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Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion on events and issues of the day, including tonight and every Thursday UK Report from BBC news correspondents in Britain with Richard Kershaw and newsreader Angela Rippon
Assistant editors
TONY TRABB , JOHN REYNOLDS Editor JOHN TISDALL

Contributors

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Michael Charlton
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Charles Wheeler
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Richard Kershaw
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Angela Rippon
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Tony Trabb
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John Reynolds
Editor:
John Tisdall

with A. J. P. Taylor
The fabric was cotton. The age-the great industrial explosion of the 19th Century.
Manchester was Cottonopolis - city of mills, machines and muck - the first working model of industrial capitalism. It attracted observers from all over Europe. One of them, Engels, stayed to discover for the first time the ' proletariat '.
From Manchester's grimy beginnings emerged the grandeur of the merchant princes and with them Manchester's famous liberal traditions.
The Royal Manchester Cotton Exchange, symbol of a unique past, is this week to be transformed into a theatre. A suitable occasion for A. j. p. TAYLOR , himself from a Lancashire cotton family, to explore the rise and fall of this great merchant civilisation and from its landmarks to assess the importance of what really was ' Made in Manchester '.
Producer ANDREW SNELL BBC Manchester

Contributors

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A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Producer:
Andrew Snell

In Concert singing some of his many hit songs including ' It never rains in Southern California ', ' Free electric band ', ' Little arrows ', ' Gimme dat ding' and ' The air that I breathe '.
Musical director JOHN CAMERON Designer STEPHAN PACZAI
Producer JOHNNIE STEWART

Contributors

Director:
John Cameron
Designer:
Stephan Paczai
Producer:
Johnnie Stewart

The Aeolian Quartet tonight play
String Quartet in A minor, Op 132 whose slow movement is a ' Song of Thanksgiving' prompted by Beethoven's recovery from serious illness.
The fourth of five nightly programmes.
Director RODNEY GREENBERG
(Tomorrow: Grossc Fuge , Op 133, and Quartet in F major, Op 135)
BBC Music Guide, Books 1 and 2, 70p each from bookshops

Contributors

Director:
Rodney Greenberg
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Grossc Fuge

BBC Two England

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