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

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Dr Paula Clifford.
Editor:
Philip Harding

A young man who suffers from bouts of amnesia is accused of a brutal murder in Julian Symons's psychological thriller, winner of a Gold Dagger award for crime writing.
Dramatised by Guy Meredith
Director Enyd Williams.
Stereo

Contributors

Writer:
Julian Symons
Dramatist:
Guy Meredith
Director:
Enyd Williams
John Wilkins:
David Threlfall
May Wilkins:
Natasha Pyne
Mrs Wilkins:
Charlotte Mitchell
Uncle Dan:
Harold Innocent
James Hayley:
Anthony Newlands
Magnus Newton:
Michael Cochrane
Justice Morland:
Aubrey Richards
Dr Andreadis:
Peter Penry-Jones
Sheila Morton:
Adjoa Andoh
Betty Prenton:
Alice Arnold
Bill Lonergan:
Nigel Carrington
Les Jackson:
Alan Barker
Mr Fanham:
Fraser Kerr
Mr Morton:
Preston Lockwood
Mr Gimball:
John Church
Mr Shaddock:
Michael Bilton
Pub landlord:
Eric Allan
Receptionist:
Neil Roberts

with Barry Cunliffe. The depopulation of communities frequently means that a valuable source of social history is lost. Sean Street travels to the Welsh Folk Museum where a row of miners' cottages has been re-erected to show the changing pattern of life in a mining community during the last 200 years. And Sonia Beesley discovers some of the secrets of the Public
Records Office which houses documents ranging from the Domesday Book to the official file on Jack the Ripper. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe.
Unknown:
Sonia Beesley
Producer:
John Knight

Six programmes exploring the legacy of reputation inherited by succeeding generations from people who made headlines in their day. 4: Victorian Sex Goddess
In 1886, the British public was treated to the longest, most sensational divorce case in history. Roger Wilkes recounts the sordid wrangle between the syphilitic Lord Colin Campbell and his beautiful progressive wife, with reflections from the present Lady Colin Campbell on her scandalous predecessor. Producer Diana Stenson

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Wilkes
Unknown:
Colin Campbell
Unknown:
Lady Colin Campbell
Producer:
Diana Stenson

Jekyll and Hyde Since Robert Louis
Stevenson dreamed up
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , the story has been adapted for stage, film and radio.
Paul Allen goes behind the scenes of the new production by the RSC, and talks to the adapter
David Edgar , actors Roger Allam and Simon Russell -
Beale, and director Peter Wood about the continuing power of the story.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis
Unknown:
Mr Hyde
Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
David Edgar
Unknown:
Roger Allam
Unknown:
Simon Russell
Director:
Peter Wood
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

A four-part dramatisation of Daphne du Maurier's novel.

The young Mary Yellan arrives at Jamaica Inn where she meets her uncle, Joss Merlyn, and begins to form her suspicions of his terrible trade.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
(Stereo)
(Repeated Friday at 2.00 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Daphne du Maurier
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams
Mary Yellan:
Susannah Corbett
Joss Merlyn:
John Woodvine
Aunt Patience:
Auriol Smith
Jem Merlyn:
Mark Straker
Harry, the pedlar:
John Hartley
Mrs Yellan:
Joanna Wake
Doctor:
Eric Allan
Coach driver:
John Church
Old man:
Ronald Herdman
Woman in coach:
Ann Windsor
Lawyer clerk:
Robert Portal
Idiot:
Alan Barker

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