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Presented by Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Richard Bewes
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Richard Bewes

Patrick Hannan chairs the last in the present series of the political quiz.
With MPs Julian Critchley and Austin Mitchell and their guests.
Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Julian Critchley
Producer:
Diane Messias.

Professional and life partners, Prunella Scales and Timothy West tell
Jenni Murray about their new production of A Long Day's Journey into Night. Serial: Lost for
Words (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Unknown:
Timothy West
Unknown:
Jenni Murray

The third in a four-part drama series set in a progressive school on the south coast.
Written by Angus Graham-Campbell . 3: Not Waving butDrowning
A-levels are threatening, and unpredictable Euan is at the end of his tether.
Director Richard Wortley. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Angus Graham-Campbell
Director:
Richard Wortley.
Euan Roberts:
Julian Firth
Jen Billington:
Dona Beeson
Emma:
Emma Gregory
Tasha:
Judy Flynn
Amy:
Danielle Allan
Nick:
Nicholas Gilbrook
Jerry:
Jonathan Firth
Chris:
Phil McDermott
Martin:
Ross Livingstone
Peter Billington:
Alan Thompson
Julia Billington:
Jenny Howe

Dilly Barlow learns some strange things from cigarette cards, including the story of a mysterious growing grave. Producer Tessa Watt
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Tessa Watt

Nigel Andrews meets
Sean Connery , the actor who has proved his versatility since the days of Bond, winning an Oscar on the way, and now emerging as the blustering, bookish Barley Blair in John le Carre 's The Russia House.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Russia House.
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

Bel Mooney talks to six people about the way in which one particular death affected their lives.
3: Anna Haycraft , who is better known as the writer Alice Thomas Ellis , is the mother of five children. She wrote her second novel The Birds of the Air, after the death of her son Joshua. Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Bel Mooney
Unknown:
Anna Haycraft
Unknown:
Alice Thomas Ellis
Producer:
Beaty Rubens.

The Royal Observatory still stands as a monument to the scientific revolution of the 17th century. It is the starting-point for Malcolm Billings and Jonathan Riley-Smith as they continue their quest for the English, in the last of the series. After exploring developments in ideas and culture, they end with the emergence of modern England in the Industrial Revolution. But would someone today see the women and men of that time as kindred spirits, or as strangers? 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, £ 10.95

Contributors

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

Six murder cases, presented by Nick Ross , from the days when police cars had bells and the men from the Yard wore trilbies.
3: The Major, the Scone and the Dandelions
One lump of arsenic or two? There were good reasons for Mr Martin to refuse an invitation to tea with the Major ...
Written by John Scotney.
With Nigel Carrington , James Greene , Timothy Carlton , Fraser Kerr and Danielle Allan.
Producer Mark Savage

Contributors

Presented By:
Nick Ross
Written By:
John Scotney.
Unknown:
Nigel Carrington
Unknown:
James Greene
Unknown:
Timothy Carlton
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Unknown:
Danielle Allan.
Producer:
Mark Savage
Major Armstrong:
Aubrey Woods
Dr Hincks:
John Rowe
Mrs Armstrong:
Petra Davies

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