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with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Vicky Cosstick.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Vicky Cosstick.

In this month of the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio, Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of The
Environment, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from Michael Bentine , Lily Tomlin ,
Flanders and Swann, Bob Newhart and Tom Lehrer.
"Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long" (Ogden Nash ). Producer Richard Edis
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Michael Bentine
Unknown:
Lily Tomlin
Unknown:
Bob Newhart
Unknown:
Tom Lehrer.
Unknown:
Ogden Nash
Producer:
Richard Edis

In Robert Lord 's comedy, three genteel bridge-playing Edinburgh ladies have their noses fairly put out of joint by the arrival of the spirited - and unmarried - Iris.
Director Stewart Conn Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Lord
Director:
Stewart Conn
Iris:
Anne Downie
Lilian:
Edith MacArthur
Cyrene:
Diana Olsson
Agnes:
Sheila Latimer
Tony:
Crawford Logan
Mr Moncrieff:
Crawford Logan

Nigel Andrews visits
London's East End where another art gallery opens; views the vast collection of photos taken by the family of the last Czar; and reviews the films The Playboys and The Lawnmower Man. Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

Malgr6toute Written by Lawrence Scott.
Life on a run-down sugar plantation frustrates Mr Wainwright. Promotion? Well, he'll have to inherit dead man's shoes....
Read by Sean Barrett. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Written By:
Lawrence Scott.
Unknown:
Mr Wainwright.
Read By:
Sean Barrett.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

The second episode in a series of fourprogrammes looking at the pleasures, pitfalls and personalities of four musical instruments through the eyes of the people who play, carry, make or mend them. The Organ "It's a tiger.... it has great potential strength. But it's also a cat with a sensitive, stroking kind of feel." Producer Emma Kingsley

Contributors

Producer:
Emma Kingsley

Conversations with people who, when younger, were radical thinkers. Now they are older, have they changed their spots? Using their personal archives David Walker explores how views change over time.
2: Dr Richard Clutterbuck. Producer Mary Price

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker
Unknown:
Dr Richard Clutterbuck.

In a series of fourprogrammes Jenni Mills reveals the personal stories behind some of the headlines of the last few years.
3: Thirty-six hours after giving birth to her first baby, 20-year-old Dawn Griffiths handed her daughter over to a woman posing as a health visitor in the hospital.
Baby Alexandra was missing for over two weeks.
Producer Sarah Rowlands Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dawn Griffiths
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

A panorama of British India recorded by some of those people who lived in it.
5: The Heavenborn: the Indian Civil Service
"All us soldiers know our men and their mothers and fathers and so on, but the ICS fellow knows entire provinces, villages, what their troubles are, if the rains don't come or if so-and-so has pinched his mother's cousin's brother's field; they know it all...." Presented by Evan Charlton.
Producer Michael Mason
(Revised repeat)

Contributors

Presented By:
Evan Charlton.
Producer:
Michael Mason

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