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

Contributors

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

A five-part series.
2:First Time Callers In 1968, the new BBC Radio Nottingham broadcast a programme called What Are They up to Now? It was Britain's first radio phone-in, to be followed by agony-aunt advice shows, swap-lines, news debates, sexy chat-lines, and shock-jocks.
Nigel Fountain asks whether the phone-in is just a cheap style of programming allowing self-publicists to commandeer airwaves. Producer Wendy Pilmer

Contributors

Producer:
Wendy Pilmer

from Bristol.
Introduced by Jenni Mills. Short story:
My First Marriage by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. 'No one mentions M any more. It is two years now since he went away.
Sometimes I ask myself: can there really have been such a man?'
Read by Souad Faress. Abridged by Delia Paton
Music: Shankar's Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Mills.
Unknown:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Abridged By:
Delia Paton

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
1: Barton Cottage It is 1810 and the recently widowed
Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters have been forced out of their family home. Suddenly thrust upon the world without security, they move to a cottage in Devon, where Marianne is swept off her feet by a capricious stranger. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen.
Unknown:
Mrs Dashwood

Simon Hoggart and his fellow columnists take a quizzical look at life. The team is working especially hard to avoid royal disapproval on this, the anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria. Producer Brian King

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Producer:
Brian King

Tim Marlow chugs off in a lorry full of Henry Moore statues bound for
Moscow; and finds out how the experts at the V&A hope to make the spectator stop for more than one and a half minutes at its collection of Chinese paintings and ornaments. And at the National Theatre,
Ian McKellen stars in Napoli Millionaria. Producer Tim Dee. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Marlow
Unknown:
Henry Moore
Unknown:
Ian McKellen
Unknown:
Napoli Millionaria.
Producer:
Tim Dee.

Mixed emotions over tea at Brookfield.
Written by Caroline Harrington

Contributors

Written By:
Caroline Harrington
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
Kenton:
Graeme Kirk
Shula:
Judy Bennett
Mark:
Richard Derrington
David:
Timothy Bentinck
Ruth:
Felicity Finch
Elizabeth:
Alison Dowling
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Brian:
Charles Collingwood
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Jack:
Arnold Peters
Peggy:
June Spencer
Nelson:
Jack May
Kathy:
Hedu Niklaus
Joe:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie:
Rosalind Adams
Neil:
Brian Hewlett
Susan:
Charlotte Martin
Mike:
Terry Molloy
Betty:
Pamela Craig
Caroline:
Sara Coward
Bert:
Roger Hume
Lynda:
Carole Boyd

This week's panel:
Gordon Brown , MP,
Labour Party Spokesman on Trade and Industry;
Ruth Wishart , journalist and broadcaster;
Canon Kenyon Wright , Chair of the Executive of the Scottish
Constitutional
Convention; and Graham Mather , General Director,
Institute of Economic Affairs.
From Letham, Scotland. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Brown
Unknown:
Ruth Wishart
Unknown:
Canon Kenyon Wright
Unknown:
Graham Mather
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer:
Anna Carragher

Peter Greenaway - Frame by Frame
As an exhibition of his paintings opens in London, Peter Greenaway talks to Philip Dodd and young film-makers about his images on paper and on film.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Greenaway
Talks:
Peter Greenaway
Unknown:
Philip Dodd

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