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Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren return to do battle over the week's news stories, aided and abetted by their respective guests, In the chair with the questions, as usual, is Barry Took. Producer Aled Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Ingrams
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Barry Took.
Producer:
Aled Evans

Patricia Hewitt , deputy director, Institute for Public Policy Research; Charles Moore , editor of the Sunday Telegraph; David Puttnam , film producer; and Raymond Seitz , United States Ambassador, tackle the issues raised in Batheaston, Avon.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Hewitt
Unknown:
Charles Moore
Unknown:
David Puttnam
Unknown:
Raymond Seitz
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.

Another chance to hear Barry Keeffe 's gritty and painful comedy about a social worker whose professional caring threatens to destroy his family.
Karl Howman recreates his original stage performance as Sam, with Cathy Tyson as his wife, Anita.
Director Ned Chaillet IRpt)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Keeffe
Unknown:
Karl Howman
Unknown:
Cathy Tyson
Director:
Ned Chaillet

In 1914, four Americans set out from Manchester on a 3,000-mile motoring holiday around Britain. David Foster introduces some of their experiences of a country on the brink of great change. Readers Risa Hall and Peter Marinker. Producer Gillian Hush

Contributors

Introduces:
Britain. David Foster
Readers:
Risa Hall
Readers:
Peter Marinker.
Producer:
Gillian Hush

As relief agencies struggle to get supplies to the beleaguered peoples of the former Yugoslavia, Christopher Cook recalls the Berlin airlift of 1948, the Marshall plan - which gave$18 billion of US aid to war-torn Europe - and the beginnings of the international Red Cross. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
John Knight

Experiences of life in Spain.
4: Mariana. When Drew Launay tries to obtain his resident's permit before his marriage to Maribel, he comes up against mariana. The Spanish will put anything off if it is not enjoyable, or totally ignore it - which can turn life for a foreigner into a nightmare.
An Insight production

They've jumped from the food pages to the gossip columns without so much as a pinch of salt. In the last programme of the series, Robert Robinson brings top chefs to the boil. Producer Nadine Grieve

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Nadine Grieve

Duke - Reminiscing in Tempo
Composer, pianist, bandleader and constant traveller, Duke Ellington was a workaholic, sketching out tunes in the back of a car. His music reflects his life on the road, whether evoking far-away places or the rattle of the railroad. To mark the 20th anniversary of his death, John Fordham reassesses his career, with contributions from bandleader John Dankworth , pianists Julian Joseph and Michel Petrucciani , and in rare archive, Ellington himself. Producer John Goudie

Contributors

Unknown:
John Fordham
Pianists:
John Dankworth
Pianists:
Julian Joseph
Pianists:
Michel Petrucciani
Producer:
John Goudie

In Tyrone Huggins ' moving drama, six brothers accompany their father to bury their mother on the Caribbean island of St Kitts, where she and her husband were born. As they make their sad journey, the father remembers how he and six friends made the original voyage to England 30 years before.
Director TonyCliff

Contributors

Unknown:
Tyrone Huggins
Jonan:
Burt Caesar
Paul/Willie:
Eddie Nestor
Robert/Johnny:
Clinton Blake
Joseph! Bdridge:
Tyrone Huggins
Jake/Sonny:
Francis Johnson
Marcus/Mack:
Eamon Walker
Thomas/Mr Abrahams:
Nicholas Monu
Woman:
Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Radio 4's rock 'n' roll season continues with Neil McKay 's meditation on the life of RoyOrbison.
With his songs of loss, loneliness and rejection, Roy Orbison gave consolation to millions. But how did the singer himself survive the appalling luck and tragedy which marred his life? And at what cost?
With Gavin Muir. Peter Whitman and Cathy Sara. Director Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil McKay
Unknown:
Roy Orbison
Unknown:
Gavin Muir.
Unknown:
Peter Whitman
Unknown:
Cathy Sara.
Director:
Andy Jordan
Roy Orbison:
Kerry Shale
Joe Ray Hammer:
David Schofield
Claudette Orbison:
Barbara Barnes
Wesley Orbison:
Marcus D'Amico
Bobby Blackburn:
David Jarvis
Sam Phillips:
Stuart Milligan
Annette Bailey:
Elaine Claxton
Barbara Orbison:
Sally George

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