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Most people feel well and truly accounted for, their lives summarised on birth certificate and poll tax form, credit card and driving licence. But tens of thousands are reported missing each year and hundreds of thousands are surviving 'semi-detached' from official society.
In this series of four programmes
Hugh Prysor-Jones discovers Britain's lost legions. 1: The Losers
Producer John Forsyth 0 FEATURE: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Prysor-Jones
Producer:
John Forsyth

John Humphrys talks to four people who have weathered major storms in their careers.
4: Arunbhai Patel - who poured a fortune into an unsuccessful bid to rival W H Smith.
Producer Brian King

Contributors

Talks:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Arunbhai Patel
Unknown:
H Smith.
Producer:
Brian King

2.05 Science Naturally Looking at nature. Magnifiers with Robin Robbins and Mike Howarth
2.20 Recorder Club Stage II (10) (R)
2.40 Listen! The Decide-lt-Yourself Cliffhanger (5) by Bryony Lavery. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Robbins
Unknown:
Mike Howarth
Unknown:
Bryony Lavery.

Another chance to hear John Mortimer's play that focuses on the ambiguous relationship between a lady novelist on an official visit to Moscow and her young Russian guide.
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
John Mortimer
Director:
John Tydeman
Anthea Denham:
Anna Massey
Vladimir:
Boris Isarov
Brian:
Clive Merrison
Charles:
Philip Voss
Misha:
Michael Poole
Galya:
Anna Mazzotti
[Actor]:
Peter Craze
[Actor]:
Gennady Pokrass

Nigel Forde keeps a date with 'A Woman of Substance' and top-selling novelist
Barbara Taylor Bradford ; talks to Dannie Abse about his new collection of poems, Remembrance of Crimes Past; and takes off to Brighton in pursuit of a literary gangster. Producer Abigail Appleton
9 CEEFAX: page 647 for book details

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Talks:
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Unknown:
Dannie Abse
Producer:
Abigail Appleton

Following last week's programme featuring
Constantine, the exiled King of Greece, Dr Jonathan Steinberg considers the monarchies of Greece, Denmark and Spain. He includes comment from ex-King Constantine and his cousins Prince
Charles, who witnessed his anguish, and King Juan Carlos of Spain, the last European monarch to regain his throne, and who almost lost it again after a military coup. Producer
Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jonathan Steinberg
Unknown:
Juan Carlos
Unknown:
Marina Salandy-Brown

Deutschmark iiber alles
Germany is on the fast track to monetary union. Dieter Helm explores the consequences for the rest of Europe as the continent's dominant economy heads for testing times.
Editor Caroline Anstey

Contributors

Unknown:
Dieter Helm
Editor:
Caroline Anstey

The fifth of six parts. Cupid takes Miss
Teatime and Commander
Trelawney to the bank and into deep water.
Written by Colin Watson Dramatised by Christopher Denys
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Colin Watson
Dramatised By:
Christopher Denys
Director:
Tony Cliff.
Insp Purbright:
John Rowe
Miss Teatime:
Linda Gardner
Trelawney:
John Branwell
Leaper:
Renny Krupinski
Maddox:
Peter Rylands
Chief Constable:
Geoffrey Banks
Evelyn:
Susan Sheridan
Cambridge:
Nigel Carrington
Beech:
Richard Cole

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