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with John Humphrys and Chris Lowe.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Father John McDade
8.40Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Chris Lowe.
Unknown:
Father John McDade

Joining Jonathan Dimbleby to tackle issues raised in Grimsby, Humberside are Peter Luff , Director of the European Movement; Sir Charles Powell , businessman and former advisor to
Margaret Thatcher ; Mary Tuck , Chair of Victim Support; and Gavin Laird , General Secretary of the A E E U.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Peter Luff
Unknown:
Sir Charles Powell
Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher
Unknown:
Mary Tuck
Unknown:
Gavin Laird

Short the Season by Mike McGrath.
Bert Boford refuses to give up his job as kennel huntsman despite intense pressure from his family. Then his wife precipitates a crisis for the hunt.
Director Michael Fox

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike McGrath.
Unknown:
Bert Boford
Director:
Michael Fox
Bert Boford:
James Laurenson
Olive Boford:
Ann Rye
Hilda Sutton:
Charmian May
Ted Boford:
Colln Kerrigan
Devla Flannery:
Saskia Downes
Flan:
James Quinn

The Queen called 1992 her "annus horribilis", and the new year began with more revelations in the troubled story of the Royal Family. Christopher Cook looks back to the Coronation 40 years ago, considers how its subjects have perceived the monarchy down the ages, and discusses the relationship between church and state. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
John Knight

In the first of a new series, the environmental programme goes on the beat with LA's finest. California has draconian anti-pollution laws, and a special police force to enforce them.
Vaughan Purvis joins the officers as they lock up top executives and stalk illegal waste dumpers. Presenter Roger Harrabin. Producer Marie Helly

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Purvis
Presenter:
Roger Harrabin.
Producer:
Marie Helly

Nobody gets it right all the time....
John Humphrys talks to four more people who have weathered major storms in their careers.
2: George Walker , the boxer turned successful businessman who entered the ring with the City bankers - and lost.

Contributors

Talks:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
George Walker

Classically White
How does classical music reflect the multicultural
Britain of today?
Why are there so few black musicians in our orchestras; and how can black culture help shape the future of the classical sound? Jo Shinner talks to musicians, educationists and orchestra employers to ask if African Caribbean musicians are being barred from our classical musical heritage and, if not, why they aren't interested!
Producer Anthony Denselow

Contributors

Talks:
Jo Shinner
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

Unreasonable Behaviour
Faced with a political and sexual scandal, an ambitious local councillor finds his marriage and career on the brink of collapse. Christopher Reason's play won the 1992 Writers' Guild New
Play Award, and Siriol
Jenkins was awarded the Radio Times Best
Newcomer Award.
Prison Officers
..PETER PENRY JONES , GORDON REID Director Marilyn Imrie
SEE PREVIEW page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Penry Jones
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Alan McAndrew:
Russell Dixon
Judy Morrison:
Siriol Jenkins
Steve Malone:
Keith Drinkel
Joanne Malone:
Gillian Bevan
Mary Douglas:
Melanie Hudson
Joanne's solicitor:
Theresa Streatfeild
Ruth:
Joanna Wake
Colin Sanders:
Peter Gunn
Harry Greenwood:
Eric Allan
Councillor Curtis:
John Church
Councillor Hunt:
Jonathan Adams
Alan's solicitor:
David Learner

More stories from an unlikely marriage written and read by Leonard Barras.
"Forty years of being wary of adverbs, it occurred to him, could take their toll, which was probably why he stooped, laughed in comers, counted himself a failure, avoided people and made lists of his shortcomings".
Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Read By:
Leonard Barras.
Producer:
Gillian Hush

This week, the human mind. It is more complicated than the most advanced retractable pencil and yet still small enough to fit inside the head of the Fantasy Island dwarf. But how? To answer this and other questions join Stewart Lee , Rebecca Front, Armando Iannucci and the voice of Tom Baker.
Producer Sarah Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Lee
Unknown:
Armando Iannucci
Unknown:
Tom Baker.
Producer:
Sarah Smith

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