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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.20* Your Letters
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys
Read By:
Laurie MacMillan
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

by JOHN LE CARRE adapted in six parts byRENE BASILICO starring with and 6: The Tribunal - and Leamas, the key witness, is in sight of his goal. Then he can finally come in from the cold.
Theme music by MAX HARRIS
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basilico
Music By:
Max Harris
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Alec Leamas:
Colin Blakely
Fielder:
David de Keyser
Karden:
Alfred Burke
Liz Gold:
Janet Maw
Mundt:
Wolf Kahler
President of the Tribunal:
Hannah Norbert
Fischer:
Norman Caro
Erich:
Guy Groen
First guard:
Peter Birch
Second guard:
Stuart Organ

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: The Monsoon with Nowhere to Rain. Stereo
2.05 History Lost and Found Australia Project Sydney Cove Adventurers The First Fleet by NANCE IRVINE Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT A teenage resource magazine for GCSE students with reports from schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Coursework and assessment; examiner phone-link; experimental design; issue for discussion; real world application; career and course opportunities. 8: Chemistry Stereo (e)

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Presented By:
Simon Mayo

In the programme where you meet the people behind the headlines, Jenni Murray talks to Georgia Brown, who was bom in the East End and rose to fame playing Nancy in the musical Oliver! in the West End and on Broadway.
Serial: Corporal Jack (7)

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Murray

by BARBARA LACEY with Arthur loves plants so much that he has married a Lily and christened his daughter Rose.
However, he still spends most of his life in his greenhouse - especially when his sister-in-law Enid comes to tea.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Lacey
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Arthur:
Peter Copley
Lily:
June Barrie
Rose:
Deborah Makepeace
Enid:
Sheila Grant

The string quartet has one of the greatest repertoires in all music. It is also a fascinating social unit, with its players condemned to working as a full-time committee of four.
Richard Baker delves into the ups and downs of the experience with the Medici String Quartet, one of the country's leading ensembles. Producer NIGEL WILKINSON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Nigel Wilkinson.

Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton link up with BBC Local Radio stations around the country for a good laugh. It's the Way They Tell 'Em 'The funniest man in the history of Cumbria' - Donald Scott is a star in Carlisle, but almost unknown in the rest of Britain. Is he a victim of regional variations in humour? Producer GLYN JONES BBC North East
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Clayton
Unknown:
Donald Scott

... a Bore?
The final inquiry conducted by Richard Anthony Baker with Rosalyn Elvin
Witnesses WOODY ALLEN
TOM LEHRER. MIKE NICHOLS
ELAINE MAY and MRS SHUFFLEWICK Adjudicator ALAN OWEN Stereo

Contributors

Conducted By:
Richard Anthony Baker
Unknown:
Rosalyn Elvin
Unknown:
Witnesses Woody Allen
Unknown:
Tom Lehrer.
Unknown:
Mike Nichols
Unknown:
Mrs Shufflewick
Unknown:
Adjudicator Alan Owen

Plants have been around much longer than human beings and we should defer to their greater expertise in organic chemistry.
DR LINDA FELLOWS , biochemist, Kew
I think people are coming to realise that green plants are Man's survival kit
PROFESSOR E.A. BELL, Director, Kew Gardens
At the turn of the century, 80 per cent of all medicines came from plants. Has 'green medicine' now been overtaken by synthetic drugs? With the views of pharmacologists, botanists and other scientists engaged in medicinal plant research. Recorded at Wellcome, Dartford; the Pharmacy Dept, London University; King's
College Hospital and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Compiled by JOHN SCOTNEY and BOB BOOTH
Reader MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES ; Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS : Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Linda Fellows
Unknown:
Kew Ithinkpeople
Unknown:
Professor E.A. Bell.
Unknown:
John Scotney
Reader:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Producer:
John Theocharis

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments regarding the programme can be phoned through tonight between 8.30 and 10. 15pm on [number removed]Free quarterly bulletin from: In Touch, London WIA 4WW
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Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White

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