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Music-Hall Sidelights by Colette.
A glimpse backstage reveals pirouetting ballerinas, a moving sea of silk and feather fans and a child who doesn't want to grow up.
Read by Eleanor Bron.
Translated by Anne Marie Callimachi Adapted by Davena Briggs Producer Tracey Neale Stereo

Contributors

Read By:
Eleanor Bron.
Translated By:
Anne Marie CallimacHi
Adapted By:
Davena Briggs
Producer:
Tracey Neale

Five discussions in which John Durant examines the often controversial impact of scientific research on our lives.
4: Earth Mothers and White Coats As scientists and environmentalists start to work together, will science become greener and the case for the environment become stronger?
Producer Deborah Cohen

Contributors

Unknown:
John Durant
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Seven radio portraits. 6: Tom Burke
The environmentalist and Michael Heseltine 's adviser. Reporter Alex Kirby. Producer Chris Harmer

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Burke
Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Reporter:
Alex Kirby.
Producer:
Chris Harmer

by Frederick Pohl
A season of plays looking into a future.
In the future, the poorest citizens have the most things. People have to spend most of their waking hours consuming and wearing out what the robots have produced. Only the most successful are allowed to live a simple life. Morey Fry discovers a way out...
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Frederick Pohl
Director:
Alec Reid
Morey Fry:
Michael Drew
Cherry Fry:
Dyanne White
Howland:
Alan Covenay
Henry/Porfirio:
Geoffrey Collins
Judge Elon:
Eric Allen
Grace Elon:
Caroline Hunt
Semmelweiss/Newman:
Nick Chivers
Fairless/Sam:
Clarence Smith
Blaine/Wally:
Richard Pearce
Wainwright:
Fraser Kerr
Tanaquil:
Catherine Neal

Dilly Barlow gets a taste of the ingredients that go into a black pudding. Producer Hamish Mykura
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Hamish Mykura

The writer and director
Stephen Poliakoff talks to Brian Sibley about his new film Close My Eyes; a report on a touring exhibition linking art and archaeology; and a review of Spike Lee 's latest film Jungle Fever.
Producer James Clarke
Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Stephen Poliakoff
Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Spike Lee
Producer:
James Clarke

Healthcare in the United States is in crisis. Costs have spiralled out of control; companies face enormous costs to protect their employees, and 37 million people have no health insurance at all.
As Britain's health service faces sweeping change, Richard Quest reports on the American system in chaos, and the search for a solution. Presented by Peter Day.

Contributors

Reporter:
Richard Quest
Presenter:
Peter Day
Producer:
Colin Wilde

In 1970, Simenon was summoned to his mother's bedside to pay his last respects. Bernard Hepton reads the letter Simenon wrote in his mother's memory as he attempted to piece together the fragments of her past. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Hepton
Producer:
John Knight

In the second of two programmes, Simon Rae and Nicola Davies introduce poems on the topic of food, and eavesdrop on new poems being written by young writers from Murray Park Community School in Derby. Guest poet Grace Nichols answers the programme's questionnaire. Producers Susan Roberts and Viv Beeby. Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Nicola Davies
Unknown:
Grace Nichols
Producers:
Susan Roberts
Producers:
Viv Beeby.

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