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Join Melvyn Bragg and guests for a special edition from Salts Mill, Bradford. Research Tony Phillips Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo
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'Start the Week - Bradford' to: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Unknown:
Marina Salandy-Brown

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests. Readers
David Goodland and Judith Pearson.
Guest Adrian Henri. Producer Susan Roberts BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Rae
Introduces:
Judith Pearson.
Unknown:
Adrian Henri.
Producer:
Susan Roberts

Today is the May Day Holiday, and sadly many people will spend a large part of it stuck in traffic jams around the country. But can anything be done to ease the overcrowding on Britain's roads? Are extra toll-motorways the answer? Can people be persuaded out of cars and on to public transport? In part one of a special series on UK transport policy, the You and Yours team looks at the current problems and possible solutions. With John Howard. Producer Ian Gilvear

Contributors

Unknown:
John Howard.
Producer:
Ian Gilvear

A nationwide general knowledge contest with Robert Robinson in the chair.
First round - the Midlands and East Anglia. Christopher Wardle (archaeologist)
Hadrian Jeffs (carer) Simon Welch
(assistant bank manager) Derek Andrews (schoolmaster).
Including 'Beat the Brains' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Devised by John P Wynn Questions Ian Gillies
Producer Richard Edis
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Christopher Wardle
Unknown:
Hadrian Jeffs
Unknown:
Simon Welch
Unknown:
Derek Andrews
Producer:
Richard Edis

What's on the menu this afternoon? In medieval times it could have been red herrings, beavers' tails and hurtilberye cheesecake. Presenter Jenni Murray. Story: Showing the Flag by Jane Gardam.
Reader Trevor Nichols. Editor Clare Selerie-Grey
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Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray.
Reader:
Jane Gardam.
Reader:
Trevor Nichols.
Editor:
Clare Selerie-Grey
Unknown:
Jenni Murray

Costa-Gavras has often chosen subjects in the eye of the political storm as in Z and Missing.
His new film, The Music Box, deals with a family crisis as a father is accused of war crimes in Hungary. Sarah Dunant talks to the distinguished French director.
Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Sarah Dunant

Seed by Colin Haydn Evans. May, aged 88, knows that seeds are the source of life, but does the ministry know this? It has given the exclusive rights to a few multinationals to manufacture the herbicides and pesticides that destroy life.
Music by the South
Shropshire Morris Men
Director Shaun MacLoughlin BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Haydn Evans.
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Alan:
Michael Kitchen
Clare:
Elizabeth Mansfield
May:
Mary Wimbush
Liz:
Janet Dale
Norman/Pollard:
William Eedle
Jane:
June Barrie
Atwell:
Eric Allen

in Hong Kong
Since last year's shocking events in Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong's artistic community have found ways to express their feelings about the massacre, and the future of the colony after the handover of power to China in 1997. Tony Rayns reports.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Rayns
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Four programmes. 1: Culture
David Jason steps boldly into Lord Clark's shoes, assisted by Stephen Moore , Sheila Steafel , David Tate and John Owen Edwards and his musicians.
Script Colin Bostock-Smith Andy Hamilton , Barry Pilton Alistair Beaton , Roger Woddis Producer Geoffrey Perkins Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Assisted By:
Stephen Moore
Assisted By:
Sheila Steafel
Assisted By:
David Tate
Assisted By:
John Owen Edwards
Script:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Script:
Andy Hamilton
Script:
Barry Pilton
Script:
Alistair Beaton
Script:
Roger Woddis
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

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