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Presented by John Humphrys and Jennie Bond
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by CLIVE ROSLIN
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7 45* Thought for the Day
8 35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Jennie Bond
Unknown:
Peter Day
Read By:
Clive Roslin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

Five programmes in which Kerry Shale performs selections from WOODY allen 's three volumes of thoughts on love, sex, death and hat-blocking
2: Death Knocks
Nat Ackerman , 57-year-old dress-manufacturer, is about to meet his own death. So what else is new?
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Kerry Shale
Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Nat Ackerman
Producer:
David Tyler.

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Daily Service, listeners and past members of the BBC's Religious Broadcasting department are warmly invited to All Souls, Langham Place, London, to join the Dean of Westminster, THE VERY REV MICHAEL MAYNE , who leads today's service. Introit: Seek ye the Lord while he may be found
(Thalben-Ball); Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (BBC HB 17); King of Glory (Walford Davies ); Immortal, invisible (BBC HB 10) Reading: Mark 1, vv 29-39 Stereo
0 INFO: page 74

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Mayne
Unknown:
Walford Davies

A Quieter Sort of Revolution
Until the onset of the debt crisis in 1982, Mexico was hailed as a Latin American success story. Since then, growth has proved elusive and economic recession has brought in its wake demands for the liberalisation of Mexico's monolithic political system. In response, the Mexican government has launched a major programme of economic restructuring.
But can the reforms last and what are the implications for Mexico's 59-year history of government by the Institutional Revolutionary Party?
Presented by Roland Dallas Producer CAROLINE ANSTEY

Contributors

Presented By:
Roland Dallas
Producer:
Caroline Anstey

The children's book programme introduced by Penelope Lively. In the final programme of this series, Julia Eccleshare and Chris Powling review a selection of outstanding new books for children and recommend some summer reading.
Producer SALLY FELDMAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Penelope Lively.
Unknown:
Julia Eccleshare
Unknown:
Chris Powling
Producer:
Sally Feldman

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE dramatised in eight parts by DAVID SPENSER
3: In the City it came to be believed that men with their eyes open might do as well with the Great South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway as had ever been done before with speculations. However, certain members of the railway's board are uneasy.
Narrator ALAN DUDLEY
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Spenser
Narrator:
Alan Dudley
Directed By:
Graham Gauld.
LadyCarbury:
Rosalind Shanks
Sir Felix Carbury:
Stephen Rashbrook
Roger Carbury:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Melmotte:
David March
Mme Melmotte:
Dian Olsson
Marie Melmotte:
Emily Richard
Adolphus Longstaffe:
Steve Hodson
Georgiana Longstaffe:
Caroline Gruber
Paul Montague:
John Levitt
Mrs Hurtle:
Jane Knowles
Lord Nidderdale:
Andrew Branch
Lord Alfred Grendall:
Michael Deacon
Miles Grendall:
Richard Pearce
Lord Grasslough:
John Baddeley
Mr Broune:
John Samson
Mr Alf:
Peter Craze
Didon:
Anne Rosenfeld
Daniel Ruggles:
Peter Tuddenham
John Crumb:
Spencer Banks

A series of six conversations between Cliff Morgan and guests invited to talk about the people who have influenced them greatly.
4: Hugh Mcllvanney - award-winning sports journalist of the Observer.
'Sport', he says, 'is a wonderful metaphor for the great issues of life, but it isn't one of them.' Reflective, combative, humorous, acerbic, he is, above all, renowned for the detailed elegance of his style and a sustained capacity for original insight. Bom in Kilmarnock, and much-travelled around the globe, he has formed a special attachment to the contrasting thrills of boxing and racing.
After a lifetime spent observing the world of sport and the vicarious heroism it bestows upon individuals, are there enduring heroes that he cherishes?
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Morgan
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

Presented by Hugh Sykes and Gordon Clough
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.20 Wimbledon Report
5.25* PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 50-5. 55

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh Sykes
Presented By:
Gordon Clough

The weekend starts here with Barry Norman.
Mike Dicken is on his phone with the Code Cracker clues: 'It should be a piece of cake to find me this week. I'm in Brighton and if you peer to the East you shouldn't have to wait long. Anyway there'll be another one along in a minute.' This week's Code Cracker symbol: <-. X - 1
Producer CAROLINE DALY

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman.
Unknown:
Mike Dicken
Producer:
Caroline Daly

Rabbi Julia Neuberger Robin Cook , mp
Teresa Gorman , mp, and Graham Dowson , industrialist, tackle the issues raised in Axminster, Devon.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm) Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC. Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Neuberger
Unknown:
Robin Cook
Unknown:
Teresa Gorman
Unknown:
Graham Dowson
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Carole Stone

Makers of the law, legal practitioners and those who serve the administration of justice all contribute to this topical weekly magazine about issues thrown up by the courts and by Parliament.
Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Presented By:
John Eidinow
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

A Common Language? Four of the world's most distinguished writers, Joseph Brodsky , Seamus Heaney ,
Les Murray and Derek Walcott , were among many well-known authors from all over the world who gathered for a conference on 'Literature as Celebration' in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, last week.
All four are poets who write in English, though none is British - Heaney's an Irishman, Murray Australian, Walcott St Lucian and Brodsky, born in Russia, now lives in America. Together they discuss with Michael Schmidt their impulse to write poetry, their feelings for the English language and topics raised at the conference. Producer JULIAN MAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Brodsky
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Unknown:
Derek Walcott
Unknown:
Walcott St Lucian
Unknown:
Michael Schmidt

Sharper than a journalist's pen: swift satire from seven days of news with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace and Kerry Shale
Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON. JOHN O'FARRELL PETER HICKEY , BILL MATTHEWS ROBERT LINFORD , MAX HANDLEY GED PARSONS , DAVID BADDIEL
ROB NEWMAN. ALISON RENSHAW
SIMON BULUVANT , MARK BRISENDEN PAUL B. DAVIES , BARRY ATKINS MICHAEL DINES and others Producer LISSA EVANS Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Written By:
Mike Coleman
Written By:
Mark Burton.
Written By:
John O'Farrell
Written By:
Peter Hickey
Unknown:
Bill Matthews
Unknown:
Robert Linford
Unknown:
Max Handley
Unknown:
Ged Parsons
Unknown:
David Baddiel
Unknown:
Rob Newman.
Unknown:
Alison Renshaw
Unknown:
Simon Buluvant
Unknown:
Mark Brisenden
Unknown:
Paul B. Davies
Unknown:
Barry Atkins

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