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Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor
6.30,7.30,8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

Six programmes in which Kerry Shale performs selections from WOODY ALLEN 'S three volumes of thoughts on love, sex, death and cone-shaped party hats. 4: The Scrolls
Several years ago a shepherd, wandering in the Gulf of Aqaba, stumbled across two clay jars containing some ancient parchment scrolls and two tickets to the ice show. Now, the translated fragments can be heard.
Producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo (Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Woody Allen
Producer:
David Tyler.

Trying Times
The legal system is under strain, with overloaded courts and increasing delays and costs. The Government is hoping to improve the workings of the courts but can it contain costs without cutting corners?
Can the legal profession cope with the changes in prospect? And can the man in the street be confident of justice he can afford?
Presenter John Eidinow Producer FRASER STEEL

Contributors

Presenter:
John Eidinow
Producer:
Fraser Steel

The first time Peter White hitch-hiked, he was only 14 and finished up in a police station - but this did not stop him travelling all over Britain in the next 15 years. In this talk he recalls some of his adventures and mishaps, such as the time he caused 300 rabbits to escape on to the road!
Producer THENA HESHEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Derek Cooper tackles the farmer, the manufacturer, the politician, the scientist, the caterer and the customer in his weekly defence of pure food at a fair price.
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
Vanessa Harrison

from Newcastle upon Tyne The hour which blends the timeless and the topical, the personal, the practical and the political. So who needs women's programmes? You do!
Serial: The Healing Art (7) Presenter Jenny Cuffe

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenny Cuffe

by ANTHONY TROLLOPE dramatised in eight parts by DAVID SPENSER
5: The arrangements have been made: Sir Felix is to run away to New York with Marie Melmotte. All his friends will give him credit for his audacity in carrying off the heiress.
Narrator ALAN DUDLEY
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
Marie Melmotte.
Narrator:
Alan Dudley
Directed By:
Graham Gauld.
Lady Carbury:
Rosalind Shanks
Sir Felix Carbury:
Stephen Rashbrook
Hetta Carbury:
Debby Cumming
Roger Carbury:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Melmotte:
David March
Marie Melmotte:
Emily Richard
Mr Longstaffe:
John Westbrook
Adolphus Longstaffe:
Steve Hodson
Georgiana Longstaffe:
Caroline Gruber
Paul Montague:
John Levitt
Mrs Hurtle:
Jane Knowles
Lord Nidderdale:
Andrew Branch
Lord Grasslough:
John Baddeley
Lord Alfred Grendall:
Michael Deacon
Miles Grendall:
Richard Pearce
Ruby Ruggles:
Christine MacKie
Mrs Pipkin:
Chrys Salt
Didon:
Anne Rosenfeld
Mr Broune:
John Samson
Policeman:
Ken Cumberlidge
Jones:
Laurence Payne
Beauchamp Beauclerk:
William Simons
Mr Squercum:
Anthony Jackson
FrBarham:
Paul Sirr
Sir Damask Monogram:
Norman Bird
Lady Monogram:
Liza Flanagan
Lord de Griffin:
Simon Cuff

The last of six conversations between Cliff Morgan and guests who are invited to talk about the people who have greatly influenced them. Today: Alistair Cooke
Broadcaster, journalist, voice of every American's Englishman and everyone's voice of America. This evening brings to Radio 4 his 2,055th Letter from
America, offered as always with the poised and intimate delivery that has made him one of the best-known voices in broadcasting history.
From Blackpool via Cambridge University, he moved to the United States, where he has lived for half a century. Jazz enthusiast, golf connoisseur, lover and master of language, he has kept a shrewd commentator's eye on events on either side of the Atlantic. 'I'm an observer' he says, 'noting the changes.' Are there heroes, in his eyes, who have withstood the test of time?
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Morgan
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

The weekend starts here with Barry Norman
Mike Dicken is on his portable phone with the Code Cracker clues: 'They'll be covering up the piano legs in Malvern this week, as they return to
Victorian times with morality in mind. I shall be where church meets Victoria.'
This week's Code Cracker symbol:*- X
Producer IRENE MALLIS
0 INFO: page 77

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
Mike Dicken
Producer:
Irene Mallis

Rosemary Hartill , the BBC's Religious Affairs correspondent, reports on the debates from this week's meeting in London of the Church of England's governing body, the General Synod. Producer AMANDA HANCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill
Producer:
Amanda Hancox

The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , mp The Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead
Joe Ashton , mp
Linda Bellos , Labour Councillor, London Borough of Lambeth tackle the issues raised in Stratford, London.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm) Send your letters to: Any Answers? BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Tebbit
Unknown:
Joe Ashton
Unknown:
Linda Bellos
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 MONCRLEFF

Contributors

Presented By:
John Eidinow
Producer:
Anthony Moncrleff

Since it opened five years ago, the National Museum of Photography. Film and Television in Bradford has doubled its number of visitors. The pioneering Photographers' Gallery in London has enlarged its premises four-fold since 1971, and the turnover of prints and attendance has also doubled over the last five years.
Photographs are also finding their way into mainstream art galleries. John Russell Taylor investigates the rise of photography and the way it has clicked with the public and the art market.
Producer MIKE GREENWOOD (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Russell Taylor
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

A satirical view of the week's news with Sally Grace
David Tate and Bill Wallis Written by MIKE COLEMAN
MARK BURTON and JOHN O'FARRELL BILL MATTHEWS. ROBERT UNFORD MAX HANDLEY. GED
PARSONS DAVID BADDIEL and ROB NEWMAN
ALISON RENSHAW. SIMON BULUVANT and MARK BRISENDEN. PAUL B. DAVIES BARRY ATKINS. MICHAEL DINES PETER HICKEY and others Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 5.25pm LW)

Contributors

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

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