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Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* Sport with GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Philip Harding

The overpriced strawberries, the ticket touts, those mid-afternoon thunderstorms.... yes Wimbledon is back for another year. But not much interest will be shown in Munich, venue for the final of the European Football
Championship. West Germany and England are favourites to start that match....
Cliff Morgan serves the weekend's sports news. Producer CHARLES RUNCIE

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Morgan
Producer:
Charles Runcie

The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk.
A variety of sunshine and sand, mountains and lakes, short breaks at home and adventures abroad. Travel expert
Nigel Coombs joins Bernard every Saturday morning to keep you in touch with the latest holiday problems and news. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF For details of items in this week 's programme, please send sae to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Bernard Falk.
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson

Last in the present series with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Stephen Fry Carol Thatcher and Emma Freud Plus more of Victor Lewis Smith 's slices from a York ham. Additional material by PETE SINCLAIR and STEVE PUNT
Additional additional material from PAUL SPARKS
Producers LAN
GARDHOUSE CATHIE MAHONEY , KENTON ALLEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
Victor Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
Gardhouse Cathie Mahoney
Unknown:
Kenton Allen

A Question of Money (1)
The Money Box team takes to the road to answer questions on personal finance put by listeners in Cheltenham.
Panel Louise Botting , Vincent Duggleby ,
Christopher Gilchrist , George Prescott and Philip Hardman
(More questions answered on Monday at 10.00am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Botting
Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby
Unknown:
Christopher Gilchrist
Unknown:
George Prescott
Unknown:
Philip Hardman

Russell Davies takes over the Chair for one week from Barry Took, who has been tied up in the basement. Meanwhile Coren and Ingrams continue their quest for perfect journalistic enlightenment and a points victory.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo (Re-broadcast Monday 6.30pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Written and compiled by:
John Langdon
Written and compiled by/Producer:
Harry Thompson

Neon is crude and garish, bright and bold. It's an attention grabber, shouting its short messages in pulsating rhythms of vibrant colours. It's the perfect visual image of the city, conjuring up pictures of seedy bars, rain washed roads and all-night drugstores.
This week's Consuming
Passions peers down those mean streets to investigate the twilight world of neon.
Presenter Sarah Dunant Producer JANICE HADLOW

Contributors

Presenter:
Sarah Dunant
Producer:
Janice Hadlow

The children's book programme introduced by Penelope Lively. In the final programme of the series, Julia Eccleshare and Chris Powling review a selection of outstanding new books for children and recommend some summer reading.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Penelope Lively.
Unknown:
Julia Eccleshare
Unknown:
Chris Powling

by ELIZABETH BAINES
Sony Radio Award winner for Rebecca for her performance
In her search for a mutually-enriching, non-sexist, communal relationship with two boys and their 'biological' mother, Rebecca shows a rare talent for self-deception. It is a trait that is both comic and destructive.
Musical director CHRIS REASON Producer ROBERT COOPER
BBC Manchester. Stereo (R) 0 HEAR THIS! page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Baines
Director:
Chris Reason
Producer:
Robert Cooper
Best Actress:
Harriet Walter
Woman:
Sally Eldridge
Children:
Steven Rendall
Children:
Lee Quarmby

by GRAHAM GREENE dramatised by ELIZABETH TROOP Sony Radio Award winner for Best Dramatisation With and Bored with her marriage to an American professor, an Englishwoman escapes to the Caribbean on holiday. She searches there for a romance, but is led towards a most unexpected attraction.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Dramatised By:
Elizabeth Troop
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Mary Watson:
Valerie Sarruf
Henry Hickslaughter:
Robert Beatty
Charlie Watson:
Blain Fairman
Sadie:
Sheila Grant
Jeannie:
Jennifer Piercey
Old woman:
Diana Olsson
First Jamaican waiter:
Paul Gregory
First crew-cut boy:
Paul Gregory
Second Jamaican waiter:
Steven Harrold
Second crew-cut boy:
Steven Harrold
Jamaican maid:
Victoria Carling

The Village Fete by PETER TINNISWOOD
Sony Radio Award winner for Best Original Script and Giles Cooper Award winner With
When Nancy and her brother, sister and father move to the countryside, everything goes wrong. They have a 22 per cent gas leak, they need re-wiring and re-roofing.
Nancy doesn't mind. She likes organising. But then Winston, the local poacher and handyman, takes over and invites Nancy to the village fete.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood
Unknown:
Giles Cooper
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Nancy:
Shirley Dixon
Father:
Maurice Denham
Rosie:
Liz Goulding
William:
Christian Rodska
Winston:
Bill Wallis
Mrs Godwin:
Carole Boyd
Stanley:
Ronald Herdman
Janet:
Jenniferpiercey

Tinniswood's Wimbledon
The annual All-England lawn tennis tournament is the most boring event in the sporting calendar. It is, as usual, left to the BBC and, in particular, Sir Dinsdale Pitt the Younger's department of How to Make
Programmes Jolly Interesting to try and make this fortnight of tennis a little less tedious. Peter Tinniswood and Sir Dinsdale illuminate another side to the tournament that everyone knows and loathes. With help from the special
Wimbledon sound archives,
Martin Jarvis and Liz Goulding Producer ANDREW PARFITT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dinsdale Pitt
Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Liz Goulding
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt

Asturias
Last of six programmes in which David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow , who in 1837 began selling Protestant Bibles in Catholic Spain. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
David Bean
Unknown:
George Borrow
Unknown:
Catholic Spain.
Producer:
Gillian Hush

A series of eight programmes. Conceived in Sweden, born in 1946. the Light Programme's request show catered for the needs of women at home.
With the help of material from newspaper, magazine and radio archives, Russell Davies and Julie Covington tell the tale of those times and present recordings that were requested and played in the original programmes.
3: Too Hot to Mangle -Summer 1948
Compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Julie Covington
Unknown:
Russell Davies
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore

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