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with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev David Winter. Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
David Winter.
Editor:
Philip Harding

The holiday and travel programme presented by Pete McCarthy and Liz Kershaw. Today live from Gatwick Airport.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Contributors

Presented By:
Pete McCarthy
Presented By:
Liz Kershaw.
Unknown:
Gatwick Airport.
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

Presented in front of a live audience at the Lyceum
Theatre, Sheffield by Ned Sherrin. Aided and abetted by the likes of Victoria Mather , Craig Charles and Mark Steyn.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin.
Unknown:
Victoria Mather
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Mark Steyn.
Producer:
Ian Gardhouse.

Gordon Clough asks if
European historians can forge a communal view of the last two millennia. And a report from Belorus on the people who have had nationhood thrust upon them.
Editor Anna Carragher

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Editor:
Anna Carragher

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 includes:
John Prescott , MP, Shadow Transport Spokesman; Tim Clement-Jones ,
Member of the Executive
Committee of the Liberal
Democrats; Ann Leslie , journalist.
From Sheffield. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Nick Utechin
And at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Your opportunity to call Jonathan Dimbleby with your views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Any Questions? Producers Nick Utechin and Keith Jones
●LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Prescott
Unknown:
Tim Clement-Jones
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer:
Nick Utechin
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producers:
Nick Utechin
Producers:
Keith Jones

Death Drop
When 12-year-old David is found dead while on a school outing, the headmaster claims it was a terrible accident. But
David's father is convinced that it was murder. Dramatised by Jill Hyem from the novel by B M Gill. Director Cherry Cookson. Stereo

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Jill Hyem
Director:
Cherry Cookson.
Fleming:
Kenneth Cranham
Brannigan:
Peter Penry Jones
Jenny:
Jemma Churchill
Alison:
Irene Sutcliffe
Hammond:
Keith Drinkel
Durrant:
Marc Murphy
Thirza:
Melinda Walker
Preston:
Gordon Reid
LessinglCorky:
Terence Edmond
Innis:
David Learner
David's Voice:
Gary King
Neville/Chris:
Patrick Rosenfeld
Mollie:
Gudrun Ure

A year in the life of Paul Heiney 's traditional Suffolk farm.
3: April.
Phoebe, the youngest sow, has a date with a boar; Paul is taken for a ride planting potatoes; and Ronnie, the calf, loses his masculinity.
Producer Marc Jobst

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Producer:
Marc Jobst

Alan Strachan talks to one of Britain's foremost classical actors, Robert Stephens. His recent acclaimed performance as Falstaff marks his return to the stage after an absence of five years, in an eventful career spanning over 30 years.
Producer Adrian Washbourne.
Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Alan Strachan
Unknown:
Robert Stephens.
Producer:
Adrian Washbourne.

Still Life
A four-part serialisation of A S Byatt's novels The
Virgin in the Garden and Still Life dramatised by John Harvey.
2: The Virgin in the Garden
Stephanie's wedding is to go ahead, in spite of her father's opposition.
Rehearsals for Alexander's play, and Alexander himself, are occupying her sister Frederica's attention, while her younger brother Marcus is undergoing a series of increasingly dangerous psychic experiments.
Narrator Sheila Hancock.
Music: Mary Nash
Director Jeremy Mortimer. Stereo

Contributors

Dramatised By:
John Harvey.
Narrator:
Sheila Hancock.
Music:
Mary Nash
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer.
Young Frederica:
Caroline Harker
Stephanie:
Emma Fielding
Marcus:
Richard Pearce
Bill Potter:
Brett Usher
Winifred Potter:
Anna Cropper
Daniel Orton:
Neil Dudgeon
Mrs Orton:
Freda Dowie
Lucas Simmmds:
Mark Straker
Alexander:
Andrew Wincott
Edmund Wilkie:
Jonathan Tafler
Jenny Parry:
Gillian Bevan
Matthew Crowe:
Eric Allan
Marina Yeo:
Gudrun Ure
Travelling Salesman:
Peter Gunn
Vicar:
Peter Penry Jones

A series of romances.
2: Dear Tractor
In Josephine Feeney 's comedy, Glynis, a young
Leeds woman, responds to a Lonely Hearts advertisement placed by a farmer in Ireland's Own.
Romance blossoms - but in an unexpected way. Director Linda Anderson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Josephine Feeney
Director:
Linda Anderson.
Tractor:
Dermot Crowley
Glynis:
Emma Chambers

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