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Six programmes in which John Cleese and his former psychiatrist
Dr Robin Skynner discuss how relationships are formed, and how to sustain and develop them. 5: Fathering - and Authority
Surprisingly, they enlist the help of The Cosby Show and Blackadder.
Producers Rachel Yorke and Jonathan James-Moore . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Dr Robin Skynner
Producers:
Rachel Yorke
Producers:
Jonathan James-Moore

The eighth of 12 short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the echoing darkness of Stoke Moran Manor, ancestral seat of the Roylott family, Julia Stoner has died from pure fear. Now her twin sister feels the same approaching terror.
Stereo

Contributors

Author:
Arthur Conan Doyle.
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Dramatised By:
Vincent McInerney
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson:
Michael Williams
Helen Stoner:
Susan Wooldridge
Julia:
Jane Whittenshaw
Dr Grimesby Roylott:
Ian Lindsay

A four-part series that rewrites history.
2: In the 1951 General
Election, Clement Attlee 's Labour party won more votes but fewer seats than the Conservatives. This week Christopher Andrew asks, 'What if Labour had won?' Lord Jay (in 1951 a junior minister called Douglas Jay ) and Peter Hennessey re-create the 50s, and describe a socialist decade that never was.
Producer tan Bell

Contributors

Unknown:
Clement Attlee
Unknown:
Christopher Andrew
Unknown:
Douglas Jay
Unknown:
Peter Hennessey

Brian Sibley with the new films this week, including the much-praised Cyrano de Bergerac starring French actor Gerard Depardieu ; the curtain rises on the new big-budget musical
Children of Eden, starring Adam and Eve and Noah; and an exhibition depicts the dog.
Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Gerard Depardieu
Producer:
Adrian Washbourne

The comedy show in which guests are taken on a literary mystery tour. This week
Frances Edmonds, Jaci Stephen and Roy Ackerman go on an earth-saving mission in outer space. In the chair Jenni Murray. Also starring Spontaneous Combustion. Producer Mary Sharp

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Edmonds
Unknown:
Jaci Stephen
Unknown:
Roy Ackerman
Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Producer:
Mary Sharp

Who are the English? In the first of eight programmes, Malcolm Billings and Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith begin their search for an answer in the fifth century. The Roman
Empire is breaking up and Britain is threatened by Anglo-Saxon invaders. But this is not the end, more a new beginning. Music by Steven Faux , performed by the Dufay Collective.
Producer Christopher Stone Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Billings
Unknown:
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Music By:
Steven Faux
Producer:
Christopher Stone

Simon Brett compares his diary entries for various January 9ths with those of his fellow diarists over four centuries.
Producers Kate McAII and Kate Whitehead. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Producers:
Kate McAii
Producers:
Kate Whitehead.

The story of Felicia Hemans , the popular poet of the early 19th century, remembered now for
'The boy stood on the burning deck ..."
Written and presented by Malcolm Jones. With Jenny Howe as Mrs Hemans.
Readers: Geoffrey Banks, Victoria Finney and Barbara Marten.
Producer Gillian Hush (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Felicia Hemans
Presented By:
Malcolm Jones.
Unknown:
Jenny Howe
Readers:
Mrs Hemans.
Unknown:
Victoria Finney
Unknown:
Barbara Marten.

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