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Host Sophie Grigson is joined by Nigel Slater and Clarissa Dickson Wright at Roscoff, Paul Rankin's Belfast restaurant, to ponder the secrets of batter and the side-effects of Jerusalem artichokes.
A Partners in Sound production

Contributors

Presenter:
Sophie Grigson
Guest:
Nigel Slater
Guest:
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Location:
Paul Rankin

In the third of six programmes, author Claire Rayner , who is also Britain's best-known agony aunt, reveals to Jeremy Nicholas those moments in music that send a shiver down her spine.
Producer Ray Abbott
Repeated Saturday at 11.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Rayner
Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Gill Pyrah talks to the author Barry Unsworth and reviews
Salman Rushdie 's book The Moor's Last Sigh. Producer Nicki Paxman
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
AFRICA 95

Contributors

Talks:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Barry Unsworth
Unknown:
Salman Rushdie
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

By John le Carre , dramatised in seven episodes by Rene Basilico , and starring Tom Baker as Barley Blair and Valentina Yakunina as Katya.
4: Shadowed by a team from the Russia House, Barley Blair moves step-by-step towards a meeting with Goethe.
Theme music by Max Harris
Producer John Fawcett Wilson Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basilico
Unknown:
Tom Baker
Unknown:
Valentina Yakunina
Music By:
Max Harris
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Ned:
John Rowe
Harry:
Michael Turner
Walter:
John Webb
Wicklow:
David Bannerman
Zapadny:
Constantine Gregory
Goethe:
Boris Isarov
Bob:
Bruce Boa
Brock:
Simon Treves
O'Mara:
Geoffrey McGivern
Wintle:
Paul Brooke
Paddy:
Christopher Fulford
Cy:
Eric Meyers
JP Henziger:
Ted Maynard

Dr Michael O'Donnell presents four portraits of contemporary family life. 3: The Halls. The Halls, who originally came to England from Barbados, still live within four streets of each other and meet up every day. But it's mum Jean who rules the roost.
Producers Joy Hatwood and Joanna Rahim Repeated Saturday at 5.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Michael O'Donnell
Producers:
Joy Hatwood
Producers:
Joanna Rahim

A four-part series about the workings of a hospital psychiatric unit.
3: Brian James goes behind the scenes at Manchester's Withington Hospital - and meets those being cared for at the specialist Mother and Baby Unit.
Producer Paul Bajoria

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian James
Producer:
Paul Bajoria

Presented by Peter White.
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Producer Dave Harvey
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: phone (0171) [number removed]between 9.30pm and 10.30pm FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White.
Producer:
Dave Harvey

Six programmes of off-beat travel.
4: Who Went There. Presented by Cleo Paskal. Annie Caulfield treks with the Bedouins of Jordan, and sound enthusiast Mike Ladd follows aboriginal traces in Australian time and space. Producer Noah Richler Rpt

Contributors

Presented By:
Cleo Paskal.
Presented By:
Annie Caulfield
Unknown:
Mike Ladd
Producer:
Noah Richler Rpt

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