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Presented by Jenni Murray and John Humphrys
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
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 MARTIN WAINWRIGHT
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY

Contributors

Presented By:
Jenni Murray
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan
Unknown:
Charles Colvile
Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill
Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Editor:
Jenny Abramsky

Presented by Cliff Morgan
It's Cup Final day, and all roads lead to Wembley. (Alternative arrangements have been made north of the Border: all roads will lead to Hampden.)
In the Antipodes they're getting ready for the inaugural Rugby Union World Cup.
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel. With Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF For details of items in this week's programme please send sae to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson

unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles , Carol Thatcher , Emma Freud and Jonathan Ross.
Plus the Victor Lewis Smith Look at Life
Additional material by AUSTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross.
Unknown:
Victor Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Cathie Mahoney

Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo
Tim Rice and Kenneth Williams try to stop each other talking for just a minute on subjects flung at them by Nicholas Parsons Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 6. 30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

If I Ever Get on My Feet Again by ELAINE FEINSTEIN
When Susan puts on a record by her favourite blues singer she gets a surprise: Bessie Smith , large as life (and that is very large) materialises in the sitting room to teach her a few lessons. Directed by PENNY GOLD . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Feinstein
Unknown:
Bessie Smith
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Bessie:
Carmen Munroe
Susan:
Frances Barber

by Steve Gallagher.

Gary Kingston is just a name on a file until he suddenly appears to be involved in a series of frightening murders.
(Stereo) (Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Steve Gallagher
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Gary:
Shaun Prendergast
Michael:
Mick Ford
Wendy:
Tessa Worsley
Cabbie/Superintendent:
Stephen Thorne
Anna:
Helena Breck
Michelle:
Sue Broomfield
Tramp:
Brian Haines
Trevor/First PC:
Andrew Branch
Johnny/Sgt Piper:
Steven Harrold
Det Insp Reid:
Christian Rodska
Jed/Second PC:
Stephen Hattersley
Caroline Tate/First WPC:
Susie Brann
Sheila/Second WPC:
Julie Berry
Willis:
Alan Dudley

The Music of Poetry
Roger McGough introduces some fresh approaches to the tradition of setting poetry to music. Extracts include works by established and avant-garde modern poets from Betjeman to James Berry , Adrian Henri and John Cooper Clarke. Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
James Berry
Unknown:
Adrian Henri
Unknown:
John Cooper Clarke.
Producer:
Anne Hinds

Novelist Joseph Hone revisits scenes of his youth.
The first of eight programmes.
France: Meeting with the Master How a young Irishman lands a job in the movies after a brief encounter with Eric von Stroheim.
Producer JOY HATWOOD

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Hone
Unknown:
Eric von Stroheim.

by MORAY HUNTER
The first of six episodes with Morwenna Banks, Robin Driscoll, Robert Glenister, Hugh Laurie, Clive Mantle and Rory Bremner.

1992: the face of British politics is about to change as the party representing the loony right and centre sweeps to power, disrupting for ever the very normal, very predictable, very sitcom lives of the actors living in Microcosm. 'Vote Party Party - for want of anything better to vote for'.

Producer JAMIE RIX
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Morwenna Banks
Unknown:
Robin Driscoll
Unknown:
Robert Glenister
Unknown:
Hugh Laurie
Unknown:
Clive Mantle
Unknown:
Rory Bremner
Producer:
Jamie Rix

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