Oliver Walston looks at farming in Bolivia, from the mountainous altiplano to slash and burn in the Amazonian jungle. Producer Carol Trewin
with James Whitbourn.
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
Cliff Morgan and guests at Twickenham on the occasion of the Springboks' historic return.
Producer Gill Pulsford
with Bill Oddie.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Theatre Manchester, Ned Sherrin and in all probability Arthur Smith , Sandi Toksvig and The
Men Who Know, together with their guests, expose themselves to a student audience.
Producer Ian Gardhouse
Stereo
with Michael White , political editor of The Guardian.
Producer Dennis Sewell
with Brian Hanrahan. Editor Anna Carragher
with Alison Mitchell. Producer Robert McKenzie
Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair, with Willie Rushton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer.
At the piano, Colin Sell.
Producer, Jon Naismith. Stereo
Jonathan Dimbleby and guests Dr Zaki Badawi , Director of the Muslim
College; Julia Cleverdon , Chief Executive of Business in the Community; Brenda Maddox , author and journalist; and David Owen , Chief Constable of North Wales, tackle the issues raised in Cardiff.
Producers Nick Utechin and Alison Vernon Smith
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Alibi for a Judge
A comedy by Felicity Douglas and Henry Cecil from his book, with Basil Dawson.
An attractive woman enlists the help of an elderly judge, who had convicted her husband of robbery, in an attempt to prove his innocence. It is not certain, however, how innocent her motives are.
Adapted and directed by John Tydeman. Stereo
Recent revelations in the tabloids about the Royal Family have led many people to call for curbs on press freedom. Christopher Cook uncovers some of the unflattering stories about royalty down the ages, and recalls the circulation wars of the 20s and 30s. Producer John Knight
with Alun Lewis.
What effect will global warming have on British soils, rivers and coastline? Producer Deborah Cohen
with Roger Harrabin. Polar explorer Robert Swan explains how getting sunburnt at the South Pole set him off on the road to becoming a UN commissioner for the environment. Meanwhile, Vaughan Purvis and his geiger counter sniff out more radiation, and ask why 26,000 Trimphones were dumped in a South Wales car park.
Producer Jeffrey Olstead
with Patrick Hannan.
Producer Richard Thomas
and Sports Round-Up
A satirical review of the week's news.
Stereo
with Tom Robinson.
Can anything be done for the one in ten British men who suffer from impotence? John Dryden investigates the medical options.
Producer Chris Paling. Stereo
In My Beginning
The opening bars of a piece of music often prefigure the end. Charles Hazlewood talks to composers, conductors and performers about how much the first few bars influence the whole work.
Producer John Boundy. Stereo
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 's satire on 1930s Russia, dramatised in four parts. With and 3: The Devil Entertains
Margarita takes to the air, the Master's novel reveals the guilt of Pontius Pilate , and Professor Woland's magic act astonishes the Variety Theatre audience!
Dramatised by Brian Wright
Director David Hitchinson. Stereo
Sue MacGregor's first guest in this series of six interviews is
Kevin Coates , artist and musician, who talks about his life and work.
Stereo
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Anthony Sellors. Stereo
led by the Rt Rev Richard Harries. Stereo
Sarah Baxter and Henry Porter share the questions on an issue designed to provoke and stimulate. Producer Sue Davies
r- In the first of six programmes about childhood in distant lands, Cynthia Samuels talks to Ray Brown about her early memories of Old Harbour Bay, Jamaica. Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo
with the soprano Dame Kin te Kanawa.
Stereo
Simon Brett returns with selections from four centuries of diaries.
Stereo