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Evelyn Waugh 's novel, dramatised in six parts.
2: Llanabba School sports day is arranged in 24 hours flat, and Paul Pennyfeather falls in love....
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
Peter:
Richard Pearce
Grimes:
Jim Broadbent
Prendergast:
Andrew Sachs
Fagan:
Edward Hardwicke
Philbrick:
Jonathan Kydd
Lady Circumference:
Margaret Courtenay
Margot:
Joanna David

The last of four plays.

In H.S. Bhabra's story, the undead are stalking the corridors of Oxbridge.
Dramatised by Gerry Jones
(Stereo)

Contributors

Author:
H.S. Bhabra
Dramatised by:
Gerry Jones
Director:
Martin Jenkins
James Montague:
Benjamin Whitrow
Simon Evans:
John Rowe
Reporter:
David Learner
Waiter/Ainsley:
Eric Allan
Lord Medway:
Brett Usher
Leo Dart:
John Webb
Mathew Moore:
Keith Drinkel

Sean Street tells the story of six villages lost in the 20th century with the help of men and women who used to live in them.
3: Nant Gwrtheyrn
The road to Vortigem's
Valley is so tortuous that it is known as the Corkscrew. When a villager died, it took 17 men to carry the coffin up the hill.
Producer Felicity Goodall. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Street
Producer:
Felicity Goodall.

Nigel Andrews picks the week's new films, including Howard's End directed by James Ivory and starring Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins ; Zadok Ben-David turns household objects into absurd sculptures; and Paul Doust wonders why sons are putting their mothers on the stage.
Producer Adrian Washbourne
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Andrews
Directed By:
James Ivory
Unknown:
Oscar-Winner Anthony Hopkins
Unknown:
Zadok Ben-David
Unknown:
Paul Doust
Producer:
Adrian Washbourne

Bill Sprockett 's Land by Elizabeth Jolley.
Bill Sprockett 's land is special. Over the years he describes the change from bleak bush to burgeoning homestead.
Read by Stan Pretty. Producer David Hunter

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sprockett
Unknown:
Elizabeth Jolley.
Unknown:
Bill Sprockett
Read By:
Stan Pretty.
Producer:
David Hunter

Four programmes by Roderick Graham to celebrate the life of Sydney Smith ,
"one of the best of men." Robert Lang plays the man renowned for his bons mots, who was the delight of any dinner table, but who was also a man of principle and ideas.
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Roderick Graham
Unknown:
Sydney Smith
Unknown:
Robert Lang
Director:
Jane Morgan.
Saba Smith:
Marian Diamond
Mrs Smith:
Ann Bell
Robert Smith:
Terence Edmond
Mrs Robert Smith:
Joanna Myers
Lady Holland:
Richenda Carey
Brougham:
Eric Allan
Jeffrey:
Mark Straker
Lord Holland:
Timothy Carlton

Dial "F" for Fraud
Telephone pirates are tapping into the networks in America and running up a multi-billion-dollar fraud. How soon will it be before they cross the Atlantic? Peter Day follows hard on the heels of the hackers, their trackers and the telephone 'phreaks' who don the names of comic-book heroes and villains in their battle with the organisations.
Producer Colin Wilde. Stereo

Contributors

Producer:
Colin Wilde.

with Edward Blishen.
Last of six programmes.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
1965. Churchill is dead, the Empire is crumbling, the Beatles are strumming and Harold Wilson is at the helm. The times are changing fast and the British need to find a new spokesman to represent them. Could Alf Garnett be that man?

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Blishen.
Unknown:
Harold Wilson
Unknown:
Alf Garnett

What do you call a sea-sick cinema projectionist with an inadequate screwdriver who parachuted into occupied France and escaped with a top secret German radar? Charlie Cox called himself a "bloody hero"!
Producer Ian Bell. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Cox
Producer:
Ian Bell.

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