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Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev Jim Thompson.
8.40Yesterdayin Parliament

Contributors

Presented By:
Brian Redhead
Presented By:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Jim Thompson.

Iainjohnstone hosts a new series of the celebrity panel show that brings you magic movie moments. This week's panel is Dick Vosburgh ,
Michael Bentine , Nanette Newman and Robin Ray.
Producer Andy Aliffe. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Vosburgh
Unknown:
Michael Bentine
Unknown:
Nanette Newman
Unknown:
Robin Ray.
Producer:
Andy Aliffe.

A first radio play by Gregory Motton.

Two old tramps know that anyone will steal anything from poor defenceless travelling people. But surely, argues their goat to their donkey, no one would begrudge the old gents their jug for making tea?

(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Gregory Motton
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Michael:
Paddy Dooney
Joseph:
TP McKenna
Official:
Terence Edmond
Donkey:
Kilian McKenna
St Peter:
Robert Portal
Jesus:
Sean Arnold
Guard:
Colin McFarlane

The last of four programmes in which Peter White talks about the more off-beat consquencesofhis blindness. Today he muses on people's strange belief that when they offer to help you, they are responsible for your whole existence - and often that means knowing better than you where you are going.

Contributors

Talks:
Peter White

Robert Dawson-Scott visits the exhibition at the Design Museum devoted to French superhero
Tintin; and the Christmas show The Magic Storybook opens in Oxford.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dawson-Scott
Producer:
Beaty Rubens.

The second bitter-sweet comedy by the Indian writer R K Narayan.
Trail of the Green Blazer
"The jabber and babble of the market place was there. Over it the green blazer seemed to cry out an invitation.... Raju could not ignore it."
Read by Sam Dastor.

Contributors

Read By:
Sam Dastor.

The further adventures of Mr Justice Cocklecarrot, Captain Foulenough and other characters created by humorist J B Morton. With Richard Ingrams , John Wells ,
Patricia Routledge , John Sessions and Brian Perkins.
Producer Harry Thompson Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
J B Morton.
Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Patricia Routledge
Unknown:
John Sessions
Unknown:
Brian Perkins.
Producer:
Harry Thompson

Ashes of Empire
The last of a three-part series in which
Gordon Clough reports from the Soviet Union. Can a new, cohesive confederation arise from the ashes of the old empire?
The 16th Republic
As the 15 former Soviet
Republics set about establishing their own armed forces, what role is left for the rump of the Soviet Army? Can there be effective control of the huge Soviet nuclear arsenal? And could the proliferation of firepower lead to a Soviet Yugoslavia? Producers Lucy Ash and Lynne Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Producers:
Lucy Ash
Producers:
Lynne Jones

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White and Tony Barringer. Producer Thena Heshel
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9.30pm and 10.30pm
0 FACTSHEET No 51: send large sae to [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White
Presented By:
Tony Barringer.
Producer:
Thena Heshel

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