Producer Tim Finney

with James Whitbourn.

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr Oliver McTernan.
Editor Philip Harding

with Cliff Morgan. Producer Rob Nothman

with Ken Bruce.
This week, a look at Peking as tourists return following the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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 Peter Jenkins , Associate Editor of The Independent. Producer Dennis Sewell

This week Stephen Jessel considers health care in Europe - are others better served than the British?
Editor Jolyon Monson

with Louise Botting.

In the chair
Humphrey Lyttelton.
With Willie Rushton , Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor . Piano Colin Sell.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

This week's panel:
Chantal Cuer; Peter Luff ; Paul Boateng , MP; and Rt Hon
John Biffen. MP.
From Hatfield, Herts.
Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers?
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Richard Briers and Susannah York star as Arthur Ransome and his wife Evgenia, in Eric Pringle's play about the writing of a children's classic by "the man who hated children".

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As politicians argue over the future of the National
Health Service,
Barry Cunliffe looks back to its beginning and discovers that it has always been controversial.
And Douglas Porch tells John Miller about the realities of the French
Foreign Legion, a military corps surrounded by romance, legend and mystery.
Producer John Knight

with Alun Lewis.
Producer Deborah Cohen

The final programme in the series.
An Ideal Grandpa?
In 1895, one ofBritain's most sensational court casesbroughtaboutthe ruin of wit and playwright Oscar Wilde. Five years later, he died penniless in Paris and the family changed its name.
Grandson Merlin Holland reflects on his legacy of genius and scandal from the grandfather he never knew.
Presented by Roger Wilkes. Producer Diana Stenson

with Patrick Hannan.
Producer Richard Thomas

and Sports Round-Up

Stereo

with Robert Robinson.
ProducerMichael Ember. Stereo

From Pearl Harbor to Psycho
Fifty years after Pearl
Harbor's "Day of Infamy" brought America into the Second World War, Nigel Andrews looks at how the war and its impact transformed Hollywood. In the first of two programmes, such directors as Fred Zinnemann , Sidney Lumet and Sam Fuller , and stars including Deborah Kerr , Gene Kelly , Glenn Ford ,
Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh , talk about the fall of the studios, the rise of the independents and the growing-upof
American cinema.
ProducerNlcki Paxman. Stereo

Jamaica Inn
A four-part dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier 's story of life on Bodmin Moor. 3: It is Christmas Eve and a terrified Mary has been abandoned at Launceston Fair. Now she must make her way back along the lonely road to Jamaica Inn.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell DirectorEnyd Williams. Stereo

Sue MacGregor meets
Janey Buchan , Member of the European Parliament for Glasgow.

Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer David Gallagher. Stereo

led by the Rt Rev
Richard Harries. Stereo

Andrew Marr chairs the discussion programme that challenges its participants to think before they speak. Producer Gwyneth Williams. Stereo

In the fifth of seven programmes, the radical Russian journalist Vitali Vitaliev wonders why
British education falls so far short of the mark.

with husband and wife woodwind players Michael Copley and Evelyn Nallen. Stereo

Simon Brett presents the last mix of diary extracts in the series. Anne Lister in 1823 calls in the doctor for her housemaid and her horse; Tony Benn considers his prodigious tea consumption; and a Mass Observation diarist gets lost in the shrubbery during the blackout.
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