Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Raining Inspiration: VICKI FEAVER reflects on the influence of the weather on English writers.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas.
Seaside Special-1: Black-pool- 'the holiday camp without a door ' and ' the umbrella of the north' has been holldav-sampled by confirmed southerner ANNE CATCHPOLE.
I Don't Take Them Out at Night ... : COLIN MAITLAND talks about his new contact lenses.
William Makepieee Thack eray - Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman by MARGARET FORSTER abridged in 15 parts by JANET QUIGLEY
Read by Richard Leech (1) The author Margaret Forster set out to write a biography of Thackeray, but eventually she decided she would prefer to attempt an * autobiography ' as Thackeray might have written it.
(Music: The Scherzo from Maurer's Four Pieces for Brass Quintet)
(Richard Leech is in 'Whose Life is it Anyway?' at the Savoy Theatre, London) long wave only