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The talk show with no host. Here Paul Merton , interviewed yesterday, has chosen someone to put in the hot seat.

with The AM Alternative
Plus at 10.25-10.30
Wiggly Park
Spike Fawkes by Keith Faulkner. Read by Andrew Sachs.

Toni Arthur goes for a walk in Haverhill near
Cambridge.

Prepare for bonfire night with lain Lauchlan. Plus another chance to hear this morning's story.

The BFBS Squad with sparklers, hot-dogs and a celebrity guy.

Music and conversation with John Inverdale and Frances Edmonds.
Puzzler: what do Julian Clary , George Bush ,
Squidgy the performing dolphin, and a bucket full of curry powder have in common?

with Sue McGarry and Julian Worricker.

Matches
Written by Alison Prince. The penultimate story of big city life - especially for Guy Fawkes night.
Bonfire night at the youth club turns out to be a complete washout and nobody needs the box of matches that Kellie has so cleverly brought along.
But on her way home she meets a strange. old-fashioned looking boy on some wasteland. And he has a use for her matches.
Read by Jane Horrocks.

with Jez Nelson.

Liz Kershaw sniffs around the inner recesses of the pop world.

Marjorie Darke 's story, dramatised in five parts. With Tracey Gardiner as Emily.
3: A Journey
The real world has caught up with Emily at last. and now she faces a stark choice.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor

Good news on the eastern beat with Perminder Khatkar.