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Presented by 'Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Professor
Charles Handy.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Charles Handy.

Gravity by David Leavitt.
Shopping in New York City. Theo is ailing. But mother is on hand - especially so in the strange gift shop. Thanks be for mothers....
Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
David Leavitt.
Read By:
Garrick Hagon.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

Let All On Earth Their Voices Raise (Rex
Gloriose Martyrum, BP 46); Acts 3, w 1-10;
Praise (G Dyson); How
Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds (St Peter , BBC HB 142). With the BBC Singers, directed by Barry Rose. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
St Peter
Directed By:
Barry Rose.

'Neighbourhood' engineers go back to school; and competition in the market place for the CDs that give you more than sound. Carol Vorderman loosens the nuts and bolts of today's technology. Producer Dee Palmer

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Vorderman
Producer:
Dee Palmer

The last in the present series of the quiz game that explores the origins of well-known phrases. With team captains Leslie Thomas and Pam Ayres , partnered by Frances Edmonds and Peter Tinniswood.
Chris Serle is in the chair. Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
Pam Ayres
Unknown:
Frances Edmonds
Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood.
Unknown:
Chris Serle
Producer:
Paul Z Jackson.

The final episode of Mike Harris 's four-part drama of race and power, set in the sweatshops, factories and immigration offices of Manchester and Dacca between 1917 and 1981. Paperchase
Somewhere in Bangladesh a British outpost sifts and rejects applications to come to England. One family waits anxiously for the final decision on the fate of their children ...
Director Clive Brill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Harris
Director:
Clive Brill.
Piers:
Christopher Godwin
SueDavies:
Joan Walker
Godavari/Asad Ali:
Nizwar Karanj
Abdul All:
Rashid Karapiet
Ralph:
David Hill
James:
Nigel Carrington
Nurful Bibi:
Lolita Chakrabati

NEW...........
Dr Christopher NEW Andrew returns with a new four-part series of informed historical speculation. British victory in the Falklands was far from inevitable. Task Force
Commander Admiral Sir
John 'Sandy' Woodward now admits that he feared heavy losses - perhaps even the sinking of an aircraft carrier.
Meanwhile Simon
Jenkins, Editor of The Times, calculates the domestic impact of a task force in trouble.
Could Mrs Thatcher have survived defeat?
Producer Ian Bell

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Christopher New Andrew

Nigel Andrews reviews the new films, including British actor Gary Oldman in State of Grace; British jazz musicians meet their Georgian counterparts; and Judy Meewezen reports on strange happenings at the Pensthorpe Waterfowl Trust.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Judy Meewezen
Producer:
Tim Dee

Six concert performers talk to June Knox Mawer. 4: Yehudi Menuhin , who recently celebrated his 75th birthday, made his debut with the San
Francisco Symphony
Orchestra at the age of seven. He talks about his long career, from the early days in America to his partnership with jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli , and he introduces his recording of Bruch's Violin Concerto
No 1 in G Minor.
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Knox Mawer.
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist:
Stephane Grappelli
Producer:
Derek Drescher.

Dentures Down the Ages
When to use a masticator; how to get rid of toothworms; why
Waterloo teeth are a bad deal; and what to expect on Denture Day....
Phil Rickman finds the answers to some of life's more vexing problems. Producer Tabitha Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Rickman
Producer:
Tabitha Morgan

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