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with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev
Dr Leslie Griffiths
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Dr Leslie Griffiths

with Eddie Mair. This week, Dilly Barlow tries a murder mystery weekend. Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Mair.
Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

Joining Jonathan Dimbleby to tackle issues raised in Countesthorpe,
Leicestershire are
Professor Peter Hennessy , journalist and broadcaster; Dominic Lawson , editor of The
Spectator, Chris Smith , MP, shadow spokesman on environmental protection: and Baroness Perry of Southwark, Vice-Chancellor of South Bank University.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Professor Peter Hennessy
Unknown:
Dominic Lawson
Unknown:
Chris Smith

The Snatch
In Gillian Richmond 's play Kate and Tina are both expecting babies.
Complete strangers and living in different parts of the country, their lives will soon be linked and changed forever.
Director Sue Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Richmond
Director:
Sue Wilson
Kate:
Kate Buffery
Tina:
Siriol Jenkins
Nick:
Mark Straker
Phil:
Andy Hockley
Softy:
Sunny Ormonde
Annette:
Joanna Wake
paul:
John Webb
Fay:
Jilly Bond
Photographer/Newsreader:
Keith Drinkel
Newscaster:
Peter Penry Jones

With unemployment in Britain now running at over 3 million, Christopher Cook looks back to the plight of the rural poor in the last century.
Sean Street recalls our attitudes to the poor down the ages, and John Miller remembers
Angela Burdett-Coutts , the great Victorian philanthropist and friend to the needy. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Sean Street
Unknown:
John Miller
Unknown:
Angela Burdett-Coutts
Producer:
John Knight

Robert Robinson continues his eavesdropping tour of the nation. This week, he is on his best behaviour talking to a group of nannies at Norland College in Berkshire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Nadine Grieve

R S Thomas ... Lean
Hours Awake Listening The Welshman R S
Thomas has spent the lean hours of his life awake, listening and writing poems born of a passion for justice, disgust at the destruction of nature by modem technology, a search for personal and national identity and a quest for a meaningful relationship with God. To mark the 80th birthday of one of the most prolific and highly regarded poets writing in English, R S
Thomas's Collected Poems are published this month. At his home in Lleyn, he talks to Ned Thomas and reads from his book. Producer Julian May

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Thomas

The Incarceration of Hubert Gray by Shaun Prendergast. In a newly privatised prison of the future, crooked financier
Hubert Gray is placed in a cell with the child murderer
Davies (played by the author himself).
Director Adrian Bean

Contributors

Unknown:
Hubert Gray
Unknown:
Shaun Prendergast.
Unknown:
Hubert Gray
Director:
Adrian Bean
Hubert Gray:
Nigel Anthony
Davies:
Shaun Prendergast
Chubb:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Diamond:
Phillp Anthony
SkaggS:
David Thorpe

A four-part comedy thriller about two men on the run from Lancing. Les and Robert have arrived in the sinister village of Crippleoak where Les has fallen in love with Dotty Turner. Robert, meanwhile, has been mistaken for the long-lost son of wealthy Mrs Rothchild.

Contributors

Producer:
Louise Coats
Les:
Robin Driscoll
Robert:
Tony Haase
Mrs Rothchild:
Hilda Braid
Dotty:
Sally Grace
Mr Judd:
Jon Glover
Josh:
Simon Godley

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