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with John Humphrys and Jenny Bond.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr John McDade. Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Jenny Bond.
Unknown:
Fr John McDade.
Editor:
Philip Harding

The Party Members In the second of three programmes about the political machines, Vivian White meets activists and supporters in the three main parties. How much power do they wield? And how do they make their views heard?
Producer Margaret Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivian White
Producer:
Margaret Hill

Guide to the Sands
In the second of four programmes, Paul Heiney takes a walk across the shifting sands of Morecambe Bay, led by Cedric Robinson , possibly the last of a long line of guides.
Producer Marc Jobst

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Cedric Robinson
Producer:
Marc Jobst

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 Ernest Rea and Stephen Oliver
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Producers:
Ernest Rea
Producers:
Stephen Oliver

Charlie Muffin
Brian Freemantle 's anti-hero is a survivor. He needs to be - his own department is out to get him and so is the KGB. But Charlie is determined to come out of it alive and rich.
Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews Director Matthew Walters
Stereo (Sequel: Clap Hands. Here Comes Charlie', tomorrow 2.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Muffin
Unknown:
Brian Freemantle
Dramatised By:
Geoffrey M Matthews
Director:
Matthew Walters
Charlie:
Philip Jackson
Kalenin:
Sandor Eles
Willoughby:
Peter Howell
Gunther:
David Learner
Snare:
Andrew Branch
Harrison:
Stephen Rashbrook
Alexei Berenkov:
Peter Woodthorpe
Janet:
Marcia King
Wilberforce:
Manning Wilson
Cuthbertson:
Barrie Cookson
Ruttgers:
Don Fellows
Keys:
John Church
Braylty:
Richard Durden
Edith:
Jennifer Piercey

Spinners and weavers, miners and parachutists - caterpillars adopt many ways of earning a living but it is always just a stage on the path from egg to adulthood. Duncan Reavey and Peter Cribb go tracking caterpillars with Peter France.
Producer John Harrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Duncan Reavey
Unknown:
Peter Cribb
Producer:
John Harrison

The news ... if it happens, with Chris Morris, David Schneider, Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Gordon Clough, Doon MacKiehan and Rebecca Front.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Morris
Unknown:
David Schneider
Unknown:
Steve Coogan
Unknown:
Patrick Marber
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Doon MacKiehan

Penelope Lively , novelist and former children's writer, selects her literary favourites.
Anthony Hyde and Sheila Mitchell perform the extracts in Blackwell's
Bookshop in Oxford.
Producer Kate Whitehead. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Penelope Lively
Unknown:
Anthony Hyde
Unknown:
Sheila Mitchell
Producer:
Kate Whitehead.

The second episode of Jack London's four-part tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.
Singer Sarah Connolly.
Music Elizabeth Parker, BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Adapted by Ed Thomason
Director Adrian Bean. Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Jack London
Singer:
Sarah Connolly
Music:
Elizabeth Parker
Adapted by:
Ed Thomason
Director:
Adrian Bean
Wolf Larsen:
Jack Klaff
Humphrey:
Kerry Shale
Maud Brewster:
Shelley Thompson
Louis:
Nigel Anthony
Mugridge:
Ian Dury
Smoke:
Anthony Jackson
Johnson:
Jeffrey Gear
Leach:
Scott Farrell
Kelly:
Norman Jones
Harrison:
Richard Pearce
Henderson:
Andrew Wincott
Latimer:
Peter Penry-Jones
Owen:
Terence Edmond
Homer:
Clarence Smith

Money, Myths and Melodrama
Bigger by far than
Hollywood, each day the Hindi film industry churns out another two films aimed at a home market alone of 800 million, with a sure-fire formula of myth, melodrama, explicit violence and implicit sex. John Keay reports from the capital of this celluloid empire - Film City in Bombay.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keay
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Dr Stefan Buczacki questions two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting.
This week's guests are Michael Heseltine , Pam Ayres , Bernard Bresslaw and Nicola Pagett.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Norman Painting.
Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Unknown:
Pam Ayres
Unknown:
Bernard Bresslaw
Unknown:
Nicola Pagett.

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