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An eight-part comedy drama by Alex Shearer. Endangered Species
The growing awareness of environmental issues in the People's Democracy also brings a clearer vision of true Western attitudes to pollution.
Are the diplomats headed for extinction?
Producer Neil Cargill
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Alex Shearer
Producer:
Neil Cargill
Mackenzie:
Dinsoale Landen
Frost:
Peter Acre
Helen:
Moir Leslie
Surikov:
Christopher Benjamin
Spiro:
Stephen Greif

A series in which Matthew Parris investigates intriguing letters that have no known replies. 5: When St Paul told women at Corinth to cover their heads, he meant their entire heads, shutting them up. His first letter was part of a lively, sometimes bizarre correspondence. Producer Julia Gillett

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Unknown:
St Paul
Producer:
Julia Gillett

Gill Pyrah 's guest is
Australian author Janette Turner Hospital. Ian McEwan 's new novel
Black Dogs is reviewed and there is a profile of the Bradford Festival.
Producer Sarah Johnson. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Janette Turner Hospital.
Unknown:
Ian McEwan
Producer:
Sarah Johnson.

King Kong by Lisa Cody.
"The last line in the movie King Kong is 'Twas beauty killed the beast'.
Well, in my experience it's the other way round.
When even the prettiest people look at me they become horrible, so the beast kills beauty."
Read by Susan Jeffrey. Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Contributors

Unknown:
Lisa Cody.
Read By:
Susan Jeffrey.
Producer:
Anne-Marie Cole

starring Tom Miles and Rob Millner , with special guests Jim Tavare , Jonathan Cecil and Flaminia Cinque.
Half-an-hour of comedy and music in which the classics are mangled beyond recovery.
Producer Harry Thompson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Miles
Unknown:
Rob Millner
Unknown:
Jim Tavare
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

Last in the series.
"The Health Centre belongs to the people of Alex. They could sell it and buy beer but they won't."
As South Africa struggles to find a new identity, is the model for the new nation already operating at the Alexandra Health
Centre? Dr Tim Wilson combats Third World health problems in the First World city of Johannesburg, in the only medical centre serving a black community of 250,000. Reporter Noreen Alexander.
Producer Nick Clarke

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Tim Wilson
Reporter:
Noreen Alexander.
Producer:
Nick Clarke

Information for people with a visual handicap. With Tony Barringer. Producer Thena Heshel
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: Tel [number removed]between 9.30pm and 10.30pm
FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
HANDBOOK: £15.00, from [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Barringer.
Producer:
Thena Heshel

Daisy Miller by Henry James.
Read in four episodes by Margaret Robertson.
Abridged by Michael Voysey Producer Maurice Leitch
(First broadcast in 1978)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James.
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson.
Abridged By:
Michael Voysey
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

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