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With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rt Rev Tom Butler.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Tom Butler.

In the first of six programmes
Mark Lawson re-examines traditional vices or virtues in their modern guises with journalist Ann Leslie , environmentalist Jonathan Porritt , columnist Paul Vallely and novelist AN Wilson. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
Jonathan Porritt
Unknown:
Paul Vallely
Unknown:
An Wilson.
Producer:
David Coomes

Continuing the PG Wodehouse stories, starring Maurice Denham.
3: The Rough Stuff. With Suzi Aitchison , Robert Bathurst and Julian Dutton. Producer Edward Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Denham.
Unknown:
Suzi Aitchison
Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Julian Dutton.
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Ronald Frame's four-part drama is set in a hotel in the Highlands.
4: Fee's husband Colin has returned from the dead. A guest's exotic lady friend is causing comment in the Palm Court. And skeletons begin to tumble out of the Drummond closet. with Wendy Seager , Finlay McLean , Gayanne Potter , Geoffrey Lee , Liam Brennan and Sandy Neilson. Director Patrick Rayner

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Seager
Unknown:
Finlay McLean
Unknown:
Gayanne Potter
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lee
Unknown:
Liam Brennan
Unknown:
Sandy Neilson.
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Fee:
Eliza Langland
David:
David Rintoul
Colin:
Crawford Logan
Marjorie Drummond:
Ann Scott-Jones

With Daire Brehan. Andy North finds himself on a bicycle in a part of Los Angeles where no one travels in anything with less than four wheels.
And, when he gets a puncture outside a Bel Air mansion, the security guards do not take kindly to him.

Contributors

Unknown:
Daire Brehan.
Unknown:
Andy North

Paul Gambaccini asks how successfully the new film Beavis and Butt-head Do Americawill transfer to
Britain. Plus a look at the Bertrand
Blier movie Mon Homme.
Producer Helen Garrison Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Gambaccini
Producer:
Helen Garrison

Michael Ignatieff presents the final five programmes in the 20-part series examining the impact of the last 100 years on people's lives and ideas. 17: Exploiting. Can people live in harmony with the natural world, or are they destined to degrade it? Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Producer:
David Perry

Eight documentaries made through collaborations between four countries, telling stories which cross boundaries of geography and generation.
2: Branson Postcards. Old country music stars never die, they buy theatres in Branson, Missouri. Dan Collison finds out if the town welcomes an annual invasion of music lovers. Editor Sharon Banoff

Contributors

Unknown:
Dan Collison
Editor:
Sharon Banoff

Barbara Myers meets scientists who have changed the world.
1: Professor Igor Aleksander believes machines can achieve a type of consciousness and has even programmed a computer to prove it. Producer Sandy Raffan
Repeated Sunday 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Professor Igor Aleksander
Producer:
Sandy Raffan

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