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The musical panel game.
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race. Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden.
Unknown:
Steve Race.
Producer:
Richard Edis.

The Great Orange Outing by Sony Comedy Award winner Alick Rowe.
An innocent small girl prays that certain people should wake up with orange ears....
Narrator Melinda Walker.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alick Rowe.
Narrator:
Melinda Walker.
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin.
James:
Christian Rodska
Paul:
Tony Robinson
Jill:
Carole Jahme
PC Davison:
Cornelius Garrett
Jane:
Laura Hawkridge
Col Fisher:
John Abineri
Jason:
Dave Fishley

American author
Alice Walker is Gill Pyrah 's guest in the studio. Helen Garrison investigates the use of Alexander technique in theatre, and Joyce Carol Oates 's novel Black Water is reviewed.
Producer Adrian Washboume. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alice Walker
Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Helen Garrison
Unknown:
Joyce Carol Oates
Producer:
Adrian Washboume.

High Spirits by Donneil Kennedy.
"We'll have to pass the time somehow," said
McPhee, looking at them gravely. "As men have always done in adversity. Tell tales, weave ballads and legends."
Read by Robert Trotter. Producer Bruce Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Donneil Kennedy.
Read By:
Robert Trotter.
Producer:
Bruce Young

A series of six programmes in which
Miles Kington discovers what makes different nations laugh. 3: China
The Chinese enjoy punning, scatological humour, regional jokes and the Chinese equivalent of a Morecambe and Wise act - "Crosstalk".
Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Contributors

Producer:
Anne-Marie Cole

Nick Baker looks between the pages of six newspapers and magazines serving different professions. 4: Church Times
An advertisement for the "Charisma" Clergy Filofax; a musical suggestion for a Sunday School class, involving milk bottles; an editorial designed to quicken the vicarage pulse. Will it produce a thunderous mailbag for next week's letters page? God knows.
Producer Nigel Acheson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Baker
Producer:
Nigel Acheson.

The final part of Debbie Thrower 's look at partnerships almost as close as a marriage. 3: Keeping House for Father
For centuries, Catholic priests have employed housekeepers to cook and clean for them. Twenty years ago, Hazel van
Overstraeten became
Father Gerald Flood 's housekeeper in Biggin Hill. But she doesn't just cook - she now works with him in the parish and has become his pastoral assistant.
Producer Emma Kingsley Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Debbie Thrower
Unknown:
Father Gerald Flood
Unknown:
Biggin Hill.
Producer:
Emma Kingsley

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