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The first product of biotechnology has had a frosty reception.
Yet scientists say the new technology could herald a new golden age for farmers. The Farming Week investigates.
Reporter Graham Harvey. Producer TIM FINNEY BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Reporter:
Graham Harvey.
Producer:
Tim Finney

with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather and John Walters.
Additional material from ANDREW NICKOLDS
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
JANET LEE and CHARLIE BUNCE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Victoria Mather
Unknown:
John Walters.
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Janet Lee
Unknown:
Charlie Bunce

The programme that brings the modern computerised world of news and news making into your living-room.
On line and on the button, team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren. With his finger stuck firmly in the socket, chairman Barry Took.
Compiled by JOHN LANGDON
(eventually) and the producer HARRY THOMPSON
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren.
Unknown:
Barry Took.
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Harry Thompson

The Rt Hon
Kenneth Baker , mp Gordon Brown , mp
Menzies Campbell , qc, mp Sara Parkin.
Chair Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with views on the issues raised in Any Questions? Producers ANNA CARRAGHER and CHRIS BURNS
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Baker
Unknown:
Gordon Brown
Unknown:
Menzies Campbell
Unknown:
Sara Parkin.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Chris Burns

by BILL MORRISON. With and Helen's desertion of Tom has nothing to do with marital cliches: 'it's not about who slept with who, who cheated who.'
The real reason is much more frightening.
Directed by PENNY GOLD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Morrison.
Directed By:
Penny Gold
Helen:
Polly James
Tom:
Scan Barrett

Barry Cunliffe presents the programme where the past speaks to the present. Included this week: 1989 might well be dubbed the Year of the Greens, but history shows that such ideas are nothing new. Bob Waller investigates the colourful - and often controversial - inheritance of the modem Greens.
Researcher felicity GOODALL Producers KATE MCALL and JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Unknown:
Bob Waller
Producers:
Kate McAll
Producers:
John Knight.

In the last of three conversations, Jenny Cuffe talks to Ieuan Thomas , a miner from Llanelli. During the strike of 1984, he decided to face abuse from his colleagues and community and to carry on working.

Contributors

Talks:
Jenny Cuffe
Unknown:
Ieuan Thomas

What are people talking about in pubs, clubs and drawing-rooms or at high tables?
Robert Robinson takes soundings of the conversations.
Researcher CLARE DENNING Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Michael Ember

by Chris Denys.

A family gather in their new home. It's to be a fresh start for them all. And then, on the first morning, they're joined by an apparition... and he's angry.

BBC Manchester

Contributors

Writer:
Chris Denys
Director:
Tony Cliff
Victor:
John Shrapnel
Janet:
Fiona Walker
Tom:
Nigel Carrington
Lucy:
Lisa Bowerman
Mrs Wilberforce:
Lorraine Peters
Ghost:
Jack Watson
Vicar:
Simon Carter
Nurse:
Judy Holt

The Scarlett Dark Horse Clark Gable was Rhett Butler , Leslie Howard virtually owned the part of Ashley, but who would claim the prize of Scarlett O'Hara. ..?
Geoffrey M. Matthews describes Hollywood's greatest steeplechase and how Gone with the Wind eventually staggered on to the screen 50 years ago. Starring Olivia de Havilland, Ann
Rutherford, Evelyn Keyes and the technicians who helped make David
0. Selzmck's masterpiece. Producer SIMON ELMES (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clark Gable
Unknown:
Rhett Butler
Unknown:
Leslie Howard
Unknown:
Scarlett O'Hara.
Unknown:
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Unknown:
Evelyn Keyes
Producer:
Simon Elmes

An eight-part adventure of a communist football club starring Alexei Sayle. 2:
Felcherama Ricky Lenin decides to take a leaf out of his illustrious ancestor's book and put a brake on out-and-out communism.
Written by MARCUS BERKMANN and the producer
HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (R)
0 See feature, page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexei Sayle.
Unknown:
Felcherama Ricky Lenin
Written By:
Marcus Berkmann
Unknown:
Harry Thompson.
Ricky Lenin:
Alexei Sayle
Terry Trotsky:
Keith Allen
Stevie Stalin:
Andrew McLean
Frank Lee Brian:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Colonel:
Ballard Berkeley
Des Frankly:
Tony Allen
Announcer:
John Witty

Satirical comment on society.
With Arnold Brown.
Chris Campbell , David Charles , Emma Clarke and Judy Hawkins.
Written by ARNOLD BROWN. PETER KERRY , MARVIN CLOSE and others
Producer PAUL Z. JACKSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Brown.
Unknown:
Chris Campbell
Unknown:
David Charles
Unknown:
Emma Clarke
Unknown:
Judy Hawkins.
Written By:
Arnold Brown.
Written By:
Peter Kerry
Producer:
Paul Z. Jackson

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More