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A six-part adaptation of the 60s novel by Margaret Forster.
3: Fairy Wedding
Jos and Meredith are getting married, so it will all end happily ever after. There's just one little problem they don't really like each other. But James likes Georgy, and he's still waiting for an answer to his wicked proposal.
Adapted by Joe Dunlop
Music played by David Chilton and Dave Swift.
Director Adrian Bean. Stereo

Contributors

Novel By:
Margaret Forster.
Adapted By:
Joe Dunlop
Played By:
David Chilton
Played By:
Dave Swift.
Director:
Adrian Bean.
Georgy:
Caroline Strong
James:
Kenneth Cranham
Jos:
Joe McGann
Meredith:
Melanie Hudson
Ted:
John Hollis
Doris:
Eileen Bell
Peg:
Theresa Streatfeild
Nurse:
Siriol Jenkins
Tristram:
Jack Shute
Samantha:
Emily Riley

A trilogy of plays by Humphrey Carpenter exploring moments in the lives of three great children's writers.
3: An Expotition to the North Pole.
1914. A brain-storming weekend for the staff of Punch inspires their young deputy-editor, AA Milne , to the stirrings of a famous, immortal idea.
Director Nigel Bryant. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Aa Milne
Director:
Nigel Bryant.
Seaman:
Maurice Denham
AA Milne:
Michael Lumsden
Miss T:
Pooky Quesnel
Morrow:
Michael O'Connor
Lucas:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Knox:
Geoffrey Banks
Bradbury:
Charles Collingwood

Offshore tax havens have become vital to drugs barons who need to launder their dirty money. To win the war on drugs these financial paradises have to be cleaned up. But can it be done while legitimate companies insist on using them for widespread tax avoidance? In a File on 4 special, Gerry Northam investigates why law enforcement agencies are fighting a losing battle.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Northam

Brian Sibley reviews the new Robert Altman film
The Player and considers two novels that have been
"optioned" by Hollywood. Producer Nicki Paxman
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Robert Altman
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

Missing by Gillian Tindall.
An intriguing story with a twist in its tail that explores the effect on a family when Uncle Elwyn just disappears one day. Read by Alice Arnold. Producer Faynia Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Tindall.
Read By:
Alice Arnold.
Producer:
Faynia Williams

Joanna Buchan presents four more collections of remarkable personal stories, first heard on Tuesday Lives.
1: Against the Odds
How Roxie White stays happy after five husbands, gaol sentences, police beatings and a life on crutches; and Anglican nun Sister Anna Hoare overcomes prejudice on the front line in Belfast. Producer Simon Elmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Buchan
Unknown:
Roxie White
Unknown:
Anna Hoare
Producer:
Simon Elmes

Armed only with an Ordnance Survey map in one hand and a copy of The Thirty-Nine Steps in the other, Christopher Lambton sets out to retrace the path of John Buchan 's fugitive hero across the Scottish countryside. The expedition turns into a journey of discovery about the origins of the classic "shocker", with contributions en route from novelist
Frederic Lindsay , film director Don Sharp , and actor
David Rintoul - the most recent radio incarnation of Richard Hannay. The play will be broadcast next
Monday at 2.00pm.
Producer David Jackson Young Stereo (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lambton
Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Frederic Lindsay
Director:
Don Sharp
Unknown:
David Rintoul
Unknown:
Richard Hannay.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

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