is 82 years old and for the past 20 years has been caring for babies - the new-born babies of drug-addicted mothers in New York's Harlem. Sue
Woodman visits her and her young charges.
Serial: No More than Human (6)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sonia Beesley
Introduced By:
Clara Hale

We Who Serve by HELEN KLUGER with special appearances by Virginia Wade and Bill Threlfall
You want to succeed in the tough world of women's tennis? Go West. Following this advice four British girls take on the American Circuit. Of the four,
Daisy looks strongest, but at the Louis Pompano Safety Razor Tournament things start to go wrong. Will Gina strike back?
Will Sally's injury let her down? And what about Claire?
Director JEREMY MORTIMER
(In association with Tight Assets Theatre Co) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Kluger
Unknown:
Virginia Wade
Unknown:
Bill Threlfall
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Daisy Otter:
Christine Kavanagh
Gina Shepherd:
Tessa Peake-Jones
Claire Mason:
Gllllan Bevan
Sally Knowles:
Helen Kluger
Rosemary Knowles:
Jennifer Piercey
Alma Turnbright:
Diana Olsson
Mike Tulley:
Paul Gregory
Louis Pompano:
Alan Dudley
Umpire:
Dayid Goodland

Presented by Susan Hill
This week traveller and novelist Bruce Chatwin ventures deep into the Australian outback and the Aboriginal mind, and comes up with the real meaning of the 'walkabout'.
Producer JUUAN HALE
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Presented By:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
Bruce Chatwin
Producer:
Juuan Hale

An eight-part series presented by the BBC Middle East
Correspondent Gerald Butt. 3: The Eastern Mediterranean The borders of present-day
Jordan, Syria and Lebanon were drawn up by Britain and France after the First World War. Each has had territory occupied by neighbouring Israel. How are the kingdom with the longest-serving head of state in the Arab world, the republic which sees itself as the main confrontation state in the region and the country torn apart by civil war, facing up to statehood and the existence of Israel?
Producer ALAN WILDING (e)
Book. same title. £7.95 from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Butt.
Producer:
Alan Wilding

The Roaring 20s was the time of the Charleston, high-stepping parties, whirlwind romances.... but then came the great Wall Street crash, and Bing Crosby sang 'Brother can you spare a dime?' AL BOWLY and DAN DONOVAN are among the singers, and the poets include DOROTHY PARKER. AUDEN and MACNIECE
With RAY SMITH. MARILYN LE CONTE JOHNDARRANandCHRISTINEPARKES. Compiled and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Dan Donovan
Unknown:
Dorothy Parker.
Unknown:
Ray Smith.
Unknown:
Marilyn Le Conte
Produced By:
Herbert Williams

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