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with John Humphrys and Susannah Simons.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones. Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Susannah Simons.
Unknown:
James Jones.
Editor:
Philip Harding

Panel: Dafydd Wigley , MP, President of Plaid Cymru:
Sir Ian Wrigglesworth , industrialist and former
President of the Liberal
Democrats:
Michael Meacher , MP, Opposition Front Bench Spokesman for Social Security;
David Mellor , MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. From Llangennith, Gower. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers?
[number removed]with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and Keith Jones
•LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dafydd Wigley
Unknown:
Sir Ian Wrigglesworth
Unknown:
Michael Meacher
Unknown:
David Mellor
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers:
Anna Carragher
Producers:
Keith Jones

The Broken Butterfly Wally K Daly 's sequel to Butterflies Don 'f Count.
A murderer escapes from Dartmoor and, leaving bloody mayhem in his wake, heads north. His aim to kill a priest ...
Director David Hitchinson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Wally K Daly
Director:
David Hitchinson.
Tom:
Kevin Whately
Peter:
Reginald Marsh
Penitent:
Tony Haygarth
Kathleen:
Marcella Riordan
Sion:
Sean Barrett
Deelan:
Des McAleer
O'Hagan:
Norman Rodway
Vietnamese boy:
Judy Bennett

Plans to restore London's Lyceum Theatre prompted Sean Street to visit the BBC Sound Archives in search of those who recalled seeing that great Victorian theatrical partnership of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. And as Communism disintegrates in Europe, the South African
Communist Party looks to the African National
Congress for support.
Schula Marks tells Barry Cunliffe about its history. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Street
Unknown:
Henry Irving
Unknown:
Ellen Terry.
Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Producer:
John Knight

Richard Sanders asks why this country is spending billions of pounds taking nitrates out of the drinking water, when those extracted are then turned into fertiliser and sold back to farmers.
Producer Jeffrey Olstead

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Sanders
Producer:
Jeffrey Olstead

Looking for Proof
George Steiner 's books - fiction, criticism and polemic - have been among the world's shaping influences in our time. As the end of the century looms, he talks to Christopher Bigsby about his vision for art and mankind in what he sees as a crisis-ridden, godless world.
Producer Tim Dee. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
George Steiner
Unknown:
Christopher Bigsby
Producer:
Tim Dee.

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann , adapted in six parts.
5: "When the house is finished, death comes."
When his new house was built, Tom thought often of this Turkish proverb and expected not necessarily death, but the decline, the falling-off, the beginning of the end.
Narrator Charles Simpson.
Translated by H. Lowe-Porter Adapted by John Peacock Director Jane Morgan Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Mann
Narrator:
Charles Simpson.
Translated By:
H. Lowe-Porter
Adapted By:
John Peacock
Director:
Jane Morgan
Tony:
Harriet Walter
Tom:
James Laurenson
Elizabeth:
Barbara Jefford
Hanno:
Max Danicic
Wellzel:
Ronalo Herdman
Gerda:
Lorna Heilbron
Christian:
Keith Drinkel
Ida:
Angela Pleasence
Pfhu/:
Brett Usher
Dr Grabotv:
Stephen Thorne
Gosdl:
Gordon Gostelow
Sesemi:
Gudrun Ure

p The first of six I discussion programmes. This week: Peter Riddell goes to the Ukraine to discuss with three economists whether the economic theory of the marketplace works when you try to put it into practice.
Producer Anne Sloman

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Riddell
Producer:
Anne Sloman

Comedy from Maggie Fox , Sue Ryding and a host of relatives. This week: the European vacuum-cleaner grand-prix, the husbands behind wife-swapping, and the wives behind goat-husbandry.
With Denise Coffey and Malcolm Raebum.
Producer Lissa Evans
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Maggie Fox
Unknown:
Sue Ryding
Unknown:
Denise Coffey
Unknown:
Malcolm Raebum.
Producer:
Lissa Evans

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