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with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Professor
Charles Handy
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Charles Handy

Five programmes in which Roger Worsley accompanies the Rev
Brendan O'Malley as he continues a pilgrimage across west Wales to the ancient shrine of St David 's.
2: Holy Wrestling. Producer Kate Fenton

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Worsley
Unknown:
Brendan O'Malley
Unknown:
St David
Producer:
Kate Fenton

A five-part series marking the birth of key cultural phenomena. 3: Reach for the New Sun!
This week Nigel Fountain traces the history of The Sun newspaper.
Hugh Cudlipp launched The Sun in 1964 as an upmarket Labour broadsheet. However, its working-class readers weren't impressed by articles telling them how to brief their architect, and the paper crashed five years later.
Relaunched by Rupert Murdoch , it changed the face of British journalism, with its nude pin-ups and scandal stories.
Producer Wendy Pilmer (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Cudlipp
Unknown:
Rupert Murdoch
Producer:
Wendy Pilmer

The third of 12 short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his immortal detective Sherlock Holmes.
What has happened to the bridegroom who vanished at the church door on the morning of his wedding?

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
Peter Mackie
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Violinist:
Alexander Balenescu
Director:
Enyd Williams
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr Watson:
Michael Williams
Mary Sutherland:
Susannah Corbett
Windibank:
Ralph Bates
Mrs Windibank:
Auriol Smith
Cabbie:
Ian Lindsay

Five programmes exploring special events in people's lives. 2: A Rite of Passage for the Apprentice
Throughout his four-year print apprenticeship, Graham Buckley has been known as the boy. He can become a man only through the ceremony of degradation that the trade cheerfully calls a 'banging-out'. Producer Cathie Mahoney Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Buckley
Producer:
Cathie Mahoney

... or should it be
Cowabungascope?
Nigel Andrews invites young filmgoers to pass judgment on the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in their big-screen contest against Shredder; and Chris Bryson reports from New York on whether Turtlemania has its flipside.
Producer Kate Wilkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Chris Bryson
Producer:
Kate Wilkinson

In the sixth of seven programmes,
Hugh Sykes visits the final two companies competing for the E 10,000 and C5,000 awards.
On the Isle of Wight,
Hammie is creating an international reputation for its jewellery.
J & T Products of Belfast protect medical workers against injury from hypodermic needles. Producer Gwyn Richards

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Sykes
Producer:
Gwyn Richards

The Persistence of Faith
Six talks on religion and ethics in a secular society by Rabbi
Dr Jonathan Sacks , Chief
Rabbi-elect of the United
Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.
2: The Demoralisation of Discourse
We may speak of right and wrong, good and bad, justice and rights. But these are all words that were once thought to refer to objective principles, and it is just these in which belief has now dwindled.
If there are no standards, only choices, then moral language becomes an anomaly.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jonathan Sacks

Robert Booth takes a light-hearted view of history.
Today's guests: Margaret Rule ,
Auberon Waugh ,
George MacDonald Fraser and Robert Rhodes James , MP. Producer Harry Thompson Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Rule
Unknown:
Auberon Waugh
Unknown:
George MacDonald
Unknown:
Robert Rhodes James
Producer:
Harry Thompson

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