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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Jimmy Morrison.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Jimmy Morrison.

A six-part series written by Peter Ling and Juliet Ace. 5: Caro comes face to face with a figure from the past and finally finds happiness.
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Ling
Written By:
Juliet Ace.
Director:
Tracey Neale.
Alice, Lady Minster:
Dinah Sheridan
William, Lord Minster:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Beatrice, Dowager Countess:
Margaret Rawlings
Hon Nicholas Gaunt:
Mark Straker
Hon MrsJenny Gaunt:
Helena Breck
Lady Caroline Gaunt:
Deborah Makepeace
Scott Hanson:
Colin McFarlane
Lady Cloudesley:
Susan Sheridan
Paul Weyman:
Philip Sully
American matron:
Jane Whittenshaw
American nurse:
Adjoa Andoh
MrDarrell:
Nigel Carrington

Helen has been murdered. She travels back through her life to find out what has brought her to this moment. Written by Sarah Woods.
Savi's song composed and played by David Harvey. Director Claire Grove. (Stereo)

Contributors

Written By:
Sarah Woods.
Played By:
David Harvey.
Director:
Claire Grove.
Helen:
Jane Whittenshaw
Nan:
Eleanor Summerfield
Young Helen:
Nadine Ballantyne
Abe:
Tony Armatrading
Savi:
Adjoa Andoh
Vicar:
Norman Jones
Trish:
Siriol Jenkins

Christopher Cook concludes his search in the BBC Sound Archives to discover something of the great figures of the past through the memories of those who were fortunate enough to meet them. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
John Knight

Brian Sibley is at the week's new films, including
Kenneth Branagh 's Dead Again, David Mamet 's Homicide and the controversial American film Boyz 'N' the Hood. Moliere's Tartuffe, directed by Peter Hall , opens, and a new exhibition in Glasgow evokes Spirits of the Forest. Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Unknown:
David Mamet
Directed By:
Peter Hall
Producer:
Beaty Rubens.

As part of the Young
Playwrights' Festival 1991, the third of five stories.
Incident at the Heron House
David Taylor 's story, set in America's deep South, describes the life of Travis and his strange obsession with the old ranch.
Read by Colin Stinton. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
David Taylor
Read By:
Colin Stinton.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

Grapes of Wrath
Britons drink four billion pounds worth of wine a year - but only one fifth of one per cent is English. The British Government and the EC have radical plans for wine in Europe. Will their ideas wither English wine on the vine? Peter Day and Roger White investigate.
Producer Stephen Chilcott. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Unknown:
Roger White
Producer:
Stephen Chilcott.

Last of six programmes in which journalists remember the first faltering steps they took in their careers. The Man from the MG
In 1953, writer
Anthony Smith was an impoverished would-be author living off a seven pound tin of honey in a London basement. Then came the call ...
Producer Caroline Adams

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Producer:
Caroline Adams

As part of the Young
Playwrights' Festival 1991. Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford.
The first of five parts read by Adjoa Andoh.
Remi, a young Nigerian girl, comes to England where her irrepressible personality helps her to adapt, but not without change to herself.
Abndged by Margaret Busby Producer David Hunter

Contributors

Unknown:
Simi Bedford.
Read By:
Adjoa Andoh.
Unknown:
Margaret Busby
Producer:
David Hunter

Ellen Wilkinson - tiny, dynamic, determined - was the charismatic MP for Jarrow and Minister of Education in Attlee's 1945 Cabinet. John Mapplebeck marks the centenary of her birth this month with the help of those who remember her.
Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Unknown:
Ellen Wilkinson
Unknown:
John Mapplebeck
Producer:
Gillian Hush

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