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with Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe in London and Sue MacGregor in Kiev. Including reports from the Ukraine as Margaret Thatcher 's tour of the Soviet Union takes her to the British Days in the USSR exhibitions.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Very Rev
Gilleasbuig Macmillan
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher
Editor:
Philip Harding

The Marx Brothers'
Lost Radio Shows
The classic comedy team recreated in the adventures of a shady lawyer and his assistant.
With the vocal talents of Lorelei King, Graham
Hoadly, Vincent Marzello Original scripts by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman adapted by Mark Brisenden Music David Firman
Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo

Contributors

Adapted By:
Mark Brisenden
Groucho Marx/Waldorf T Flywheel:
Michael Roberts
Chico Marx/Emmanuel Ravelli:
Frank Lazarus

Barry Took chairs the programme that looks at the computerised world of news-making with team captains Alan Coren and Ian Hislop and guests Simon Hoggart and Frances Edmonds.
Producer Armando lannucci

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Ian Hislop
Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Frances Edmonds.

This week's panel:
Rt Hon John Smith , MP, Nina Temple, Rt Hon
Michael Howard , MP, and Anthony Sampson. Chair Jonathan Dimbleby and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with views on the issues raised in Any Questions? Producers Anna Carragher and Keith Jones
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Smith
Unknown:
Michael Howard
Unknown:
Anthony Sampson.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producers:
Anna Carragher
Producers:
Keith Jones

Five programmes in which lain Thomson, skipper of the yacht Rhum, sails to four Hebridean islands with the producer
Christopher Lowell. 1: Tanera Mor in the Summer Isles was once inhabited by Gaelic-speaking crofters. Now sheep graze on the slopes in summer and fish-farm workers have taken over the houses. (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lowell.

Night Falls on the City Julia Homburg was the leading actress in Vienna and regarded by the Nazis as an artistic asset to the state. It was inconvenient that she was married to a Jew, who was also a socialist. with Danielle Allan , Mary Allen , Christopher Barritt , Nicholas Gilbrook ,
Brian Miller , Jan Newling , Danny Schiller and Jane Whittenshaw.
Written by Sarah Gainham adapted by Roderick Graham Director Jane Morgan
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Homburg
Unknown:
Danielle Allan
Unknown:
Mary Allen
Unknown:
Christopher Barritt
Unknown:
Nicholas Gilbrook
Unknown:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
Jan Newling
Unknown:
Danny Schiller
Unknown:
Jane Whittenshaw.
Written By:
Sarah Gainham
Adapted By:
Roderick Graham
Director:
Jane Morgan
Julia Homburg:
Jennifer Hilary
Hansi:
John Rye
Una:
Rhoda Lewis
Franz:
Hugh Dickson
Georgy:
Struan Rodger
Willi:
Michael Graham Cox
Hella:
Shirley Dixon
Lehmann:
David King
Nando:
Simon Treves

In the second of four programmes, writer John Mortimer looks at some of the great operatic characters, including
Carmen, Falstaff, Scarpia in Tosca, and Rosina in The Barber of.Seville and The Marriage of Figaro.
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mortimer
Producer:
Derek Drescher.

with Kit Hollerbach,
Jeremy Hardy , Paul B Davies , Caroline Leddy and Patty-Jo.
As Time Goes By
A famous line from a famous film may not amount to a hill of beans, but could be the end of a beautiful friendship ... Producer David Tyler. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Paul B Davies
Unknown:
Caroline Leddy
Producer:
David Tyler.

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