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A six-part series, written by Ian McMillan and Martyn Wiley , with Finetime Fontayne in the role of Richard Matthewman , a 42-year-old teacher from
South Yorkshire. He recalls some of the highlights of a lifetime spent in the same pit village.
1: Harry, Jud, Kennedy and Me
Producer Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Written By:
Ian McMillan
Written By:
Martyn Wiley
Unknown:
Finetime Fontayne
Unknown:
Richard Matthewman
Producer:
Dave Sheasby

Never Knew
Ted Harrison - reporter, presenter, and kidney transplant patient - writes six letters to the unknown donor who has given him new life and reflects on the experience in the light of the events of Holy Week. 1: I Never Did Get to
Oberammergau
Producer John Newbury

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Harrison
Producer:
John Newbury

with Shyama Perera.
Serial: The Cry from Street to Street by Hilary Bailey. Sixth of nine episodes read by Mia Soteriou.
Music Penderecki's Cello Concerto No 2
Abridged by Delia Paton Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

Contributors

Unknown:
Shyama Perera.
Unknown:
Hilary Bailey.
Read By:
Mia Soteriou.
Abridged By:
Delia Paton
Editors:
Clare Selerie
Editors:
Sally Feldman

Burma, 1942. The Japanese were 20 miles away.
Thousands tried to escape through the jungle, over the mountains to India. David Gooderson's play draws upon the experience of survivors to tell the story of the 250-mile trek. Sunny BHASKER
Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Director:
Richard Wortley
Major Crowther RAMC:
Michael Kitchen
Captain Banks:
Mark Straker
Brigadier Wyatt:
David King
Captain Lewis:
Trevor Cooper
Corporal Wills:
Nicholas Murchie
Sergeant Bilson:
David Goodland
Colonel Dass:
Renu Setna
Lieutenant Hunter:
Matthew Morgan
Clive Popplewell:
Paul Downing
Neil West:
David Learner
lanMcHugh:
Gordon Reid
Reverend Windrush:
Eric Allan
Private Jones:
Keith Drinkel
Sister:
Kate Binchy
Colonel from GHQ:
Terence Edmond
Staff Officer:
Jonathan Adams
RAF Mechanic:
Jonathan Tafler
Young English Woman:
Alison Reid

As Easter approaches, Robert Dawson Scott listens to two Passions -
Bach's St Matthew and the St Mark Passion by Charles Wood. Also, an exhibition of holograms, and the letters between Flaubert and Sand. Producer John Boundy
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dawson Scott
Unknown:
St Matthew
Unknown:
Charles Wood.
Producer:
John Boundy

Deceptively Spacious by Patricia Ferguson. House-hunting around London for the "deceptively spacious" proves dangerous when jealousy gets in the way. Read by Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Producer Michael Earley

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Ferguson.
Read By:
Geraldine Fitzgerald.
Producer:
Michael Earley

Angelface
In the 13th century, love tended to happen at an early age. The poet Dante was only nine when he fell in love with Beatrice. She was to be the source of his first work, The New Life.
Bruce Stewart explores the world's greatest love story in a contemporary and entertaining interpretation.
Music: Peter Howell
Director Shaun MacLoughlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Stewart
Music:
Peter Howell
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Dante:
David Bannerman
Beatrice:
Jenny Funnel
Love:
Bill Wallis
Portinari:
Christian Rodska
Porroviso:
Matthew Morgan
Ossacapo:
Ian Sanders
Gemma:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Cacalcanti:
Steve Hodson
Simone:
John Telfer
Physician:
Jonathan Adams
Beatrice, aged 9:
Anne Semple
Dante, aged 9:
Lawrie Drew

On the Third Day by Piers Paul Read. Read in ten parts by Charles Simpson.
What if Christ didn't rise from the dead? That is the question that runs through this intellectual thriller. Archaelogist and monk John Lambert is found dead in mysterious circumstances.
Brother Andrew 's determination to discover the reason for his death leads him to
Jerusalem - and to a plot to upset the political stability of the world.
Abridged by Ian Taylor
Producer Shaun MacLoughlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Piers Paul Read.
Unknown:
Charles Simpson.
Unknown:
John Lambert
Unknown:
Brother Andrew
Abridged By:
Ian Taylor
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin

Another chance to hear the radio comedy shows that television couldn't resist.
After Henry by Simon Brett.
Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, with Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare, and Marion Bailey as Janie. Moving
"The whole basement's just storage space really. If Clare went, I'd rattle around like a pea in a barrel." Producer Pete Atkin
(First broadcast in 1985)

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett.
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Unknown:
Joan Sanderson
Unknown:
Benjamin Whitrow
Unknown:
Gerry Cowper
Unknown:
Marion Bailey
Producer:
Pete Atkin

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