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Graham Greene 's novel, dramatised in eight parts. Starring
Michael Kitchen as Brown. With James Maxwell as Smith and Helen Horton as Mrs Smith.
5- Brown plays host at a dinner party for the Smiths, and is himself a guest at a very different kind of ceremony ......
Martha Pineda ..TESSA WOJTCZAK
Gendarme ......PATERSON JOSEPHE Dramatised by Rene Basilico producer John Fawcett Wilson
Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Unknown:
Michael Kitchen
Unknown:
James Maxwell
Unknown:
Helen Horton
Unknown:
Mrs Smith.
Unknown:
Martha Pineda
Dramatised By:
Rene Basilico
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
DrMagiot:
Rudolph Walker
Josephe:
Kenneth Gardnier
Henri Philipot:
Tony Armatrading
British Charge daffatres:
Terrence Hardiman

A series of five plays on the theme of childhood.
1: Spacehoppers, Clackers and Really Big Fish by Roy Hutchins.
Schooldays are one of the adventures of childhood. At the age of ten, Roy loves Miss Springfield.
Anthony, the class know-all, loves Miss Prue and Sandra loves her Tiny
Tears and sherbet lemons. But then the morning of the eleven-plus dawns and things will never be quite the same again.
With John Baddeley , Geraldine Fitzgerald , David Thorpe and the Fleetdown Junior School, Dartford, Kent
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hutchins.
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Unknown:
David Thorpe
Director:
Tracey Neale.
Narrator:
Roy Hutchins
Miss Prue:
Jennifer Piercey
A&S Springfield:
Emma Fielding
Roy:
Richard Sandall
Anthony:
Aaran Jenner
Gary:
Kevin Bassant
Rachell:
Claire Hilton
Sandra:
Becky Parker
Streakv:
Philip Brown

Quentin Cooper rounds up the week's new film releases including a new Tavernier film and A Few Good Men. Mark Kermode explores a new amorality in violent films.
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Unknown:
Mark Kermode
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

1. 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 - A Conducted Tour by Frank Muir
Producer Colin Swash.

Contributors

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

John Waite returns with the series in which he and his investigators get to the bottom of your complaints. 0 If you've got a case write to:
Face the Facts, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA.
Editor Graham Ellis.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Editor:
Graham Ellis.

The recession still bites hard, but pockets of prosperity are also emerging from the gloom. Brian Widlake presents six profiles of winners and losers.
Producers Amanda Ashton and Vanessa Harrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Widlake
Producers:
Amanda Ashton
Producers:
Vanessa Harrison

The final chapter in the story of "the greatest man in Russia", compiled by Michael Bakewell. With
Norman Rodway as Count Leo Tolstoy and Anna Massey as his wife Sofya. Reader John Rowe.
7: They Are Tearing Me to Pieces
Director Rosemary Hart. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bakewell.
Unknown:
Norman Rodway
Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Unknown:
Anna Massey
Reader:
John Rowe.
Director:
Rosemary Hart.
Sasha Tolstoy:
Alice Arnold
Tatyana Tolstoy:
Victoria Carung
flya Tolstoy:
David Collings
Sergei Tolstoy:
Alan Barker
Leon Tolstoy:
David Goudge
Bulgakov:
Nicholas Farrell
Chertkov:
Nigel Carrington

The last programme in the series with Matthew Paris.
5: Boots Hansen, a Texan firefighter whose motto is "If you can touch it you can control it".
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Paris.
Producer:
Edwina Wolstencroft

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