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Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
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
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill
Editor:
Philip Harding

Presented by Cliff Morgan
After a journey of 11,000 miles, the Olympic Flame reaches the McMahon Stadium in Calgary this afternoon, opening the XV Olympic Winter Games.
Over the next 15 days Britain's main hopes will lie in the downhill ski-ing, ice-skating and bobsleigh events.
News too from the First Test in Christchurch between ENGLAND and NEW ZEALAND. Producer GORDON TURNBULL

Contributors

Presented By:
Cliff Morgan

The holiday and travel programme presented by Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs Producer HELEN ROBSON
For details of items in this week's programme please send sae to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Susan Marling
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs
Producer:
Helen Robson

with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Robert Elms, Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE CATHIE MAHONEY and JAN ARKWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Producers:
Cathie Mahoney
Producers:
Jan Arkwright

Cyril Fletcher , Clare Francis and Peter Jones tell the stories. Tim Brooke-Taylor , you and the audience try to spot the lie. Devised by IAN MESSITER
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 6. 30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Clare Francis
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

by BRIAN GLANVILLE with and C.B. Fry was legendary -
Captain of the England cricket team and an all-round sportsman; a classical scholar and an international figure; he was offered the throne of Albania. But, behind his fascination and glamour, there lay a tormented man.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Glanville
Directed By:
Graham Gauld
C B Fry:
Martin Jarvis
Rosenbaum:
Sean Barrett
Beatie:
Diana Olsson
Ranjitsinghi:
Terry Raven
Stephen Fry:
Anthony Daniels
Sir Charles Hoare:
Laurence Payne
F E Smith:
Gordon Dulieu
P O Sharkey:
Paul Sirr
Chief officer:
William Simons
Boys:
Richard Pearce

Eritrea was federated to Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in 1952. Guerrillas have been fighting for independence for the province since 1962, first against the Emperor, then against the Dergue. The writer, Jeremy Harding , recently travelled to the war zone. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Harding

The Boys from Hibernia by MARK POWER
Spackman's experiment began as a very modest computer fraud - E300 that the insurance company should have paid anyway. But once the boys from Hibernia discovered an aptitude for free-market economics, the only money problem they had was how to get rid of the stuff.
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Manchester. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. OOpm)

Contributors

Directed By:
Robert Cooper
Spackman:
Chris Jury
Brendan:
Robert Glenister
Holly:
Carole Nimmons
Liam:
Lorcan Cranitch
Kate:
Lesley Sharp
Marlowe:
Andrew Hilton
Marco:
Michael Deacon

Where Is My Home? (1948-1968-1988)
'Some people even took more English-sounding names. But you can't pretend you don't come from another culture. Am I Czech or am I English? Am I both?'
'It's not easy to be an exile. No matter how brave you are, how well-ordered your life might seem, when difficulties come you have no safety net.' Forty years after the Communist take-over, and 20 years after the short-lived
Prague Spring, Czech exiles in London talk to Veronika Hyks about the difficulty of adapting to life in this country.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Veronika Hyks
Producer:
John Theocharis

The gripping story of one man's fight to establish Britain's first communist football club.
1: 'The art of leadership consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.' Starring with Written by MARCUS BERKMANN and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday 7.45pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Marcus Berkmann
Producer:
Harry Thompson
Ricky Lenin:
Alexei Sayle
the Colonel:
Ballard Berkeley
Frank Lee Brian:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Terry Trotsky:
Keith Allen
Stevie Stalin:
Andrew McClean
Brian Frankly:
Jerold Wells
Ray of the Rovers:
Maurice Colbourne

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