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Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Venerable George Austin
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
George Austin

The final programme in which John Cleese and his former psychiatrist,
Dr Robin Skynner , discuss how relationships are formed and how to sustain and develop them. Why Good Sex Is Important
Surprisingly, they enlist the help of Bread and Butterflies.
Producers Rachel Yorke and Jonathan James-Moore . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Dr Robin Skynner
Producers:
Rachel Yorke
Producers:
Jonathan James-Moore

The ninth of 12 short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A young man arrives at Watson's surgery, with a terrible injury and a chilling story.
Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Dramatised By:
Peter Mackie
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson:
Michael Williams
Victor Hatherley:
Stephen Tompkinson
Col Stark:
John Moffatt
Elise:
Sybil Wintrope
Insp Bradstreet:
David Goudge
Ferguson/Constable:
Vincent Brimble
Guard/Fireman:
Paul Downing

From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions, with the help of experts.
Producer Viv Black
* QUESTIONS: write to Enquire Within, BBC. Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA, or tel: [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Viv Black

The third of a four-part series that rewrites history. Is the reputation of John F Kennedy undeserved, founded on a myth created by his assassination, or could he have been America's greatest president?
Former diplomat
Robert Cecil and historian
Donald Cameron Watt join
Christopher Andrew to ask, 'What if JFK had survived the shooting in Dallas?'
Producer Ian Bell

Contributors

Unknown:
John F Kennedy
Unknown:
Robert Cecil
Unknown:
Donald Cameron Watt
Unknown:
Christopher Andrew
Producer:
Ian Bell

Nigel Andrews talks to Frank Marshall , the producer of many of Hollywood's biggest hits - E T, Indiana Jones, Roger Rabbit and now, as director, Arachnophobia; the prize-winning film about the 14-year-old
Mozart, The Three of Us, opens; and the novelist
Danilos Kis 's view of the holocaust is published. Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Frank Marshall
Unknown:
Roger Rabbit
Unknown:
Danilos Kis
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

The comedy show in which guests are taken on a literary mystery tour.
In this week's programme Monica Dickens , Julia Hills and Chris Baines become Knights of the Round Table.
In the chair Jenni Murray. Also starring
Spontaneous Combustion. Producer Mary Sharp

Contributors

Unknown:
Monica Dickens
Unknown:
Julia Hills
Unknown:
Chris Baines
Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Producer:
Mary Sharp

In the second of eight programmes, Malcolm Billings and Jonathan Riley-Smith step into the ninth century in their search for the English. A new terror - the Vikings - have arrived. But kings such as Alfred defend the people against the pagan onslaught and traditions emerge which remain today. There are almost three centuries between the Viking and Norman invasions of England, but they witnessed the making of a nation.
Music by Steven Faux , performed by the Dufay Collective.
Producer Christopher Stone Stereo
* FACTSHEET: For free guide and reading list, write to: [address removed], enclosing sae
BOOK: The English'. by Malcolm Billings , available from bookshops, £9.95

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Billings
Unknown:
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Music By:
Steven Faux
Producer:
Christopher Stone
Unknown:
Malcolm Billings

Simon Brett digs out some of his diary entries for various January 16ths and compares them with those of his fellow diarists over four centuries.
Producers Kate McAII and Kate Whitehead Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Producers:
Kate McAii
Producers:
Kate Whitehead

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