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Schedule Monday 26th January 1981

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Radio 4

Frank Muir Goes Into...

Series 8, Episode 2 - Gloom

In the first series of the new decade, Frank Muir takes a look at various human failings.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 8pm
26 min
Shelley. James Shelley (Hywel Bennett). Copyright: Thames Television

Shelley

Series 3, Episode 5 - Universal Trust

Shelley gets drawn into the mumblings of a street philosopher in his local café.

BBC Two 9pm
30 min
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Arthur Dent (Simon Jones)

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Episode 4 - Fit The Fourth

Seventeen and a half million years ago, a race of hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings set out to solve the meaning of existence and find the answer to life, the universe and everything. To this end they constructed a giant super computer which took seven and a half million years to come up with the answer that was not quite what was expected. But what has this got to do with Arthur? And why are a pair of mice so interested in his brain? The crew attempt to make it back to the Heart of Gold but are obstructed by two "sensitive new-age" policemen and thus find themselves next to a very inconveniently placed explosion...

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