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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

Live from the Contact
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

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Sandi Toksvig
Producer:
Ian Gardhouse

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

Contributors

Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Panellist:
Willie Rushton
Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Pianist:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Jon Naismith

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.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Dr Zaki Badawi
Unknown:
Julia Cleverdon
Unknown:
Brenda Maddox
Unknown:
David Owen

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

Contributors

Comedy By:
Felicity Douglas
Comedy By:
Henry Cecil
Unknown:
Basil Dawson.
Directed By:
John Tydeman.
Mr Justice Carstairs:
Andrew Cruickshank
Lesley Burford:
Amanda Grinung
Thomas Empton QC:
Aubrey Woods
Mr Hunt:
Jonathan Scott
William Burford:
Trader Faulkner
Mr Bell:
Peter Howell
Supt Neale:
Michael Shannon
Ernest Mott:
Clifford Norgate
Mr Campbell:
Hector Ross
Mrs Campbell:
Carole Boyd
Joe:
Michael Burlington
Inspector Martin:
Anthony Smee

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
John Knight

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Harrabin.
Unknown:
Robert Swan
Unknown:
Vaughan Purvis
Producer:
Jeffrey Olstead

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

Contributors

Talks:
Charles Hazlewood
Producer:
John Boundy.

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

Contributors

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

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

Contributors

Talks:
Cynthia Samuels
Unknown:
Ray Brown
Producer:
Gillian Hush.

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