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with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys. Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Phillip Crowe.
8.40 Yesterday In Padiament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Rev Phillip Crowe.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Every summer otherwise blissfully happy relationships disintegrate into bitter acrimony. The occasion? The family holiday. The cause? Navigation. Sue Margolis investigates the science, the art and the perils of map-reading. Serial: Fatknds (7)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.

Frank Delaney with the programme about language that is what it says.
6: Play it again and again, Sam. Must familiarity breed contempt? A celebration of the tired old cliche and its offspring. Producer Liz Jensen

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Producer:
Liz Jensen

This week: The Punters Challenge, a quiz specially devised for the BBC Radio On Show festival. Susan Marling is the referee as contestants battle it out at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol. Producer John Holmes
WRITE TO: Punters. BBC Radio 4. Bristol BS8 2LR PHONE: 0[number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling
Producer:
John Holmes

A review of Fred D'Aguiar 's collection of poetry, and Quentin Cooper meets the controversial American radio star
Eric Bogosian.
Producer John Goudie
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred D'Aguiar
Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Unknown:
Eric Bogosian.
Producer:
John Goudie

by Robert Dodds.
"He poisoned them, in his little room, popping them into a jar with some crushed laurel leaves. Afterwards he'd lay the brightly-coloured little corpse among crumbs in his Tupperware sandwich box, gently wrapped in a tissue shroud."
Read by Stuart McQuarrie. Producer Louise Dalziel

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dodds.
Read By:
Stuart McQuarrie.
Producer:
Louise Dalziel

A four-part adaptation of P G Wodehouse's comic novel.
Sam wins his way into Lord Emsworth's heart, and Galahad gives him a new identity. But the local police, Beach the butler and Lady Hermione are still on his trail. And the Empress has found something intoxicating in her trough.

Contributors

Author:
P.G. Wodehouse
Adapted By:
Richard Usbome
Producer:
Gareth Edwards
Narrator:
Moray Watson
Galahad:
Ian Carmichael
Lord Emsworth:
Richard Vernon
Lady Hermione:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Beach:
Harold Innocent
Wilfred:
Jonathan Cecil
Monica:
Moir Leslie
Sam:
Simon Treves
Sandy:
Susannah Fellowes
Huxley:
Richard Pearce
Constable Evans:
Chris Emmett

with Peter White.
Producer Thena Heshel
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel[number removed] between 9.15pm and 10.15pm
FACTSHEET/QUARTERLY BULLETIN: send large s a e to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White.
Producer:
Thena Heshel

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