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Woman's Hour

on BBC Radio 4 FM

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

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Vicki Feaver
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole.
Talks:
Colin Maitland
Unknown:
William Makepieee Thack
Unknown:
Margaret Forster
Unknown:
Janet Quigley
Read By:
Richard Leech
Unknown:
Richard Leech

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