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Professor
Anthony Clare returns with the weekly magazine devoted to matters of the mind.
Today: when a man loves a woman - Dr Maryon Tysoe on the psychological problems of romance.
Producer Nadine Grieve

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Clare
Unknown:
Dr Maryon Tysoe
Producer:
Nadine Grieve

7: The Nature of Things Including Kingsley Amis, Paul Jennings and James Thurber , and their battles against inanimate objects. Read by Prunella Scales , Richard Briers and Timothy West.
Adapted by Mike Barfield from Frank Muir 's Oxford Book Of Humorous Prose.
Producer Colin Swash. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Jennings
Unknown:
James Thurber
Read By:
Prunella Scales
Read By:
Richard Briers
Read By:
Timothy West.
Adapted By:
Mike Barfield
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Producer:
Colin Swash.

Answering Back by Connal Orton.
Trevor's wife has left him but, to the world, he smiles. His friends Alan and Jan help to take care of him. But when Trevor projects his anger onto Jan, things take a nasty twist.
Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Connal Orton.
Director:
Andy Jordan.
Trevor:
Henry Goodman
Alan:
Christopher Ryan
Jan:
Melinda Walker

Gill Pyrah reads the latest from the man many regard as the greatest living crime writer Elmore Leonard ; A N Wilson has written a new biography of Jesus: the revamped Soho Poly theatre; and photographs from black America.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Elmore Leonard
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Demanding Maureen by David Kilby.
"An old woman with dishwater in her head ...
She'd walk in the night.
Try to buy bread at three o'clock in the morning.
There was no such thing as a night's sleep."
Read by Louise Beattie. Producer David Jackson Young

Contributors

Unknown:
David Kilby.
Read By:
Louise Beattie.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

Christopher Lee 's six-part political drama.
4: "I have to warn you.
Charles, that Mary is close to discovering about you and the traitor's daughter Miss Cameron....
"An innocent relationship, Henry."
"But apparently a persistent one. Your meetings may not be public knowledge, but reports have reached my desk...."
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lee
Producer:
Neil Cargill.
Sir Charles Bannister:
Julian Glover
Dougai Baxter:
Peter Kelly
Lady Bannister:
Isla Blair
Henry:
Christopher Benjamin
Juliet Cameron:
Siobhan Redmond
Polly:
Ruth Gemmell
Rose:
Sheila Reid

To mark the Jewish New Year, the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks , talks to Mike Wooldridge , BBC Religious Affairs
Correspondent. They review Dr Sacks's first year in office and, in the light of his call for a Decade of Renewal, explore his hopes and plans for the new year. Producer John Newbury Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Dr Jonathan Sacks
Unknown:
Mike Wooldridge

Nick Baker looks behind the pages of six newspapers and magazines serving different professions. 1: Variety
The international entertainment trade newspaper, famed for punning headlines and peppy copy. But with a third of the US-based movie industry now
Japanese-owned and the rest threatened by recession, the showbiz bible has cast off its green eyeshade and moved out of Times Square.
Producer Nigel Acheson Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Baker
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

Philip Larkin , besides being a highly respected poet, was passionate about jazz and for several years reviewed jazz records for the Daily Telegraph. In the second of two programmes,
Peter Dickinson traces larkin's interest in jazz through his writing, with examples on record. Larkin's words are read by David Killick.
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Larkin
Unknown:
Peter Dickinson
Read By:
David Killick.
Producer:
Derek Drescher.

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