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with Brian Redhead and Jon Silverman
Details as Monday plus:
7.45
Thoughtfor the Day with Prof Charles Handy
8.35
Yesterday in Parliament
8.50 Listeners' Letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Jon Silverman
Unknown:
Prof Charles

Five programmes. 4: The Duchess and Stirling Moss are tortoises -
Fergus Keeling catches up with them in Pat Evans 's Surbiton garden.
Producer John Holmes BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Stirling Moss
Unknown:
Fergus Keeling
Unknown:
Pat Evans
Producer:
John Holmes

This week Simon Bates exploits any natural rivalries between The Spectator and Tribune by quizzing them on the events from one particular year.
Written and researched by Viv Black. Producer Andrew Parfitt. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Bates
Unknown:
Viv Black.
Producer:
Andrew Parfitt.

2.05 WPFM. 8: Performance Presenter Jo Whiley. Stereo
2.35 SATIS Topics 14-16 Presenter John Gribbin Programme 9 Units: 802 Hypothermia; 806 Stress; 807 Radiation - How Much Do You Get? Stereo

Contributors

Presenter:
Jo Whiley.
Presenter:
John Gribbin

by Rhys Adrian.
With Pauline Collins Ian Richardson
Geoffrey Collins
For this production the prolific radio dramatist Rhys Adrian (1928-90) received the RAI Prize of the 1970 Prix Italia.
It tells the story of a man's relationship with his mistress.
Director John Tydeman
(First broadcast in 1969)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhys Adrian.
Unknown:
Pauline Collins
Unknown:
Ian Richardson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Dramatist:
Rhys Adrian
Director:
John Tydeman

Into the Slush Pile
The unsolicited manuscripts that heap up on publishers' doorsteps are known as the 'slush pile'.
Theatres, too, receive uncommissioned scripts. Who reads them? How much do they bother to read? And does unknown talent ever shine out from the slush?
Paul Vaughan investigates.
Producer John Goudie. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Producer:
John Goudie.

Eight studies in sedition and rebellion presented by Brian Redhead. 1: Socrates
Athens was the birthplace of democracy. But in 399BC a jury made up of the citizens of this democratic city-state sentenced
Socrates to death for speaking out. Why?
Brian Redhead explores the Athens Socrates knew and considers this most influential philosopher of the Classical world.
Consultant Dr Janet Coleman Producer Christopher Stone

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead.
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Dr Janet Coleman
Producer:
Christopher Stone

Paul Allen listens to new bands; encounters new playwrights in Newcastle's New
Writing North festival; and considers the letters and poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Producer Hamish Mykura
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Hamish Mykura

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