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A Place for Belonging by Doug Morgan.
Sam Williams has been an outsider all his life.
Will anything ever change this?
Read by John Darren. Producer Caroline Sam

Contributors

Unknown:
Doug Morgan.
Unknown:
Sam Williams
Read By:
John Darren.
Producer:
Caroline Sam

Written by Christopher Reason Director Adrian Bean. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Christopher Reason
Director:
Adrian Bean.
JJ:
Adjoa Andoh
Mary:
Alice Arnold
Suzi:
Hetty Baynes
Sally:
Avril Clark
Mireilk:
Tara Dominick
Alex:
Kate Duchene
Mike ::
Scott Farrell
Cliff:
Jeffrey Gear
Toby:
Christopher Godwin
Joe:
John Hollis
Terry:
Anthony Jackson
Hugh:
James MacPherson
June:
Maggie McCarthy
Rose:
Carmen Munroe
Colin:
Ben Onwukwe
Neville:
David Richard-Fox
Tony:
Richard Tate

with Dillie Keane , Bel Mooney , John Julius
Norwich and John Peel. In the chair Nigel Rees.
Reader Ronald Fletcher. .. Producer Armando lannucci Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dillie Keane
Unknown:
Bel Mooney
Unknown:
John Julius
Unknown:
John Peel.
Reader:
Nigel Rees.
Reader:
Ronald Fletcher.

The House with an Attic An adaptation of a short story by Anton Chekhov. Andrei, now a famous painter in Moscow, remembers a summer's visit ten years earlier to his friend Belakurov's large estate. And the beautiful Zhenya who so mysteriously slipped through his fingers ...
Adapted by Jane Gerson
Director Peter Kavanagh. Stereo

Contributors

Story By:
Anton Chekhov.
Adapted By:
Jane Gerson
Director:
Peter Kavanagh.
Andrei Orlovsky:
Dale Rapley
Nikolai Belakurov:
Nigel Carrington
Yasha:
Garard Green
Lydia Volchaninov:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Zhenya Volchaninov:
Tara Dominick

A Hard Day's Fright Why do many people deliberately go out to scare themselves? Why are they drawn to rickety roller coasters, horror movies and rowing across the Atlantic in an open boat? Neil Walker and David Clayton report. Producer Nick Clarke

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Walker
Unknown:
David Clayton
Producer:
Nick Clarke

Paul Vaughan meets George Smiley in the pages of John le Carres latest novel and discusses the new book by Colombian author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Producer John Goudie
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
George Smiley
Unknown:
John Le Carres
Unknown:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Producer:
John Goudie

John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden.
Unknown:
Steve Race.
Producer:
Richard Edis.

Three programmes about the end of the Soviet
Union as we know it.
What is to be the fate of the Soviet peoples as they confront the end of a system that has lasted over 70 years?
1: The Second Blockade
As the frost of the grim Soviet winter begins to bite hard and the shops stay empty, Leningrad faces its worst winter since the great siege of the Second World War.
How do people survive such shortages?
Gordon Clough reports. Producer Anne Koch

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Producer:
Anne Koch

The first of six talks by Charles Arnold-Baker , born Wolfgang Werner von Blumenthal, a Prussian aristocrat, in which he reflects on the English society of which he became such a 'compleat' example.
Producer Louise Purslow. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Arnold-Baker
Producer:
Louise Purslow.

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