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with Simon Rae. The first of four programmes from Grasmere in the Lake District.
The special guest is poet and playwright Tony Harrison who reads from the poetry of William Wordsworth. Producer Susan Roberts

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae.
Unknown:
Lake District.
Unknown:
Tony Harrison
Unknown:
William Wordsworth.
Producer:
Susan Roberts

Chair Robert Robinson. First round - the West. Eleanor Macnair
(retired civil servant)
Gudrun Collis (solicitor) Keith Walker
(licensed conveyancer) Michael Cook
(telecommunications engineer).
Including 'Beat the Brains' in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Producer Richard Edis
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson.
Unknown:
West. Eleanor MacNair
Unknown:
Gudrun Collis
Unknown:
Keith Walker
Unknown:
Michael Cook
Producer:
Richard Edis

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial:
The Age of Grief
The sixth of seven parts read by William Roberts Written by Jane Smiley
Music: Kern's Mark Twain Editor Clare Selerie-Grey

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Read By:
William Roberts
Written By:
Jane Smiley
Unknown:
Mark Twain
Editor:
Clare Selerie-Grey

2.05 Playtime Over the Sea and Far Away Presenters Alec Sabin and Sandra Kerr. Stereo (R)
2.20 Active Science Cleanliness with Carol Vorderman and Fred Harris. Stereo
2.40 Whirligig Where We Live
4: The changing street. Presenter Joe Hall. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Presenters:
Alec Sabin
Presenters:
Sandra Kerr.
Unknown:
Carol Vorderman
Unknown:
Fred Harris.
Presenter:
Joe Hall.

The Making of the Vixen Last week Simon Rattle made his conducting d6but at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The opera was Janafiek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and Kaleidoscope followed Rattle, producer Bill Bryden and an all-British cast as the production approached its opening night.
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rattle
Producer:
Bill Bryden

An occasional series of biographical plays.
A tale of the creation of Frankenstein.
In 1816 Mary Wollstonecraft eloped with her lover Percy Shelley to the shores of Lake Geneva; they moved into a villa close to Lord Byron and, for amusement, turned their hands to writing ghostly tales...
Written by Liz Lochhead
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Liz Lochhead
Music:
Robert Pettigrew
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
Gerda Stevenson
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Stephen Boxer
Lord Byron:
Jack Klaff
Claire Clairmont:
Stella Gonet
Elise:
Tilly Vosburgh
Creature:
Peter Kelly

Jessica Lange stars in Costa-Gavras's new film, Music Box; Czech playwright Pavel Kohout is the choice of the new West Yorkshire
Playhouse; and the Tate Gallery explores unfamiliar artists.
Presenter
Michael Berkeley.
Producer Tim Dee. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Lange
Unknown:
Pavel Kohout
Unknown:
Michael Berkeley.
Producer:
Tim Dee.

An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress by Thomas Hardy. The final episode read by Richard Pasco. Abridged by Sandra Willingham and Gareth Gwyn-Jones Producer Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy.
Read By:
Richard Pasco.
Abridged By:
Sandra Willingham
Abridged By:
Gareth Gwyn-Jones
Producer:
Janet Whitaker

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