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with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Jimmy Morrison. Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Jimmy Morrison.
Editor:
Philip Harding

The further adventures of Mr Justice Cocklecarrot , Big White Carstairs and other characters created between the wars by the great humorist J B Morton. Starring Richard Ingrams , John Wells ,
Patricia Routledge , John Sessions with Brian Perkins.
Adapted by Mike Barfield with Richard Ingrams
Producer Harry Thompson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Justice Cocklecarrot
Unknown:
J B Morton.
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Patricia Routledge
Unknown:
John Sessions
Unknown:
Brian Perkins.
Adapted By:
Mike Barfield
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

What can we learn from the French? With Britain about to embark on another reorganisation of local government,
Chris Lowe has been to
Bordeaux to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the French system, and to compare them with local government in Bristol, Bordeaux's British twin. Producer Andrew Denwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Producer:
Andrew Denwood

Heather Payton and experts Chris Gilchrist and Philip Hardman are at the Howden Park Centre in Livingston, West Lothian. Producers Neil Koenig and Catherine Watt. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Heather Payton
Unknown:
Chris Gilchrist
Unknown:
Philip Hardman
Producers:
Neil Koenig
Producers:
Catherine Watt.

Michael Buerk chairs an investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news.
Stereo and at 2.00pm
The Moral Maze
[number removed]
Call Michael Buerk with your views on the issues raised in The Moral Maze.
Producers David Coomes and Ernest Rea
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Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Producers:
David Coomes

Plain Facts in a Country Dress
In a Cotswold village two stories of innocence versus corruption are interwoven - one set 160 years ago and the other today.
Written by R E T Lamb.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin Stereo

Contributors

Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Ted:
Richard Pearce
Mary:
Susie Brann
Will:
Brendan Charleson
Tom:
Dominic Taylor
Bob:
Mark Straker
Ezra:
Anthony Jackson
Rector:
Paul Nicholson
Sir Edmund:
Peter Copley
Chapman:
William Eedle
Roberts:
Nigel Carrington
Benning:
Ian Lindsay
Curlidge:
Andrew Hilton
Carol:
Phyllida Nash
Downing:
Eric Allan

In the first of a new series of the nature programme, botanist Erica Towner and National Trust warden Tim Bennett join Lionel Kelleway at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire, one of the most important 'wetland' nature reserves in western Europe. Producer John Holmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Erica Towner
Unknown:
Tim Bennett
Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
John Holmes

Maya Angelou , university professor, dancer, singer, actress, novelist and poet, presents a personal selection of extracts.
Readers are Adjoa Andoh and Maureen Beattie.
Producer Elizabeth Taylor. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Maya Angelou
Unknown:
Maureen Beattie.
Producer:
Elizabeth Taylor.

The third of four tales of love and death by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Ebb-Tide
A storm-damaged schooner drops anchor off an uncharted South Sea island, home of an aristocratic missionary with a fortune in pearl he means to keep.
Dramatised by Robert Forrest Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dramatised By:
Robert Forrest
Director:
Patrick Rayner.
Herrick:
Dermot Crowley
Attwater:
Tom Fleming
Huish:
Alfred Molina
Davis:
Tom Watson

At Home with Derek Jarman
Peter Webb visits film-maker Derek Jarman at his Dungeness home to talk about the diaries he has kept for the last two years, and which are about to be published. The journals cover the filming of The Garden, his battle with illness and his musings on past life.
Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Jarman
Unknown:
Peter Webb
Unknown:
Derek Jarman
Producer:
Belinda Sample.

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