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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Play for Today: ANDY PRICE talks to some child actors.
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Reading your letters.
' The Swinging Seniors of Wheathampstead ': ANNE MACNAMARA reports on some rejuvenation to music.
Holiday Home Swoppers: BERNARD JACKSON with views from both sides!
Stories of The Nightwatchman by w. w. JACOBS abridged in nine parts by MONICA GREY
Read by John Hollis
1: The Rival Beauties
In the words of Hugh Green , who recently chose a selection of Jacobs's short stories for publication, ' What is lasting in these stories is Jacobs's creation of a world of cheap sailors' lodging-houses in the Port of London, the wharves of Wapping, little coastal steamers and small towns in the Thames estuary, full of cosy pubs and retired sea captains.' And of course those immortal, if extremely fallible sailormen, Sam Small , Ginger Dick , Peter Russet.
(Music: Shostakovich's ' The Bolt ' Ballet Suite)