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A ten-part saga of domestic mayhem at 196 Cranford Gardens, the home of Dulcie Domum. Written by Sue Limb.
1: A Brown Study. Read by Marty Cruickshank.
Producer Jonathan James-Moore

Contributors

Unknown:
Dulcie Domum.
Written By:
Sue Limb.
Read By:
Marty Cruickshank.
Producer:
Jonathan James-Moore

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: A Rather English Marriage by Angela Lambert. Read by Geoffrey Palmer. Part 8.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Angela Lambert.
Read By:
Geoffrey Palmer.
Editors:
Sally Feldman
Editors:
Clare Selerie

The London team, Irene Thomas and Eric Korn, take on the Scottish team of Joyce McMillan and Colin Bell. Questionmasters Gordon Clough and Tony Quinton. (Repeated Wednesday at 6.30pm)

Contributors

Contestant:
Irene Thomas
Contestant:
Eric Korn
Contestant:
Joyce McMillan
Contestant:
Colin Bell
Questionmaster:
Gordon Clough
Questionmaster:
Tony Quinton.
Producer:
Julia Shaw

by Peter Thomson based on stories by Franz Kafka.
When Larry turns up at an audition saying he's a hunger artist, Johnny Johnson forgets the talking dog and the musical farter and knows he's struck gold.
(Rpt)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Thomson
Based on stories by:
Franz Kafka.
Director:
Jane Morgan
Larry:
Samuel West
Johnny Johnson:
Barry Foster
Mary:
Carolyn Backhouse
June:
Alice Arnold
Beeder Barkng:
James Grout
Alphonse:
Matthew Sim
[Actor]:
Keith Drinkel
[Actor]:
Terence Edmond
[Actor]:
Peter Gunn
[Actor]:
David Learner
[Actor]:
Matthew Morgan
[Actor]:
Alison Reid
[Actor]:
Theresa Streatfeild
[Actor]:
Melinda Walker
[Actor]:
John Webb

The last of six programmes in which John Miller talks to eminent historians about their work and its relevance to the modern world. This week he meets Stephen Ambrose , Professor of History at the University of New Orleans, Director of the Eisenhower Centre and biographer of Richard Nixon. Producer John Knight

Contributors

Talks:
John Miller
Unknown:
Stephen Ambrose
Unknown:
Richard Nixon.
Producer:
John Knight

Manchester is the City of Drama next year. Robert Dawson Scott investigates and visits a production of Richard II at the Royal Exchange. Also the sounds of a mariachi band in the studio. Producer Anthony Denselow (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dawson Scott
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

by Mike Dorrell.

Catherine rejects marriage in favour of religion. But when she is powerfully attracted to a Mormon preacher who comes to her village, she learns about the doctrine of polygamy.

Contributors

Writer:
Mike Dorrell
Violin:
Iolo Jones
Director:
Jane Dauncey
Maphn:
Brian Hibbard
Catherine:
Helen Griffin
Ruth:
Menna Trussler
Ifan:
Huw Ceredig
Peg:
Jilia Dearden
Pritchard:
Mike Povey
Palmyra:
Valerie Colgan
William:
William Roberts
David:
Gary Llewellyn
Huw:
Winston Evans
Ioan:
Stephen Attwell

Based on the book by Douglas Adams. 3: Fit the Third. Arthur Dent and his companions face a missile attack.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins

Contributors

Book By:
Douglas Adams.
Unknown:
Arthur Dent
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins
Book:
Peter Jones
Slartibartfost:
Richard Vernon
Arthur Dent:
Simon Jones
Ford Prefect:
Geoffrey McGivern
Marvin:
Stephen Moore
Zaphod Beeblebrox:
Mark Wing-Davey
Trillian:
Susan Sheridan
Computer:
David Tate

Benny Goodman 's small groups created the concept of chamber jazz, and their recordings represent the genre at its best. In the first of five programmes, Geoffrey Smith looks at the work of Goodman's trio that he formed in 1935 with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa. Producer Derek Drescher (first broadcast on Radio 3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Benny Goodman
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Teddy Wilson
Unknown:
Gene Krupa.
Producer:
Derek Drescher

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