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With Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Father Oliver McTernan
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Father Oliver McTernan

Novelist and folklorist Alison Lurie tells
Jenni Murray why fairy tales are so embedded in our psyche. Story: The Wild Blue Yonder by Audrey Thomas. Read by Margaret Robertson. 1 Blue Spanish Eyes Abridged by Monica Grey
Music: Carpenter's Tango Amencam

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Lurie
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Audrey Thomas.
Read By:
Margaret Robertson.
Abridged By:
Monica Grey

Peter Lovesey s comedy thriller, dramatised in five parts. With Ronald Pickup as Walter, Fiona Fullerton as Lydia, and Oona Beeson as Alma.
Dentist Walter Baranov is reluctant to accompany
Lydia, his actress wife, to
Hollywood, especially now that Alma has come into his life .
Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews
Director Matthew Walters
SEE PREVIEW page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Lovesey
Unknown:
Fiona Fullerton
Unknown:
Oona Beeson
Dramatised By:
Geoffrey M Matthews
Director:
Matthew Walters
Capt Turner:
Barry J Gordon
jack:
Steve Hodson
Kathy:
Sandra James-Young
Baranov/George:
John Baddeley
Vanderbilt/Jasper:
John Fleming

A four-part series by Sally Worboyes.
In 1959, in the hop fields of Kent, the Jacksons join other East End families for what they discover will be the last season hops are picked by hand. Will this be the end of Laura Jackson 's affair with the owner of the farm?
Producer Philip Martin

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Worboyes.
Unknown:
Laura Jackson
jack:
George Innes
Laura:
Ellle Haddington
Liz:
Liz Smith
Bert:
Gerry Hinks
Kay:
Melanie Revill
Robert:
Alan Devereux
Marjorie:
Patricia Gallimore
Terry:
Richard Pearce
Zacchi:
Sam Barriscale
Terry's Mom:
Judy Bennett
Raymond:
Richard Allenson
Mrs Brown:
Joyce Gibbs
Janet:
Georgia Greeph

Brian Sibley looks at the new film releases. Nigel Andrews reports on this year's Cannes Film
Festival, and there is news of a new project at Madame Tussauds. Producer Will Saunders
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Nigel Andrews

by Michael Carson.
Lee Ann Dorkins is Diva of the radio phone-in swop show. But one day invisible forces conspire to overthrow her ...
Reader Shelley Thompson. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Carson.
Unknown:
Lee Ann Dorkins
Reader:
Shelley Thompson.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

In the last programme of the series, Simon Brett presents diaries for May 21: In 1937 Sir Henry
"Chips" Channon traces his roots to a Devonshire village and finds he shares his ancestral home with a famous poet; Confederate girl Sarah Morgan has an unsuccessful shopping trip during the American Civil War; and in 1982 Tony Benn describes his reaction to the news of the British landings on the Falkland Islands.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Sarah Morgan
Unknown:
Tony Benn

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