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- Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces about his experiences of staying in boarding-houses as a child.
- Singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl voices her concerns about water pollution in Britain and especially the standards of drinking water. She traces the route of her water supply back to its source the River Thames, and at Morecambe learns of the risks for children playing on the sea shore, radioactivity in the water, and also the potential for reed beds helping with a clean water supply.
- Frank Keating , author and sports writer for the Guardian, investigates the newest 'loadsamoney' boom industry in British sport - corporate hospitality. (Source: Radio Times)
- The Blasphemers' Banquet is a passionate defense of Salman Rushdie's right to freedom of speech, even it if involves blasphemy. This defense unfolds through the deceptively simple structural conceit of a restaurant meal in Bradford (the town where a copy of The Satanic Verses was burnt in public) to which blasphemers past and present are invited. None of course turns up, most because they are already dead, Rushdie because by then he was in hiding for his life. Into this simple frame is introduced a rich tapestry of ideas and meditations involving the nature of blasphemy (Voltaire, Molière, Byron), the curse of fundamentalist religions, and the joy of our fleeing but passionate life seen from the perspective of a militant unbeliever.