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Introduced by Jenni Murray. In the first of four international reports to mark next week's Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Kathryn Davies looks at the rise of the women's movement in Japan. Story: Flesh and the Mirrorfrom Fireworks by Angela Carter , abridged by Julie Batty and read by Penelope Wilton.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Kathryn Davies
Unknown:
Angela Carter
Abridged By:
Julie Batty
Read By:
Penelope Wilton.

Host Sophie Grigson with Marguerite Patten OBE, Bill Sewell and Clarissa Dickson Wright , are at Ryton Organic Gardens discussing organic meat, melting milk chocolate and reincarnation as a vegetable. A Partners in Sound production

Contributors

Unknown:
Sophie Grigson
Unknown:
Marguerite Patten
Unknown:
Bill Sewell
Unknown:
Clarissa Dickson Wright

Robert Irwin , novelist, historian and raver blader straps on his wheels to explore the craze for rollerblades and inline skating. He talks to the zigzag men and the dancers, the weekend learners and the wild street skaters about the style, culture, passions and perils of life on wheels. Producer Abigail Appleton

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Irwin
Producer:
Abigail Appleton

Jeremy Nicholas asks six people about those moments in music that send a shiver down their spine.
2: The American conductor Leonard Slatkin
reveals the source of his
"tingles", ranging from the music of Liszt and Fritz Kreisler to the Beatles. Producer Ray Abbott. Rptd Sat 11.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas
Conductor:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
Fritz Kreisler
Producer:
Ray Abbott.

Hard-boozing hacks, sleazy scandalmongers or fearless investigators serving the public? Paul Vaughan ponders the portrayal of journalists in fiction and film and explores the writing of John Edgar Wideman, one of the leading chroniclers of urban America.
Producer John Goudie. Rvsd rpt at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
John Edgar
Producer:
John Goudie.

By John le Carre , dramatised in seven episodes by Rene Basilico , and starring Tom Baker as Barley Blair and Valentina Yakunina as Katya.
3: Unlikely spy Barley Blair leaves
Moscow on a journey that he hopes will lead him to the mysterious Goethe. with Constantine Gregory , Simon Treves. Mary Chater , Ravil Isyanov and Yuri Stepanov. Music by Max Harris. Producer John Fawcett Wilson Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basilico
Unknown:
Tom Baker
Unknown:
Valentina Yakunina
Unknown:
Constantine Gregory
Unknown:
Simon Treves.
Unknown:
Mary Chater
Unknown:
Ravil Isyanov
Unknown:
Yuri Stepanov.
Music By:
Max Harris.
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson Rpt
Ned:
John Rowe
Harry:
Michael Turner
Walter:
John Webb
Wicklow:
David Bannerman

Dr Michael O'Donnell presents four portraits of contemporary family life. 2: The Harveys. Colin and Margaret Harvey - a professional Bristol couple - had no idea their son Ben was depressed until he jumped off the Torpoint ferry.
Producer Joanna Rahim. Rptd Sat 5.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Michael O'Donnell
Unknown:
Margaret Harvey
Producer:
Joanna Rahim.

A four-part series about the workings of a hospital psychiatric unit.
2: Senile dementia could afflict up to 20 percent of the population. Brian James discovers what it means to those in the old-age psychiatry wards at Withington Hospital in Manchester. Producer Paul Bajoria

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian James
Producer:
Paul Bajoria

Presented by Peter White. Producer Dave Harvey
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Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White
Producer:
Dave Harvey

Six programmes of off-beat travel. 3: Killing Things. A look at the macabre side of the good life with Katherine Fellowes and the beleaguered monkeys of Cameroon, Milner Place among the angry fishermen of Vigo in Spain, Jane Carr stalked by moose in Alaska, and Nick Haslam sees a goat sacrifice in India. Producer Noah Richler Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Katherine Fellowes
Unknown:
Jane Carr
Unknown:
Nick Haslam
Producer:
Noah Richler Rpt

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