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with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Vicky Cosstick. Editor Philip Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Vicky Cosstick.
Editor:
Philip Harding

Ned Sherrin hosts an hour of live interjections from the likes of Arthur Smith , Emma Freud and John Walters.
Producer Alison Vernon-Smith Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
John Walters.

The antidote to panel games. In the chair, Humphrey Lyttelton. With Willie Rushton, Barry Cryer, Bill Tidy and Denise Coffey. Piano Colin Sell.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

Contributors

Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Panellist:
Willie Rushton
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Panellist:
Bill Tidy
Panellist:
Denise Coffey
Pianist:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Jon Naismith

This week's panel: Dr Jenny Tonge ,
Harriet Harman , MP, Peter Riddell and Michael Portillo , MP. From Mottingham, London.
Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers?
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Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jenny Tonge
Unknown:
Harriet Harman
Unknown:
Peter Riddell
Unknown:
Michael Portillo
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers:
Anna Carragher

It's 1919, but for three young ex-officers it's not so easy to escape from the war. They live together in an isolated cottage, cared for by two attendants, and no one is allowed to visit.
Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Patricia Wood.
Music:
Stephen Warbeck
Director:
Jane Morgan
Jimmy Barnes :
Bill Nighy
David Hunter:
Andrew Wincott
'Boy' Dawson:
Charles Simpson
Major John Dawson:
Colin McFarlane
Tom Drew:
Stephen Tompkinson
Sylvia:
Jane Whittenshaw

with Barry Cunliffe.
Television has brought politicians into all our homes. John Major and Neil Kinnock are as familiar to us as our next-door neighbours. Christopher Cook has been listening to Sir MaxBeerbohm's reminiscences of the elder statesmen of his youth in the 1880s. Half a century earlier, painter Benjamin Haydon had pestered Peel and Wellington to give financial support to the arts. Derek Parker browses through Haydon's diaries. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe.
Unknown:
John Major
Unknown:
Neil Kinnock
Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Benjamin Haydon
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Producer:
John Knight

Six programmes exploring the legacy of reputation inherited by succeeding generations from people who made headlines in their day.
2: What Mother Never Told Us
Ethel Ie Neve, Crippen's mistress cleared of complicity in the sensational murder of his wife, made a new life for herself in 1920s south London. Her two children, Bob and Nina, recall their suburban upbringing and reflect on their mother's lifelong secret. Presented by Roger Wilkes.
Producer Diana Stenson

Contributors

Unknown:
Ethel Ie Neve
Presented By:
Roger Wilkes.
Producer:
Diana Stenson

The Grey Coast
The Scottish writer
Neil Gunn was born 100 years ago in Caithness. Mike Maran takes a literary journey through the author's work, writings steeped in the lives of the crofters and fishermen of the Highlands, and in the spiritual search of Neil Gunn himself.
Producer Kate Wilkinson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Gunn
Unknown:
Caithness. Mike
Unknown:
Neil Gunn
Producer:
Kate Wilkinson.

A ten-part dramatisation of Charles Dickens's novel.

David and Dora have married. Emily has parted from Steerforth, and Mr Peggotty still searches for her. Dora has lost a baby and is not strong.
Dramatised by Betty Davies
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Betty Davies
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
David Copperfield:
Gary Cady
Betsey Trotwood:
Miriam Margolyes
Dora:
Maria Miles
Wilkins Micawber:
Harold Innocent
Mrs Micawber:
Sheila Hancock
Mr Dick:
David Bamber
Uriah Heep:
Phil Daniels
Mrs Heep:
Maria Charles
Peggotty:
Maggie McCarthy
Mr Peggotty:
David Burke
Ham Peggotty:
Timothy Spall
Mrs Gummidge:
Mary Wimbush
Emily:
Joanna Myers
Agnes:
Jane Whittenshaw
Traddles:
Mark Straker
Rosa Dartle:
Jenny Howe
Martha:
Adjoa Andoh
Omer:
Peter Tuddenham
Jip:
Ronald Herdman

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