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Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Around the world in two months:
Lucy Davies , winner of the Capture the World photographic award, tells of her encounters with eight very diverse families.
Serial: Burning Bright (9) For details see yesterday

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Lucy Davies

In the programme that reaches parts of the mind that other programmes do not reach, Professor Anthony Clare asks whether the Government's latest plans for the care of psychiatric patients in the community will actually help, or merely take away more rights. Producer Feisal Ali
Repeated tomorrow at 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Anthony Clare
Producer:
Feisal Ali

Frank Delaney presents the programme about language that is ... what it says.
2: Wild Child. From primeval forest to computer age: interpret the strange utterings of the enfant sauvage and visit the world's largest database of the English language. Producer Tessa Watt

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Producer:
Tessa Watt

by Roger Stennett.
What if a word processor had an ego? What if it belonged to a hack writer who thought he was writing Great Art? What would that word processor do? And just who are Trevor and Celia?
Director Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Stennett.
Director:
Andy Jordan
Algernon:
Edward Hibbert
Hugh:
Roger Sloman
Trevor:
Peter Yapp
Celia:
Sally Grace

Israeli novelist David Grossman is
Gill Pyrah 's studio guest. His latest book follows a group of Jerusalem children through adolescence. Plus artist
Peter Howson 's response to the war in Bosnia.
Producer Lore Windemuth Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
David Grossman
Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Artist:
Peter Howson

Another chance to hear this eight-part adaptation of John le Carre 's story, starring James Fox as Magnus Pym , James Grout as Jack Brotherhood , Brenda Bruce as Miss Dubber and Harriet Walter as Mary Pym.
1: A dinner party in Vienna: a perfect evening, until it is interrupted by a telephone call that will profoundly affect the lives of Magnus Pym ,
Counsellor at the British Embassy, and his wife, Mary.
Music by Max Harris
Adapted by Rene Basilico
Producer John Fawcett Wilson Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
James Fox
Unknown:
Magnus Pym
Unknown:
James Grout
Unknown:
Jack Brotherhood
Unknown:
Brenda Bruce
Unknown:
Harriet Walter
Unknown:
Mary Pym.
Unknown:
Magnus Pym
Music By:
Max Harris
Adapted By:
Rene Basilico
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Grant Lederer:
Vincent Marzello
Bee Lederer:
Shelley Thompson
Georgie:
Shelley Thompson
Herr Oberst:
Peter Birch
Harry:
Peter Birch
Frau Dinkel:
Aletta Lawson
Cudlove:
Frank Mills
Vi:
Fanny Carby
Daisy:
Pat Coombs
Medical Student:
James Telfer
Fergus:
James Telfer

It's official. The recession ended in September 1992, but many people aren't yet feeling the effects. In this special programme, Nigel Cassidy and his guests descend on the Galleria shopping centre in Hatfield to ask the people of Hertfordshire if they feel that the recovery is under way. Producer Virginia Eastman

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Cassidy

News and views 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]

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White.
Producer:
Dave Harvey

The American pianist Art Tatum , who died in 1956, is regarded by many as being perhaps the most talented jazz instrumentalist of all time. In the first of six programmes, Alun Morgan looks at Tatum's influences, and at his early years in Ohio and in New
York where he went to work with the singer Adelaide Hall. Producer Derek Drescher
First broadcast on Radio 3

Contributors

Pianist:
Art Tatum
Unknown:
Alun Morgan
Producer:
Derek Drescher

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