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Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
7.00,8,00 Today's News Read by cuve ROSLIN
7.20* Letters
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
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:
Peter Hobday
Read By:
Cuve Roslin
Unknown:
Garry Richardson
Editor:
Philip Harding

with Ned Sherrin and Carol Thatcher , Richard Jobson and Emma Freud
Additional material from NEIL SHAND Producers IAN GARDHOUSE.
JANE BERTHOUD and CHARLIE BUNCE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Richard Jobson
Unknown:
Jane Berthoud
Unknown:
Charlie Bunce

Presented by Louise Botting This week features the 1987-8 Unit Trust Investor of the Year Award. As stock markets have not fully recovered from last
October's crash, it's been hard for competitors not to show a loss. However, a few inspired choices mean that the final result will be extremely tight.
The winner receives an antique money box and the Chairman of the Unit Trust Association is on hand to hear the winning formula.

Contributors

Presented By:
Louise Botting

A rummage through a bran tub of topical humour with Alan Coren , Richard Ingrams and Barry Took in the Chair. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and producer BILL DARE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
John Langdon

Chris Patten , mp, John Hume , mp Harold McCusker , mp and Clare Short , mp tackle the issues raised by an audience in Northern Ireland Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Patten
Unknown:
John Hume
Unknown:
Harold McCusker
Unknown:
Clare Short
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby

Introduced by Penelope Lively. Do children need encyclopedias? Nicholas Tucker , lecturer in Psychology at Sussex
University, and Mary Worrall from Oxford University Press discuss the future of reference books for children.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Penelope Lively.
Unknown:
Nicholas Tucker
Unknown:
Mary Worrall

by Steve Hayes-Pollard
with Sean Barrett as Wang We Li and Burt Kwouk as the Master Worker
It is 1978 in an American University, and Mr Wang from the People's Republic of China finds he has to 'bend with the wind' just as he did in the cultural revolution.
Stereo

and at 3.55
Once In A Lifetime
A tale with a moral by Sean Moffatt
with Joe Taylor as Philip
When he gets out of bed, just before noon, Philip has 23 pence. By lunchtime he has earned half-a-million pounds. When he goes to bed at midnight, he has just 23 pence. What did Philip have for lunch?
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

Contributors

Writings:
On The Wall
Writer:
Steve Hayes-Pollard
Director:
Janet Whitaker
Wang We Li:
Sean Barrett
The Master Worker:
Burt Kwouk
James:
Peter Craze
Doug:
Ron Berglas
Feng Jiliang:
Richard Rees
Lu Jing Mei:
Veronica Needa
Jian Ping:
Lydia Kan
Other parts played by:
Christopher Scott
Other parts played by:
Ian Targett
Other parts played by:
Ken Cumberlidge
Once:
In A Lifetime
Writer:
Sean Moffatt
Director:
Jeremy Howe
Philip:
Joe Taylor
Maud:
Helen Montague
Voice:
Kevin Flood
Taxi driver:
Joe Savino
Dublin's fair citizens:
John Hewitt
Dublin's fair citizens:
Paddy Scully
Dublin's fair citizens:
Pauline McLynn
Dublin's fair citizens:
Margaret D'Arcy

by Kate Penning
with Sophie Thompson as Holly, Graham Crowden as Uncle Desmond, Rosemary Leach as Mary and Geoffrey Matthews as Gerald.
Holly is a young 'girl-fox' who is too curious for her own good. By strange circumstances she finds herself in the human world with its voracious appetite for food and sex. It is Uncle Desmond who finally brings out the fox in her.
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Kate Penning
Music:
David Chilton
Music:
Nick Russell Payter
Director:
Janet Whitaker
Holly:
Sophie Thompson
Uncle Desmond:
Graham Crowden
Mary:
Rosemary Leach
Gerald:
Geoffrey Matthews
Father fox:
Richard Tate
Fox boy:
Ben Robb
Gina:
Abigail Docherty
Caroline:
Tikka Viker-Bloss
Simon as a boy:
Henry Power
Simon as a teenager:
Ian Michie
Mrs Stranks:
Barbara Atkinson

The Saturday Feature
'Look at a Morris Minor and it's smiling at you....'
'Minor drivers are rather kind people....'
'Everybody had one; the vicar had one, the vet had a Traveller, the baker, he had a van....' 'It represents the good old
British lifestyle: we don't hurry, everything is easy....'
So said owners at the 1988 National Rally. To mark 40 years of the world's self-proclaimed supreme small car, David Willmott introduces a birthday treat, complete with drivers, devotees, and its designer, the late Sir Alec Issigonis.
Producer ANDREW PARFITT. Stereo

Contributors

Introduces:
David Willmott
Unknown:
Sir Alec Issigonis.
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt.

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