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with Sue MacGregor and John Waite.
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:
John Waite.
Unknown:
Jimmy Morrison

Presented by Bill Oddie. This week a special programme looking at the needs of travellers with disabilities.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Contributors

Presented By:
Bill Oddie.
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

The panel includes Denis Filer , Director-General of the Engineering Council, and Arthur Scargill ,
President of the National Union of Mineworkers.
From Edlington,
Doncaster. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Filer
Unknown:
Arthur Scargill
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.

by Trevor Hoyle.
After colliding with a Blackpool tram in his Lagonda, Lancashire's famous comedian, Frank Randle, was admitted to hospital... for psychiatric observation. Hoyle's play follows sessions with his doctor which take Frank back to his childhood in Wigan.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Trevor Hoyle
Director:
Tony Cliff
Frank Randle:
Keith Clifford
Queenie:
Melissa Jane Sinden
Gus Aubrey:
Russell Dixon
Peggy:
Saskia Downes
Doctor:
Malcolm Raeburn
Rhoda Hughes:
Julie Corrigan
Arthur Hughes:
Richard Pattenden
Tommy:
Peter Groves
Brennan:
Alan Sykes
John Capstack:
John Branwell
H Barnes Esq:
John Jardine
Magistrate:
Glyn Morrow
PC Gray:
Colin Meredith
Prosecuting Counsel:
Michael Duggan
Irish PC:
James Quinn
[Actor]:
Joseph Vickers
[Actor]:
Paul Bray
[Actor]:
Kelvin Fletcher

The recent financial crisis and Britain's withdrawal from the Exchange Rate Mechanism prompt
Christopher Cook to look back to a phase of European monetary union 1,200 years ago. George Robb discusses "white-collar" crime a century ago, and Sean Street recalls earlier attempts to set up a state lottery. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
George Robb
Producer:
John Knight

Gill Powell reports from Germany where even environmentalists are alarmed at the recycling laws which threaten to bury the country under mountains of rubbish. In the studio
Frances Caimcross , environment editor of The Economist, looks at the cost of putting the eco into economics. Producer Jeffrey Olstead

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Powell
Unknown:
Frances CaimcRoss
Producer:
Jeffrey Olstead

Patti Austin Is Very Live Jazz and soul singer Patti Austin - who also tells jokes and does wicked impersonations of fellow stars - recently brought her "total experience" show to Britain. Steve Edwards took the opportunity to talk to her. Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Patti Austin
Singer:
Patti Austin
Producer:
Belinda Sample.

The Master and Margarita
The final part of Mikhail Bulgakov 's novel.
The Fifth Dimension The dead rise to greet Queen Margarita at the Ball of the Spring Moon. But will she save her beloved Master?
Dramatised by Brian Wright
Director David Hitchinson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mikhail Bulgakov
Unknown:
Spring Moon.
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 Hollis
Behemoth:
David Holt
Natasha:
Melanie Hudson
Inspector:
Eric Allan
Sergeant:
Jonathan Adams
Baron Maigel:
John Webb
Berlioz:
John Flemlng
Matthew:
John Church
Detective:
Peter Penry Jones
Frieda:
Linda Polan
Yeshua:
Jonathan Tafler

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