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Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
7,00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COL VILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
With JOHNSTON MCKAY
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hobday
Presented By:
Chris Lowe
Read By:
Eugene Fraser
Unknown:
Johnston McKay
Editor:
Philip Harding

Presented by Bernard Falk with travel expert Nigel Coombs. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF For details of items in this week 's programme please send sae to:
[address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Bernard Falk
Unknown:
Nigel Coombs.
Producer:
Jenny Mallinson

with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Stephen Fry , Carol Thatcher and Emma Freud.
Plus more of Victor Lewis Smith 's slices from a York ham. Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Additional additional material from PAUL SPARKS
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
CATHIE MAHONEY , JAN ARKWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Emma Freud.
Unknown:
Victor Lewis Smith
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Cathie Mahoney
Unknown:
Jan Arkwright

Seven days' world new poked, shuffled, twisted and wiggled by Private Eye's
Richard Ingrams , the Listener's
Alan Coren , ITN's Trevor McDonald , and the Prime Minister's very own Carol Thatcher. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 6.3Opm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Trevor McDonald
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher.
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Harry Thompson

casts an analytical eye across the way we live now, seeks out the currents of thought and behaviour that influence us in getting and spending, and shows that there is more to design and style than meets the eye.
Presented by Sarah Dunant Producer JANICE HADLOW

Contributors

Presented By:
Sarah Dunant
Producer:
Janice Hadlow

by SAM JACOBS
The story of a family over the 40 years of Israel's history, set in the Kibbutz Farran, 1947-88. With and Hebrew adviser DANIELLE COHEN
Special effects by MALCOLM CLARKE (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Jacobs
Unknown:
Danielle Cohen
Unknown:
Malcolm Clarke
Directed By:
Piers Plowright
Zahara:
Lila Kaye
Miriam:
Miriam Karlin

Four conversations in which Jenny Cuffe talks to men and women who, by choice or circumstance, find themselves outside the world to which they once belonged. 1: Sally Trench
When she was 16 Sally Trench left her comfortable middle-class home to join the dossers on London's bomb sites. Today her life still revolves around society's drop-outs.

Contributors

Talks:
Jenny Cuffe
Unknown:
Sally Trench

The Girl of My Best Friend by CHRISTOPHER REASON with and When Jules finds a pile of old photographs and a letter in her husband's desk drawer, she unlocks a tragic past which has haunted their troubled marriage.
Directed by CLIVE BRILL BBC Manchester. Stereo
(Re.broadcast on Monday at 3. 00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Reason
Directed By:
Clive Brill
Mark:
Russell Dixon
Benny:
Michael Maloney
Mel:
Emma Chambers
Jules:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Fiona:
Jane Hazlegrove
Mrs White/Station announcer:
Maureen Morris

I Haunt the Sunny Streets
Colin Style presents the poetry of Zimbabwe and shows how it has been affected by the country's stormy history. Readers LEO AYLEN and JOHN MATSHIKIZA Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Readers:
Leo Aylen
Readers:
John Matshikiza
Producer:
Alec Reid

In a series of six programmes
David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow , who in 1837 began the uphill and dangerous task of selling Protestant bibles in Catholic Spain. 1: Madrid
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
David Bean
Unknown:
George Borrow
Producer:
Gillian Hush

Another stroll through the rolling hills and verdant pastures of Stephen Fry 's head. Striding along manfully in shorts and sandals are Hugh Laurie and Jim Broadbent , while trailing a long way behind and whining is this week's guest Alison Steadman. Written by STEPHEN FRY
Additional material by IAN BROWN and JAMES HENDRIE
Producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Hugh Laurie
Unknown:
Jim Broadbent
Unknown:
Alison Steadman.
Written By:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Ian Brown
Unknown:
James Hendrie
Producer:
Dan Patterson.

Following in the footsteps of such silver-penned satirists as Swift, Dryden, W. S. Gilbert , Thackeray and Freddie Mercury of Queen, the Live on Arrival team bring you half an hour of swingeing socio-political satire and some jokes about haddock.... live! Starring Hugh Dennis
Flip Webster , Steve Punt and Guy Jackson
Songs and music by GUY JACKSON Written by STEVE PUNT with additional material by HUGH DENNIS GUY JACKSON. FLIP WEBSTER and DAVID TYLER
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
W. S. Gilbert
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Flip Webster
Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Guy Jackson
Music By:
Guy Jackson
Written By:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Guy Jackson.
Unknown:
Flip Webster
Unknown:
David Tyler
Producer:
David Tyler.

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