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A five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie 's novel. 3: Carlotta Adams has become the second murder victim, even though it looks as if she might have been involved in the death of Lord Edgware.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Director Enyd Williams. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Unknown:
Carlotta Adams
Dramatised By:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams.
Hercuk Poirot:
John Moffatt
Captain Hastings:
Simon Williams
Inspector Japp:
Norman Jones
Jane Wilkinson:
Nicola Pagett
Bryan Martin:
Brett Usher
Ronald Marsh:
Charles Millham
Geraldine Marsh:
Joanna Myers
Miss Carroll:
Eva Stuart
Duke of Merton:
Eric Allan
Sir Montagu Corner:
Garard Green
Mr Widburn:
Andrew Wincott
Mrs Widburn:
Susan Sheridan
Ross:
Terence Edmond
Ellis:
Paula Jacobs
Jenkins:
Fraser Kerr
Poirot's housekeeper:
Jean Reeve

Stephen Greenhorn 's play touchingly draws together a woman's hopes for her 70th birthday, and her lingering memories of her first love - killed in action in 1942. Director Stewart Conn Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Greenhorn
Director:
Stewart Conn
Alice:
Eileen McCallum
Joyce:
Barbara Rafferty
Kate:
Wendy Seager
Alex:
Kenneth Glenaan
Young Alice:
Rachel Ogilvy
Eric:
James Convey
Mags:
Carolyn Bonnyman
Pilot/Frank:
Eric Barlow

Last of the series in which Paul Hyland journeys up the River Congo, into
Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness.
Producer Alec Reid

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Hyland
Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Producer:
Alec Reid
Joseph Conrad:
Anthony Donovan
Dan Crawford:
Dominic Taylor

Mark Steyn recalls the singing of Dinah
Washington; and visits the new exhibition, Sovereign, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

Crying, Talking,
Sleeping, Walking by Greg Snow.
Something turns up, very unexpectedly. And no one believes Grace when she says she found it in the washing machine....
Read by Haydn Gwynne. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Greg Snow.
Read By:
Haydn Gwynne.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

Four programmes in which Dr David Cook discusses a medical dilemma with the people to whom it matters most - the doctor and the patient. 1: A lady who's been paralysed for 7 years, is unable to talk and is fed through the nose. Her daughter and her doctor disagree about her quality of life. Is she being condemned to live? Producer Alison Bogle

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Cook
Producer:
Alison Bogle

Trainer
Presented by Peter Day.
It's dark, you are cold and damp, sheltering as best you can under some plastic sheeting. But this is not some army exercise - just part of the very latest in management training. From assault courses to role-playing, such training is now big business. But how useful is it, and which approach really challenges your executives' way of thinking?
Producer Tim Bowler

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Day.
Producer:
Tim Bowler

Six features by Edward Blishen.
2: Enter Stage Right a Magician
Post-war Britain, muffled, rationed and cold, was in need of a tonic: it administered the 1945 General Election, austerity and the Festival of Britain, but was still feeling a bit peaky when suddenly laughter could be heard - the Goons had arrived.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blishen.

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