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2.05pm Science Naturally Looking at Nature Wood for the Job with Timmy Mallett and Robin Robbins
2.20pm Junior Dance 10: Clowns Written and presented by Rosamund Shreeves (R)
2.40-3.00pm Listen! Return to Badlidrempt (10) by DEREK FARMER (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Timmy Mallett
Unknown:
Robin Robbins
Presented By:
Rosamund Shreeves

by John Peacock.
With Julie Covington as Yvette.

One hundred years ago, when the Moulin Rouge opened in Montmarte, a performer's career was made if they secured a poster from Toulouse Lautrec. This is the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.
(Stereo)
See panel, left.

Contributors

Writer:
John Peacock
Music:
Stephen Warbeck
Director:
Jane Morgan
Yvette:
Julie Covington
Albine Guilbert:
Pauline Letts
Zidler:
Norman Jones
Oller:
Carlos Douglas
Leon:
Simon Treves
Maxine:
Valerie Sarruf
Louise Weber:
Frances Barber
Jean Lorrain:
John Moffatt
[Actress]:
Alice Arnold
[Actress]:
Sue Broomfield
[Actor]:
John Bull
[Actor]:
Michael Graham Cox

Nigel Forde 's weekly foray between the covers includes Love
Life, a collection of short stories by American writer Bobbie Ann
Mason; an investigation into 'coffee-table books'; and a selection of the best biographies of 1989 by Brenda Maddox.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Bobbie Ann
Unknown:
Brenda Maddox.
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

Peter Jones ,
Derek Nimmo , Paul Merton and Richard Murdoch join Nicholas Parsons. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer EDWARD TAYLOR Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons.
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Edward Taylor

It is 50 years since Flora Thompson 's Lark Rise was published, depicting life in the Oxfordshire village of Juniper Hill. Chris Nicholson has been to the village to see what has changed. Reader
MARGARET COURTENAY. Producer DAVID PERRY

Contributors

Unknown:
Flora Thompson
Unknown:
Lark Rise
Unknown:
Juniper Hill.
Unknown:
Chris Nicholson
Reader:
Margaret Courtenay.
Producer:
David Perry

A Holy Row
The dream of unity with Rome, arguments over women priests, and the relationship with the State have brought into question the future of the Church of England. John Eidinow investigates.
Producer JULIAN BROWN Editor CAROLINE ANSTEY

Contributors

Producer:
Julian Brown
Editor:
Caroline Anstey

Dennis Potter directs his adaptation of Black Eyes for BBC2; in Stephen Poliakoffs new play for the RSC,
Michael Pennington plays a disillusioned inventor. Presenter
Paul Vaughan.
Producer NOAH RICHLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Potter
Unknown:
Stephen Poliakoffs
Unknown:
Michael Pennington
Unknown:
Paul Vaughan.

by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised in six parts by MICHELENE WANDOR With . and 6: The Seagull Flies
Rockingham is dead. The French pirate awaits execution. Again Dona risks everything for the man she loves ...
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne du Maurier
Unknown:
Michelene Wandor
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Dona St Columb:
Lorna Heilbron
Jean:
Struan Rodger
William:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Norman:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Lord Godolphin:
Bird
Jim:
Vincent Brimble
Smith:
Michael Kilgarriff
Physician:
Joe Dunlop

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