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Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Richard Harries
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Richard Harries

Chris Dunkley of The Financial Times airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy. Producer John Watkins
0 WRITE to: Feedback,
BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Dunkley
Producer:
John Watkins

The Boatman
This sensitive story, set on the island of Skye, is a first radio work for
Glasgow lexicologist and author Michael Munro.
Read by James Bryce. Producer Hamish Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Munro.
Read By:
James Bryce.
Producer:
Hamish Wilson

For around the modem-day equivalent of E9,000, many rich Ancient Egyptians had their internal organs removed after death and their cadavers immersed in salt for 80 days prior to embalming. But how and why was this done?
Egyptologists explain, and talk about their fascination with exhumed bodies.
Producer Fergus Keeling

Contributors

Producer:
Fergus Keeling

Natalie Wheen reports on Kenneth MacMillan 's new ballet Winter Dreams; the ways people adorn their bodies with jewellery is traced through the ages; and ragtime guitarist John James is the studio guest. Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Kenneth MacMillan
Guitarist:
John James
Producer:
Belinda Sample.

Written by Veronica Henry
WRITE to: Archers Addicts Fan Club, [address removed]

Contributors

Written By:
Veronica Henry
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Tony:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil:
Norman Painting
fill:
Patricia Greene
Kenton:
Graeme Kirk
Shula:
Judy Bennett
David:
Timothy Bentinck
Jack:
Arnold Peters
Peggy:
June Spencer
Nelson:
Jack May
Sid:
Alan Devereux
Kathy:
Hedli Niklaus
Lucy:
Tracy-Jane White
Joe:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie:
Rosalind Adams
Sharon:
Celia Nelson
Betty:
Pamela Craig
Cameron:
Delaval Astley
Lynda:
Carole Boyd
Thorkil:
Andrew Wincott

Living History
How close do actors get or want to get to a character when they are playing a real person? Nigel Andrews talks to Ben Kingsley (Gandhi),
Charlton Heston (Moses), Rod Steiger (Napoleon),
Alec Guinness (Hitler) and Dudley Moore (who turned down Mozart).

Contributors

Talks:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Ben Kingsley
Unknown:
Charlton Heston
Unknown:
Rod Steiger
Unknown:
Dudley Moore

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