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The real-life everyday story of the folk of Bentley in Hampshire, presented in eight programmes by Nigel Farrell.
4: Plans for the bypass are on display in the village - and it looks as if it's going right through the middle of Tony Holmes 's farm. Producer Chris Paling

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Farrell.
Unknown:
Tony Holmes

Ever since Eve tried to improve her appearance with a fig leaf, people have searched for the secrets of eternal youth and beauty. Are their dreams now coming true with liposuction, cosmaceuticals and Retin-A? Gail Foley investigates in a special programme from Cardiff.
Serial: Mansfield Park(15)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gail Foley

Pesticides and poultry, fast food and foie gras.... the show that investigates the good, the bad and the tasteless. Presented by Derek Cooper.
Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly

Contributors

Presented By:
Derek Cooper.
Producers:
Sheila Dillon
Producers:
Marie Helly

Nigel Forde gives the lowdown on footnotes - brilliant, bitchy or boring; and behind the wall and across the desert, Colin Thubron on the books he takes travelling.
Also Frankfurt on the eve of the book fair. Producer Abigail Appleton

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Forde
Unknown:
Colin Thubron
Producer:
Abigail Appleton

Tim Marlow 's guest is the individual poet and broadcaster Ivor Cutler ; the pick of the Queen's pictures goes on show at the National Gallery; and a new play, Arthur's Plough, captures the life and times of a Shropshire farmer. Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Marlow
Unknown:
Ivor Cutler
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

5: The Most Beautiful Dress in the World
'She gathered the dress to her, as she would have liked to embrace her daughter, and the tip of her cigarette caught a fold and a tongue of flame leapt up the gauze, and died, leaving a hideous black valley up the centre of the skirt.'

A humorous and moving exploration of middle age, written in seven parts by KenBlakeson.
6: Separations
The end of a beautiful friendship? Billy's hopes collapse.
Additional material by Tom Mennard.
Director Susan Hogg. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Mennard.
Director:
Susan Hogg.
Billy Balsam:
Geoff Hinsliff
Actor:
Tedfenwick Jamesgreene
Cilla:
Lynda Rooke
TV producer:
Christopher Kent
Mrs Simpson:
Anna Welsh
Anna:
Linda Gardner
Arnie:
Ian Lindsay
Janice:
Henrietta Whitsun-Jones
Ben:
Stephen Garlick

Out of the blue, Mark gets a proposition.
Written by Sam Jacobs

Contributors

Written By:
Sam Jacobs
Phil:
Norman Painting
Jill:
Patricia Greene
Shula:
Judy Bennett
Mark:
Richard Derrington
Elizabeth:
Alison Dowling
Debbie:
Tamsin Greig
Tony:
Colin Skipp
Pat:
Patricia Gallimore
Tom:
Bob Arnold
Jack:
Arnold Peters
Sid:
Alan Devereux
Kathy:
Hedliniklaus
Lucy:
Tracy-Jane White
Neil:
Brian Hewlett
Susan:
Charlotte Martin
Mike:
Terry Molloy
Betty:
Pamela Craig
Caroline:
Sara Coward
Mrs Antrobus:
Margot Boyd
Robin:
Tim Meats

This week's panel:
Margaret Beckett , MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Sir John Harvey Jones ; the Rt
Hon Michael Heseltine , MP, and Des Wilson. From Henfield, Sussex. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Beckett
Unknown:
Sir John Harvey Jones
Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Unknown:
Des Wilson.
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer:
Anna Carragher

Two programmes in which Professor Theo Barker delves among the BBC Sound Archives.
1: Yearning for Yesterday A century ago most people in Britain were already living in towns. But it's the rural memories that often loomed rosiest.
Producer Daniel Snowman

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Theo Barker
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

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