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A six-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh 's dazzling first novel. 1: Theology undergraduate
Paul Pennyfeather is thrown out of Oxford and forced to take a post in an eighth-rate public school.
Adapted by Jeremy Front Producer Lissa Evans Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Paul Pennyfeather
Adapted By:
Jeremy Front
Producer:
Lissa Evans
Paul:
Alistair McGowan
Grimes:
Jim Broadbent
Prendergast:
Andrew Sachs
Potts:
Daniel Strauss
Peter:
Richard Pearce
Dr Fagan:
Edward Hardwicke
Postlethwaite:
Peter Penry Jones
Sniggs:
Sean Arnold
Philbrick:
Jonathan Kydd
Flossie:
Emma Fielding
Dingy:
Siriol Jenkins

Four plays in which people are haunted ...

In John Metcalfe's story, a honeymoon couple are trapped in a bizarre nightmare world of possession.
Dramatised by Rebecca Wilmshurst
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
John Metcalfe
Dramatised by:
Rebecca Wilmshurst
Director:
Martin Jenkins
John:
Robert Glenister
Humphrey:
David March
Salome:
Helena Breck
Occy:
Ann Windsor
Edward:
Ronald Herdman
Heather:
Gudrun Ure
Andrew:
Jonathan Adams
Tom:
John Church

Six villages lost in the 20th century. Sean Street tells the story of their demise with the help of men and women who used to live in them.
2: St Kilda
In 1930, the remaining 36 villagers had to be evacuated from St Kilda, an island 100 miles west of the Scottish mainland.
Life on the rim of this extinct volcano had finally become untenable.
Producer Felicity Goodall. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Street
Unknown:
St Kilda
Producer:
Felicity Goodall.

Bob Sinfield sees the week's controversial new film The Naked Lunch directed by David Cronenberg from William Burroughs ' surreal novel; playwright John Godber takes a new direction in his latest play April in Paris; and a Kaleidoscope listener confesses an artistic revelation.
Producer Nicki Paxman
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Sinfield
Directed By:
David Cronenberg
Unknown:
William Burroughs
Unknown:
John Godber
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

Art Nouveau by Helen Campbell. "I hated visiting my mother, well not her, the house really, the chaos, the shabbiness, the half-done tasks ..."
Read by Lynn Cahill. Producer Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Campbell.
Read By:
Lynn Cahill.
Producer:
Pam Brighton

The last programme in which Dr David Cook discusses a particular medical dilemma.
4: A woman in her 40s is caught between her desperate desire for children and her moral scruples which inhibit the effectiveness of the infertility treatment. What do medics make of her dilemma?
Producer Alison Bogle

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr David Cook
Producer:
Alison Bogle

In which Edward Blishen takes a personal look at radio, TV and theatrical events which touched the national nerve ...
5: Saturday Night Saturnalia
It emptied the pubs on Saturday nights, it kept the old from their beds, it enraged MPs, it offended the Church, it filled the newspapers, it outraged, it delighted and it only lived to be 18 months old. It was irreverent, it was disrespectful, it was That Was The Week That Was

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blishen

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