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with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones. Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
James Jones.
Editor:
Philip Harding

The third of six classic comedy scripts written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.
Music: David Firman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo
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Contributors

Written By:
Nat Perrin
Written By:
Arthur Sheekman.
Music:
David Firman.
Adapted By:
Mark Brisenden
Producer:
Dirk Maggs.
Waldorf T Flywheel/Groucho Marx:
Michael Roberts
Emmanuel Ravelli/Chico Marx:
Frank Lazarus
Mr McBride:
Graham Hoadly
D A:
Vincent Marzello
Judge:
William Hootkins
All ladies:
Lorelei King

The panel includes:
Edwina Currie , MP, and Anthony Sampson. From Formby. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. (Broadcast yesterday; and at 2.00pm)
Any Answers? [number removed] with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and John Watkins
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwina Currie
Unknown:
Anthony Sampson.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers:
Anna Carragher
Producers:
John Watkins

P.D. James's first novel featuring her female detective Cordelia Gray.
An eminent scientist hires her to discover why his son committed suicide.
Stereo

Contributors

Author:
P.D. James
Dramatised by:
Neville Teller
Director:
Matthew Walters
Cordelia:
Judi Bowker
Miss Leaming:
Anna Massey
Sir Ronald:
Robert Lang
lnsp/Bernie:
Michael Turner
Coroner:
James Greene
Eleanor Markland:
Maxine Audley
Mrs Markland/Mrs Gladwyn:
Elizabeth Kelly
Major Markland/Benskin:
Ian Lindsay
Miss Sparshott:
Jenny Howe
Sgt Marshall:
Nigel Carrington
Horsfall:
Brett Usher
Hugo:
Andrew Branch
Sophie:
Joanna Myers
Isabelle:
Edita Brychta
Nanny Pilbeam:
Barbara Atkinson
Bottley:
Timothy Bateson
Dalgliesh:
Timothy Carlton

Six programmes in which playwrights talk to Rosemary Hartill about how their ideas and beliefs influence their work.
1: David Hare - 'The minute you're shackled to pretending that problems can be solved by one party or ideology, you're no longer intellectually active.'
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Hartill
Unknown:
David Hare

Goodbye Mr Chips
The second of a two-part adaptation of James Hilton 's novel.
Although considered a confirmed bachelor by his colleagues and pupils, Mr Chipping has surprised them all by marrying Kathie, a girl 20 years younger than himself.
Dramatised by Margaret Simpson Director Graham Gauld

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hilton
Unknown:
Mr Chipping
Dramatised By:
Margaret Simpson
Director:
Graham Gauld
Mr Chipping:
John Church
Mrs Wickett:
Katherine Parr
Kathie:
Lolly Cockerell
DrMerivale:
Lewis Stringer
Sutton:
Gordon Reid
Ralston:
Nigel Anthony
Chatteris:
Walter Hall
Slaefel:
Graham Faulkner
Wetherby:
Godfrey Kenton
Williams:
Christopher Scott
Wadham:
Harold Reese
Barker:
John Bott
Deakin:
John Gray
Midwife:
Sonia Fraser
Linford:
Arthur Haycraft
Brookfield boys:
Adam Bass
Brookfield boys:
Matthew Emerson
Brookfield boys:
Ian Land
Brookfield boys:
Adam Landor

Roy Porter talks to historian Simon Schama, whose account of the French Revolution won last year's NCR Book Award. Fascinated by the divisions between history, myth and fiction, his new book discusses the wildly different versions of two deaths - General Wolfe at the Battle of Quebec, and a Harvard doctor, who disappeared one November afternoon in 1849.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Talks:
Roy Porter
Unknown:
Simon Schama
Producer:
Beaty Rubens.

The grand finale to the series after which classical music will never be the same again. With special guests Jonathan Cecil , Flaminia Cinque.
Professor Jim Tavare , the Butterfield Quartet, the Gabrieli Scholars and Anthony Crisp.
Producer Harry Thompson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Cecil
Unknown:
Professor Jim Tavare
Unknown:
Anthony Crisp.
Producer:
Harry Thompson.

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