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with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr David Stone.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Dr David Stone.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
From Falstaff at four to Cymbeline in the sixth-form. Alison Hilliard reports on how the RSC is helping schools to bring Shakespeare alive. Serial: Rebecca (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Alison Hilliard

by Martin Davies.
Final part: The Final Supper It's Frewitt Cup Final day. A day of destiny for the Patterson family and Fr Benedict. Will there be tears of joy at the end of it? Or a weeping and a gnashing of teeth?
Producer Richard Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Davies.
Unknown:
Fr Benedict.
Producer:
Richard Wilson
Mrs Patterson:
Brenda Blethyn
Fr Benedict:
Desmond Barritt
Robert Patterson:
Paul Parris
Barbara Patterson:
Charlotte Coleman
Janet Tyson:
Claire Skinner
Guy Entwhistle:
Martino Lazzeri
Mr Plant:
Gordon Reid
Andy Hunt:
Mark Straker

Seven classic mysteries starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.

A child's scribble brings tragedy to a Norfolk family.

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
Bert Coules
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr Watson:
Michael Williams
Insp Martin:
Peter Tuddenham
Hilton Cubitt:
Christopher Good
Elsie Cubitt:
Diana Hunter
Abe Slaney:
John Guerrasio
Mrs King:
Jill Graham
Sounders:
Sue Broomfield

In the second of four talks, Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum deciphers the secrets of wedge writing from Mesopotamia, and digs deep into the history of Babylonian dentistry, revealing how toothache took root when the gods granted the lowly worm rights to suck on human gums.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Irving Finkel

The fifth of six programmes in which
Christopher Cook delves into the BBC Sound
Archives to discover something of the great figures of the past, through the memoirs of those who were fortunate enough to meet them.
Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
John Knight

Brian Sibley takes a look at Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Al Pacino on the big screen; Othello at the Birmingham Rep Theatre and the paintings of Dame Laura Knight.
Producer Robyn Read
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Al Pacino
Unknown:
Laura Knight.

Retired People by Frank Tuohy.
"She told him that it had all begun two months ago, with doors banging and distant voices.... No, she had no idea who was speaking - Blundell's End had its secrets."
Read by Bill Wallis. Producer Viv Beeby

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Tuohy.
Read By:
Bill Wallis.
Producer:
Viv Beeby

NEW Export or Die?
The Prime
Minister says it's time to start selling Britain abroad - but is British business up to the challenge?
Devaluation has given us a chance to steal a competitive advantage overseas, but are we sinking beneath the waves of imports rolling into the country? Peter Day asks if Britain PLC can export its way out of recession. Producer Robert McKenzie

Contributors

Producer:
Robert McKenzie

Six murder cases featuring the celebrated pathologist Dr Keith Simpson.
1: The Fingerless Strangler In the Portsmouth blitz, a pub landlady is found strangled. Suspicion falls on a petty crook, Harold Loughans , but Loughans has lost the fingers of one hand in an accident....
Narrator Nick Ross.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Keith Simpson.
Unknown:
Harold Loughans

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