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Tomorrow, voters go to the polls to choose who will govern the United Kingdom. This morning
Jonathan Dimbleby is joined in the studio by the leader of the Conservative Party, the Prime Minister John Major.
Lines are open from
8.00am.
* SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC1

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
John Major.

Growing Pride Amateur gardener Sheila Clark has transformed an overgrown potato field into a garden to be proud of. Today she is opening it to the public for the first time, under the National Garden Scheme. Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton go behind the herbaceous borders to record the tension and excitement of the day. Producer Glyn Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Clark
Reporters:
Neil Walker
Reporters:
David Clayton
Producer:
Glyn Jones

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Pinocchio's was a telltale; Cyrano's was a blabbermouth; Streisand's is a fortune. Alison Hilliard blows away a few myths about noses. (Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial: The Getting of Wisdom (5)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Alison Hilliard

A series of four plays in which people are haunted...
In Bernadette Crosthwaite's first play for radio, a tragic accident and the events leading up to it return to haunt Christine when she meets her new next-door neighbour.
"Go 'Way from My Window" sung by Melanie Hudson.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Bernadette Crosthwaite
Singer:
Melanie Hudson
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Christine:
Maureen O'Brien
Mrs Falkener:
Margot Boyd

Mark Steyn is at the big film of the week, Steven Spielberg 's Hook, starring Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook and Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan.
(Stereo)
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Steyn
Producer:
Belinda Sample

Incident on a Lake by John Collier.
Mr Beaseley 's sense of adventure leads him to
South America on the trip-of-a-lifetime search for the elusive Megatherium.
Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Jocelyn Boxall

Contributors

Unknown:
John Collier.
Unknown:
Mr Beaseley
Read By:
Garrick Hagon.
Producer:
Jocelyn Boxall

The second of four programmes in which Dr David Cook discusses a particular medical dilemma with the people to whom it matters most - the doctor and the patient. 2: A GP's action at the birth of a premature baby sets off a chain of ethical dilemmas that brings the GP into conflict with the hospital doctors and causes the mother unnecessary trauma. Producer Alison Bogle. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Cook
Producer:
Alison Bogle.

After the boom that dramatically changed city skylines in the 1980s, commercial property is undergoing the worst slump this century. But it's less than 20 years since the last property crisis. Why do the banks who lend the money and the property developers who borrow it have such short memories?
Peter Day finds out.
Producer Melanie Fanstone

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Producer:
Melanie Fanstone

with Edward Blishen.
3: Bernice Goes to the Royal Court
In 1956 everybody suddenly started to shout - from Roc
king Ricky Stevens of Ashton-Under-Lyne to Jimmy Porter at the Royal Court. Look Back In Anger took to the stage and it was goodbye
Terence Rattigan and hello uncouth youth.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blishen.
Unknown:
King Ricky Stevens
Unknown:
Jimmy Porter
Unknown:
Terence Rattigan

A five-part dramatisation of the Agatha Christie novel.

Inspector Japp has found the taxi driver who took two very unlikely passengers to Regent Gate on the night of Lord Edgware's murder.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Agatha Christie
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams
Hercule Point:
John Moffatt
Captain Hastings:
Simon Williams
Inspector Japp:
Norman Jones
Jenny Driver:
Adjoa Andoh
Ronald Marsh:
Charles Millham
Geraldine Marsh:
Joanna Myers
Ross:
Terence Edmond
Taxi driver:
Neil Roberts

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