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Chairman Michael Buerk. Witnesses face cross-examination from Edward Pearce , Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn and Professor Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk.
Unknown:
Edward Pearce
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Rabbi Hugo Gryn
Unknown:
Professor Roger Scruton.
Producer:
David Coomes

Gill Pyrah challenges a panel of literary guests in the well-read quiz. Today's guests are Sarah Dunant , David Profu mo, Jeremy J Beadle and Arthur Smith. The reader is Gareth Armstrong. Producer Gareth Edwards

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Sarah Dunant
Unknown:
David Profu
Unknown:
Jeremy J Beadle
Unknown:
Arthur Smith.
Unknown:
Gareth Armstrong.
Producer:
Gareth Edwards

David Stafford's wry comedy about showbiz, eternal triangles and the Eurovision song contest stars Deborah Findlay and Neil McCaul as June and Gary Knight - 60s songsters staging a comeback in a summer season one wet British August.
The boys in the band: Trevor Allan Davies. Bobby Worth. David Stafford
Director Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Writer:
David Stafford
Piano:
Trevor Allan Davies.
Drums:
Bobby Worth.
Bass guitar:
David Stafford
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
June Knight:
Deborah Findlay
Gary Knight:
Neil McCaul
Charlie:
Stephen Ley
Jelly:
Geoffrey Durham
Donna:
Jill Graham
Damien:
John Webb
Kayla:
Oona Beeson
Janusc:
Trevor Allan Davies
Comic/Attendant:
Steve Hodson

[number removed]A guest goes against the grain and challenges conventional views on subjects which concern everyone. This week: "Counselling screws you up." Ann Marie Hourihane awaits your calls. Producer Hilary McLennan

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Marie Hourihane
Producer:
Hilary McLennan

Reviews of Alan Ayckbourn 's Time of My Life and Michael Frayn 's intimate new play Here. Also performance from the cabaret show For the Love of Money. Presented by Paul Allen. Producer Anthony Denselow (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn
Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Presented By:
Paul Allen.
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

4: The Sea. Why did Turner paint it so often - was it its timeless majesty, or because he couldn't draw hands properly? Such questions are answered in this New Age comedy show. Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. With Carla Mendonca , Armando lannucci and the voice of Tom Baker. Producer Sarah Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Lee
Unknown:
Richard Herring.
Unknown:
Carla Mendonca
Unknown:
Armando Lannucci
Unknown:
Tom Baker.
Producer:
Sarah Smith

John Clare , the "peasant poet" born 200 years ago, was first courted then shunned by the literary establishment. Today, ironically, he's compulsory reading on the National English Curriculum. Andy Croft , with contributions from Melvyn Bragg , William Mclllvaney , Rebecca O'Rourke , Mogg Williams and others, claims the same distrust of the untutored voice still prevails among publishers and critics today. Producer Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Unknown:
John Clare
Unknown:
Andy Croft
Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Unknown:
William McLllvaney
Unknown:
Rebecca O'Rourke
Unknown:
Mogg Williams
Producer:
Dave Sheasby

A six-part series by Colin McLaren. Three centuries of English family life through diaries and letters of the time. Interpreting the material are historians Ralph Houlbrooke , Linda Pollock and Roy Porter. Narrated by Lesley Dunlop. 2: The Estate of Childhood
Fiddle music by Rosemary Fumiss
Producer Louise Purslow

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin McLaren.
Unknown:
Ralph Houlbrooke
Unknown:
Linda Pollock
Unknown:
Roy Porter.
Unknown:
Lesley Dunlop.
Music By:
Rosemary Fumiss
Producer:
Louise Purslow
Alice Thornton:
Stephanie Cole
Nicholas Blundell:
Benjamin Whitrow
The Marchioness Grey and her daughters:
Barbara Leigh Hunt
Elizabeth Gaskell:
Eleanor Bron
Alfred Morion:
John Rowe

with Derek Jacobi as the King and Carolyn Backhouse as Shahrazad.

A hunt for a lost arrow leads prince Ahmed into a magical adventure of sorcery and transformation.

Contributors

Adapted by:
Colin Haydn Evans
Music:
Sue Harris
Music:
Steafan Hannigan
Director:
Nigel Bryant
The King:
Derek Jacobi
Shahrazad:
Carolyn Backhouse
Ahmed:
James Telfer
Peri Banou:
Rachel Atkins
Sultan:
Philip Anthony
Sorceress:
Mary Wimbush
Hussein:
Steve Hodson

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