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The final episode of the comedy drama by Alex Shearer.
End of Term
Ambassador MacKenzie packs his diplomatic bags and faces a bleak future back in Britain with no servants - and no knighthood. Before he heads for the Cotswolds there is one final crisis in the People's Democracy.
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Shearer.
Producer:
Neil Cargill.
MacKenzie:
Dinsdale Landen
Frost:
Peter Acre
Helen:
Moir Leslie
Surikov:
Christopher Benjamin
Spiro:
Stephen Greif

The programme that rewrites history is back.
Later in the series the Beeching Report on the railways gets a face lift, the divorce laws are changed, and Hugh Gaitskell survives to become Labour Prime
Minister. But today the clock's turned back to 1967
- flower power, hippies, and Mick Jagger convicted on drugs charges. What if drugs had been legalised 25 years ago?
Dr Christopher Andrew and his guests speculate about a world in which snooker championships are sponsored by cannabis producers, where cocaine lozenges are as available as cigarettes, and popping to the pub for a snifter has a quite different meaning. Producer Ian Bell

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Gaitskell
Unknown:
Mick Jagger
Unknown:
Dr Christopher Andrew
Producer:
Ian Bell

On the 200th anniversary of Shelley's birth Peggy Reynolds reflects on the poet's achievement. Studio guests are Eleanor Bron and the Scottish author
Jessie Kesson ; and there's a review of Songs Sung in Suffolk.
Producer Julian May. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds
Unknown:
Eleanor Bron
Unknown:
Jessie Kesson

The Silk by Joy Cowley. Read by Vilma Hollingbery. Amy has been waiting for a special occasion to use the silk given her as a wedding gift. Now that day has arrived in unexpected circumstances.
Producer Rosemary Watts

Contributors

Read By:
Vilma Hollingbery.
Producer:
Rosemary Watts

Nigel Rees hosts the popular quotation game.
Guests: Bernard Bresslaw , Patrick Garland , Gemma O'Connor and Sir Peter Ustinov.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bernard Bresslaw
Unknown:
Patrick Garland
Unknown:
Gemma O'Connor
Unknown:
Sir Peter Ustinov.
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher.
Producer:
Jon Naismith.

In the first of six
Droerammes.
John Florance explores D
H Lawrence 's home-place of Eastwood and "dismal"
Nottingham. Lawrence's biographer Professor John Worthen , helps to evoke his landscape and origins through his poetry. Producer Rosie Boulton

Contributors

Unknown:
John Florance
Unknown:
H Lawrence
Unknown:
Professor John Worthen
Producer:
Rosie Boulton

The first in a series of latenieht conversations with poetry in mind. Guest Tom Paulin takes presenter Andrew McAllister on a tour through sound and rhythm, moving from
Gerard Manley Hopkins to Van Morrison and Emily Dickinson to Billie Holiday. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Paulin
Presenter:
Andrew McAllister
Unknown:
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Unknown:
Van Morrison
Unknown:
Emily Dickinson
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

with Chris Kelly. This week: Bob Peyton and Valentina Harris v Anthony Worrall-Thompson and Malcolm Gluck.
Producer Richard Wilson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Kelly.
Unknown:
Bob Peyton
Unknown:
Anthony Worrall-Thompson
Unknown:
Malcolm Gluck.
Producer:
Richard Wilson.

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