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Presenters
Chris Lowe and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Richard Harries
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Lowe
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Richard Harries

The return of the programme that answers your queries.
Dilly Barlow gazes skywards to find out if the length and weight of a cloud can be gauged but comes back down to earth in search of the origins of bebop, boogie-woogie and swing music.
Producer Viv Black
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Viv Black

Six programmes in which three Somerset families talk to Jenni Mills.
4: The Daily Grind
George Jennings is a milkman, and his wife Jean a school dinner-lady; the Moreys run a craftsman-built kitchen company together; and Jeremy Taylor plans to make a million next year out of acid-house parties. Producer Jenny Stuart (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Mills.
Unknown:
Jeremy Taylor
Producer:
Jenny Stuart

The first in a three-part dramatisation of Joyce Carey 's novel, with Freddie Jones as the ageing painter, Gulley Jimson.
Prisoner 846221 Gulley Jimson is released from a spell in chokey. All he wants is paint, brushes, a wall to paint on, and a regular amount of liquid refreshment to lubricate his genius. But fate conspires against him...
Stereo (A R4/World Service co-production)

Contributors

Author:
Joyce Carey
Dramatised by:
William Ingram
Director:
Gordon House
Gulley Jimson:
Freddie Jones
Sara Monday:
Mary Wimbush
Coker:
Heather Bell
Hickson:
John Moffatt
Nosy:
Stephen Garlick
Plant:
John Hollis
Prison officer:
Christopher Scott
Alf:
Vincent Brimble
First vicar:
David King
Second vicar/Policeman:
Garard Green

Contributors

Bryan:
Charles Collingwood
Tony:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
Kenton:
Graeme Kirk
Shula:
Judy Bennett
Ruth:
Felicity Finch
Tom:
Bob Arnold
Jack:
Arnold Peters
Sid:
Alan Devereux
Lucy:
Tracy-Jane White
Joe:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie:
Trevor Harrison
Clarrie:
Rosalind Adams
Susan:
Charlotte Martin
Sharon:
Celia Nelson
Mike:
Terry Molloy
Betty:
Pamela Craig
Caroline:
Sara Coward
Mrs Antoobus:
Margot Boyd
Bert:
Roger Hume
Lynda:
Carole Boyd
John:
Sam Barriscale

Sam Galbraith
Sir Nicholas Henderson
Lord Rees-Mogg and Gillian Shephard , MP tackle the issues raised in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.
Chair Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Galbraith
Unknown:
Sir Nicholas Henderson
Unknown:
Gillian Shephard
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer:
Anna Carragher

A Small Country Festival
Every summer for the last 30 years the town of Ludlow on the Welsh borders has put on its Festival. There's professional Shakespeare in the Castle Grounds ... amateur Shakespeare in the pub yard ... but it's always the gardening lecture that sells out first.
Paul Allen visits Ludlow to discover what makes a small town tick during Festival Fortnight. Producer Chris Eldon Lee

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Chris Eldon Lee

Five programmes.
In the small village of Little Blighty,
Mrs Roberts has been head of the Parish Council for
11 years. A toll tax has just been introduced and ... hang on, doesn't this sound a bit familiar?
With Jo Kendall
Michael Troughton John Baddeley
Bernadine Corrigan and Daniel Strauss. Producer Lissa Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Roberts
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Michael Troughton
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Bernadine Corrigan
Unknown:
Daniel Strauss.
Producer:
Lissa Evans

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