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with John Humphrys and Brian Redhead.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Vincent Nichols.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Brian Redhead.
Unknown:
Vincent Nichols.

The last of four programmes in which Dr David Cook looks at the ethical and practical dilemmas faced by doctors.
Changing Faces
The parents of a Down's Syndrome child seek reconstructive surgery. Producer Juli Wills

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Cook
Producer:
Juli Wills

by Neil Rhodes. Ashley is a retired successful architect with no regrets until he meets Eric, who discovers Ashley's youthful plans for two mile-high cities which, if built, wou]d have changed the world. And Erie thinks they can be built.
Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Rhodes.
Director:
Richard Wortley
Ashley:
John Baddeley
Kay:
Jennifer Piercey
Eric:
Richard Tate
Mildred:
Barbara Atkinson

Paul Allen reports on the Beckett trilogy being staged at the West
Yorkshire Playhouse, and investigates the output of 17th-century playwright Susannah Centlivre.
Producer Adrian Washbourne (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Susannah Centlivre.
Producer:
Adrian Washbourne

Lappin and Lapinova by Virginia Woolf.
"When they came back from their honeymoon, they possessed a private world inhabited entirely by rabbits. No-one guessed there was such a place, and that, of course, made it all the more amusing." Read by June Barrie. Producer Viv Beeby

Contributors

Read By:
June Barrie.
Producer:
Viv Beeby

Sara Paretsky's novel dramatised in six parts.
Everyone wants V I off the case, but the next body isn't hers. In fact, she thought he was the villain.

Contributors

Writer:
Sara Paretsky
Dramatised by:
Michelene Wandor
Director:
Janet Whitaker
V I:
Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant:
Bill Nighy
Martin Bledsoe:
James Aubrey
Bobby Mallory:
Willlam Hootkins
Murray Ryerson:
Kerry Shale
Paige Carrington:
Teresa Gallagher
Janine Phillips:
Shelley Thompson
Jack Hogarth:
Phillip Anthony
Lois:
Sandra James-Young
Cappy:
John Church
Bledsoe's Secretary:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Receptionist:
Federay Holmes

The English New Yorker
Paula Roberts is an ambitious, quintessentially English woman. She knew her destiny was to go to
America, and she now has her own TV show. Paula is psychic, but will all her dreams come true?
Reporter John Dryden. Producer Cathie Mahoney

Contributors

Unknown:
Paula Roberts
Reporter:
John Dryden.
Producer:
Cathie Mahoney

Greening World Trade Whether the goal is
"dolphin-friendly" tuna, or saving the rainforest, Western greens are increasingly advocating trade sanctions to eliminate environmentally unfriendly activities across the globe.
Frances Caimcross asks if the world trading system can be given a greener hue without opening the way to protectionism. Producer David Levy

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances CaimcRoss
Producer:
David Levy

A four-part adaptation of Jack Higgins 's thriller set during the Falklands War. 2: Orders from the PM
Ferguson of MI6 discovers that Soviet agent Vronski is trying to get missiles to the Argentinians.
Director Scott Cherry

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Higgins
Director:
Scott Cherry
Brigadier Charles Ferguson:
Peter Jeffrey
Major Tony Villiers:
Michael N Harbour
Gabrielle Legrand:
Moir Leslie
Harry Fox:
Peter Acre
Victor Vronski:
David Bamber
Col RaulMontera:
William Hope
Julio Garcia/Col Dwyer:
Allan Corduner
Nikolai Belov:
David March
Anna Marclwk:
Melanle Hudson
Sgt Major Jackson:
Eric Allan
General Leopoldo Galticri:
John Church
Margaret Thatcher:
Melinda Walker
Prof Paul Bernard:
Keith Drinkel
Major Langliam:
Steve Hodson
Journalist/Private Elliot:
David Holt

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