BBC Pebble Mill

Hope Sealy in conversation with a special guest

Presented by Peter Hobday and Jenni Murray
7.0.8.0 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25* Sport with CUFF MORGAN
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
With ROSEMARY HARTILL , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.25 The Weeklies With MICHAEL WATTS
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Presented by Cliff Morgan
There've been more than a few ripples surrounding this year's Boat Race: it only just stopped short of people walking the plank. Cliff is on hand to calm the troubled waters.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel, discovering new and exciting holidays and tackling those trips that have not lived up to expectations. Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs join the team that makes sense of the world of travel.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF For details of items in this week's programme please send sae to:
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unravelled, dangled or tied up byNedSherrin and the likes of Craig Charles , Carol Thatcher , Stephen Fry and Robert Elms
Plus the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward
Additional material by WOLFGANG PLOCKER
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

Julia Langdon , Political Editor of the London Daily News, presents a personal review of a week in parliamentary life. Producer SHEILA COOK

Producer SUE LITTEDAY

(Re-broadcast on Monday at 10.0 am)

Stereo (Details Monday at & 30 pm)

David Blunkett , David Alton , mp, Elizabeth Peacock , mp, and Roland Long ,

A series of 13 programmes
11: Dilys Powell considers the work of Ken Russell , Joseph Losey and Nicolas Roeg. Researcher KAREN WALKER
Producer DAVID PEET. BBC Wales

The Happiest Women by M. J. READ
Marjorie Dennis has been a much-neglected writer. She lives quietly with a budgerigar called Ottoune. But when, after many years, she suddenly publishes a book, she finds herself part of a strange and passionate triangle.
Directed by DAVID SPENSER Stereo (R)

Presented by Alun Lewis

You're Never Alone! Pat Wiltshire and Philip Whitfield lead
Peter France on a human safari of micro- wildlife.

with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover

With EUGENE FRASER including Sports Round-up

Music byDILLIE KEANE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER Stereo

by MRS HUMPHRY WARD dramatised by MICHELENE WANDOR
1898 - Alan Helbeck lives a solitary life in his large house in Westmoreland. His Catholic faith is the guiding force of his life, but his quiet existence is disrupted by the arrival of his sister Augustina and her stepdaughter Laura.
Directed by PAT TRUEMAN. Stereo

with Richard Baker
ProducerJUDITH ROLES . Stereo

SS-GB by LEN DEIGHTON abridged in 13 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Paul Daneman
13: Caught in the Crossfire
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

led by The Rev
Dr Kenneth Slack. Stereo

Aerial Footsteps
Just over 200 years ago, the first international flight took place across the English Channel. The two intrepid balloonists took off from Dover and arrived trouserless, but unscathed, in France to a hero's welcome. A well-trousered Anthony Smith commemorated the flight in appropriate fashion.
Producer TIM GROUT-SMITH BBC Bristol

Serious, and not so serious, poetry from the pen of Nigel Forde Producer VICTOR LEWIS SMITH (R)

by William Osborne and Richard Turner
with David Threlfall as Edward Wilson
and co-starring Pam Ferris, Jenny Luckraft, Steve Steen, Rebecca Stevens and Richard Turner

"Yes, it's all in your No 1 Nineteen Ninety-Eight. Exclusive! The names behind the Baby Burger Bar bombing - revealed. And we ask 'Gorgeous Tabatha Minx, woman or mouse?' And who is the mysterious Twang?"

BBC Manchester (Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 12.27pm)
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[Article] Threlfall looks to the future
Two years ago the Orwellian vision of the future was updated by a decade and given a searing satirical twist when former Cambridge Footlights writers William Osborne and Richard Turner looked forward to Nineteen Ninety-Four. This week their brainwashed hero Edward Wilson and his faithful home-help robot Fetcher move on to Nineteen Ninety-Eight for a new six-part series that launches Radio 4's late-night comedy hour on Saturday (11.0, followed by the new sitcom Unnatural Acts, 11.30).
Robert Lindsay played Edward in the first series but prior commitments kept him from Nineteen Ninety-Eight, and David Threlfall now takes on the mantle of the former Head of the Environment. David was the poisonous Titmuss of ITV's Paradise Postponed but he's no stranger to radio comedy. His Mancunian tones have been heard on The Fosdyke Saga and Week Ending.

A new sitcom about some people who live near each other and do lots of things
Paul decides it's time for everyone to spend an evening in Guppies - the club where the Nouveau Fiche come to sea and be sean. But soon, things start to go crazily wrong....!
Written by JEREMY HARDY, KIT HOLLERBACH and PAUL B DAVIES
With PETE SINCLAIR, STEVE PUNT, CAROLINE LEDDY, ALISON RENSHAW and JOHN MORRISH
Producer DAVID TYLER.
(Stereo)
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