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Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr David Cook
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Sue MacGregor
Presented By:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Dr David Cook

The former Prime
Minister of Southern
Rhodesia, Garfield Todd , was the first premier in the history of the Commonwealth to be served with a restriction order. One British politician commented in amusement, 'The man is not subversive. He's just a liberal!'
In the fourth of a five-part series, BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent
Mike Wooldridge talks to Sir Garfield Todd about the beliefs which have underpinned his political policies and decisions. Producer Beverley McAinsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Garfield Todd
Talks:
Mike Wooldridge
Unknown:
Sir Garfield Todd
Producer:
Beverley McAinsh

In the second of two programmes,
Bob Monkhouse recalls the great entertainer who died last year, with highlights from his immortal radio shows, plus special contributions from John Mortimer , Maurice Denham and Deryck Guyler.
Producer Edward Taylor. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Monkhouse
Unknown:
John Mortimer
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler.
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Lost for Words. The first of 14 episodes written and read by Deric Longden.
'I would have recognised that backside anywhere, as it swivelled and slammed into Marks and Spencer's, dragging my mother along in its wake.' Abridged by Pat McLoughlin
Music: Andy Fairweather Low 's Wide-Eyed and Legless

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Read By:
Deric Longden.
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Music:
Andy Fairweather Low

Paul Allen meets Geoffrey Parkinson , probation officer and part-time radio playwright, whose play
The Newsvendor goes out next Tuesday on Radio 3; writer Claire Tomalin puts Katherine Mansfield on stage; and Opera
North mounts a Mozart concoction called
The Music Box.
Producer Anthony Denselow

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Geoffrey Parkinson
Unknown:
Claire Tomalin
Unknown:
Katherine Mansfield
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

A series of graphic features exploring contemporary life in Britain.
Comeovers, Stopovers and Manx Crabs
During the past five years, the Isle of Man has been invaded by the finance sector. Office blocks have elbowed out boarding houses; the wine bar has replaced the 'comer caff'. In this portrait of a changed community, the different groups of people now living on the island reflect on a clash of values.
Reporter Gill Birchall.
Producer Joy Hatwood. Stereo

Contributors

Reporter:
Gill Birchall.
Producer:
Joy Hatwood.

Centre Point
One way out of its Poll Tax dilemma is for the Government to centralise things yet further. David Walker asks: What would schools, the police and other services look like if the man from Whitehall took complete charge? Producer Simon Coates

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker
Producer:
Simon Coates

The last in a series of nerve-tinglers introduced, by Edward de Souza , ; the Man in Black. '
Invitation to the Vaults
A crooked literary agent is subjected to a harrowing revenge ...
Written by Basil Copper .
Adapted by Wally K Daly
Director Martin Jenkins. Stereo ' (Postponed from 17 January)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward de Souza
Written By:
Basil Copper
Adapted By:
Wally K Daly
Director:
Martin Jenkins.
DrMazanares:
Ian Lindsay
Madame Freitas:
Sarah Badel
Albano Pizar:
Roger Hammond
Secretary:
Emma Gregory'

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