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Presented by John Humphrys and Jennie Bond
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport
With JOHN INVERDALE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Jennie Bond
Read By:
Simon Vance
Unknown:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Philip Harding

Plenty of Olympic hopefuls are on show this weekend with swimming at Leeds, show jumping at Hickstead and yachting at Cowes. Meanwhile, at Wembley, the SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS and the MIAMI DOLPHINS limber up for their American football game tomorrow.
Cliff Morgan catches up with all the sporting news and views. Producer CHARLES RUNCLE

Contributors

Producer:
Charles Runcle

A quiz about politics.
Team captains Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Great Grimsby, and Julian Critchley , Tory member for Aldershot, pit their political wits against each other in the game that proves a week to be a long time in politics. Their guests this week are Janet Fookes , mp, and John Biffen , mp.
In the Chair Patrick Hannan Producer RICHARD THOMAS BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Critchley
Unknown:
Janet Fookes
Unknown:
John Biffen
Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Producer:
Richard Thomas

A reflected history in seven reels Reel 5: Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat!
'I wanted to be American. I wanted to be powerful, which means safe, because I was helpless and naked and alone; and I wanted to be rich, because money meant everything to an immigrant kid.'
EI LA KAZAN, film director
With the opinions of Philip Jenkinson and Kevin Brownlow and the voices of JAMES CAGNEY. ELIA KAZAN
JAMES DEAN. MARLON BRANDO GENE KELLY and STUBBY KAYE Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS
Script and narration by CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Directed by JOHN POWELL. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Jenkinson
Unknown:
Kevin Brownlow
Unknown:
James Cagney.
Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Directed By:
John Powell.

A chance to hear again (at a civilised hour) Radio 4's successful comedy based on audience suggestions.
Regulars John Sessions and Stephen Fry are joined this week by Lenny Henry and Dawn French as they battle their way through a succession of improvisation games.
Chairman Clive Anderson holds the whole thing together. COLIN SELL (piano)
Devised and compiled by MARK LEVESON and producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Fry
Unknown:
Lenny Henry
Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Unknown:
Mark Leveson
Producer:
Dan Patterson.

casts an analytical eye over the way we live now, seeking out the currents of thought and behaviour that influence us, 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

Peter Ibbetson by GEORGE DU MAURIER dramatised by DAVID BUCK with and From the fatal act of his youth, Peter Ibbetson finds that his life is over. Yet at the same time he learns to live a new life. one in which all his most intense romantic hopes are fulfilled.
Other parts played by members of the cast
Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ibbetson
Unknown:
George du Maurier
Dramatised By:
David Buck
Unknown:
Peter Ibbetson
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Mary Duchess of Towers:
Cherie Lunghi
Peter Ibbetson:
Timothy Bentinck
Old Peter:
Laurence Payne
Warden/Lord Cray:
Paul Gregory
Madge Plunkett/Mrs Deane:
Joan Matheson
Mme Pasquier/Lady Cray:
Diana Olsson
Young Peter:
Matthew Francis
Mme Seraskier:
Angela Barlow
Lady Soames:
Angela Barlow
Young Mary:
Gemma Field
Monsieur Le Major:
John Samson
Sir Ralph:
John Samson
Colonel Ibbetson:
Norman Bird
Lintot:
Michael Tudor Barnes

A series of 12 programmes.
Conceived in Sweden, born in 1946. the Light Programme's request show catered for the needs of women at home. With the help of archive material Russell Davies and Maureen Lipman tell of those times.
8: Turmoil and Enterprise - 1952 Compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Maureen Lipman
Unknown:
Russell Davies
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore

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