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Annabel Giles and Craig Charles introduce a series of classic disasters and might-have-beens in five readings from Stephen Pile 's bestseller. Abridged and produced by David Benedictus

Contributors

Unknown:
Annabel Giles
Unknown:
Craig Charles
Unknown:
Stephen Pile
Produced By:
David Benedictus

Introduced by Wendy Austin
. Serial: The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim , read in ten parts by Timothy Bateson. Part 6.
Abridged by Pat McLoughlin
Editors Claire Selene and Sally Feldman

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wendy Austin
Unknown:
Elizabeth von Arnim
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson.
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Editors:
Claire Selene
Editors:
Sally Feldman

Chairman Robert Robinson.
The Final. Geoff Colton (retired computer systems designer); Ian Sadler (mature student); Kentigern Smith (English teacher); Barry Jones (maintenance technician).
Producer Richard Edis

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson.
Unknown:
Geoff Colton
Designer:
Ian Sadler
Unknown:
Kentigern Smith
Unknown:
Barry Jones
Producer:
Richard Edis

Brian Freemantle's anti-hero is a survivor. He needs to be. His own department is out to get him and so is the KGB. One way or another Charlie's determined to come out of it alive and rich.

Contributors

Author:
Brian Freemantle
Dramatised by:
Geoffrey M Matthews
Director:
Matthew Walters
Charlie:
Philip Jackson
Kalenin:
Sandor Eles
Willoughby:
Peter Howell
Gunther:
David Learner
Snare:
Andrew Branch
Harrisson:
Stephen Rashbrook
Alexei Berenkov:
Peter Woodthorpe
Janet:
Marcia King
Wilberforce:
Manning Wilson
Cuthkrtson:
Barrie Cookson
Ruttgers:
Don Fellows
Keys:
John Church
Brayley:
Richard Durden
Edith:
Jennifer Piercey

Natalie Wheen 's studio guest is the biographer Antonia Fraser as she publishes her new book on Charles II. Also reviews of the new Concerto television series and reports from the Edinburgh Festival. Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Natalie Wheen
Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Producer:
Tim Dee

The antidote to panel games makes a pilgrimage to the town of Buxton, long revered as the original birthplace of Tim Brooke-Taylor . With Humphrey Lyttelton , Colin Sell and the regular teams. Producer Jon Naismith (RpO

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer:
Jon Naismith

Dramatised from the trial transcripts by Peter Goodchild and recorded in the studios of WFMT Chicago.
Twenty-five years ago, the streets of Chicago erupted into violent confrontation between police and demonstrators. There followed one of the most compelling and bizarre trials in American legal history.
Featuring the voices of Thomas Foran and William Kunstler (lawyers); David Dellinger , Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale (defendants); Jean Fritz (juror) and Margie Fritz-Birch ; John Schultz (historian); Studs Terkel (journalist) and Allen Ginsberg (witness). ,
, , , , , American producer Susan Albert Lowenberg
Directed by Martin Jenkins and John Theochans
A BBC/Los Angeles Theatre Works/WFMTCofroduction

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Goodchild
Unknown:
Thomas Foran
Unknown:
William Kunstler
Unknown:
David Dellinger
Unknown:
Tom Hayden
Unknown:
Bobby Seale
Unknown:
Jean Fritz
Unknown:
Margie Fritz-Birch
Unknown:
John Schultz
Unknown:
Allen Ginsberg
Producer:
Susan Albert Lowenberg
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Directed By:
John Theochans
Judge Hoffman:
George Murdoch
Thomas Foran:
Gary Houston
Richard Schultz:
Tom Amandes
William Kunstler:
Mike Nussbaum
Leonard Weinglass:
Jeff Still
Bobby Seale:
E Milton Wheeler
Tom Hayden:
Kevin Gudahl
David Dellinger:
Tony Mockus
Abbte Hoffman:
David Schwimmer
Allen Ginsberg:
Richard Fire
Pierson/Frapolly:
Andrew White
Mayor Daley/Marshall:
George Czarnecki
Deputy Mayor Stahl:
Ron West
Kristi King/Linda Morse:
Christine Dunford
Mrs PetersonlClerk:
Peggy Roeder
Spectators:
Brian McChristian
Spectators:
Chet Grissom
Spectators:
Michael Quaintance
Spectators:
Jonathan F McClain
Spectators:
Dayna Worland
Spectators:
Carl Coash
Spectators:
Tangy Harper

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