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Cliff Michelmore takes to the river this morning for the Henley Royal Regatta.
He meets competitors and visitors who've travelled from all over the world to be at
Britain's leading rowing event. Also, news of a Thames pleasure steamer restored to its former glory and the inflatable windsurfer.
Producer CAROLINE ELUOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Producer:
Caroline Eluot

with Trevor Barnes and Rosemary Hartill Researcher ALISON BOGLE
Producer MICHAEL WAKELIN Editor DAVID COOMES VHFIFM joins at 8.0am including at 8.0 News

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Barnes
Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill
Unknown:
Researcher Alison Bogle
Producer:
Michael Wakelin
Editor:
David Coomes

from the Christian Aid National Conference at the Hayes
Conference Centre, Swan wick, Derbyshire led by THE REV MYRA BLYTH With FR ED DE LA TORRE
Preacher THE REV MICHAEL TAYLOR (Director of Christian Aid) Readings (niv): Exodus 16, vv 1-18; John 6, vv 34-51
Hymns: Morning has broken (Praise for Today 57); Jesus Christ is waiting (lona); 0 Lord hear my prayer (Taize); Father in heaven (pft 15) BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Myra Blyth
Unknown:
Michael Taylor

Crossing the Frontier by Peter Tinniswood with Shirley Dixon as Jean, David Buck as Roy and Stephen Thorne as Richard.
Jean is 38, attractive and married. She decides to go on a cruise without her husband. On the first night out she sees a row of lights sticking straight out to sea. She feels as if she is entering a strange land with different customs, different values. As if she is becoming a different person.
Directed by Shaun Macloughlin BBC Bristol. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Tinniswood
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Jean:
Shirley Dixon
Roy:
David Buck
Richard:
Stephen Thorne
Mrs Emptage:
Gwen Cherrell
Captain:
William Eedle
Cruise director:
Christian Rodska
Keep-fit lady:
Melinda Walker
Keith Quarmby:
Bill Wallis

The Gift of the Nile
And when Augustus Caesar had taken the city, he forced Antony to put himself to death and Cleopatra to come into his power alive, but a little later she too put herself to death secretly by the bite of an asp. STRABO The last of six programmes in which Barry Cunliffe traces the development of a civilisation which flourished on the banks of the Nile - one of the greatest civilisations known to man and one which has fascinated
Europeans for hundreds of years.
6: Their Walls are Demolished and They are Gone
Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Producer:
John Knight.

with Compiled and written by RICHARD MULLEN and JAMES MUNSON Narrator Robert Powell with and SEAN BARRETT. DONALD DOUGLAS
GARARD GREEN. KATE LEE
PAULINE LETTS and HILDA SCHRODER 3: Marriage

Contributors

Written By:
Richard Mullen
Written By:
James Munson
Narrator:
Robert Powell
Narrator:
Sean Barrett.
Unknown:
Donald Douglas
Unknown:
Kate Lee
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Queen Victoria:
Anna Massey
Prince Albert:
Paul Daneman

A tribute to Hermione Gingold who died in May
Compiled by ALAN HAYDOCK 1: Beginnings
In this series of six programmes one of the great entertainers of our time talks about herself in conversations recorded in her New York apartment, with recordings of some of her performances in a long and distinguished career. (R)

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