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Members of the public do the reporting with the help of Susan Marling and the Punters team. Stereo (Repeated on Sunday at 8.00pm; 0 WRITE to: Punters.
BBC Radio 4, Bristol BS8 2LR 0 PHONE: [number removed]86

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling

Most of the ponies reported to be living in dire conditions on Dartmoor are not true Dartmoor ponies, but a collection of crossbreeds turned out in the 50s and 60s to provide a cheap cash crop for the European meat industry. Jessica Holm and Michael Scott go in search of the real Dartmoor pony - bred for work and to withstand the harsh weather on this bleak moor.
Producer John Holmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Holm
Unknown:
Michael Scott
Producer:
John Holmes

A series of showbusiness reminiscences, in seven programmes.
2: The TV Spectacular - a Contradiction in Terms A story that will confirm the truth of a lot of what you'd always suspected, and the place in show business history of the liver sausage sandwich. Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer Pete Atkin

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Jones.
Producer:
Pete Atkin

Nigel Rees chairs the quotation game. With
Dillie Keane , Bel Mooney , John Julius Norwich and John Peel. Readings by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Armando lannucci Stereo

Contributors

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

Fascinated by Judy Garland and her legend, Charlie learns that his waiter father met the star on her visit to Glasgow in 1951.. John Binnie 's play conjures up a touching and humorous dream world.
Director Stewart Conn. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
John Binnie
Director:
Stewart Conn.
Mother:
Aileen Ritchie
Charlie:
Stephen Docherty
Judy:
Mari Binnie

Paul Allen is at the first night of When She
Danced, starring Vanessa Redgrave ; the poet
Douglas Dunn collects writings about Scotland; and Amanda Brisbane sculpts animals out of glass. Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Vanessa Redgrave
Unknown:
Douglas Dunn
Unknown:
Amanda Brisbane
Producer:
Adrian Washbourne

Evelyn Waugh 's novel adapted in three parts. 2: Hollywood, 1947.
Two men are in love with Aimee Thanatogenous. One is the poet
Dennis Barlow. The other is senior mortician Mr Joyboy ...
Dramatised by Bill Matthews
Producer Ussa Evans. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Aimee Thanatogenous.
Unknown:
Dennis Barlow.
Unknown:
Mr Joyboy
Dramatised By:
Bill Matthews
Producer:
Ussa Evans.
Dennis Barlow:
Rupert Graves
Aimee Thanatogenous:
Miranda Richardson
Mr Joyboy:
Richard Griffiths
Sir Ambrose Abercrombie:
Donald Pickering
The Guru Brahmin:
Mike McShane
Mrs Joyboy:
Elaine Ives-Cameron
Mr Schultz:
Graham Hoadly
Rhoda:
Sue Broomfield
Boatman:
Simon Treves

After 30 years working in Kuwait, Dr Josephine Candy fled the country six weeks after the Iraqi invasion of August 1990, leaving behind almost all her possessions - and her parrot Charlie. In June, with her son John Dryden , she made an emotional return to Kuwait to start work again in the hospital where she had hidden. She met old friends who had survived the occupation, but what had become of Charlie?
Producer John Watkins. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Josephine Candy
Unknown:
John Dryden
Producer:
John Watkins.

Blurry Works at Hurdles Ford
The River Liffey cuts its way through a city defined by its contradictions,
Dublin. Where once there was a port, now there is a financial centre which deals in electronic money. And the young find their voices in the city's best known export, Dublin Rock. Writer
Fintan O'Toole unravels the conflicts to reveal his city as it attempts to hurdle the ford between its past and its future. Producer Mary Price

Contributors

Unknown:
Dublin Rock.
Unknown:
Fintan O'Toole

A sixpart crime series set in 1830, a year after the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'.
Written by Patrick Carroll. 4: PC Quin is in prison for debt and Maria is imprisoned by her father.
Singer Martin Carthy.
Director Janet Whitaker. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Patrick Carroll.
Singer:
Martin Carthy.
Director:
Janet Whitaker.
PC Martin Quin:
Mick Ford
Jeremiah Morley:
James Booth
Lord Trowle:
Richard E Grant
Mrs Gascoygne:
Elizabeth Bell
Maria Staples:
,joanna Myers
Colonel Rowan:
Peter Jeffrey
Richard Mayne:
Killian McKenna
John Staples:
Ian Lindsay
Rev Charles Lyton:
Timothy Carlton
Lord Laverton:
James Greene
Sgt Dutton:
Ronald Herdman
Frederick Roe:
Timothy Bateson
Turnkey:
Mark Straker
Florrie:
Susan Sheridan
Mrs Gregory:
Elizabeth Kelly

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