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with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rt Rev
Vincent Nichols.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Vincent Nichols.

Evelyn Waugh 's novel dramatised in six parts. 5: Paul Pennyfeather travels from Marseilles to gaol, via the Ritz.
Adapted by Jeremy Front Producer Lissa Evans
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Paul Pennyfeather
Adapted By:
Jeremy Front
Producer:
Lissa Evans
Paul Pennyfeather:
Alistair McGowan
Margot:
Joanna David
Peter:
Richard Pearce
Potts:
Daniel Strauss
Philbrick:
Jonathan Kydd
Panther:
Peter Gunn
Prendergast:
Andrew Sachs
Prison Doctor:
John Church
Prison Schoolmaster:
Neil Roberts

Adrian was adopted as a young child, and he and Alison feel they should know more about his real mother before planning a family. But, as Frederick Bradnum shows, this is one sleeping dog they should have let lie.
Director Peter Kavanagh. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Director:
Peter Kavanagh.
Alison:
Samantha Bond
Janice:
Pauline Letts
Oliver:
Clive Rowe
Mrs WUbury:
Ann Windsor
Debbie:
Siriol Jenkins
Mrs Pettigrew:
Gudrun Ure
Adrian Stukeley:
Keith Drinkel
General:
Ronald Herdman
Mr Blown:
John Webb

Six villages lost in the 20th century. Sean Street tells the story of their demise with the help of men and women who know them. 6: Arkwright Town
In 1988 villagers had to be evacuated from their homes because of a leak of poisonous methane gas.
The solution is to demolish the entire village.
Producer Felicity Goodall Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Street
Producer:
Felicity Goodall

Mark Steyn enters
Wayne's World, the hit comedy film about teenage Wayne and his "excellent" but simple-minded friends; and film director
Terence Davies looks at his own early life in The Long Day Closes which takes him to
1950s Liverpool.
Producer Belinda Sample Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Unknown:
Terence Davies

Five Stories by Graham Greene
Read by John Rowe.
3: A Little Place Off The Edgware Road.
Craven hated his body. His nightmare was, not that the body died too soon, but that the body might not die at all.

Contributors

Stories By:
Graham Greene
Read By:
John Rowe.

In 1979 David Read , aged 40, walked out of London and started life as a gentleman of the road. For the next eight years he tramped around Britain. In the last programme of the series he presents memories, recollections and impressions of those days on the open road, an outsider surviving at the very basic level of existence. Producer Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Unknown:
David Read
Producer:
Dave Sheasby

The last of four programmes by Roderick Graham to celebrate the life of Sydney Smith , "one of the best of men".
Robert Lang plays the man of whom a society hostess said there was no more welcome sound than that of Sydney Smith coming upstairs, but who is worth remembering for more than just his wit.
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Roderick Graham
Unknown:
Sydney Smith
Unknown:
Robert Lang
Unknown:
Sydney Smith
Director:
Jane Morgan.
Saba:
Marian Diamond
Mrs Smith:
Ann Bell
Lady Holland:
Richenda Carey
Bobus Smith:
Terence Edmond
Dr Holland:
Andrew Wincott
Mrs Austin:
Jane Whittenshaw
Cockerell:
Eric Allan
Annie Kay:
Ann Windsor

A series of four NEW programmes. Jenni Mills reveals the personal stories behind some of the headlines of the last few years.
1: On 21 December 1988
Pam Am Flight 103 crashed in the Scottish borders at Lockerbie. Jim and Jane Swire 's eldest child, Flora, was on board. Jim has spent the past three and a half years seeking media attention - finding his own way of making sense of his daughter's death.
Producer Sarah Rowlands. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Mills
Unknown:
Jane Swire
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands.

A panorama of British
India recalled by some of those who lived in it.
3: Memsahib: the wives and daughters of the Raj.
"British women in India were like British women everywhere else, they were a lot of individuals."
Presented by Evan Charlton.
Producer Michael Mason (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Presented By:
Evan Charlton.
Producer:
Michael Mason

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