Producer Tim Finney

with James Whitbourn.

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
Editor Philip Harding

with Bryon Butler. Producer Gill Puisford

Alaska - icebergs, the Klondike, a wilderness paradise of eskimos and polar bears, the Exxon Valdez oil slick, lonely salmon fishermen with shaggy beards ... Cliches? Ken Bruce and Martin Roberts set off to find out on an exploration of Alaska - from helicopter flights onto glaciers, to meeting the lonely-hearted oil men of Anchorage. Producer Sara Jane Hall
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with Ned Sherrin , and the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather and The Men Who Know.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo

with Andrew Marr , Political Editor of The Economist.
Producer Dennis Sewell

Stephen Jessel presents a new series of the programme about the people of Europe. His first report comes from deep in the Romanian countryside. Editor JolyonMonson

with Louise Botting.
Producer Frances Macdonald

The antidote to panel games returns. In the chair
Humphrey Lyttelton. With Willie Rushton ,
Barry Cryer , Tim Brooke-Taylor and Paul Merton. Piano Colin Sell.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

This week's panel:
Rt Hon John Smith , QC, MP; John Redwood , MP; Rt Hon Sir Leon Brittan , QC; and Thomas Kielinger.
From Brussels. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and Keith Jones
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Craig Charles launches a season of new writing talent to be aired over the next 11 days. Directors Claire Grove and Sarah Taylor • DRAMA: page 8

In the first play of this festival, Axe comes out of jail after five years to find Britain and his community changed. Culture, other than British, has been outlawed by the State, older generation immigrants have repatriated en masse. Within this context, a group of young second generation Asians survive as best they can.
Written by Parv Bancil.
(Stereo)

with Michael Scott.
Panel: Chris Arme , Mike Lovell , Neil MacFarlane and David Hughes.
Producer Louise Dalziel. Stereo

with Alun Lewis.
Producer Peter Croasdale

Larry Goldberg cruises
New York in the early hours; Dave and Phyllis Seymour remember a driven life in London; and members of the New York taxi drivers' union provide the chorus. Producers Piers Plowright and Adrian Quine. Stereo

with Simon Hoggart and friends.
Producer Brian King

and Sports Round-Up

with David Tate and Bill Wallis.
Stereo

with Robert Robinson.
Producer Michael Ember. Stereo

Drama in Budapest A couple of weeks ago,
Budapest played host to an international gathering of theatre companies. One of them was the British company Kaleidoscope
(no relation), fresh from a triumphant season at the Edinburgh Festival.
Kaleidoscope Theatre Company works with mentally handicapped young actors and volunteers from all walks of life, and this is the story of their Hungarian experience.
Producer Mike Greenwood. Stereo

A ten-part dramatisation of Charles Dickens's novel.

David has met and fallen in love with Dora Spenlow. Uriah Heep confides in him that he loves Agnes Wickfield, and hopes to marry her.
Dramatised by Betty Davies
(Stereo)

John Miller talks to six eminent historians.
5: Christopher Hill , former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and an authority on the English Civil War.

Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo

led by the Rev David Hutt. Stereo

Wholly Writ! A Cabaret....
Heralding the festival and 11 days of new writing.
With Logan Murray , Two Girls What Sing, Owen Williamson , Stormy
Webber, Mark Lamarr. Lemn Sissay , Secret
Society, Sue Beard, Julian Dutton , Henry Naylor and Andy Parsons.
Producer Clive Brill. Stereo

with harpists Osian Ellis and Susan Drake.
Producer Michael Emery
Stereo

Eight programmes in which
Simon Brett explores diaries of the famous and not-so-famous.
Stereo