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with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
James Jones.

Four programmes in which Colin Semper meets people who, confronted by the same moral dilemma, arrived at very different decisions.
1: Doctors gave two women the same devastating news - their babies would almost certainly be born severely disabled. Should they go ahead with the pregnancy or have an abortion? Producer Brian King

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Semper

with Jenni Murray.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial: Backlash by Paula Gosling.
Coolly and systematically, someone is killing cops.
And Detective Lieutenant
Jack Stryker and Federal Agent Dana Marchant have to find the killer fast.
The first of 12 episodes read by Peter Marinker. Abridged by Meg Clarke
Music: Panufnik's Sinfonia Votiva

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Paula Gosling.
Unknown:
Jack Stryker
Unknown:
Dana Marchant
Read By:
Peter Marinker.
Abridged By:
Meg Clarke

A four-part adaptation ofPGWodehouse's classic novel.
3: YooHoo.I'm
Whipple Sam wins his way into Lord Emsworth's heart, and Galahad gives him a new identity. But the local police, Beach the butler and Lady Hermione are still on his trail. And the Empress finds something intoxicating in her trough. Narrator Moray Watson.
Adapted by Richard Usborne
Producer Gareth Edwards. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Whipple Sam
Narrator:
Moray Watson.
Adapted By:
Richard Usborne
Producer:
Gareth Edwards.
Galahad:
Ian Carmichael
Lord Emsworth:
Richard Vernon
Lady Hermione:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Beach:
Harold Innocent
Wilfred:
Jonathan Cecil
Monica:
Moir Leslie
Sam:
Simon Treves
Sandy:
Susannah Fellowes
Huxley:
Richard Pearce
Constable Evans:
Chris Emmett

In Gerry Jones 's play a man returns home to a strangely empty house and finds that his world has suddenly crashed around him. What will he do?
Director Martin Jenkins. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Jones
Director:
Martin Jenkins.
John:
Ronald Pickup
Susan:
Carole Boyd
Alan:
Eric Allan
Mark:
Terence Edmond
Alice:
Ann Windsor

Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests with readers Garard Green and Judith Pearson. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC. Bristol 8S8 2LR

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Rae
Introduces:
Judith Pearson.
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

Paul Allen reports from Newcastle upon Tyne on new developments in Tyne theatre, on Newcastle's Amber Film Production
Company, and on the city's artistic and musical life.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Stereo (Revised repeat 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

Departures by Brian Leyden.
An emigrant returns to his west of Ireland home and is startled by the painful beauty of the place.
Read by Ian McElhinney. Producer Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Leyden.
Read By:
Ian McElhinney.
Producer:
Pam Brighton

L Dukes of York...?
The series returns with the first of two programmes on economic ups and downs. David Walker asks: when should the next recession be expected, and who or what should be blamed?
Producer Simon Coates

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker
Producer:
Simon Coates

Dick Francis 's novel, winner of a Gold Dagger award for crime writing, serialised in five parts. 1: Sid Halley , crippled ex-jockey turned investigator, faces a daunting treble....
Dramatised by Alan England
Producer Philip Martin. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Sid Halley
Dramatised By:
Alan England
Producer:
Philip Martin.
Sid Halley:
Mick Ford
Lucas Wainwright/Lord Friarly:
David Neal
Chico Barnes:
Kim Durham
Rosemary Caspar:
Patricia Gallimore
GeorgeCaspar:
Alan Devereux
Charles:
Simon Carter
Unwin/Quayle:
David Vann
TrevorDeansgate:
Terry Molloy
Jenny:
Petra Markham
Louise:
Susan Sheridan

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