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First of four programmes in which author David Stafford explores some unusual and eccentric research projects. Today he discovers an academic who brings extinct birds back to life, meets a researcher who feeds porridge to exotic snails and visits an Oxford don who claims Scottish country dancing is the greatest cause of human happiness. A Mandy Wheeler Sound production

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stafford

with Hugh Sykes and Linda Lewis. Editor Margaret Budy
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Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Sykes
Unknown:
Linda Lewis.
Editor:
Margaret Budy

Susan needs a party.
Written by Louise Page
Director Joanna Toye. Producer Vanessa Whitburn
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Contributors

Written By:
Louise Page
Director:
Joanna Toye.
Producer:
Vanessa Whitburn
PM Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy Bennett
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison Dowling
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
John Archer:
Sam Barriscale
Brian Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Debbie Aldridge:
Tamsin Greig
Peggy Woolley:
June Spencer
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Kathy Perks:
Hedli Niklaus
Joe Grundy:
Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy:
Trevor Harrison
Qarrie Grundy:
Rosalind Adams
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter:
Charlotte Martin
Robin Stokes:
Tim Meats
Caroline Bone:
Sara Coward
Nigel Pargetter:
Graham Seed
Maureen Travis:
Roberta Kerr
Roger Travers-Macy:
Peter Harlowe

This week. Menzies Campbell, QC, MP, Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, Jean Lambert , Chair of the Green Party Executive, Peter Mandelson , MP.and Emma Nicholson , MP, tackle the issues raised in Penryn, Cornwall. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer Nadine Gneve

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Lambert
Unknown:
Peter Mandelson
Unknown:
Emma Nicholson
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer:
Nadine Gneve

In 1940, two 13-year-old boys called Rex Cowan and Arthur Semon wandered the streets of New York. Rex was an English evacuee, Arthur was a New Yorker. In this programme, they remember a time of extraordinary freedom. Producer Piers Plowright

Contributors

Unknown:
Rex Cowan
Unknown:
Arthur Semon
Producer:
Piers Plowright

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