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with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
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:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Editor:
Philip Harding

visits 'literary' Cornwall. Bernard Falk also takes a look at the controversial Land's End development, while Alanah Martin goes on a day trip to the Isles of Scilly.
Producer Caroline Daly

Contributors

Unknown:
Alanah Martin
Producer:
Caroline Daly

HM the Queen takes the salute on Horse Guards Parade where the First Battalion of the Welsh Guards troop their colour. The scene is described by Julian Tutt , who is joined by former Welsh Guardsman Simon Weston. Producer Peter Griffiths. Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Tutt
Unknown:
Simon Weston.
Producer:
Peter Griffiths.

with Margaret Hodge Rt Hon Richard Luce , MP
Edward Pearce and Pauline Perry. Chair Jonathan Dimbleby.
and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and Lucy Cacanas
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Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Hodge
Unknown:
Richard Luce
Unknown:
Edward Pearce
Unknown:
Pauline Perry.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers:
Anna Carragher

An occasional series of biographical plays.
Blood and Ice: a tale of the creation of Frankenstein.
Mary Wollstonecraft eloped in 1816 with her lover Percy Shelley ; they moved into a villa close to Lord Byron and, for amusement, turned to writing ghostly tales.... Written by Liz Lochhead
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Wollstonecraft
Unknown:
Percy Shelley
Written By:
Liz Lochhead

Five programmes in which skipper lain
Thomson and producer
Christopher Lowell sail to four Hebridean islands.
2: Scalpay, Harris.
The fishing industry may be ailing - but the community remains strong, bound by its faith and Gaelic culture.
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lowell

Alpha Male with lain Cuthbertson.
Brash American zoologist Tad Tucker disturbs the peace of a chimpanzee research station in Africa.
Deception, jealousy and murder are the ingredients for a movie-style thriller.
Written by Christopher Hedgethorne
Director Michael Fox. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tad Tucker
Written By:
Christopher Hedgethorne
Director:
Michael Fox.
Alec:
Lain Cuthbertson
Tad:
Michael Feast
Jean:
Susan Tracy
Nikki:
Victoria Finney
Andrew:
John Capps
Floss:
Daphne Oxenford
Bob:
Michael Boone

In the third of four programmes, the writer
John Mortimer discovers how the underdogs fare in opera, including the servants in The Marriage of Figaro and the inhabitants of Catfish
Row in Porgy and Bess.
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mortimer
Producer:
Derek Drescher.

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 and Kerry Shale
Original scripts by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman adapted by Mark Brisenden Music David Firman Producer Dirk Maggs

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Hoadly
Unknown:
Kerry Shale
Unknown:
Nat Perrin
Unknown:
Arthur Sheekman
Adapted By:
Mark Brisenden
Music:
David Firman
Producer:
Dirk Maggs
Groucho Marx/Waldorf T Flywheel.:
Michael Roberts
Chico Marx/Emmanuel Ravelli:
Frank Lazarus

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