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with Geoff Watts
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
The Immortal by PAT BORAN. Read by Kevin Flood.
There can be no doubt that
Martin Drennan was indeed old - in fact, well past the 110 mark. Not many, however, could tolerate his claim that he could clearly recall the sunny afternoon of the battle of Waterloo....
Producer JEREMY HOWE BBC Northern Ireland
New Every Morning, page 93; The royal banners forward go (BBC HB 91); Hide not thou thy face (Farrant); Mark 14, vv 12-26; My song is love unknown (BBC HB 84) Stereo
The last of three programmes. The Reckoning
WANTED: young screenwriting talent with endless capacity for dreaming up foul deeds in familiar places. Only committed cineastes need apply ...
David McGUlivray clocks on at the film factory - and finds more than he bargained for. Producer WILL CANTOPHER
investigates your complaints and provides help, advice, news and information about your day-to-day concerns.
Presented by John Waite.
A musical panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON.
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE Producer PETE ATKIN Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Mrs Speckle Stereo (R)
2.05 History Lost and Found China Project The Peasants' Revolt by TONY COULT. China in the 3rd Century, bc Stereo (R) (e)
2.25 Mainstream GCSE Presented by SIMON MAYO and SUSIE GRANT.
10: Modern Languages. Stereo (e)
From high kicks to high drama - actress Shirley MacLaine talks with Ruth Wishart about her new film Madame Sousatzka.
Serial: Driving in the Dark (4)
David Crystal , using a nasal twang, a husky voice, a creaky tone, and doing some everyday things with his throat, tongue, palate and velum, says 'Don't look at me in that tone of voice'. Producer ALAN WILDING
including Financial Report
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The last of four programmes. The Cambridge Debate A team of distinguished speakers joins students at the Cambridge Union Society to debate the motion: 'This House prefers recklessness to righteousness'.
Proposing: Frederic Raphael and Alan Plater.
Opposing: Rabbi
Julia Neuberger and Willie Rushton. Chairman Brian Redhead Producer MARGARET HILL
The last in a series of five conversations.
Marjorie Lofthouse talks to violinist Nigel Kennedy about the best day of his life. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Pebble Mill (R)
News and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
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Poet Derek Walcott has written a new play, Beef, No Chicken, a variation on a ghost story in which road constructors in Trinidad find their progress thwarted by a spirit from the old life; and sculptor William Pye talks about the substance he prefers to work with - water. Presented by Christopher Cook Producer NOAH RICHLER. Stereo
Appleby at AUington (2)
A statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson , MP.
with Alexander MacLeod
This special Budget Day edition, looks at the markets' reactions and talks to leading economists about the implications for the economy.
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