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with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Philip Crowe.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Philip Crowe.

The fourth of seven programmes giving foreigners a chance to express their views about Britain.

Jane Walmsley, the American broadcaster and author of Brit-Think/Ameri-Think, tries to explain British and American differences over attitudes to health and diet; something which, in her words, can only be understood when you realise that "Americans think that death is optional".

Contributors

Speaker:
Jane Walmesley
Producer:
Geoff Spink

Derek Nimmo ,
Irene Thomas and Ian Wallace tell the stories. The listener and chairman
Tim Brooke-Taylor have to guess who is hoaxing. Producer Edward Taylor. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

"Music may go or come but almost always it is
African." Lenny Henry stars in this comedy about cultural cross-purposes and the music industry. When Moses Biama , a Gambian musician, is invited to London to record an album with Frank, a fading English rock star, things don't develop in the way Frank had planned.
Written by Anne Caulfield.
Music Dominique Le Gendre. Hit single by Neil Arthur and Joe Hagan.
Director Paul Schlesinger. Stereo 0 DRAMA: page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Lenny Henry
Unknown:
Moses Biama
Written By:
Anne Caulfield.
Music:
Dominique Le Gendre.
Unknown:
Neil Arthur
Unknown:
Joe Hagan.
Director:
Paul Schlesinger.
Moses:
Lenny Henry
Frank:
Bill Nighy
Moses's brother:
Curtis Walker
Binta:
Joy Elias-Rilwan
Fatima:
Donna Croll
Tara:
Joanna Myers
Jack:
James Greene
Journalist:
Mark Straker

Simon Rae introduces more poetry requests with readers June Barrie and Michael Tudor Bames , and guest Michael Longley. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS82LR

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Michael Tudor Bames
Unknown:
Michael Longley.
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

Paul Allen reviews The
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MrHydeby the Royal Shakespeare Company; and talks to the prize-winning
Australian novelist Thomas Keneally about his new book on Ireland and the Irish.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo (Revised repeat 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Thomas Keneally
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

Blame It on the Pilgrims "Every cell in Margery's body is attuned to the event. She disappears into shopping malls like some comestible down the long dark throat of a crocodile." Anne Leaton 's tale describes the build-up to American Thanksgiving, which is celebrated today. Read by Liza Ross.
Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Leaton
Read By:
Liza Ross.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

The second of three programmes.
Designer Genes
"Test tube" calves, sheep carrying human genes, and immortal mice -
Chris Serle encounters them all on his trek through the new biotechnologies creeping into the livestock industry. Unacceptable tampering with nature or the key to a disease- and chemical-free future?
ProducerSue Broom

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle

A Pleasing Prospect?
Together with his political opponents, John Major advocates creating a single environmental protection agency for Britain. But Dieter Helm asks: is a national, bureaucratic approach the best option for tackling the problems of - and the opportunities for - pollution control? Producer Simon Coates

Contributors

Unknown:
John Major
Unknown:
Dieter Helm
Producer:
Simon Coates

Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski in a six-part dramatisation of Sara Paretsky's novel.
V.I. is convinced that Agnes's murder is linked to a covert takeover bid for Ajax insurance, but can she prove it?
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Sara Paretsky
Dramatised by:
Michelene Wandor
Director:
Janet Whitaker
V.I. Warshawski:
Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant:
Martin Shaw
Rosa:
Eileen Way
Gabriella:
Avril Clark
MrsPaciorek:
Helen Horton
Barbara Paciorek:
Lorelei King
Bobby Maliory:
Willam Hootkins
Murray Ryerson:
Kerry Shale
Voice:
John Bennett
FrCarroU:
Don Fellows
Fr Pelly:
Colin Stinton
Fr Jablonski:
Peter Penry-Jones

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