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6 30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
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With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
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Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Garry Richardson

visits Oxfordshire, where members of the Eynsham Horticultural Society put their queries to
Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBCManchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Written by GRAHAM HARVEY
BBC Pebbk Mill

Contributors

Written By:
Graham Harvey
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Kenton Archer:
Graeme Kirk
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard Derrington
David Archer:
Timothy Bentinck
Ruth Archer:
Felicity Finch
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
DS Barry:
David Vann
Matthew Thorogood:
Crawford Logan
Robert Snell:
Graham Blockey
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd
Mrs Walker:
Gillian Goodman

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Crackers and the Duchess Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Presented by JO WHILEY. Producer NICK WARE. Stereo (e) Phone [number removed] (free), lines open from 2.15-3.15pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Jo Whiley.
Producer:
Nick Ware.

A short story by SHUSAKO ENDO dramatised by PENNY LEICESTER . With
Obsessed by the persecution of 17th-century Japanese
Catholics and conscious of his own failings as a Catholic,
Suguro visits Mount Unzen, where 300 years earlier, Christians were tortured and killed.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo

Contributors

Story By:
Shusako Endo
Dramatised By:
Penny Leicester
Directed By:
Matthew Walters
Suguro:
Paul Shelley
Ishida:
Andrew MacLachlan
Courier:
Caroline Gruber
Kichijiro:
Danny Schiller
Fr Francisco:
Steven Harrold
Jesuit:
Peter Craze
Monica:
Joan Matheson
Peasant/Guard:
Michael Deacon

The second of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with the poet and occasional playwright Carol Ann Duffy about her life and work. Reader UN SAGOVSKY.
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Talks:
George MacBeth
Unknown:
Carol Ann Duffy
Producer:
Alec Reid.

As Ronald Reagan prepares to leave the White House,
Helen Boaden reports on the future direction of New Right politics in the United States, and its message for
President-Elect Bush. Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Reagan
Unknown:
Helen Boaden
Producer:
Vicky Whitfield
Editor:
Gerry Northam

Rediscovering Gauguin
Public interest in Gauguin's life as an artistic recluse living among the natural beauties of Tahiti has often superceded the interest in his paintings. Now, in the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest collection of his works ever assembled re-examines the range of his art and his working methods.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer JUUAN MAY . Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Juuan May

Last programme in the series in which Iain Johnstone hosts the celebrity panel show. This week's panel are Dick Vosburgh, Susan George, Simon MacCorkindale and Barry Cryer.
(Stereo) (R)

Contributors

Chairman:
Iain Johnstone
Panellist:
Dick Vosburgh
Panellist:
Susan George
Panellist:
Simon MacCorkindale
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Written and researched by:
Jeremy Pascall
Written and researched by:
Phil Swern
Producer:
Andy Aliffe

A series offourprogrammes in which Christopher Nicholson explores the relationship between English landscape and literature from 1700 to the present day.
1: The Landscape GardenersIn the 18th century, gardens were designed to be read like poems, poets sat in damp grottos and meditated on life, and landowners employed peasants to pretend to be early Christian hermits. Producer NICOLA BARRANGER (First broadcast on BBC World Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Nicholson
Producer:
Nicola Barranger

In 1771 a handful of young Scots travelled to the St Ambrose
Church of Valladolid in Spain to train for the priesthood.
Since then the seminary has attracted hundreds of students, who spend seven formative years in exile.
Reevel Alderson traces the Spanish connection.
Producer CAROLINE ADAM
BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Reevel Alderson
Producer:
Caroline Adam

The acclaimed director of Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan , makes his debut at the National Theatre with Fuente Ovejuna, a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega; and a new film, Pascali's Island, stars
Ben Kingsley , Charles Dance and Helen Mirren.
Presenter Christopher Bigsby Producer ANTHONY DENSELOW Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Declan Donnellan
Unknown:
Ben Kingsley
Unknown:
Charles Dance
Unknown:
Helen Mirren.
Presenter:
Christopher Bigsby
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

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