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More corporate capers and off-balance sheet fun with the business panel game. The chairman is Nigel Cassidy , with guests Alastair Ross Goobey , Nigel Whittaker , Sir John Harvey-Jones and Peter Day. Producer Neil Koenig

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Cassidy
Unknown:
Alastair Ross Goobey
Unknown:
Nigel Whittaker
Unknown:
John Harvey-Jones
Unknown:
Peter Day.
Producer:
Neil Koenig

in poet John Hegley 's first play, we join him in his local London caff. Then he whisks us away ... by train to Manchester and Wales ... by dreams, songs and poems to Mars, ancient Rome, Jerusalem and the tortures of the end of a love affair.
Music by Nigel Piper . Director Anne Edyvean

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hegley
Music By:
Nigel Piper
Director:
Anne Edyvean
Actor:
John Johnhegley
Tony:
Tony Curtis
Man:
Roland Muldoon
Woman:
Sue Norton

Acclaimed novelist, free-market crusader and Peruvian presidential candidate, Mario Vargas Llosa has now written a volume of autobiography. And Robert Dawson Scott's studio guest is the award-winning author Anne Fine, known for her children's books like Madame Doubtfire and Hour Babies, who has just completed her third novel for adults.
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mario Vargas Llosa
Unknown:
Robert Dawson Scott
Unknown:
Anne Fine
Producer:
Robyn Read

By George Ewart Evans.

The villagers of Fenhall are determined to win the shield for the Best Kept Village. But Akerman Flatt refuses to co-operate - not even for the formidable president of the Women's Institute.
Read by Peter Tuddenham.

Contributors

Author:
George Ewart Evans
Reader:
Peter Tuddenham
Producer:
Rosemary Watts

Five-part adaptation of Peter Lovesey 's comedy-thriller, with Ronald Pickup as Walter and Oona Beeson as Alma.
4: Have Walter and Alma really pulled off the perfect murder?
Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews Director Matthew Walters

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Lovesey
Unknown:
Oona Beeson
Unknown:
Have Walter
Dramatised By:
Geoffrey M Matthews
Director:
Matthew Walters
Livy:
Gary Waldhorn
Marj:
Lorelei King
Jack:
Steve Hodson
Barbara:
Teresa Gallagher
Paul:
James Telfer
Capt Rostron:
Jonathan Adams
Finch:
David Holt
Saxon:
Keith Drinkel
Doctor:
John Evitts

A special investigation into the hidden world of the liquidators. Britain's 2,000 insolvency practitioners are charged with rescuing bankrupt companies, or disposing of their assets for the best possible price. But are they exploiting this powerful position for their own ends? Reporter Jolyon Jenkins.
Producer David Haggie

Contributors

Reporter:
Jolyon Jenkins.
Producer:
David Haggie

Six programmes about one of the most valuable resources of the modern world - information.
1: The Victorians knew the value of information -they established a national network of local libraries that still exists today. Alun Lewis investigates this early attempt at an information superhighway, and discovers what the future may hold. Producer Peter Croasdale

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Lewis
Producer:
Peter Croasdale

News, views and information for people with a visual disability.
Presented by Peter White. Producer Dave Harvey
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: phone [number removed] between 9.30pm and 10.30pm
FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
HANDBOOK: £17.95, from [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White.
Producer:
Dave Harvey

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