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with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Paul Bates.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Canon Paul Bates.

Breakfast in Belfast by John Tunney.
An outsider looks at
Belfast: John visits the city briefly and is shocked and charmed alternately by the passions and fear which he encounters.
Read by David Herlihy. Producer Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tunney.
Read By:
David Herlihy.

Six short stories by P G Wodehouse.
3: Pig-Hoo-oo-o-o-o-ey! Narrator Nigel Anthony.
Lord Emswortk. RICHARD VERNON
Adapted by Richard Usborne Producer Bobby Jaye

Contributors

Unknown:
G Wodehouse.
Narrator:
Nigel Anthony.
Unknown:
Richard Vernon
Adapted By:
Richard Usborne
Producer:
Bobby Jaye
Beach:
Lockwood West
Lady Constance:
Margot Boyd
Lord Heackam:
Nigel Anthony
Magistrate:
Peter Tuddenham
Angela:
Diana Martin
James Belford:
Edward Duke

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Murray. Tom Hanks as Master of the Universe?
Julie Andrews as a sexpot?
Jenni Murray hears from film critic Anne Billson and casting director Anne Fielden who gets to play whom - and why. Serial:
A World of Love (6)

Contributors

Unknown:
Murray. Tom Hanks
Unknown:
Julie Andrews
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Anne Billson
Director:
Anne Fielden

Sacred and profane, reverent and rude, Chaucer's glorious blend of romance, farce and morality tales in a four-part series by Colin Haydn Evans.

The Wife of Bath insists on telling the next, a tale of love - and false appearances...

(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
Geoffrey Chauncer
Adapted by:
Colin Haydn Evans
Music composed and played by:
Sue Harris
Director:
Nigel Bryant
The Wife of Bath:
Rosemary Leach
The Miller:
Freddie Jones
Chaucer:
Steve Hodson
The Pardoner:
Simon Carter
The Host:
Roger Hume
The Knight:
William Chubb
The Queen:
Tina Gray
Old woman:
Mary Wimbush
Young woman:
Kathryn Hurlbutt

Why do our voices change with age, and how do football clubs get their funny nicknames?
Dilly Barlow finds out. Producer Tessa Watt
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Tessa Watt

Four traditional ways of life which may soon come to an end.
3: Freshwater Pearls
Paul Heiney wades through the rivers of the Scottish Highlands in the company of Peter Goodwin , one of the few remaining professional freshwater-pearl fishermen. Producer Marc Jobst

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Peter Goodwin
Producer:
Marc Jobst

Nigel Andrews finds that Life Is Sweet in British director Mike Leigh 's new film, but isn't for the Chinese director Zhang Yimou whose film Judou, in the running for an Oscar nomination in America, is banned in China.
Producer Julian May. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Director:
Mike Leigh
Director:
Zhang Yimou

When the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, BBC correspondents, along with their colleagues from around the world, took their microphones to the front line of battle for the first time. Among them was Frank Gillard , who tells Barry Cunliffe how the information war was fought. And Annette Kobak recalls
William Howard Russell , whose controversial dispatches from the Crimean War led to the downfall of a government.
Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Gillard
Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Unknown:
Annette Kobak
Unknown:
William Howard Russell
Producer:
John Knight

Bel Mooney talks to six people about the way in which one particular death affected their lives.
6: Bernard Levin discusses his friend, the novelist and journalist Peter Forster.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo

Contributors

Talks:
Bel Mooney
Unknown:
Bernard Levin
Unknown:
Peter Forster.
Producer:
Beaty Rubens.

Something from Nothing
A focus on Britain's unsung heroes - from corner shop to multimillionaire. Penniless and unwelcome, Asian immigrants clawed their way to business success. Plus details of the Business Survivor of the Year competition.
Presented by Peter Day. Editor Colin Wilde. Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Day.
Editor:
Colin Wilde.

The last of six true murder cases, presented by Nick Ross , from the days when police cars had bells and the men from the Yard wore trilbies.
The New Year Nightmare The celebrations were hardly over when Jean Constable 's body was found and the police inquiry began. 'It must have been a Yank,' commented
June Boshears , not knowing that it was her husband who had been arrested.
Written by John Scotney. Eugene Bnshears KERRY SHALE Jeavons GEORGE PARSONS With David Bannerman ,
Timothy Bates ,
James Greene , Emma Gregory ,
Jenny Howe , Joanna Myers , Michael Turner and Angus Wright.
Producer Mark Savage. Stereo

Contributors

Presented By:
Nick Ross
Unknown:
Jean Constable
Unknown:
June Boshears
Written By:
John Scotney.
Written By:
Eugene Bnshears Kerry
Unknown:
David Bannerman
Unknown:
Timothy Bates
Unknown:
James Greene
Unknown:
Emma Gregory
Unknown:
Jenny Howe
Unknown:
Joanna Myers
Unknown:
Michael Turner
Unknown:
Angus Wright.
Producer:
Mark Savage.

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