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Welcome aboard! Cliff Michelmore launches a new summer series about boating and watersports. The Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race begins today. It gives young people the opportunity to crew some of the largest ships in the world and gain the experience of a lifetime. Cliff is at St Katharine's Dock,London.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Producer:
Caroline Elliot

7.40-8.00 with Clive Jacobs and Trevor Barnes
Producer AMANDA HANCOX Editors DAVID COOMES and BEVERLEY MCAINSH including at

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Trevor Barnes
Producer:
Amanda Hancox
Editors:
David Coomes
Unknown:
Beverley McAinsh

Serving the Family
A service of thanksgiving and challenge to mark the 220th anniversary of the work of the National Children's Home. Preacher
Viscount Tonypandy
Readings: Hosea 11, vvl-4; Mark 10, vv 13-16
Hymns: Now thank we all our God; One more step along the world I go; Lord, thy Church on earth is seeking. BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Viscount Tonypandy

visits Fulham, where members of the Fulham Palace Meadow Allotments Association put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

by MARTYN READ . With and In rural Berkshire during the Second World War, the actual fighting seems a long way away. But for a teenage girl its reality is brought closer by a series of poignant experiences of life, love and death.
With the children of TRINITY SCHOOL,
HENLEY-ON-THAMES
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martyn Read
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Spitfire:
Clare Travers-Deacon
Miss Primrose,:
Joanna David
Billy:
Richard Pearce
Arthur:
Norman Bird
Edie:
Eva Stuart
Shirley:
Zelah Clarke
Glenn:
William Hope
George:
David Learner
Pauline:
Jill Lidstone
Sgt Bailey:
Anthony Jackson
Bertha:
Polly James
Madam:
Barbara Atkinson

Stephen Fry , in company with Jill Balcon and Martin Jarvis , presents, before an audience at last year's Bewdley Festival, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose. Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
0 See David Gillard , left

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
David Gillard

Cliff Morgan ends his journey in the historic market town of King's
Lynn after enjoying visits to a reconstruction of an Iceni village, a sanctuary for sick and injured seals and a nursery which specialises in African violets.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol

Contributors

Producer:
Anthony Smith

The memoirs, in three parts, Of
DR HENRY SHINGLEWOOD TAYLOR edited by PETER HADLEY
Read by Graeme Garden. 2: House Surgeon at Guy's Hospital, 1867
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Henry Shinglewood Taylor
Edited By:
Peter Hadley
Read By:
Graeme Garden.
Producer:
Pamela Howe

by ALAN GARNER , dramatised in three episodes by DAVID WADE. Part 2
Directed by CAROLINE SMITH BBC Manchester. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Garner
Unknown:
David Wade.
Directed By:
Caroline Smith
Colin:
Steven Rendall
Susan:
Jenny Luckraft
Cadellin:
Neville Barber
Uthecar:
Cliff Howells
Albanac:
Tom Mannion
Pelis:
Ronald Herdman
Gowther:
Russell Dixon
Bess:
Judith Barker

Last autumn Nick Crane travelled secretly through Afghanistan with aid-worker Julian Gearing. This is the story, in two parts, of their adventures in this beautiful but ravaged country.
1: Mountain with Deadly Butterflies
Producer SIMON ELMES Stereo
0 See panel, right

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Crane

Four clergy are asked where they find Jesus in Britain's inner-cities. 1: The Place of Passion
Fr Austin Smith, a priest of the Order of Passion, finds the realities of living in Toxteth a challenge to the Church's very foundations.
Producer NORMAN winter BBC Manchester. Stereo

4.00 Education Matters The last in the series in which Susan Marling explores the changing world of education. Producer CLARE CSONKA
4.30 Sport in Question Tennis player Anne Hobbs. Frank Dick. Director of Coaching, BAAB, and Graham Kelly , Chief Executive of the Football Association, respond to questions on topical sporting issues raised by an invited audience at the Maltings Arts Centre, St Albans. Chair Tom McNab
5.00 The Roads to Munich Six programmes in which Michael Barber looks at British attitudes between the wars.
1: 'Never Again ' - the Legacy of 1914-18 Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS (R)
5.30 Telling it How it Was An eight-part guide to collecting oral history presented by Steve Humphries. 3: Family Life (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Producer:
Clare Csonka
Unknown:
Anne Hobbs.
Unknown:
Frank Dick.
Unknown:
Graham Kelly
Unknown:
St Albans.
Unknown:
Tom McNab
Unknown:
Michael Barber
Producer:
Gordon Hutchings
Presented By:
Steve Humphries.

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