Radio Diary

Press, 21 July 1986, Page 18

Radio Diary

Games preview As part of its build-up to the Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh, Radio New Zealand presents a half-hour preview by Ron Findlay, the head of sports planning and one of the team of commentators at the Games.

The programme, which can be heard on National Radio at 8.05 p.m. tomorrow, assesses the chances of the competitors from various countries in the different sports. This task should be made easier by the withdrawal of athletes from a number of African countries.

The opening ceremony will be broadcast at about 5.30 on Friday morning (Community Network) and reports and commentaries can be heard throughout the following nights.

“Do It Yourself Economics” is the title given to this year’s Reith Lectures (8.8. C. the first of which will be broadcast on the Concert Programme at 9 p.m. tomorrow.

In this thirty-eighth series of the lectures, David Henderson, head of the economics and statistics department ,at the 0.E.C.D., questions whether the economic decisions that governments make owe anything to the theories and doctrines of professional economists. Decisions, he says, often seem to depend on ideas that are highly suspect Many armchair economists will no doubt agree.

The wedding of Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson on Wednesday will be irresistible television viewing, for a large part of the population, not only Royalists. , $;. , ;

Anyone who is prepared to, or has to, make do with radio commentary of the event should tune to National Radio at 8.50 p.m. ;

The word pictures will be painted by a team of 8.8. C. and invited inter-; national commentators, 1 including Reon Murtha, of. 3ZB. : <

This broadcast will continue till midnight, with an 18-minute break for a round-up of other events of the day at 10 p.m. a

— John Hickey