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with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr John McDade
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Fr John McDade

Professor Schwarz's
Summer by Helen Harris. Jerusalem.The hottest month of the year, and a cool, rational academic succumbs to the heat.... Read by Anna Massey. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Harris.
Read By:
Anna Massey.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

Immortal Love, for Ever Full (Haresfield, BP 37); Luke 7, vv 11-23; Great and Marvellous Are Thy Works (T Tomkins);
Thine Arm, 0 Lord, in Days of Old (St Matthew , BBC HB 382).
The BBC Singers, directed by Barry Rose. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
St Matthew
Directed By:
Barry Rose.

The last of 12 short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A young governess consults Sherlock Holmes in one of his most sinister cases.
Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Dramatised By:
Peter MacKie
Director:
Enyd Williams.
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson:
Michael Williams
Jephro Rucastle:
Roger Hammond
Violet Hunter:
Imogen Stubbs
Miss Stoper:
Jenny Howe
Mrs Rucastle:
Joanna Myers
Mrs Toller:
Elizabeth Kelly

What do the blind perceive of colour? And how did the question-mark get its shape?
Dilly Barlow finds out. Producer Viv Black
0 WRITE to: Enquire Within, BBC. Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA
0 QUESTIONLINE: [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Viv Black

Three programmes in which Clive Langmead joins crews who are not necessarily seasoned sailors but, for extraordinary reasons, are all in the same boat. 2: Mission Ship
A floating bookshop spreading the Word to the Third World.
Producer Penny Afzal

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Langmead

Brian Sibley reports on the film Dance with the Wolves, starring and directed by Kevin Costner , which has revived the western's fortunes in America; and Eric Clapton plays centre-stage at the Royal Albert Hall. Producer Beaty Rubens
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Directed By:
Kevin Costner
Directed By:
Eric Clapton
Unknown:
Albert Hall.
Producer:
Beaty Rubens

Last of the comedy series in which guests are taken on a literary mystery tour. This week
Bernard Cribbins ,
Rachel Heyhoe-Flint and Douglas Adams pace the mean streets of Chicago - with apologies to
Raymond Chandler. In the chair
Jenni Murray. Also starring
Spontaneous Combustion. Producer Mary Sharp

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins
Unknown:
Rachel Heyhoe-Flint
Unknown:
Douglas Adams
Unknown:
Raymond Chandler.
Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Producer:
Mary Sharp

Chivalry was all-important in the 14th century, with Edward III establishing the Order of the Garter in 1348. But, just two months later, the plague arrived in England. In this week's quest for the English, Malcolm Billings and Jonathan Riley-Smith include visits to a permanent memorial to plague victims and to a castle where English chivalry flourished - in Poland. With music by Steven Faux , performed by the Dufay Collective. Producer Christopher Stone Stereo

Contributors

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

In the last of six programmes Simon Brett digs out some of his diary entries for various February 6ths 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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