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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Venerable
George Austin.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
George Austin.

The fifth of seven programmes giving foreigners a chance to express their views about Britain. The radical
Russian journalist, Vitali Vitaliev , wonders why
British education falls so far short of the mark.
Producer Geoff Spink

Contributors

Unknown:
Vitali Vitaliev
Producer:
Geoff Spink

Denis Norden , Victor Spinetti and Richard Stilgoe tell the stories. You and Chairman Tim Brooke-Taylor have to guess who's hoaxing.
Producer Edward Taylor. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Victor Spinetti
Unknown:
Richard Stilgoe
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Producer:
Edward Taylor.

Financial whizzkidjamie Dyson thinks he's tough, but when he finds himself on a management survival course on the Welsh borders, the going gets tougher.
Written by Chris Allen.
Director Matthew Walters. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Chris Allen.
Director:
Matthew Walters.
Jamie:
Jason Flemyng
Margaret:
Susan Kyd
Rod:
Brett Usher
Tessa:
Deborah MacLaren
Ted:
Eric Allan
Corky:
Sean Arnold

Simon Rae introduces your 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 BS8 2LR ●CASSETTE: Poetry Please!, from retailers

Contributors

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

Paul Allen visits
Manchester for the stage premiere of the children's classic, The Singing,
Ringing Tree; Natural
Theatre Company unveil their version of The
Nutcrackerstory; and the programme marks the anniversary of Mozart's death on 5 December 1791.
Producer Richard Bannerman
Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

The Beggars by Donneil Kennedy.
"One day, before the last rains, when the mood of the city was a steam boiler at white heat, I got caught in a riot."
Read by Crawford Logan. Producer Bruce Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Donneil Kennedy.
Read By:
Crawford Logan.
Producer:
Bruce Young

The last of three programmes. Fuzzy Logic
Robots are slowly moving out of the factory and into the home, hospital, farm and school. The new generation fuses advanced engineering with artificial intelligence to form not quite the thinking robot, as yet, but one capable of "fuzzy logic". Chris Serle meets some of the woolly thinkers and their creators, and looks at the potential of the new robot. Producer Sue Broom

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Serle

Local boundaries are being redrawn again. But who will take to the streets over the fate of their county? With the help of some Lincolnshire Yellowbelliesand Yorkshire Tykes,
David Walker explores people's sense of place. Producer Joy Hatwood

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker

Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski in a six-part dramatisation of Sara Paretsky's novel.
First an acid attack, then her flat burns down: the anonymous caller will go to any lengths to get V.I. to give up.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Sara Paretsky
Dramatised by:
Michelene Wandor
Director:
Janet Whitaker
V.I. Warshawski:
Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant:
Martin Shaw
Uncle Stefan:
Maurice Denham
Lotty Herschel:
Miriam Karlin
Gabriella:
Avril Clark
O'Faolin:
John Bennett
Mrs Paciorek:
Helen Horton
Phil Paciorek:
Stuart Milligan
Murray Ryerson:
Kerry Shale
Bobby Malloty:
William Hootkins
Don Pasquale:
Colin McFarlane
Ruth:
Lorelei King
Father Pelly:
Colin Stinton
Phyllis Lording:
Theresa Streatfeild

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