Producer PAUL WALTERS
And why not?
Producers BRIAN STEPHENS and GRAHAM PASS
While the Scot's away Joe Brown will play.... your requests and dedications! Producer CAROLYN SMYTH
talking to the people who make the news.
Producers JOHN GURNETT and PAUL NEWMAN
Only once in 3, 000 years anything like it.
This rather extravagant claim for the programme was really used for which Biblical epic, starring Yul Brynner ?
For the answer see Friday Producer ANTHONY CHERRY
Plymouth, 19 July 1588 STOP.... First squadron Spanish galleons sighted 50 miles off Lizard STOP
... Estimated 125 vessels in total STOP.... Expected arrival off Plymouth two days STOP.... Beacons lit to mobilise the nation stop ... Lord Admiral Howard to deploy 105 ships including 19 royal warships STOP ... Rumours Drake still playing boules stop ... Suggest send down reporter John Dunn and full outside broadcast crew ENDS Researcher ROSALIND BOUVERIE Producers MADELEINE CUMING and PHIL HUGHES
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Sport and Classified Results
with Dance Band Days and at 7.30 Big Band Era Producer ROYSTON HERBERT
The big band and jazz-loving ex-Goon and well-loved national institution introduces some of the best in music from the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie With special guest
Peter King (alto sax) Producer ROBIN SEDGLEY
with the Best of Jazz on record Producer KEITH STEWART
18 July - 54 years since the opening of the Mersey Tunnel, 38 since the birth of Richard Branson - not to mention the 52nd anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War.
As Cliff Michelmore welcomes his wife, Jean Metcalfe , on to the panel, Peter Purves , Wincey Willis and Fred Harris keep a close eye on the score - and on the events of 18 July in years gone by. Written by ROB METCALFE Producer DIRK MAGGS
Chris Kelly recalls some of the most famous and star-studded evenings in Hollywood's history.
This week: 20 March 1952
An American in Paris becomes the first musical in 22 years to be named best film; Humphrey Bogart is voted best actor for John Huston 's The African
Queen; and A Streetcar Named Desire wins three of the four acting awards, including best actress for Vivien Leigh. Written and compiled by ROY PICKARD
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX
presents
Round Midnight at the Seaside In the first of four programmes from British seaside towns,
Brian visits the Spanish Hall in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. The Golden Mile, the big dipper, Blackpool rock and kiss-me-quick hats are the order of the day, as well as live music and conversation with those living in and appearing at Blackpool this summer.
Producers STELLA HANSON
RICHARD MASTERS and TERRY CARTER
presents Nightride with music and company to speed away the dark hours
A musical sequence to please the ear in the early hours
The Early Show