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The team sets off in search of the answers to another selection of your questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison
Producer:
Dilys Breese
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only with Edward Woodward
A three-part series based on contemporary documents recounting the life of Britain's greatest naval hero.
Written by PETER JAMES Narrator Noel Johnson 3: Trafalgar
Sir, yesterday on 21 October 1805 a battle was fought by His Majesty's Fleet, and a victory was gained which will stand recorded as one of the most brilliant and decisive that ever distinguished the British Navy.
(VICE-ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD)
Trafalgar was the triumphant and tragic climax of Nelson's career. When news of the vic tory was brought to him, he was already lying below deck fatally wounded. ' Thank God,' he said, ' I have done my duty.' These were his last words.
With SEAN BARRETT , JAMES GAR BUTT, MALCOLM GERARD , MICHAEL GOLDIE, GARARD GREEN, ELIZABETH LINDSAY , DAVID MARCH and ROY SPENCER. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Repeated: Thursday 7.45 pm)
11.50 Announcements

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Woodward
Written By:
Peter James
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Unknown:
James Gar
Unknown:
Malcolm Gerard
Unknown:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Unknown:
Roy Spencer.
Producer:
Alan Haydock
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

First Round:
2: Home Counties
GREAT BADDOW COMPREHENSIVE
SCHOOL
V BISHOP'S HATFIELD GIRLS' SCHOOL Questionmaster Tim Gudgin Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Roy Smith
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
What's Laughingly Called 'The Festivities': JANE WYNDHAM speaks up against Christmas.
Flying South: ERIC SIMMS visits Dungeness in Kent and talks to RSPB warden TONY PICKUP about this season's bird migration. Lost Profile (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Jane Wyndham
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Year of the Great Betrayal by ELIZABETH TROOP
STELLA: I don't suffer from the great 30s Depression nostalgia. There's plenty to be done now. HARGREAVES: In Chiswick? In the City?
A mother takes her teenage son North on a rare visit to her divorced father, once an ambitious Labour politician. 1931 was the year of her birth, but to him the year of political betrayal.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Troop
Directed By:
Richard Wortley
Stella Barrett:
Diana Bishop
Charles Barrett:
Peter Jeffrey
David Barrett:
Kevin Hart
Mr Hargreaves:
Colin Douglas
Mrs Schwarz:
Renee Goddard
Mr Perkins:
Lockwood West
Mrs Roper:
Gladys Spencer
Miss Francis:
Hilda Schroeder
Mrs Taggart/Woman dancer:
Elizabeth Bell
Old man on train:
William Eedle
A counter hand/Man dancer/Taxi driver:
Henry Knowles
First boy:
Alaric Cotter
Source: Radio Times

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