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1 5 Thought for the Day I.Zi' Your Letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Read By:
Eugene Fraser

Wynford Vaughan Thomas introduces a selection of autumnal events. There's a harvest supper for local craftsmen, a celebration of Hallowe'en with bobbing apples and mangold lanterns, a journey through Sussex on a steam train and the story of how the long, hot summer brought out a record number of wasps and also complaints from householders.
Producer carolini illicit (Repeated- Sat 10.15 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Introduces:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas

Introduced from
Manchester by Lesley Judd , who meets Penny Anderson, freelance ecologist. She advises large developers and small contractors on preserving ancient woodlands and rare species.
Never Had it so Goodr : PETE heeves swings back into the 60s at an exhibition reviving memories of minis, mods, rockers, Kennedy, Keeler and the Mersey Beat.
Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
The Woodlandert (12) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Judd
Producer:
Diana Stenson

by ELIZABETH GASKELL
The last of nine parts dramatised by BARRY CAMPBELL
with and
Reviving Hopes and Brightening Prospects
"Dead! Osborne! Poor fellow! " said Mrs Gibson, " I knew it would be so though - I was sure of It. But Mr Gibson can do nothing if he's dead. (Poor young man!) I wonder where Roger is now? He ought to come home." '
Music composed by RACHEL PORTMAN
Directed by jani Morgan
(Anne Louise Lambert is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Gaskell
Dramatised By:
Barry Campbell
Composed By:
Rachel Portman
Directed By:
Jani Morgan
Unknown:
Anne Louise Lambert
Molly:
Kathryn Hurlbutl
Cynthia:
Anne Louise Lambert
Squire Hamley:
Robert Lang
Clare:
Angela Pleasence
Mr Gibson:
Tom Wilkinson
Mrs Gaskell:
Thelma Whiteley
Roger Hamley:
Michael Troughton
Lady Harriet:
Marian Diamond
Lady Cumnor:
Pauline Letts
Lord Hollingford:
Geoffrey Collins
Aimee/Maria:
Eileen Tully
Robinson:
Nigel Graham

Six programmes presented by Monty Haltrecht
3: The Singer Hot the Song
The strains on the opera singer are enormous. The voice itself can be difficult to live with, ' a Jealous wife ', saya
Placido Domingo , and others talk of the artistic, physical and emotional demands of the profession.
But the rewards can be just as great.
Producer baniil SNOWMAN

Contributors

Presented By:
Monty Haltrecht
Unknown:
Placido Domingo

Includes reviews of two new plays by the RSC at the Barbican: Custom of the Country by Nicholas Wright and Maydays by David Edgar starring Bob Peck , Antony Sher and Alison Steadman ; also The Fosdyke Saga , Bill Tidy 's strip-cartoon family in a weekly series on Radio 2 starring
Stephanie Turner and David Threlfall. Presenter Michael Billington
Producer BRUN barfield

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Wright
Unknown:
David Edgar
Unknown:
Bob Peck
Unknown:
Antony Sher
Unknown:
Alison Steadman
Unknown:
Fosdyke Saga
Unknown:
Bill Tidy
Unknown:
Stephanie Turner
Unknown:
David Threlfall.
Presenter:
Michael Billington
Producer:
Brun Barfield

with David Tate , Jon Glover and Sally Grace
Written by ian BROWN ROT APPS , RICHARD QUICK
JOHN LANGDON , JOHN COLLEt ROGER PLANER , PAUL DAVIES MARTIN BOOTH , DAVID DIXON BARRY FAULKNER , PETER RACKET and others
Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL (Repeated: Sat 1.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
Sally Grace
Written By:
Ian Brown
Written By:
Rot Apps
Written By:
Richard Quick
Written By:
John Langdon
Written By:
John Collet
Unknown:
Roger Planer
Unknown:
Paul Davies
Unknown:
Martin Booth
Unknown:
David Dixon
Unknown:
Barry Faulkner
Unknown:
Peter Racket
Producer:
Jennie Campbell

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