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Wimbledon 1973
The Lawn Tennis Championships direct from the All England Club
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the best of the action on the famous Centre Court and on No 1 Court.
featuring The First Round of the Men's Singles Championship
Who is the world's best tennis player? Is it still one of the contract professionals who have dominated the tennis scene for so many years, or will Ilie Nastase and Stan Smith, the stars of the 1972 Wimbledon Final, underline their tennis supremacy of last year?
Harry Carpenter provides the news, comments and all the outside court results.

and from 4.50:
Second Test: England v New Zealand
Fourth day
Further coverage including the closing overs from Lord's.
The pleasures of life Nastase: pp 60-62

Contributors

Presenter (Wimbledon):
Harry Carpenter

Introduced by Michael Reinhold and Meryl O'Keeffe

This week's programme includes:
Doctor, I'm dying aren't I?
The embarrassment that this question causes can mean that patients with terminal illnesses are pushed into the corner of a ward and ignored. But attitudes are changing. People can be helped to die gracefully and without fear, by the right approach.

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Reinhold
Presenter:
Meryl O'Keeffe
Director:
Alan Dobson
Producer:
Karl Sabbagh

Joseph Cooper as question-master invites you to match your musical wits against Joyce Grenfell, Robin Ray, Richard Baker

Contributors

Question-master:
Joseph Cooper
Panellist:
Joyce Grenfell
Panellist:
Robin Ray
Panellist:
Richard Baker
Guest musician:
Raymond Leppard
Director:
Denis Moriarty
Producer:
Walter Todds

Starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, special guests Alan Price and Georgie Fame
with Thelma Houston, Jerold Wells, John Owens
and Sue Lloyd as Blanche
The Fred Tomlinson Singers

Contributors

Writer:
Barry Cryer
Writer:
Eric Idle
Writer:
Spike Mullins
Writer:
David Nobbs
Writer:
Peter Vincent
Writer:
Gerald Wiley
Arrangements and Orchestra directed by:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Comedian:
Ronnie Barker
Comedian:
Ronnie Corbett
Singer/Musician:
Alan Price
Singer/Musician:
Georgie Fame
Singer:
Thelma Houston
[Actor]:
Jerold Wells
[Actor]:
John Owens
Blanche:
Sue Lloyd
Singers:
The Fred Tomlinson Singers

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