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Screaming in the supermarket, head-banging, breath-holding and kicking.... Karen Deco finds out how to deal with toddlers' temper tantrums. Serial: The Sleeping Beauty (2). Presenter Jenni Murray.

Contributors

Unknown:
Karen Deco
Presenter:
Jenni Murray.

2.05 Science Naturally (Looking at Nature): Pull Timmy Mallett and Robin Robbins explore the force of pull at Stonehenge.
2.20 Quest: Judaism. Sabbath and the family. Stereo
2.40-3.00 Listen! Not That Brevil Hockley! (3) by KEN JONES. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Timmy Mallett
Unknown:
Robin Robbins
Unknown:
Ken Jones.

by John Kirkmorris.
With Chris Emmett as Victor Wicks and Bill Wallis as Densby Gurd

Victor, a successful estate agent, is on the make. With all that money about shouldn't he help himself to a little of it? Then someone shops him to the DTI ...
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
John Kirkmorris
Director:
Andy Jordan
Victor Wicks:
Chris Emmett
Densby Gurd:
Bill Wallis
Alison Wicks:
Caroline Gruber
Stebbins:
Donald Gee
Stone:
Anna Cropper
Neville Jolly:
Ian Targett
Reba Knutt:
Hetty Baynes
Bella Crockmore:
Denise Briars

Nigel Forde talks with Dr Roger Virgoe about his new selection of the Paston Letters revealing Private Life in the 15th Century. Plus a look at the name of the novel - how important is an aptly chosen title?
Producer SALLY MARMION

Contributors

Talks:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Dr Roger Virgoe
Producer:
Sally Marmion

Peter Jones ,
Derek Nimmo , Paul Merton and Richard Murdoch join Nicholas Parsons. Devised by IAN messiter Producer EDWARD TAYLOR Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons.
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Ten programmes.
5: Whispers on the Wing Her Majesty's maximum security prison in Lewes, East Sussex, is the home of 500 inmates, 50 of them lifers.
Stephen Plaice spends much of his life inside by choice: since 1987 he has been the prison's writer-in-residence.
Soundtrack eavesdrops on his work in the cells and on the landings of the long-termers' wing, with those men who find writing a new means of expression.
Producer CHRIS PALING. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Plaice
Producer:
Chris Paling.

Long, Blond and Dangerous to Know? The Rt Hon Michael Heseltine , mp, talks with Peter Hennessy. Producer SIMON COATES Editor CAROLINE ANSTEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Unknown:
Peter Hennessy.
Producer:
Simon Coates
Editor:
Caroline Anstey

by Agatha Christie dramatised and directed in five parts by Michael Bakewell
5: The Second Seance
Mr Rycroft decides that only by re-enacting the seance which announced the murder of Captain Trevelyan will the identity of his killer be revealed.
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Agatha Christie
Dramatist/director:
Michael Bakewell
Emily Trefusis:
Melinda Walker
Charles Enderby:
Stephen Tompkinson
Inspector Narracott:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Major Burnaby:
Norman Bird
Ronnie Garfield:
Nigel Greaves
Ellwood:
Jack May
Mr Rycroft:
John Moffatt
Mrs Belling:
Jo Kendall
Mrs Willett:
Susan Westerby
Violet Willett:
Victoria Carling
Brian Pearson:
Charles Simpson
Miss Percehouse:
Margaret Courtenay
Mrs Curtis:
Barbara Atkinson
Policeman:
Vincent Brimble

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