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with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev Tom Butler
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
8.50 Listeners' Letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Tom Butler

Colin Blakemore ,
Professor of Physiology at Oxford, takes a broader view of the literary anthology and includes scientific writing as well as the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song. Readers Jill Balcon and Denys Hawthorne. Producer Kate Whitehead
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Blakemore
Unknown:
Bob Dylan
Readers:
Jill Balcon
Readers:
Denys Hawthorne.
Producer:
Kate Whitehead

Radio Goes to Town In a special two-part edition, Radio 4's award-winning daily consumer programme is broadcast from the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. The team looks at how the NHS delivers health care in a typical region and how it is likely to change under the Government's proposed reforms.
The key decision-makers explain their options and their policies, and the programme reports on the experiences of NHS consumers in the area. Presenter John Waite.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Waite.

Peter Tinniswood 's six-part series.
6: The Best Place for Them Will Father still go to the old people's home? Will William continue to write under the nom de plume 'Gerda Fortnoy '? And will Nancy at last become Winston's bit of fluff?
Director Shaun MacLoughlin Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood
Unknown:
Gerda Fortnoy
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Father:
Maurice Denham
Nancy:
Shirley Dixon
Rosie:
Liz Goulding
William:
Christian Rodska
Winston:
Bill Wallis

Tom Conti went Greek, while Zoe Wanamaker had to convert West Coast to Norfolk and Andrew Sachs reckons his Spanish had more than a touch of Japanese. Actors tell Louise Reynolds how they twist their tongues around accents.
Presenter Jenni Murray. Serial:
A Particular Place (10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Conti
Unknown:
Zoe Wanamaker
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
Unknown:
Louise Reynolds
Presenter:
Jenni Murray.

Donal, old and blind, has always thought himself free of prejudice. But a chance remark shakes his faith in himself.
Written by Bernard Kops.
Director Caroline Raphael. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Bernard Kops.
Director:
Caroline Raphael.
Donal:
James Ellis
Alan:
Winston Crooke
Beatrice:
Lise-Ann McLaughlin
Irish tramp:
Danny Schiller
Woman:
Margaret Courtney
Speaker:
Michael Graham Cox
Terry:
Paul Downing

King Arthur, Mallory's 15th-century epic, has been dramatised and staged by David Freeman into two plays of three hours apiece. Kate Saunders packs her lunchbox.
Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Freeman
Unknown:
Kate Saunders
Producer:
Sally Marmion.

Every three years Coventry restages its medieval mystery plays. Nigel Andrews experiences their power, and journeys on to York where strange Victorian characters come creepily to life.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Reach for the New Sun! In the third of five programmes marking the birth of key cultural phenomena, Nigel Fountain traces the history of The Sun.
Launched in 1964 as a Labour newspaper, it was revamped in 1969 by Rupert Murdoch.
Contributors include
Peter Rose , former Sun political correspondent, Roy Greenslade , now editor of The Daily Mirror, and journalist Paul Foot. Producer Wendy Pilmer

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Fountain
Unknown:
Rupert Murdoch.
Unknown:
Peter Rose
Unknown:
Roy Greenslade
Unknown:
Paul Foot.
Producer:
Wendy Pilmer

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More