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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr David Stone
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Dr David Stone

A series of six talks about the Third World.
4: African Perestroika Former Ghanaian parliamentary correspondent
Cameron Duodu considers whether
Africa can do without multi-party democracy. Producer Zareer Masani

Contributors

Unknown:
Cameron Duodu
Producer:
Zareer Masani

The discovery of twin baby pandas in the wild may refute the theory that only one of any pair could survive after birth. Andrew Laurie of WWF (World Wide Fund for
Nature) has just returned from China where the fight to save this highly endangered animal from extinction continues. Presented by Fergus Keeling and Nick Davies. Producer John Holm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Laurie
Presented By:
Fergus Keeling
Presented By:
Nick Davies.
Producer:
John Holm

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Victorians thought women didn't have them. In the 1970s you had to have several at once. But what do female orgasms feel like?
And how important are they? Women of all ages talk frankly about their sexual experiences. Short story:
Hold Me Fast,
Don't Let Me Pass (final part)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.

John Cleese reveals his literary influences, and Nigel Forde discovers which sentence novelists find the more difficult to write - the first or the last.
Producer Sally Marmion

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Producer:
Sally Marmion

Paul Allen goes behind the scenes of the National
Theatre production of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. It's a new adaptation by Alan Bennett , in which Griff Rhys Jones plays Toad, Nicholas Hytner directs, and the Weasels have been learning how to move - like weasels. Producer Kate Wilkinson
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame.
Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Unknown:
Griff Rhys Jones
Unknown:
Nicholas Hytner
Producer:
Kate Wilkinson

Iain Johnstone hosts the celebrity panel show that features magic movie moments.
This week's panel: Dick Vosburgh, Michael Bentine, Angela Douglas and Robin Ray.
(Stereo) (R)

Contributors

Chairman:
Iain Johnstone
Panellist:
Dick Vosburgh
Panellist:
Michael Bentine
Panellist:
Angela Douglas
Panellist:
Robin Ray
Producer:
Andy Aliffe

Who Cares Anyway? Looking after the old and the sick outside institutions is now the vogue. But, with an ageing population and tight budgets, Professor A H Halsey asks: who will do the caring and how should it be paid for? Producer Simon Coates

Contributors

Producer:
Simon Coates

with Dennis Waterman.
The fourth of a six-part political thriller by Nigel Baldwin.
In seeking the killers, Milkie is drawn deeper into trouble - with the Establishment.
Music Laurie Scott Baker Director Jane Dauncey. Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Nigel Baldwin
Music:
Laurie Scott Baker
Director:
Jane Dauncey
Milkie:
Dennis Waterman
Teller:
Ray Smith
Beth:
Bethan Jones
Special Branch man:
Michael Povey
Special Branch man:
Chris Durnall
Special Branch man:
Terry Dauncey
Pauline:
Eluned Jones
Angela:
Tara Dominick
Huw:
Richard Eifyn

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