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Can You Trust Medicine?
Charles Medawar , a consumer affairs journalist, says pharmaceutical medicine is losing sight of proper values and should be checked.
Producer Anna Parkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Medawar
Producer:
Anna Parkinson

Umpire Brian Johnston. Taking the crease: Tim Rice and Willie Rushton , with Denise Coffey and Bill Tidy. From Singleton Cricket Club, Chichester.
Producer Jon Magnusson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston.
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Denise Coffey
Producer:
Jon Magnusson.

Foreign travel on the cheap can be a strain, as Val and Trev discover in Douglas Esson 's fraught comedy.
Director Matthew Walters. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Esson
Director:
Matthew Walters.
Val:
Melanie Hudson
Trev:
Matthew Morgan
Guilhume:
Gregory de Polnay
Sane driver:
Arturo Venegas
Crazy driver:
John Moreno
Woman clerk:
Kate Binchy

A question posed to artist Nick Swingler , in a phone call early in 1974. Would he travel behind the iron curtain to Czechoslovakia, to marry Dascha, a scientist who couldn't get exit papers because her family had been blacked? A "Green Card" story told in their own words.
Producer Nick Clarke. Stereo

Contributors

Artist:
Nick Swingler
Producer:
Nick Clarke.

Nick Baker makes contact with Ufologists. Their
"ology" can be a hobby, a counselling service, or a profession investigating unknown flying objects and the inner spaces of the human mind.
Producer Penny Lawrence. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Baker

Paul Allen investigates the health of the pub theatre network, and reviews a collection of women's crime fiction. The studio guest is the Grenadian poet Merle Collins.
Producer Jerome WeatheraM. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Merle Collins.
Producer:
Jerome Weatheram.

NEW Michael O'Donnell explores the extraordinary within ordinary family life. 1: The Marchants.
Ian and Jillian's marriage arose from a sad event.
Yet throughout their unusual partnership, they've both had the love and support of Ian's first wife's family.
Producer Sharon Banoff. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael O'Donnell
Producer:
Sharon Banoff.

Passing the Buck
Did Treasury economists get it wrong? To what extent should officials share responsibility with politicians for Britain's economic woes? In the first of a new series, David Walker audits the performance and mindset of the guardians of Treasury orthodoxy.
Producer Zareer Masani. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker
Producer:
Zareer Masani.

A five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie 's novel. 3: Carlotta Adams has become the second murder victim, even though she might have been involved in Lord Edgware's death.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Director Enyd Williams. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Unknown:
Carlotta Adams
Dramatised By:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams.
Hercule Poirot:
John Moffatt
Captain Hastings:
Simon Williams
Inspector Japp:
Norman Jones
Jane Wilkinson:
Nicola Pagett
Bryan Martin:
Brett Usher
Ronald Marsh:
Charles Millham
Geraldine Marsh:
Joanna Myers
Miss Carroll:
Eva Stuart
Duke of Merton:
Eric Allan
Sir Montagu Comer:
Garard Green
Mr Widburn:
Andrew Wincott
Mrs Widburn:
Susan Sheridan
Hoss:
Terence Edmond
Ellis:
Paula Jacobs
Jenkins:
Fraser Kerr
Point's Housekeeper:
Jean Reeve

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