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Introduced by Wendy Austin. Serial: Anita and Me. Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal begins reading her first novel, abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall. Meera can't wait to grow up but, on top of the normal struggles of a 9-year-old, she is aiming for fish and chips (not chapati and dhal), miniskirts and make-up and, most of all, to hang around with Anita and her gang.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wendy Austin.
Unknown:
Meera Syal
Unknown:
Doreen Estall.

Professor Anthony Clare discusses Personal codes of morality with Baroness Warnock and finds out why
Psychologists have been given guidelines on how to deal with requests from the media. Producer Ronni Davis
Repeated Sunday at 10.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Anthony Clare
Producer:
Ronni Davis

Once again Miles Kington and Edward Enfield battle it out in the only chat show on radio with two hosts, neither of whom wants to let the other have top billing. In the previous round, Kington got bonus points for getting
Joanna Lumley on the show, but Enfield drew level by leaving the studio with her. A Tony Staveacre production

Contributors

Unknown:
Miles Kington
Unknown:
Edward Enfield
Unknown:
Joanna Lumley
Unknown:
Tony Staveacre

With Daire Brehan.
Exorcising Ghosts. Clare Francis tries to shake off her public persona as yachtswoman and reinvent herself as a writer.
Editor Sharon Banoff
PHONE/ANSWERPHONE: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: afternoon.shift@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Daire Brehan.
Unknown:
Clare Francis
Editor:
Sharon Banoff

Roddy Doyle , 1993 Booker Prize winner, is back with his new novel The
Woman Who Walked into Doors. Welsh singer Bryn Terfel is Paul Vaughan 's studio guest. And has anything changed in the 50 years since George Orwell 's account of literary drudgery in Confessions of a Book Reviewer? Producer John Goudie. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Roddy Doyle
Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
George Orwell
Producer:
John Goudie.

Corporate capers, conundrums and confessions, with Nigel Cassidy and panel Stephen Bayley , Paul Burden , Alastair Ross Goobey and Nigel Whittaker.
Producer Neil Koenig

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Cassidy
Unknown:
Stephen Bayley
Unknown:
Paul Burden
Unknown:
Alastair Ross Goobey
Unknown:
Nigel Whittaker.
Producer:
Neil Koenig

Jobs for life, even jobs for a decade, seem to have gone for ever. Maybe some of the stories of those who have made the future work for them will give hope and example to those caught off-guard and unprepared. In the first of four programmes in which writer
Charles Handy meets people caught up in the changing world of work he explores hi-tech in the home, high pressure in advertising, and the world of the househusband.
Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

Producer:
Norman Winter

Last in the series of travel reports.
Let's Do the Breakaway. Fergal Keane reports from Sri Lanka and Adam Fowler from the Russian Far East as the current series ends with a look at a few of the world's separatist movements. Producer Noah Richler Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Fergal Keane
Unknown:
Adam Fowler
Producer:
Noah Richler Rpt

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