Programme Index

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The news of 50 years ago today, with Geoffrey Wheeler.
Lord Louis Mountbatten announces to the world his plans for partition in India. Producer Lindsay Leonard

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Wheeler.
Unknown:
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Producer:
Lindsay Leonard

The last programme of the current series dealing with matters psychological and psychiatric. Professor Anthony Clare celebrates 750 years of Bedlam, Europe's first lunatic asylum. Producer Nick Utechin
Repeated Sunday 10.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Anthony Clare
Producer:
Nick Utechin

Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz.
Guests this week are Jonathan Cecil , Jeremy Nicholas , Gemma O'Connor and Norman Willis. The reader is
Patricia Hughes. Producer Chris Neill

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas
Unknown:
Gemma O'Connor
Unknown:
Norman Willis.
Unknown:
Patricia Hughes.
Producer:
Chris Neill

By Max Beerbohm , dramatised by Eric Pringle. Convinced that posterity will acknowledge his genius, fin-de-siecle poet Enoch Soames accepts the devil's offer to glimpse the future: he is to be in the British Mgseum Reading Room this afternoon.
Director David Blount
At 8.15pm tonight, Radio 3's interval talk The Ghost in the Reading Room discusses the story and its view of literary London.

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Beerbohm
Dramatised By:
Eric Pringle.
Unknown:
Enoch Soames
Director:
David Blount
Max Beerbohm:
Nigel Anthony
Enoch Soames:
David Bannerman
The Devil:
Ioan Meredith
Will Rotherstein:
Christopher Wright
Berthe:
Rachel Atkins

With Daire Brehan and the story of the citizens of Dubrovnik, who began to plan the rebuilding of their war-torn city even as the shells rained down.
Editor Nadine Grieve. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Daire Brehan
Editor:
Nadine Grieve.

Paul Vaughan meets John Fuller , who reads from his new novel, A Skin
Diary, chronicling a Welsh farm girl's pregnancy in the 19th century. Producer Chris Eldon Lee
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
John Fuller
Producer:
Chris Eldon Lee

By Andy and Eric Merriman.

Peter Davison and Samantha Bond star in the final part of a comedy about a family with a young daughter who has Down's syndrome.

Sarah wants a third child.

(Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
Andy Merriman
Writer:
Eric Merriman
Producer:
Gareth Edwards
Richard Stubbs:
Peter Davison
Sarah Stubbs:
Samantha Bond
Kate Stubbs:
Claire Russell
Amy Stubbs:
Sarah Merriman
Joni:
Lorelei King
[Actor]:
Philip Pope
[Actor]:
Simon Treves
[Actor]:
Daniel Merriman
[Actress]:
Alison Pettit
[Actor]:
John Barnes

The last of six programmes about the information age. Can information have a life of its own? Alun Lewis talks to Igor Aleksander and Richard Dawkins about artificial consciousness. Producer Rami Tzabar
E-MAIL address: the.network@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Talks:
Alun Lewis
Unknown:
Igor Aleksander
Unknown:
Richard Dawkins
Producer:
Rami Tzabar

Peter White with news, views and information for visually impaired people.
Producer Eleanor Garland
PHONE: [number removed]
FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White
Producer:
Eleanor Garland

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