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with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Indarjit Singh.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Indarjit Singh.

with Jenni Murray.
It climbs and clings, twines and trails - Corinne Julius sings the praises of the ivy. Serial: The Vampire
Tapestry 8: Book Three: The Unicom Tapestry (2) Read by Liza Ross.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Corinne Julius
Read By:
Liza Ross.

The last part of Christopher Lee 's political drama. "No, Tom - a public statement from you about your 'resignation' would suggest differences of opinion. Not good for the party."
"Well, if you write the announcement, don't forget you hired me. The PM wasn't keen. You insisted. You fouled up.
You cop the blame. Tough luck, Charles."
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

Contributors

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

A thriller in five parts by Andrew Rissik.

Hindle is alone on Temptation Island. His brief: to kill Jack Lightbom's wife.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Andrew Rissik
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Billy Hindle:
James Aubrey
Tara Lightborn:
Joanna Lumley
Jack Lightborn:
Charles Gray
Marianne:
Lisa Rowe-Beddoe
Larry Cosgrave:
Michael Cochrane
Alex Linstrom:
Ed Bishop
Manola:
Ben Onwukwe
Engineer:
Paul Rosebury

As Robert Zemeckis ' film
Death Becomes Her opens, Brian Sibley reports on the new screen releases and John Wilson visits the Eureka project in Halifax. Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Zemeckis
Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
John Wilson
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

A comedy in eight parts by Alex Shearer. 4: Little Extras
The novelty of artistic freedom in the People's Democracy attracts a swarm of film location managers, hungry for new backdrops, authentic faces - and cheap labour. But the movie moguls hadn't bargained for one thing - a little diplomatic scene-stealing.
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Shearer.
Producer:
Neil Cargill.
MacKenzie:
Dinsdale Landen
Frost:
Peter Acre
Helen:
Moir Leslie
Surikov:
Christopher Benjamin
Spin:
Stephen Greif
Duncan Bridges:
Peter Whitman

Chaired by Brian Redhead. Politicians and experts debate the issues with contributions from an invited audience of interested groups and individuals. At the end of the debate, listeners can register their own vote by telephone.
Producers Andrew Denwood and Sheila Cook. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead.
Producers:
Andrew Denwood
Producers:
Sheila Cook.

The life story of the author acclaimed by his contemporaries as "the greatest man in Russia", compiled by Michael Bakewell from his letters, diaries, words of his family and friends and the characters who people his books.
With Norman Rodway as Count Leo Tolstoy.
2: TIw Hero of My Tale Is Truth.
Director Rosemary Hart. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Unknown:
Count Leo Tolstoy.
Unknown:
Tiw Hero
Director:
Rosemary Hart.
Young Tolsto:
Nicholas Farrell
Sasha Tolstoy:
Alice Arnold
Marya Tolstoy:
Melinda Walker
Pierre:
Alan Barker
Prince Andrei:
Nigel Carrington
Nicholas Rostov:
David Goudge
Nekrasov:
Peter Penry Jones
General Wolf:
Garard Green
Turgenet':
Geoffrey Whitehead
Paneyev:
John Baddeley
Reader:
John Rowe

Six years in radio's history.
This was the year the BBC came of age and celebrated its 21st birthday. It was a BBC now dedicated to the war effort: from Tommy Handley and ITMA to Godfrey Talbot in Africa: from the Radio Allotment to the inside of a bomber on a raid over Berlin. For the first time the reality of war came into homes and radio took its place on the front line.

Contributors

Reader:
Daphne Oxenford
Producer:
Amanda Mares

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