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with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Jimmy Morrison
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Jimmy Morrison

- again, with Willie Rushton ,
Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer. Chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton. Pianist Colin Sell. Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Willie Rushton
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Barry Cryer.
Pianist:
Humphrey Lyttelton.
Producer:
Jon Naismith.

From Liverpool. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. Guests Patrick Minford , Professor of Applied Economics, Liverpool University;
John Pilger , journalist;
Dr Ann Robinson , Head of Policy Unit, Institute of Directors; and Rt Rev
David Sheppard , Bishop of Liverpool.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Unknown:
Patrick Minford
Unknown:
John Pilger
Unknown:
Dr Ann Robinson
Unknown:
David Sheppard

The Bliss family are ultra-bohemian and have "weekends". This time they have each invited a guest without telling one another. Result: mayhem! Noel Coward's famous comedy is introduced by Sheridan Morley.
Director Leslie Lawton. (Stereo)
DRAMA: page 4

Contributors

Author:
Noel Coward
Introduced by:
Sheridan Morley
Director:
Leslie Lawton
Judith Bliss:
Judi Dench
David Bliss:
Michael Williams
Richard Greatham:
Geoffrey Palmer
Myra Arundel:
Celia Imrie
Jackie Coryton:
Patricia Brake
Sandy Tyrell:
Christopher Blake
Simon Bliss:
Patrick Pearson
Sorel Bliss:
Alison Reid
Clara:
Patricia Hayes

At this time of remembrance for victims of war, Christopher Cook recalls the origins of the Cenotaph in Whitehall, remembers Bertrand Russell whose protests against war led to his imprisonment, and discusses the League of Nations - founded to prevent war.
Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Bertrand Russell
Producer:
John Knight

with Roger Harrabin.
In the USA militant misers are saving the planet and money too. Hamish Mykura reports on the runaway success of the Tight Wad Gazette. In the studio, Ian Hislop reveals those who are economical with the environmental truth. And Vaughan Purvis asks: why worry about Sellafield when everybody has a nuclear waste dump in their own home?

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Harrabin.
Unknown:
Hamish Mykura
Unknown:
Ian Hislop
Unknown:
Vaughan Purvis

Musician Tom Robinson presents a weekly magazine programme for men that women can't afford to miss. This week: Why journalist Steven Wells has never considered himself to be beautiful; the bizarre lineage of the "pretty boy" advertising image; and men and intimacy - a contradiction in terms? Producer Chris Paling. Stereo

Contributors

Musician:
Tom Robinson
Unknown:
Steven Wells
Producer:
Chris Paling.

"Shoot the Prime
Minister!"
What does a newspaper picture editor want from a photograph? Tim Marlow meets the men - and women
- who jostle outside night-clubs for the pap snap; joins the throng with their telephotos by the goalposts; and peeks beyond the wall of aluminium ladders outside Number 10 to find out just what it is they want - and what they'll do to get it.
Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Marlow
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 's masterly novel, dramatised in four parts. With Daniel Massey as Woland,
Michael Maloney as the Master, and Geraldine James as Margarita.
2: The Magic Theatre Margarita meets the gangster. The Master's in the asylum and Woland and his talking cat are about to appear at the Variety Theatre. Devilish chaos comes to Moscow!
Dramatised by Brian Wright
Director David Hitchinson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
Unknown:
Daniel Massey
Unknown:
Michael Maloney
Unknown:
Geraldine James
Dramatised By:
Brian Wright
Director:
David Hitchinson.
Bezdomny:
Nigel Anthony
Koroviev:
Colin Jeavons
Azazello:
John Hollis
Behemoth:
David Holt
Natasha:
Melanie Hudson
Inspector:
Eric Allan
Sergeant:
Jonathan Adams
Bengalsky:
Jonathan Tafler
Berlioz:
John Fleming
Rimsky:
Peter Penry Jones
Baron Maigel:
John Webb
Latunsky:
John Church
Nina:
Linda Polan
Nurse:
Melinda Walker

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