Cruising the Mississippi From St Louis in the Midwest, Oliver Walston rides the grain barge on its way to New Orleans and the coast.
Producer Tim Finney (R)
with James Whitbourn Stereo
with Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day: the Rev Dr David Lapsley Editor Philip Harding
with Cliff Morgan Producer Andy Gillies
with Bernard Falk and Nigel Coombs. This week in Hardy country. Producer Caroline Daly
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Eight programmes.
On the anniversary of the day Marconi filed his patent, Alan Coren and his columnists wax rhetorical on the wireless. Plus, what do world leaders really talk about at summits and what presents would the Marquis de Sade like for his 250th birthday? Producers Anne Hinds and Brian King
The Marx Brothers'
Lost Radio Shows
The classic comedy team recreated in the six-part adventures of a shady lawyer and his assistant.
With the vocal talents of Lorelei King , Graham Hoadly Original scripts by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman , adapted by Mark Brisenden
Music David Firman
Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo 0 FEATURE: page 15
Peter Riddell asks those in the State Department and on Capitol Hill if Washington is losing its influence.
Producer Anne Sloman
Producer Zareer Masani
The team Goes to Town to answer questions put by listeners in Torquay. Chair Vincent Duggleby. Panel: Louise Botting Philip Hardman
Christopher Gilchrist and Mark Boleat.
Chairman Barry Took with team captains Alan Coren and Richard Ingrams.
Producer Armando lannucci
Stereo
with Jack Dromey , Sara Parkin , David Willetts and Lord Prior from Kew, London.
Chair Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with views on the issues raised in Any Questions? Producers Mohmi Patel and Jane Stimpson
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With Alan Howard
Peter Sallis.
A respectable clinic passes infants from pregnant girls to rich infertile matrons with farcical results.
Written by Stephen Fagan Stereo
From Glen to
Ben Jeff Watson leads
Michael Scott up to dotterel and bird of prey country in the hope of seeing a golden eagle.
Producer John Harrison
John Humphrys talks to four people who have weathered major storms in their careers.
2: Audrey Slaughter
with Bill Wallis , David Tate , John Baddeley and Sally Grace
and Sports Round-Up
Omnibus edition Written by Greg Snow
Director Adrian Bean. Stereo
with Robert Robinson.
Conversation inspired by amusing or annoying episodes of the week.
Musical comments from
Dillie Keane.
Producer Michael Ember. Stereo
Seven Steps to Treason With
Michael Williams. Vietnam 1971: a moment of weakness and an act of betrayal means spymaster
William Cable 's life is spared. Austria 1985: Cable's career is in ruins.
Blackmail follows, and Cable takes the first steps to treason ...
Written by Michael Hartland Director Alec Reid. Stereo
In the first of four programmes, the writer John Mortimer introduces dramatic moments from
Don Giovanni , Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, La traviata and Der Rosenkavalier.
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo
led by the Rt Rev
Richard Harries. Stereo
John Lloyd chairs the discussion programme. Producer Gwyneth Williams
Four programmes.
David Bean takes
Robert Louis Stevenson as his guide to the waterways of Northern France.
2: War and Peace Producer Gillian Hush
with Dr Donald Hunt and Dr Watkins Shaw. Stereo
More radio ribaldry with Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach, Caroline Leddy , Paul B Davies and Patty-Jo.
Fatal Attraction
The friends shift those stubborn corpses that other plots leave behind. Producer David Tyler. Stereo
