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Sarah Dunant invites you to join her to air your complaints and suggestions on the fraught question of children's clothes. Phone in on [number removed]. Lines open from 9.00am.
Serial: With One Lousy Free Pocket of Seed (7)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Dunant

Seven-part dramatisation of John le Carré's book, starring Tom Baker as Barley Blair with Valentina Yakunina as Katya.
3: "Another English publisher on a normal business trip." That's Barley Blair's cover as the unlikely spy leaves for Moscow on a journey that he hopes will lead him to the mysterious Goethe.
With Simon Treves , Mary Chater, Ravil Isyanov and Yuri Stepanov. Dramatised by René Basilico.
Music by Max Harris. Producer John Fawcett Wilson.
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Contributors

Writer:
John Le Carré
Dramatist:
René Basilico
Music:
Max Harris
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Barley Blair:
Tom Baker
Katya:
Valentina Yakunina
Ned:
John Rowe
Harry:
Michael Turner
Walter:
John Webb
Wicklow:
David Bannerman
Zapadny:
Constantine Gregory
Brock:
Simon Treves
Emma:
Mary Chater
Yuri:
Ravil Isyanov
Chauffeur:
Yuri Stepanov

Three professional writers offer anecdotes from their store of memories.
2: Through his friendship with a refugee neighbour, newspaperman Maurice Samuelson glimpses Hitler, rescued from penury by the Jewish gallery owners of Vienna before the First World War.
Producer Louise Greenberg

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Samuelson
Producer:
Louise Greenberg

Second Semi-Final - Midlands and East Anglia and North West of England. Bill Stratton (project manager); Pat Parkin -Moore (State Registered Nurse); James Maloney (retired lecturer); John Clarke (university lecturer).

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Parkin
Unknown:
James Maloney
Unknown:
John Clarke

The mysterious and beautiful city of Venice is the quintessential destination in the traditional grand tour. Our guide to its romantic canali and shadowy calli is author Germaine Greer.
Producer Andrew Johnston

Contributors

Unknown:
Germaine Greer.
Producer:
Andrew Johnston

This week's programme treads cautiously into the murky mudlands of New Jersey. legacy of the once mighty heavy industry. Mark Whittaker meets the poor, the black and the powerless who frequently share their neighbourhoods with toxic soils and rivers, and asks why so much is being spent on legalistic buck passing and so little on the necessary clean up.
Producer Marie Helly

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Whittaker
Producer:
Marie Helly

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