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with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Peter Hobday.
Unknown:
Jonathan Sacks.

A four-part dramatisation of P D James's first novel. With Robin Ellis as Inspector Dalgliesh , Sian Phillips as Mrs Maxie ,
Hugh Grant as Felix, and Beatie Edney as Deborah. 3: As Dalgliesh continues his investigation, the evidence points to one of the family. But which one?
Dramatised by Neville Teller Director Matthew Walters

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Ellis
Unknown:
Inspector Dalgliesh
Unknown:
Sian Phillips
Unknown:
Mrs Maxie
Unknown:
Hugh Grant
Unknown:
Beatie Edney
Dramatised By:
Neville Teller
Director:
Matthew Walters
Catherine:
Oona Beeson
Stephen:
David Thorpe
Sgt Martin:
Steve Hodson
Sir Reynold:
Jonathan Adams
Johnny/Mrs Burwood:
Susan Sheridan
Wilson:
John Fleming
Derek:
David Holt
Mrs Proctor:
Jillie Meers
Rev Hinks:
John Church
Miss Molpas:
Linda Polan
Ritchie:
James Telfer

Seven classic mysteries starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.

A retired whaling skipper is murdered, pinned to the wall by his own harpoon.

BBC Radio Collection Cassettes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, available from retailers

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
David Ashton
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr Watson:
Michael Williams
Inspector Hopkins:
Andrew Wincott
Cairns:
Alex Norton
Carey:
Steve Hodson
Neligan:
Matthew Morgan
Elizabeth:
Siriol Jenkins
Molly:
Kate Binchy
Allerdyce Lancaster:
Philip Anthony

In the second of six programmes
Richard Mullen considers aspects of 19th-century life seen through the eyes of this fascinating, funny, opinionated and frequently far-seeing author.
"From the day on which I set foot in Ireland all the suffering and inward remorse of the first 26 years of my life went away from me." Trollope spent over a quarter of his life in Ireland, a country he came to love, though not uncritically.
With Paul Rogers as Anthony Trollope. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mullen
Unknown:
Paul Rogers
Unknown:
Anthony Trollope.
Producer:
John Knight

The Love Potion by Herman Charles Bosman.
"If you are anxious for a girl to fall in love with you, squeeze the juice of the juba-berry into her coffee"... But Gideon's a policeman - a rational man.

Contributors

Author:
Herman Charles Bosman
Reader:
Stratford Johns
Producer:
Rosemary Watts

Prize Performance
Companies large and small are waking up to the cult of quality, now seen as the essential ingredient in business success. The new glittering prize in the quality race is the award from the European
Foundation for Quality Management.
Peter Day finds how Rank Xerox Limited went about winning it, and what the company learned about itself during the arduous process.
Editor Stephen Chilcott

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Editor:
Stephen Chilcott

Six real-life murder cases featuring the celebrated pathologist Dr Keith Simpson.
4: The Wigwam Murders Summer 1942, and southern England is teeming with soldiers preparing for D-day. A young woman who is living rough is found dead in her wigwam. Written by Rib Davis
Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Keith Simpson.
Written By:
Rib Davis
Producer:
Fiona McLean

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