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with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Philip Crowe.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Rev Philip Crowe.

Christopher Lee 's six-part political drama.
3: "You know as well as I do, Charles, that as Party Chairman you're bound to hit bad weather. And when you do, they'll try to dump you, unless you toss another body to the vultures." "So you think, Dougal, that I'm preparing Tom Bowman as my official sacrifice?" "There's nothing wrong with planning ahead ..." Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lee
Unknown:
Tom Bowman
Producer:
Neil Cargill.
Charles Bannister:
Julian Glover
Dougal Baxter:
Peter Kelly
Mary Bannister:
Isla Blair
Poly:
Ruth Gemmell
Juliet Cameron:
Siobhan Redmond
Kay:
Jane Booker
Nick:
Julian Dutton
Tom:
Bill Wallis

John Sessions takes the side of David Copperfield 's sinister step-father, but will he be able to convince Clive Anderson that Dickens was unfair to Mr Murdstone ? Producer Kate Boston. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
David Copperfield
Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Unknown:
Mr Murdstone
Producer:
Kate Boston.

Quentin Cooper reviews the latest film releases, including Kenneth Branagh 's film Peter's Friends. Also a report on videos at the London Film Festival, and a review of a major exhibition of Eric Gill 's sculptures. Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Unknown:
Eric Gill
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

Pascale's Wager by Alison Joseph. "It was more than six months since he had died, although sometimes it felt like yesterday. From that time on she had lived with the knowledge that nothing was certain." Read by Kathryn Hunt. Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Joseph.
Read By:
Kathryn Hunt.
Producer:
Gillian Hush

by Alex Shearer.
The first of eight episodes: As Unequal as Others
Her Majesty's Ambassador Mackenzie and his staff battle on bravely, coming to terms with the changing order in Colonel Surikov's fledgling Eastern bloc democracy. The new order brings new problems: not least keeping the diplomatic upper hand in a country discovering the ills of the West. Producer Neil Cargill
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Alex Shearer
Mackenzie:
Dinsdale Landen
Frost:
Peter Acre
Helen:
Moir Leslie
Surikov:
Christopher Benjamin
Spiro:
Stephen Greif

Neil Walker talks to men on the shopfloor who in the 1960s and 70s found their skills replaced by new technology.
2: Once a Railwayman Always a Railwayman In the language of railwaymen there's an expletive - "Beeching". When Dr Beeching reshaped the railways with his policy of "make it pay or cut it out", he challenged the core of what railwaymen believed in - service over cost.
Producer Julia Shaw

Contributors

Talks:
Neil Walker
Producer:
Julia Shaw

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