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Welcome, John Paul
Pope John Paul made history when he visited Britain in 1982, in the middle of the Falklands conflict. Eamonn McCabe , official photographer, recalls six awe-inspired and adrenalin-filled days.
Producer Fiona Couper. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Paul
Unknown:
Pope John Paul
Unknown:
Eamonn McCabe
Producer:
Fiona Couper.

Presenter Jenni Murray. Story: Wigfime, from Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro.
The first of two parts read by Margaret Robinson. (Music: Gershwin's Violin Piece) Abridged by Meg Clarke Editor Ciare Selerie-Grey

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Alice Munro.
Read By:
Margaret Robinson.
Abridged By:
Meg Clarke
Editor:
Ciare Selerie-Grey

The 1974 production of The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning.
3: Friends and Heroes
War in the Balkans has forced Harriet Pringle , married to Guy, a young university lecturer, to escape from Romania to Athens.
Director John Tydeman. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Olivia Manning.
Unknown:
Harriet Pringle
Director:
John Tydeman.
Harriet:
Anna Massey
Guy:
Jack Shepherd
Yakimov:
Aubrey Woods
Charles Warden:
Christopher Good
Lord Pinkrose:
Gerald Cross
Alan Frewen:
William Fox
Clarence:
John Rye
Archie Callard/Sasha:
Peter Pacey
Gracey:
Rolf Lefebvre
Ben Phipps:
Sean Arnold
Major Cookson:
Alan Dudley
Dubedat:
Anthony Daniels
Toby Lush:
Nigel Lambert

Robert Dawson-Scott at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Mike Maran with a view on new books published this week, and artist Maggie Hambling paints the moon.
Producer Mike Greenwood Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dawson-Scott
Unknown:
Mike Maran
Artist:
Maggie Hambling
Producer:
Mike Greenwood

To celebrate Arthur Miller's 75th birthday, a world premiere of a radio adaptation of his only novel, "Focus". A powerful study of anti-Semitism in New York in the early 1940s.

(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Arthur Miller
Dramatist:
Wally K. Daly
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Newman:
Peter Marinker
Gertrude Hart:
Shelley Thompson
Finkelstein:
John Church
His father-in-law:
Leonard Fenton
Mrs Newman:
Helen Horton
Fr Coughlin:
Harry Towb
Finkelstein's father:
Cyril Shaps
Ahearn:
Brian Miller
Fred:
Peter Banks
Receptionist:
Tara Dominick
Paperboy:
Paul Downing
Gargan/Hotel manager:
Don Fellows
Carlson:
James Greene
Optician:
Tim Reynolds
Mallon:
David Bannerman
Stephens:
Nigel Carrington
Fat man:
Ronald Herdman
Priest:
Vincent Brimble
Youth:
Nicholas Gilbrook

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