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Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Venerable
George Austin,
Archdeacon of York.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
John Humphrys.

Listeners report on a variety of issues with the help of Susan Marling and the Punters team. Editor Jenny Walmsley
0 WRITE to: Punters. BBC Radio 4, Bristol BSB 2LR 0 TELEPHONE: [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Editor:
Jenny Walmsley

Ferdinand Dennis talks to five people born in the colonies but now living in Britain.
2: Clyde Williams , now Chief Executive of FullEmploy Training, was born poor in Guyana but in the 1980s ran his own computer firm with a 935m turnover. He talks about his success and philosophy.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown

Contributors

Talks:
Ferdinand Dennis
Unknown:
Clyde Williams
Producer:
Marina Salandy-Brown

with Jenni Murray.
The yuppie generation of the 80s is becoming a rich picking ground for authors. Denise Robertson and Caroline Bridgwood discuss the literary lure of the last decade.
Serial: Hester Lilly (4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Denise Robertson
Unknown:
Caroline Bridgwood

Peter Mayle , author of the best-selling journal, A Year in Provence, introduces the sequel, Toujours Provence, the Trollope Society is now four years old - Joanna Trollope discusses its aims and ambitious publishing project; and a browse around the bookshelves of novelist
Leslie Thomas.
Presented by Nigel Forde. Producer Vivien Devlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Mayle
Unknown:
Joanna Trollope
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas.
Presented By:
Nigel Forde.
Producer:
Vivien Devlin

Paul Allen is at the first night of Griff Rhys Jones 's RSC directorial debut Twelfth Night, and at Yvonne Brewster 's production of Antony and Cleopatra.
Producer Beaty Rubens
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Griff Rhys Jones
Unknown:
Yvonne Brewster
Producer:
Beaty Rubens

What do Bach and Reginald Dixon have in common? And why does Nigel Kennedy have to put Mars bars into his mouth sideways before he picks up a violin? Tom Miles and Rob Millner present six programmes of classical music as you have never heard it before. With special guests Jonathan Cecil , Flaminia Cinque and Professor Jim Tavare.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Reginald Dixon
Unknown:
Nigel Kennedy
Violin:
Tom Miles
Violin:
Rob Millner
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Professor Jim Tavare.

'When you think of the word bullying, you think of the school bully ... you don't think about it happening in respectable places of work ...' In the first of two programmes, men and women share the experiences and consequences of being bullied at work.
With Andrea Adams.
Producer Cathy Drysdale Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrea Adams.
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

The last programme of a three-part series assessing the effects of recent major disasters on the people involved. The Officials
Often the aftermath of a disaster is almost as tragic as the disaster itself. Should the bereaved see the body of the person they loved? How, if at all, can coroners, police and other officials ease the pain of all of those tragically caught up in a disaster? Producer Sue Davies

Contributors

Producer:
Sue Davies

Jennifer Phillips 's five-part comedy series set in the offices of a London car firm. 2: A Tasty Motor
Eddie, the 'controller', finds Angela, the new owner of the dodgy car business, appallingly ] honest. But there's another complication, apart from love in the air - what has Frenchie done to Angela's Peugeot?
Director Richard Wortley. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jennifer Phillips
Director:
Richard Wortley.
Eddie:
Gary Waldhorn
Angela:
Harriet Walter
Mrs Corfton-Browne:
Maxine Audley
Nicco:
Neil Dudgeon
Frenchie:
Terence Edmond
Gringo:
Paul Gregory
Slippy:
Norman Jones
Danny:
Mark Straker
Gordon:
Ian Lindsay
Charles:
Brett Usher
Police constable:
Alan Barker

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