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Presented by John Humphrys and Chris Lowe
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Clay Jones calls on the expert knowledge of Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward to answer listeners' gardening queries sent in by post. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Plant lists and topical tips from ■Gardeners' Question Time are displayed on Ceefax page 287.
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Gardeners Question Time, BBC. POBox27, Manchester M601SJ.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Producer:
Diana Stenson

From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions, with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library.
This week: A Cup of Tea Leaves Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, on postcards only please, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London WIA 4WW

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars.
This week: James Mason The 'wicked man' you love to hate.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Walker
Unknown:
James Mason
Producer:
Wendy Clay

1.55 Listening Corner WENDY CRAIG reads Noisy Natalie and the Baby. Stereo
2.05 Wavelength Plus 16-19s The radio magazine on post-16 education and training, plus social issues and politics; plus personal problems; plus participation; plus presenters LAURA PENN. TERRY CHRISTIAN, MURIEL GRAY ; plus news; plus Open College; plus telephone referral service. Producer LYN CHAMPION (e) Ring Free/one [number removed] between
7.00 and 8. 00pm or during the programme, for information on courses, chances and opportunities.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Craig
Unknown:
Muriel Gray

Introduced by Jenni Murray Right On?
With the arrival of the take-away pizza, the micro-chip and modern household appliances, women's days of domestic slavery are over. So say one group of new Conservative women - the libertarian feminists. As Jenny Cuffe discovers, they believe it's new industries, not new legislation, which hold the key to women's liberation.
Serial: Prenez Garde (7)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Jenny Cuffe

Lost Tune from Rangoon by HUGH JENKINS
Paul, today a distinguished statesman, looks back to the turbulent years immediately after the last war when he found himself in Burma, caught up personally in that country's dramatic struggle for independence.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Jenkins
Directed By:
David Johnston
Paul, the Narrator:
Hugh Jenkins
the young Paul:
Stuart Organ
Aung San:
David Yip
Sylvia:
Natasha Pyne
Clement Attlee:
Manning Wilson
Tom Driberg,:
Simon Cuff
Miles Jeffrey:
Paul Gregory
Colonel Smythe:
Michael Deacon
Adjutant MICHAEL:
Tudor Barnes
Chi Tun:
Tariq Alibai

Mackerras's Version
Michael Oliver profiles Sir Charles Mackerras , a musician who specialises in 'seeking out the great works of unusual composers'. Particularly known for his research into the works of Handel and Janacek, last night he conducted the first performance of a new production of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers for
English National Opera. Producer JOHN BOUNDY

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Sir Charles MacKerras
Producer:
John Boundy

In the last of eight programmes about the great days of music-making in British watering-places, Fritz Spiegl gathers together some of the loose ends, both historical and anecdotal. Reader JOHN WESTBROOK Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Reader:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Life After Debt
Mexico's announcement, in 1982, that it couldn't keep up with its international debts triggered a crisis: the inability of debtor countries to repay their bank loans seemed to threaten the collapse of the world financial order. Five years later, it's still standing, though the volume of debt is greater than ever. On the eve of the annual meetings of the World Bank and the IMF, Peter Oppenheimer asks what kind of threat the debt problem poses now - and whether it can go on indefinitely.
Producer FRASER STEEL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 11.00am LW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Oppenheimer
Producer:
Fraser Steel

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