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Chairman Clay Jones digs into the postbag and calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki ,
Daphne Ledward and Sue Phillips to solve listeners gardening problems. Producer Amanda Mares
●Questions on a postcard to
Gardeners' Question Time, BBC,
PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ

Contributors

Unknown:
Clay Jones
Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Unknown:
Sue Phillips

My Son, My Son by Howard Spring dramatised in five parts. With Ronald Pickup as William Essex.
2: Essex has now married Nellie and their life together, based on his need for money, is joyless. He clings to his plans for his son Oliver, and as he and Dermot become more and more successful, he blinds himself to his sons faults.
Dramatised by Stan Barstow Director Kay Patrick

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Stan Barstow
Director:
Kay Patrick
Dermot:
Stuart Organ
Sheila:
Sandra James-Young
Nellie:
Alison Reid
Maevea as a child:
Sophie Green
Maevea as a girl:
Melinda Walker
Olivera as a child:
Sam Wise
Oliver as a boy:
James Cohen
RoryasacW:
Ben Guy
Rorjasaboy:
Adam Morley
Daisy:
Sunny Ormonde
Donnelly:
Keith Drinkel
Sam Sawle:
Danny Schiller
Judas:
Michael Goldie
Mary Latter:
Jillie Meers

Five engineering feats from the 19th century. 2: The Tunnel
Dr Mark Raiss tells the story of the building of the first tunnel under a major river - more than 150 years before the construction of the Channel Tunnel. It took Marc Brunei and his son
Isambard 18 years to build and was beset with problems, both structural and financial.
All other parts played by John Baddeley , Keith Drinkel. Steve Hodson , David Thorpe and John Webb
Compiled and written by Martin Worth producer Mark Savage

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Mark Raiss
Unknown:
Marc Brunei
Played By:
John Baddeley
Played By:
Keith Drinkel.
Played By:
Steve Hodson
Played By:
David Thorpe
Played By:
John Webb
Written By:
Martin Worth
Producer:
Mark Savage
Marc Brunei:
Yves Aubert
hambard Brunei:
John Rowe

Gareth Owen , the holder of the BP Speak-a-Poem award, performs a selection of verse for the BBC
Poetry Festival in Bristol. Producer Julian Wilkinson
●Requests to Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Gareth Owen
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson

Two programmes presented by Julian Pettifer. The images of Hollywood films such as The
Deerhunter and Apocalypse Now have almost eclipsed the reality of the terrible 16-year-long war in Indo-China. But what was it really like for those who were there? From 1966 until the fall of Saigon,
Julian Pettifer reported for the BBC in Vietnam and Cambodia - until now he has not been allowed to return. From Ho Chi Minh City to the Vietcong tunnels at Cu Chi, he explores how the country has survived the post-war period.
1: Ho Chi Minh City, or is it Saigon?
Producer Sara Jane Hall

Contributors

Presented By:
Julian Pettifer.
Unknown:
Julian Pettifer
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

Cellist
Julian Lloyd Webber talks to June Knox-Mawer about his musical family, his cello, his passion for horror stories and Delius, and he introduces his recording of the Cello
Concerto in C minor by Nikolai Miaskovsky , which he fell in love with when he was 11 years old. Producer Derek Drescher
SEE PREVIEW page 14

Contributors

Talks:
Julian Lloyd Webber
Unknown:
Nikolai Miaskovsky
Producer:
Derek Drescher

Orchestral conductors flit from country to country, sometimes holding two or three jobs at once. In the golden age of conducting - the era of Mahler, Nikisch, Furtwangler and Toscanini - a music director worked with the same orchestra, creating a personality that could be recognised at the fall of the first downbeat.
Norman Lebrecht examines the history of "The Maestro Myth" and suggests that conducting could be in danger of decline.
Producer Daniel Snowman

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Lebrecht
Producer:
Daniel Snowman

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