Programme Index

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with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day: the Rev Richard Bewes.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Richard Bewes.

withjenni Murray.
Times have changed since the baddie wore black and the vamp glittered to the thigh. Now that top designers dress the stars, Cheryl Armitage investigates the new language of clothes in films.
Serial: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.
Thel6thof20episodes read by Maria Aitken. Abridged by Meg Clarke Editor Clare Selerie

Contributors

Unknown:
Cheryl Armitage
Unknown:
Jane Austen.
Read By:
Maria Aitken.
Abridged By:
Meg Clarke
Editor:
Clare Selerie

The Scottish team, Colin Bell and Joyce McMillan return to face London's
Irene Thomas and Eric Kom.
Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen.
Producer PaulZJackson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Bell
Unknown:
Joyce McMillan
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Eric Kom.
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Louis Allen.

The true story of a young surgeon committed in 1823 to Bedlam accused of the attempted assassination of George IV. He never had a trial and not only might he have been innocent, he might not have been mad. Written by Terry James.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Terry James
Director:
Janet Whitaker
David Griffiths:
Jack Klaff
Richenda Clifford:
Samantha Bond
Sir David Scott:
John Shrapnel
Johnjenkins, MP:
Colin Jeavons
Barnaby Fairbanks:
Timothy Bateson
Lady Walton:
Maxine Audley
Mrs Musgrave:
Elizabeth Kelly
Co/batch:
Norman Jones
Committee Chairman:
Timothy Carlton
Priest:
James Greene
Keeper Samson:
Ronald Herdman
Trangmar:
Ian Lindsay
Newnham:
James Simmons
Dainbridge:
Andrew Wincott

Six programmes in which John Miller talks to eminent historians.
4: Robert Blake , former
Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, biographer of Benjamin Disraeli and author of The Conservative
Party from Peel to Thatcher. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Talks:
John Miller
Unknown:
Robert Blake
Unknown:
Benjamin Disraeli
Producer:
John Knight

Paul Vaughan 's guests include the conductors
Roger Norrington and Odaline de la Martinez; and Judy Meewezen reports on Peter Terson 's play about the less welcome aspects of retirement.
Producer John Goudie. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Conductors:
Roger Norrington
Unknown:
Judy Meewezen
Unknown:
Peter Terson
Producer:
John Goudie.

The Passport Officer by James Thurlby.
Harding's pressurised business life is having a strange effect on him. At the airport he thinks he is elsewhere ... the hospital? Heaven?
Read by Paul Daneman. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
James Thurlby.
Read By:
Paul Daneman.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

Different backgrounds and beliefs. Different meanings for the same words. And in Alan McDonald's play, a thirst for revenge so deep it destroys everything in its way.
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Alan McDonald
Director:
Clive Brill
Robert:
Robert Glenister
Ali:
Joan Myers
Mike:
Mark Straker
Fee:
Siobhan Redmond
Mother:
Jenny Howe
Mum:
Ann Windsor
Dad/Newcaster:
Ronald Herdman
Father/Peter:
John Church
[Actor]:
Eric Allan
[Actor]:
Nigel Carrington
[Actor]:
Peter Gunn
[Actor]:
Charles Millham

In the last of three programmes Simon Rae and Nicola Davies take a look at poems about night and dark and eavesdrop on new poems by young writers from Kingswood
School in Gloucestershire.
Guest poet John Agard answers the Talking Poetryquestionnaire. Producers Susan Roberts and Viv Beeby. Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio 5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Nicola Davies
Unknown:
John Agard
Producers:
Susan Roberts
Producers:
Viv Beeby.

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More