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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News with BOB FINIGAN
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Bob Finigan
Read By:
Peter Donaldson

Written and read by Maureen Lipman abridged in seven parts by PAT MCLOUGHUN
7: You're Driving Me Crazy Producer PAT MCLOUGHLIN (Music: Adrian Williams 's 'Jubilypso')
(First broadcast in 'Woman's Hour') (Starting on Monday: 'Figures in a Bygone Landscape by Don Haworth )

Contributors

Read By:
Maureen Lipman
Unknown:
Pat McLoughun
Producer:
Pat McLoughlin
Music:
Adrian Williams
Unknown:
Don Haworth

The last of five Robb Wilton monologues by ALLEN SADDLER with Michael Williams as Robb Wilton The Bigamist
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 4.45 pm L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robb Wilton
Unknown:
Allen Saddler
Unknown:
Michael Williams
Unknown:
Robb Wilton
Producer:
Brian Miller

The Poisoned Dow '08 by DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Read by Geoffrey Beevers A bottle of poisoned port features prominently in this final story of Monty Egg - the author's 'other' detective. Producer MITCH RAPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Read By:
Geoffrey Beevers
Producer:
Mitch Raper

The Land that Comes and Goes Spurn Point is a long curved sandspit trapped between the mouth of the Humber and the North Sea. Some remark that 'there's nowt there' or it's the 'last place God made', but for Michael Clegg it's magic. BBCBristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Clegg

A series of four special programmes, in addition to the regular In Touch magazine Presented by Peter White 2: The In Touch team has designed a kitchen, now on display at the Disabled Living
Foundation in London, which is safe for use by a visually handicapped person.
Hannah Wright guides
Mary Berry round some of the 200 items on display and explains how it is possible to prepare and cook food if one has little or no sight.
Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White
Unknown:
Hannah Wright
Unknown:
Mary Berry

Introduced from Manchester by Judy Merry who meets Dr Colin Rogers , author of Tracing Missing Persons, visits the Merseyside schools' Adopt a Poet scheme and reports on the 'Tranquilliser Trap'.
Producer HELEN BOADEN BBC Manchester
Serial: Cold Heaven (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Judy Merry
Unknown:
Dr Colin Rogers

by JOSEPH CONRAD dramatised in six parts by JACEK LASKOWSKI with and 3: Revolution in Costaguana Pedro Montero has defeated the government forces and is poised to lead his troops into Sulaco. Martin sees that the time has come for action, but can he persuade Gould to use his silver to bring a new South American republic to life?
Other parts played by ROBIN SUMMERS and GORDON REID Directed by JEREMY MORTIMER
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Costaguana Pedro Montero
Unknown:
Sulaco. Martin
Played By:
Robin Summers
Played By:
Gordon Reid
Directed By:
Jeremy Mortimer
Charles Gould:
John Bennett
Emily:
Susan Engel
Martin Decoud:
Nicholas Farrell
Antonia:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Nostromo:
Kenneth Cranham
Father/Don Juste:
Garard Green
Chief engineer:
Ronald Herdman
Dr Monygham:
John Rowe,
Don Pepe:
Norman Jones
Captain Mitchell:
Edward Desouza
Don Jose Avellanos:
Peter Howell
Fr Corbelan:
Richard Durden
Pedro Montero:
Struan Rodger
Giorgio Viola:
Maurice Denham
Teresa:
Pauline Letts
Bonifacio:
Shaun Prendergast
Harris:
Eric Stovell
Basilio:
David Learner

Marghanita Laski , novelist, critic
John Mortimer , qc, playwright Michael Winner , film critic, producer, director
Douglas Brooks , management consultant tackle the issues raised by the audience in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire.
Chairman John Timpson Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
John Mortimer
Unknown:
Michael Winner
Unknown:
Douglas Brooks
Unknown:
John Timpson
Producer:
Carole Stone

A series of four investigative reports
3: Food for Thought
'You are what you eat' goes the saying. If so, are we a nation of headless chickens with the giblets removed?
David Lander looks at food, and in particular an alarming new chemical additive N7Q.
Studio production by STEPHEN FRY assisted by JULIA HILLS , HARRY ENFIELD and JACK KLAFF
Dramatic reconstructions by MARK ARDEN. ROBERT BATHUKSTand FELICITY MONTAGU
Researcher TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25 pm L W)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lander
Production By:
Stephen Fry
Assisted By:
Julia Hills
Assisted By:
Harry Enfield
Assisted By:
Jack Klaff
Unknown:
Mark Arden.
Unknown:
Robert Bathukstand
Unknown:
Felicity Montagu
Unknown:
Tony Sarchet
Editor:
Paul Mayhew Archer

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