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Ned Sherrin , live studio guests and contributions from Jonathan Ross Arthur Smith and Emma Freud.
Additional material from ANDREW NICKOLDS
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
JANET LEE and CHARLIE BUNCE Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Jonathan Ross
Unknown:
Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Emma Freud.
Producers:
Ian Gardhouse
Unknown:
Janet Lee
Unknown:
Charlie Bunce

The programme that brings the modern computerised world of news and newsmaking 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) Producer ARMANDO IANNUCCI Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren.
Unknown:
Barry Took.
Unknown:
John Langdon
Producer:
Armando Iannucci

including
Baroness Blackstone
Sir John Harvey-Jones and John Redwood. MP and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with views on the issues raised in Any Questions? Producers ANNA CARRAGHER and JANE STIMPSON
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Unknown:
John Redwood.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Jane Stimpson

by STEPHEN MACDONALD. With
The gulf separating soldiers at the front from people at home proves shatteringly wide.
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland. Stereo (R)
Honest, powerful and deeply moving. THE SUNDAY TIMES

Contributors

Writer:
Stephen MacDonald.
Directed By:
Stewart Conn
Eleanor Lambert:
Maria Aitken
Simon Sherwood:
John Duttine
Robert Sutherland:
Hugh Dickson
Ian Craig:
Ewan Stewart
Dora Bates:
Susan Wooldridge

Barry Cunliffe presents the programme where the past speaks to the present. Including this week: old animosities are, once again, coming to the surface in the Balkan States. Chris Cviic , in conversation with John Miller , recalls what happened in the area in the years leading up to the First World War and wonders what can be learned from those events. Researcher FELICITY GOODALL Producers KATE MCALL and JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Unknown:
Balkan States.
Unknown:
Chris Cviic
Unknown:
John Miller
Unknown:
Felicity Goodall
Producers:
Kate McAll
Producers:
John Knight.

Three conversations in which Derek Cooper talks to folk of the Hebridean Isles.
1: John Lome Campbell and his American wife Margaret Fay Shaw on the Isle of Canna.

Contributors

Talks:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
John Lome Campbell
Unknown:
Margaret Fay Shaw

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Ronni Davis
Producer:
Michael Ember

A fantasy by Frank Baker dramatised by Brian Sibley.
With Jean Anderson as Constance Hargreaves and David Swift as Cornelius Huntley

'Creative thought creates', so maintains Cornelius Huntley. He could hardly have foreseen the consequences when his son Norman 'creates' Miss Hargreaves from thin air.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Frank Baker
Dramatised by:
Brian Sibley
Music composed and played by (piano/organ):
Dave Hewson
Music played by (violin):
Cindy Foster
Music played by (harp):
Rupert Parker
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Constance Hargreaves:
Jean Anderson
Cornelius Huntley:
David Swift
Norman Huntley:
Dale Rapley
Dorothy Huntley:
Jo Kendall
Henry Beddow:
Nicholas Gilbrook
Jim Huntley:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Dr Pepusch (a cockatoo):
Leonard Fenton
Other parts:
Anna Cropper
Other parts:
Donald Gee
Other parts:
Christopher Good
Other parts:
David Goudge
Other parts:
Joan Matheson
Other parts:
Danny Schiller
Other parts:
Simon Treves

Eight adventures of a communist football club starring Alexei Sayle. 3: The Fifth Man
Will Ricky be able to infiltrate Cambridge? With a bushy beard. a Russian accent and a fanatical opposition to the State, it should be easy.
Written by MARCUS BERKMANN and the producer
HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexei Sayle.
Written By:
Marcus Berkmann
Unknown:
Harry Thompson.
Ricky Lenin:
Alexei Sayle
Julian Frankly/Senior:
John Wells
Stevie Stalin:
Andrew McLean
Colonel:
Donald Hewlett
Frank Lee Brian:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Terry Trotsky:
Jonathan Kydd
Announcer:
John Witty

Wisdom from Arnold. philosophy from Pic and Fritz, blood and guts from Private Ward 10.
With Chris Campbell , David Charles , Emma Clarke , Judy Hawkins. Written by ARNOLD BROWN PETER KERRY. MARVIN CLOSE and others
Producer PAUL Z. JACKSON
Stereo

Contributors

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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