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Presenters Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor

4: Beyond the Pale (R)

Swahili Ray Gosling learns that Swahili is the first language of little more than a million people in coastal Mombasa, Lamu and Zanzibar - yet it has spread throughout the African hinterland.
An adventure in African with John Kelly at York University Nasur Malik and Mohammed Adam. Producer JENNY LO (R)

Watersports and waterfowl both take advantage of a leisure area in Gloucestershire - but should the boats give way to the birds? Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm are naturally concerned. Producer HELEN ODAMS BBC Bristol

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Sue MacGregor meets Peter Moores , whose philanthropic Foundation sponsors opera recordings and supports young singers.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH

Anna Clemence Mews shares her views on mental illness. BBC Bristol

Presenter John Howard

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Presenter James Naughtie

Jenni Murray meets novelist Emma Tennant. Serial: Memento Mori(3)

by CAROLYN SALLY JONES. With and The local economy and a marriage are blighted by the cowboy mentality.
Directed by ADRIAN MOURBY BBC Wales. Stereo

Dr John Rae , ex-Headmaster of Westminster School, reveals the historical and revolutionary contents of his library. Nigel Forde rounds up the summer's cricket books, and talks to Frances Wood about
Baotown - an evocative new Chinese novel.
Producer SALLY MARMION

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Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
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The musical panel quiz 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 (R)

Natalie Wheen uncovers the life of the eccentric Victorian novelist, Marie Corelli.
Thwarted in love, she poured out her passion in her prose and became a best-selling author. Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill

The Doctors' Dilemma
The Government promises that its health service reforms will produce a better service for patients. But what are the ethical implications of practice budgets, opted-out hospitals and an internal market in health care?
Presenter Raanan Gillon Producer NICOLA MEYRICK Editor CAROLINE ANSTEY

Last summer Margaret Percy joined a group of over 100 British and Indian schoolchildren on a two-month journey up the western Himalayas.
They went on to map new territory, collect new wildlife specimens, meet remote mountain nomads, and scale a peak of 20.000 feet - before returning to Delhi to congratulations from Rajiv Gandhi.
Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN (R)

Presenter Kati Whitaker A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families with countrywide news and news on all matters of concern to them.
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Andrew Davies , writer of television's A Very
Peculiar Practice portrays the male in love in his first novel for adults. A new opera The
Plumber's Gift is also set firmly in today's sentimental quagmire.
Miles Davis blows his way onto a new record.
Presenter Natalie Wheen Producer JOHN GOUDIE Stereo

The Captain's Daughter (2)

with Richard Kershaw

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