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The final discussion in which John Durant ,
Professor of the Public
Understanding of Science at London's Imperial College, examines the often controversial impact of scientific research on our lives.
Too Clever by Half? Expert witnesses are playing an increasingly important role in public inquiries and courts of law. Can lay people be expected to understand the complexity of their evidence?
Producer Julia Durbin

Contributors

Unknown:
John Durant
Producer:
Julia Durbin

The last in the series of radio portraits. Dr Beyers Naude The veteran anti-apartheid campaigner. Reporter
Mike Wooldridge.
Producer Bevertey McAinsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Beyers Naude
Unknown:
Mike Wooldridge.
Producer:
Bevertey McAinsh

Presenter Jenni Murray. Can Christian belief improve sporting performance?
Marya Burgess talks to squash player Lisa Opie , cricketer Jane Powell and golfer Kitrina Douglas.
Serial: The Shrimp and the Anemone (10)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray.
Talks:
Marya Burgess
Unknown:
Lisa Opie
Unknown:
Jane Powell
Unknown:
Kitrina Douglas.

Tony, a sci-fi writer, finds life stranger than fiction when a man, a total stranger, suddenly dies on the carpet in the sitting room. There is, however, worse to come ...
A comedy by Eve Ward .
Director Kay Patrick. Stereo

Contributors

Comedy By:
Eve Ward
Director:
Kay Patrick.
Tony:
Martin Jarvis
Maud:
Barbara Lott
Vi:
Patty Coombs
Police sergeant:
Martin Reeve
Morgue attendant:
James Tomlinson
Undertaker:
John Branwell

In the last of the series, Dilly Barlow muses on migration - how did the aborigines' ancestors arrive in Australia? And when swallows pair up, do they go back to his place or to hers?
Producer Hamish Mykura
0 WRITE to: Enquire Within. BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1 A 1AA
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Hamish Mykura

Brian Sibley is at the new films of the week including Regarding
Henry and True Identity, and Nigel Andrews reports from the Venice Film Festival, where British film-makers
Peter Greenaway and Derek Jarman are in competition.
Producer Jerome Weatherald Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Unknown:
Peter Greenaway
Unknown:
Derek Jarman
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

John Waite returns with a new series of the programme in which he and his team investigate your complaints - not only individual allegations of injustice, sharp practice and the abuse of authority, but also wider issues as a result of which the lives of ordinary people may be damaged by the actions - or complacency - of others. Editor Graham Ellis
0 WRITE to: Face the Facts, BBC, Broadcasting House. London w 1 A 1 AA

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Editor:
Graham Ellis

The Hong Kong of Europe?
Japanese investment in Britain is set to rocket in the 90s, much to the alarm of some of our
European partners.
Peter Day explores the impact of Japan on different British industries and regions, and asks whether Britain is becoming 'the Hong Kong of Europe' or just a giant Japanese screwdriver plant. Producer Stuart Maisner

Living in a World of Ice There were no people in Europe a million years ago. So when did they arrive? Why did they bother to come? Peter
France starts a five-part journey through time by looking at the very first
Europeans, who were not really 'human' at all, and came into a world of ice totally unlike Europe today.
Producer Mary Colwell * BBC BOOK: The Birth of Europe, £ 18.95, available from October, from booksellers

Contributors

Producer:
Mary Colwell

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