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What is the point of all-women orchestras? How different is their sound?
Jenni Murray puts the questions to conductor Janet Canetty-Clarke .
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
According to Mark (7)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Conductor:
Janet Canetty-Clarke

Nigel Rees hosts the quotation game. With Germaine Greer , Stanley Wells,
Michael Billington and Robert Stephens.
From the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Michael Billington
Unknown:
Robert Stephens.
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher.
Producer:
Jon Naismith.

Whispers
Dave Simpson 's play explores the life of a politician with a wife and - discreetly - a mistress. When the mistress becomes pregnant, will it spell ruin? And how will the wife and the mistress react? Director Kay Patrick Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Simpson
Director:
Kay Patrick
Peter:
Edward de Souza
Maureen:
Ann Windsor
Amanda:
Barbara Marten

Paul Vaughan investigates the mystery of the creator of Maigret,
Georges Simenon ; talks to the man who composes music to order, from Henry VIII to sounds from space; and listeners confess their artistic revelations.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Talks:
Georges Simenon
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

The Chestnut Colt by Frances Bellerby.
"Yet here was established a green caravan, already unresented, apparently unnoticed by the chestnut colt and his mother! But to the boy and girl quite strange!"
Read by June Barrie.
Producer Viv Beeby

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Bellerby.
Read By:
June Barrie.
Producer:
Viv Beeby

A six-part series by Simon Brett , writer of After Henry.
1:Sisters of Mercy
Anna, the eldest of three sisters, finds herself able, for the first time, to live her own life. Then her younger sisters Victoria and Charlotte arrive, determined to "help" her. And Anna discovers just how difficult it is to be free from family ties.
Producer Paul Schlesinger Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Paul Schlesinger
Anna:
Rosemary Leach
Victoria:
Nicola Pagett
Charlotte:
Celia Imrie
Delia:
Maxine Audley

with Barry Cunliffe.
"I believe sovereignty is not some predefined absolute, but a flexible, adaptable, organic notion that evolves and adjusts with circumstances....
Sovereignty constitutes a resource to be used rather than a constraint that inhibits or limits our capacity for action."
(Sir Geoffrey Howe , 1990) Jonathan Clark , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, talks to John Miller about the historical differences in the perception of sovereignty between the British and the rest of the European Community.

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe.
Unknown:
Sir Geoffrey Howe
Unknown:
Jonathan Clark
Unknown:
John Miller

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White. Producer Thena Heshel
•QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel [number removed]between
9.30pm and 10.30pm
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Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White.

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