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Farmers are constantly being told to produce leaner animals. But at the Rowett Research
Institute near Aberdeen, they're working on a new system which allows animals to become overfat and then to slim down before going to market. Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
(Revised re-broadcast Monday 7.20pm)

Contributors

Producer:
Allan Wright

Presented this week by David Coleman
The Formula One season has moved into overdrive.... the Portuguese Grand Prix is held tomorrow with the race for the title still wide open.
There's also a look at some of the less turbo-charged events taking place this weekend. Producer CAROUNE ELLIOT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Coleman
Producer:
Caroune Elliot

The antidote to panel games with Frank Barber, Edward Morris, Judith Brown, Simon Platt and the rest of the studio audience.
Chairman, The Man in Charge. Pianist, The man who plays the piano. Producer, The man who seems to do sod all.
(Stereo)
(Rebroadcast on Wednesday at 12.27pm)

Contributors

Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Willie Rushton
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Panellist:
Stephen Fry
Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer

unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather and Stephen Fry.
Plus Nigel Farrell 's Great Bus Journeys of Our Time, and the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
SIMON SHAW and CATHIE MAHONEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Victoria Mather
Unknown:
Stephen Fry.
Unknown:
Nigel Farrell
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Simon Shaw
Unknown:
Cathie Mahoney

starringwithand in The Married Man
'Many people have found that a couple of months negotiating gear levers in golf-club car parks can rather take the edge off romance.'
Wntten by SIMON BRETT Producer PETE ATKIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Pete Atkin
Sarah:
Prunella Scales
Eleanor:
Joan Sanderson
Russell:
Benjamin Whitrow
Clare:
Gerry Cowper

Moll by GILLY FRASER withandand
But times are hard and now he is a minicab driver and she.... well, how exactly is she going to earn the money that will keep the wolf from the door?
Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilly Fraser
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Moll:
Elizabeth Bell
Colin:
John Bennett
started as a silk-screen printer:
Colin
a beautician:
Moll

Bob Prizeman tells the story of the gallery minstrels who played in the old church bands between 1750 and 1850. Petty tyrants in matters musical, they were feared and respected by parson and people alike, who turned round to 'face the music' coming from the gallery at the back of the church. Their performances were often noisy and unwittingly irreverent. Music THE MADDING CROWD Producer STEPHEN SHIPLEY Stereo (R) revised

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Prizeman
Producer:
Stephen Shipley

by David Nathan, based on Henri Murger's "Scenes de la vie de boheme"

Bohemia is a district of Paris bordered on the north by cold, on the west by hunger, on the south by love and on the east by hope. It is a stage in artistic life, a prologue to the Academy, the hospital or the morgue.
Murger's book inspired the two operas of Puccini and Leoncavallo entitled La boheme.
Music by David Timson (piano) With Gustave Clarkson (Viola) Michael Hirst (flute)
(Stereo) (R)
(2 October: 'The Immortal Bohemian,' variations on Puccini's life and music)

Contributors

Writer:
David Nathan
Based on "Scenes de la vie de boheme" by:
Henri Murger
Music/Pianist:
David Timson
Violaist:
Gustave Clarkson
Flautist:
Michael Hirst
Director:
Ian Cotterell
Rudolf:
Clive Francis
Schaunard:
David Timson
Durand:
John Webb
Mouton:
Clive Panto
Musette:
Tina Marian
Marcel:
Christopher Scoular
Bernard:
Timothy Bateson
Colline:
Christopher Good
Waiter:
Richard Huw
Phemie:
Polly James
Benoit:
Kerry Francis
Mimi:
Miriam Margolyes
Maurice:
Giles Cole
Mariette:
Carole Boyd
Juliet:
Fiona Walker

by GWENDOLINE BUTLER abridged in six parts by GEOFFREY M. MATTHEWS
Read by Conrad Phillips
6: The Face of the Murderer
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol (Starting next Saturday: 'Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey )

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwendoline Butler
Unknown:
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Read By:
Conrad Phillips
Producer:
Pamela Howe.
Unknown:
Peter Lovesey

12: The Book as Battleground This week Brian Redhead examines the Bible's visions of the last days. Is the Book of Revelation any more than a fanatical nightmare? Do the Horsemen of the Apocalypse carry a secret message, or an obvious warning? Will a conflict take place at a battlefield called Armageddon? Why has the Bible itself become a battleground of divergent belief?
Readers GARARD GREEN and GEORGE PARSONS
Researcher MICHAEL WAKELIN Producer FRANCES GUMLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
George Parsons
Unknown:
Michael Wakelin
Producer:
Frances Gumley

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