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The magazine which goes to the shopfloor and boardrooms across the country where work is done and decisions are taken affecting the wealth of the nation.
This week Peter Hobday finds out how Corby is surviving five years after the British Steel
Corporation announced huge redundancies.
Producer ROSALIND BEW
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I Spy a Stranger by JEAN RHYS Read by Peggy Ann Wood
Was Laura a suspicious character just because she'd lived in Europe before the war?
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We all have queries, quibbles and quandaries which we mean to resolve but which always lie unanswered at the back of our minds.
Let Neil Landor , together with his specialist experts and the help of the BBC
Reference Library sort out the answers.
Questions, on a postcard please, to Enquire Within, Broadcasting House, London WIA 4WW
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John Howard with more consumer information and Les Cottington with his weekly guide to food prices.

A four-part series 3:The Giblets
Some squashy segments are prodded by Dr Rob Buckman who lectures to students at Middlesex
Hospital Medical School with the help of singing nurse Jaime Adams. Producer ALAN NIXON
(First broadcast on R2)

Presenter Sir Robin Day with voices and topics in and behind the headlines

Introduced by Sue MacGregor including
Only Women Bleed: SALLY FELDMAN explores the myths, morals and manners of the menstrual cycle.
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Shakespeare on$5 a Day by DOUGLAS KENNEDY Visiting American academics usually arrive in Dublin with intense enthusiasm and a set of skeletal keys to
Finnegans Wake ... not so Bradshaw, whose main reason for accepting his present post was to meet alimony payments to his ex-wife in Florida, and whose social mobility among the female students cuts no ice with his new employers.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland

Journey of a Lifetime LYNN TEN KATE'S diary of an overland drive to Sri Lanka with her husband and 11-year-old daughter. 3: Iran - In the Persian House of Strength

This week, Anthony Grey and Noel Barber tell
Hunter Davies what life was like as a foreign correspondent and how their experiences abroad inspired them as writers of fiction.
Also in the programme,
Alan Coren puts his own personal stamp on a few of his favourite novels. Producer ANGELA HIND

The Leopard (4)

with Robert Williams and Susannah Simons

with LAURIE MACMILLANE including Financial Report

(Repeated: Fri 1.40pm)
Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham

Jeremy Siepmann looks forward to the music in tonight's concert.

leader PAN HON LEE conducted by Sir Charles Groves
Paul Crossley (piano) direct from the Free
Trade Hall, Manchester Part 1
Brahms Tragic Overture Tippett Piano Concerto

A chance to air your views on some of the subjects raised in last week's Any Questions? Introduced by David Jacobs
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol

Part 2 Dvorak
Symphony No 9 (From the New World)
BBC Manchester

Christopher Frayling presents tonight's edition, including interviews, news and reviews of films, books, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Producer KEVIN JACKSON

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