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Clay Jones calls on Dr Stefan Buczacki, Sue Phillips and Don Cockman to solve listeners' gardening problems.
Questions on a postcard to: Gardeners' Question Time, [address removed]

2.30 Classic Serial: Alexander: Great Son of Ammon
Final part of the serial by David Wade.
Alexander confronts treachery, conquers India and reaches the end of the span allotted by the fates.

Contributors

Chairman (Gardeners' Question Time):
Clay Jones
Panellist (Gardeners' Question Time):
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Panellist (Gardeners' Question Time):
Sue Phillips
Panellist (Gardeners' Question Time):
Don Cockman
Producer (Gardeners' Question Time):
Amanda Mares
Writer (Alexander):
David Wade
Music (Alexander):
Wilfredo Acosta
Director (Alexander):
Glyn Dearman
Alexander:
Michael Maloney
Hephaistion:
Alex Jennings
Patroklos:
Simon Ward
Achilles:
Barry Foster
Ptolemy:
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Philotas:
Michael Onslow
Perdikkas:
Mark Straker
Bagoas:
Matthew Sim
Aristander:
Philip Anthony
Krateros:
David Thorpe
Simmas/Kleitos:
John Evitts
Kalas:
Malcolm Sinclair
Kallisthenes:
Jonathan Adams
Oxyartes:
John Hollis
Kalanos/Ambhi:
Renu Setna
Page:
James Telfer
The Fates:
Rachel Atkins
The Fates:
Jill Graham
The Fates:
Diana Payan

Compiled by Michael Bakewell from Tolstoy's writings and the words of his family and friends. In seven parts. 2: The Hero of My Tale Is Truth
Director Rosemary Hart

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Rosemary Hart
Count Leo Tolstoy:
Norman Rodway
Young Tolstoy:
Nicholas Farrell
Sasha Tolstoy:
Alice Arnold
Marya Tolstoy:
Mellnda Walker
Pierre:
Alan Barker
Prince Andrei:
Nigel Carrington
Nicholas Rostov:
David Goudge
Nekrasov:
Peter Penry Jones
General Wolf:
Garrard Green
Turgenev:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Paneyev:
John Baddeley
Reader:
John Rowe

Simon Rae presents extracts from Byron and Chaucer and gives details of a competition. Readers Sara Markland and Stephen Thorne.
Producer Julian Wilkinson
REQUESTS TO: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae
Readers:
Sara Markland
Readers:
Stephen Thorne.
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson

Fintan O'Toole 's journey through Ireland. 3: Performance. In every town there are memories of great men, from Sheridan to Disney. Young writers draw on the contradictions of history to make sense of a nation where to change is to continue. Producer Mary Price

Contributors

Unknown:
Fintan O'Toole

Onward Christian Soldiers? In the final programme of Rogan Taylor 's series, he examines the surprising range of religious activity within the established church, and leading bishops offer their prognosis for the future of the faith. Producer Nick Patrick

Contributors

Unknown:
Rogan Taylor
Producer:
Nick Patrick

Ripe Plums. In the last programme of the series, Crawford Logan reads two pieces by P G Wodehouse : Thrillers, an essay lamenting the decline of the mystery story, and Dudley Jones , Bore-Hunter, a Sherlock Holmes parody.
Abridged and produced by Patrick Rayner

Contributors

Unknown:
Crawford Logan
Unknown:
G Wodehouse
Unknown:
Dudley Jones
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Produced By:
Patrick Rayner

An account by Patricia Langdon-Davies of a week in the life of her somewhat eccentric hotel in Catalonia, Casa Rovira. Producers Jane Morgan and Rosamund Mason

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Langdon-Davies
Unknown:
Casa Rovira.
Producers:
Jane Morgan
Producers:
Rosamund Mason

Austin Mitchell and Michael White are joined by Sir David Steel and Vincent Hanna. Chairman Patrick Hannan. Producer Louise Coats

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
Sir David Steel
Unknown:
Vincent Hanna.
Unknown:
Patrick Hannan.
Producer:
Louise Coats

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