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Jenni Murray meets the actor Dustin Hoffman.
Serial: Leaving the Light On by Catherine Merriman. Read in 13 episodes by Deborah Maclaren.
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Music: Woods' Sonata for alto saxophone and piano

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Dustin Hoffman.
Unknown:
Catherine Merriman.
Unknown:
Deborah MacLaren.
Abridged By:
Doreen Estall

Professor
Anthony Clare returns with the weekly magazine devoted to matters of the mind.
Today, Dr Maryon Tysoe reports from the annual conference of the British Psychological Society. Producer Nick Utechin

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Clare
Unknown:
Dr Maryon Tysoe
Producer:
Nick Utechin

Another animated discussion of everything in inverted commas, hosted by Nigel Rees. With John Walsh , Peter Jones , Sian Phillips and Max Stafford-Clark . Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. producer Jon Naismith

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees.
Unknown:
John Walsh
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Sian Phillips
Unknown:
Max Stafford-Clark
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher.
Producer:
Jon Naismith

Love is Strange by Peter Thomson.
With Jenny Agutter as Sarah and Malcolm Ward as the driver.
Sarah gets into a cab and thinks the driver is a lover from her past.... Director Claire Grove

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Thomson.
Unknown:
Jenny Agutter
Unknown:
Malcolm Ward
Director:
Claire Grove

Four programmes in which Jenni Mills reveals the personal stories behind the news headlines.
3: Thirty-six hours after giving birth to her first baby, 20-year-old
Dawn Griffiths handed her over to a woman posing as a health visitor. Baby
Alexandra was missing for over two weeks.
Producer Sarah Rowlands

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Mills
Unknown:
Dawn Griffiths
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

Gill Pyrah reviews Air and Fire, the latest novel by Rupert Thomson , and finds out about a new television opera with designs by the artist Bruce McLean and starring Mike Ahearne , better known as "Warrior" on TV's
Gladiators.
Producer Will Saunders
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Novel By:
Rupert Thomson
Artist:
Bruce McLean
Unknown:
Mike Ahearne

Miss Dotterel's
Treasure by Nick Yapp. "Miss Dotterel was at
Stillgate School, because retirement hadn't suited her. Wayne was there because his mum and dad and the law said so ..." Read by Finetime Fontayne. Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Yapp.
Read By:
Finetime Fontayne.
Producer:
Gillian Hush

Last in the series of the show that teaches you everything business school wouldn't dare to. On the panel: Peter Day , Howard Hodgson , Alastair Ross Goobey and Janette Rutterford. Chairman
Nigel Cassidy.
Producer Neil Koenig

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Unknown:
Howard Hodgson
Unknown:
Alastair Ross
Unknown:
Janette Rutterford.
Unknown:
Nigel Cassidy.
Producer:
Neil Koenig

Three programmes in which
Dr Colin Morris returns to southern
Africa and reflects on the changes of 30 years.
1: Back to the Zambezi
As a young missionary in northern Rhodesia (now
Zambia), Colin Morris was known as "the fighting parson" for his outspoken sermons on racial equality. He returns to the people and places he knew then and asks what difference the missionary made in the nation's fight for independence.
Producer Beverley McAtnsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Colin Morris
Unknown:
Colin Morris
Producer:
Beverley McAtnsh

Cari Roberts was aBFBS broadcaster on the East
German border in the 1980s. In the first of three talks she gives a personal view of the turbulent days of Reunification.
Producer Wendy Pilmer

Contributors

Unknown:
Cari Roberts
Producer:
Wendy Pilmer

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