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An eight-part comedy drama by Alex Shearer.

Official condemnation of the privatisation of the People's Health Service is tempered slightly when the diplomats study the proposals more closely. Cheap facelifts and hair transplants for embassy staff.... Isn't there something to be said for the concept after all?
(Stereo)

Contributors

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

Shadows in the Doorway
In Peppy Barlow's play about reincarnation, a single parent in present-day England is transported to another life in 12th-century France, where she meets a woman in a similar predicament.
Director Cherry Cookson Stereo

Contributors

Pen:
Deborah Findlay
Francis:
Patrick Drury
Amelia:
Janet Maw
Sarah:
Kate Binchy
Olild:
William Wortley

At school Carol Jeffrey was always asking questions. The rest of her life she spent trying to answer them.
A pioneer of the child guidance movement and a Jungian therapist, she retired from clinical practice last year - aged 93. In conversation with Chris Barlas , she talks of her work with children so abused or frightened, they had given up speaking. Producer Joy Hatwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol Jeffrey
Unknown:
Chris Barlas
Producer:
Joy Hatwood

Reviews of Muriel Spark 's autobiography Curriculum Vitae and Jane McLoughlin 's romantic thriller Coincidence.
Gill Pyrah reports on the Turner Prize shortlist.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Muriel Spark
Unknown:
Jane McLoughlin
Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Culture Shock by Anne Hay.
"It was bad enough being an au pair to a difficult three-year-old. But I was also expected to be argument referee, adultery alibi (for Madame) and private detective (for Monsieur)."
Read by Wendy Seager. Producer David Jackson Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Hay.
Read By:
Wendy Seager.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

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.

The Welsh mining village of Maerdy was known as the last working pit in the Rhondda until it closed in 1990. Yet, during the 1920s and 30s Maerdy was notorious as a dangerous hotbed of Communism. In their struggle against poverty and injustice the miners were led by a former preacher, Arthur Homer , who spread the word of revolution. The miners who led dramatic confrontations with the pit owners, the chapel and the police recall the days when Das Kapital replaced the Bible.
Reporter Brian James. Producer Alastair Wilson
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Homer
Unknown:
Das Kapital
Reporter:
Brian James.
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

The series in which
Stephen Pile investigates the strange case of Britain today.
3: Is There Life after Fleet Street?
What has been lost and what has been gained by the death of the "Street of Shame"? Risking sclerosis of the liver, Stephen Pile sets out to discover whether sober journalists can write interesting newspapers.
Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Pile
Producer:
Anne-Marie Cole

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