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2. The Stranger In Our Midst.
Including a Frenchman on cricket, Mark Twain on Europe, and the British diplomat who swallowed a moth! Read by Prunella Scales , Paul Eddington and Timothy West.
Adapted by Mike Barfield from The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
Producer Colin Swash. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Twain
Read By:
Prunella Scales
Read By:
Paul Eddington
Read By:
Timothy West.
Adapted By:
Mike Barfield
Producer:
Colin Swash.

A to B and Back Again Love and Flo are vegetarians and New
Agers and are thinking of moving to where the air is purer and where there is inner silence. But their friends Kev and Cassandra - like Madonna - are into overunderwear, and have new ideas for Love and Flo.
Written by Nick Pullin.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin. Stereo

Contributors

Written By:
Nick Pullin.
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin.
Love:
Christian Rodska
Flo:
Liz Goulding
Cassandra:
Susie Brann
Kev:
Mark Straker

Britain is the divorce capital of Western Europe. But what if Parliament hadn't passed the so-called "Casanova's Charter" which made it easier to get a divorce? Would things be different today?
Christopher Andrew is joined by Judge Alan King Hamilton who recalls the cases in which he thinks everyone lied, and by Chris Clulow of the Tavistock Institute for Marital Studies.
Producer Ian Bell

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Andrew
Unknown:
Judge Alan King
Unknown:
Chris Clulow
Producer:
Ian Bell

Listeners report on a variety of issues that affect their lives and could affect yours.
With Susan Marling. Editor Jenny Walmsley
●WRITE TO: Punters, BBC Radio 4. Bristol BS8 2LR •PHONE: 0[number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Marling.
Editor:
Jenny Walmsley

Gill Pyrah investigates a new breed of film transferred straight onto video, and talks to the author Darryl Pinckney about his book
High Cotton.
Robert Dawson-Scott reports on dance at the Edinburgh Festival. Producer Sarah Johnson
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Darryl Pinckney
Unknown:
Robert Dawson-Scott
Producer:
Sarah Johnson

The Closed Shop by W Somerset Maugham. Read by Brian Gear. "The young men of fashion preferred to spend their evenings at the Grand Hotel - where they received for soft words entertainment, which at the regular establishments they could only have got for hard cash."
Producer Viv Beeby

Contributors

Read By:
Brian Gear.
Producer:
Viv Beeby

Another edition of the popular quotation game. Chairman Nigel Rees , with Charles Osborne , Katharine Whitehorn , Hunter Davies and Benny Green.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Jon Naismith
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Charles Osborne
Unknown:
Katharine Whitehorn
Unknown:
Hunter Davies
Unknown:
Benny Green.
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher.
Producer:
Jon Naismith

John Florance explores the "blue remembered hills" of A E Housman's
Shropshire with Jane Caulcott from the Housman Society. They evoke the poet's landscape and origins through readings and observation. Producer Rosie Boulton

Contributors

Unknown:
John Florance
Unknown:
Jane Caulcott
Producer:
Rosie Boulton

The third in a series of late night conversations about poetry. Andrew McAllister takes a look at politics and poetry with Liz Lochhead , Simon Rae and Miroslav Holub. With readings by Lemn Sissay ,
Tom Leonard and Tom Paulin. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McAllister
Unknown:
Liz Lochhead
Unknown:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Miroslav Holub.
Unknown:
Lemn Sissay
Unknown:
Tom Leonard
Unknown:
Tom Paulin.
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

with Chris Kelly. This week Antonio Carlucci and Nigella Lawson take on Michael Jackson and Henrietta Green.
Producer Richard Wilson. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Kelly.
Unknown:
Antonio Carlucci
Unknown:
Nigella Lawson
Unknown:
Michael Jackson
Unknown:
Henrietta Green.
Producer:
Richard Wilson.

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