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Ned Sherrin hosts an hour of live interjections from Arthur Smith ,
Annabel Giles and Victoria Mather. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Annabel Giles
Unknown:
Victoria Mather.
Producer:
Ian Gardhouse.

The antidote to panel games. In the chair: Humphrey Lyttelton.
Round the table:
Willie Rushton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer.
On the piano: Colin Sell. Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

Contributors

Panellist:
Willie Rushton
Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Piano:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Jon Naismith

The panel:
Carmen Callil, publisher;
Sir Peter Hall, theatre director;
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement;
and Sir Crispin Tickell, Warden of Green College, Oxford.
From Cuckfield, West Sussex.

And at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with your views on Any Questions?
Lines open from 12.30pm

Contributors

Chairman:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Panellist:
Carmen Callil
Panellist:
Peter Hall
Panellist:
Trevor Huddleston
Panellist:
Sir Crispin Tickell
Producer:
Nick Utechin
Producer:
Alison Vernon-Smith

by Walter M Miller Jr.

Six hundred years after the nuclear holocaust a group of monks struggle to preserve the remnant of humanity's scientific knowledge.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Walter M Miller Jr.
Music:
David Dorward
Music sung by:
Cappella Nova
Music directed by:
Alan Tavener
Dramatised by:
Donald Campbell
Director:
Hamish Wilson
Paido:
Michael MacKenzie
Ekazar:
John Shedden
Francis:
Andrew Price
Taddeo:
Billy Riddoch
Arkos:
Alexander Morton
Gault:
Gordon Fulton
Kornhoer:
Alec Heggie
Claret:
Robert Carlyle
Poet:
Charles Kearney

The third of four programmes in which Dr David Cook discusses a particular medical dilemma with the doctor and the patient.
Fifteen years ago Stephen donated one of his kidneys to his sister. Her body rejected the organ and now his one good kidney is failing. What are the risks of live donations, and how do Stephen, his sister and the surgeon feel now? Producer Alison Bogle

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Cook
Producer:
Alison Bogle

Can computers predict how people will behave? Alun Lewis tests a new system for assessing the safety of escape routes in complex situations, from oil rigs to an underground station. And how rainmakers in Plymouth are tackling desertification in the Mediterranean.
Producer Ruth Linton

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Lewis
Producer:
Ruth Linton

With only a pair of chestnut cart-horses and a barn full of old farm machinery, Paul Heiney has been ploughing, sowing, reaping and mowing his small Suffolk farm for the last two years. This 12-part series follows a year in his life, meeting the many characters who offer him advice, and sharing the sweat, toil, frustration and joy that accompany his search to become a son of the soil.
Producer Marc Jobst 0 FEATURE: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Producer:
Marc Jobst

The Richard Eyre
Interview Paul Allen talks to Richard Eyre , Artistic Director of the Royal National
Theatre for the last three and a half years- where he was Sir Peter Hall 's chosen successor. Eyre is heading the National Theatre at a time when sell-out productions such as his own Murmuring Judges and Night of the Iguana - just the latest two of his nine plays in the last three years - are turning people away.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Eyre
Talks:
Interview Paul Allen
Artistic:
Richard Eyre
Unknown:
Sir Peter Hall
Producer:
Nicki Paxman.

Colin Haydn Evans' two-part serial tells the true story of Lawrence of Arabia. 2: "Lawrence wants his
Arabs to take Damascus - wants them there first."
Director Nigel Bryant. Stereo

Contributors

Director:
Nigel Bryant.
TE Lawrence:
Simon Chandler
FeiSal:
Nadim Sawalha
Weiss:
Simon Carter
Gen Allenby:
James Villiers
RP Henley:
Charles Kay
Dervish:
Renu Setna
Moet:
Andre Maranne
Salim Ahmed:
Avi Nassa
Auda abu Tayi:
Tony Allef

This May, Buxton Opera House hosted the first UK Festival of Musicals - a festival which aims to find and promote new shows. Peter Hawkins has been following the Festival, from the original 491 shows submitted to the final ten.
Producer Amanda Mares

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hawkins
Producer:
Amanda Mares

Simon Brett presents diary extracts for 5th June.
Hester Thrale dishes the dirt; James Boswell has a lie-in after a heavy night; and Samuel Pepys has a night out with the lads.
Readers are Sean Barrett and Lin Sagovsky. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Hester Thrale
Unknown:
James Boswell
Unknown:
Samuel Pepys
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Unknown:
Lin Sagovsky.

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