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A look back at the headlines 50 years ago today. The International Food and Agriculture Organisation reveals its plans to solve the international food crisis and free the world from malnutrition. And the country estate of Polesden Lacey in Surrey is opened to the public for the first time. For details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Polesden Lacey

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Birmingham Girls' school is fighting to become the first grant-maintained Muslim school. Diana Appleyard reports.
Serial: Mama Makes Up Her Mind Bailey White reads his own story, abridged in five parts by Pat McLoughlin (3).

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Diana Appleyard
Unknown:
Mind Bailey White
Unknown:
Pat McLoughlin

Russell Davies with the programme about words and the way we speak. 2: Names Will Never Hurt Me.
Annie Enright ponders the business of naming children, management guru
Faith Popcorn explains why her own name is worth so much, and novelist Robert McLiam Wilson calls names across the Northern Irish barricades.
Producer Noah Richler

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Annie Enright
Unknown:
Robert McLiam Wilson
Producer:
Noah Richler

A cycle of poems recording the comings and goings of guests and staff, and the tides and the seasons at a seaside hotel run for years by the poet Zofia Ilinska , in St Mawes, Cornwall.
Producer Julian May

Contributors

Unknown:
Zofia Ilinska

Paul Vaughan discusses Australian literature as Les Murray ,
Janette Turner Hospital and David Malouf all publish new works. Producer Matthew Dodd
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Les Murray
Unknown:
Janette Turner Hospital
Unknown:
David Malouf
Producer:
Matthew Dodd

By Martin Davies.
5: Retreat. Escape is the only option for Mrs Patterson when her family try to replace her lost love with a small dog.
Producer Richard Wilson Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Davies.
Unknown:
Mrs Patterson
Producer:
Richard Wilson
Fr Benedict:
Desmond Barrit
Mrs Patterson:
Brenda Blethyn
Robert Patterson:
Richard Pearce
Barbara Patterson:
Melanie Hudson
Janet:
Nicola Buckingham
Guy:
Henry Woolley
Mr Plant:
Geoff McGivern

Michael O'Donnell with four portraits of contemporary family life.
2: The Marquess ofSligo and Family Jeremy Browne has a handful of titles and an ancestral home. When he and Jennifer first married he tied the lot up in trust for his son and heir. But the couple's five children have all been daughters.
Producers Charlotte Blofeld and Joy Hatwood Repeated Saturday at 5.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael O'Donnell
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne

A four-part series in which
Simon Parkes talks to citizens who are still committed to the American dream.
3: High-minded, public-spirited volunteers working together and giving money for the common good exist everywhere - but only in America do their efforts make up eight per cent of GNP. Producer Sheila Dillon

Contributors

Talks:
Simon Parkes
Producer:
Sheila Dillon

Fourth of a six-part series in which international musicians choose and discuss music describing the character and spirit of their native countries. This week, the Welsh tenor Dennis O'Neill. Producer Gwen Hughes Repeat

Contributors

Tenor:
Dennis O'Neill.
Producer:
Gwen Hughes

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