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Mark Lawson re-examines old-fashioned vices in modern guises. With special guests Ann Leslie , Bea Campbell and Jonathon Porritt. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Unknown:
Bea Campbell
Unknown:
Jonathon Porritt.
Producer:
David Coomes

Jessica Marshall Gardiner reads the first episode of Morris Gleitzman 's story, abridged in five parts by Sarah Kilgarriff. The first day at a new school in small-town Australia can be hard on a girl. Especially when she can only speak with her hands and her father dresses like a Wild West cowboy. Producer Jackie Nichols

Contributors

Unknown:
Morris Gleitzman
Unknown:
Sarah Kilgarriff.
Producer:
Jackie Nichols

Introduced by Wendy Austin .
Serial: Delicate Matters (8) by Vickery Turner , abridged in ten parts by Meg Clarke and read by Alison Reid.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wendy Austin
Unknown:
Vickery Turner
Unknown:
Meg Clarke
Read By:
Alison Reid.
Editors:
Sally Feldman
Editors:
Clare Selerie
George Cragge:
Michael Williams
DCI Frank Jefferson:
Barry Foster
Max:
Peter Woodthorpe
Geoffrey Crichton Potter:
Stephen Moore

Chairman Robert Robinson. First semi-final - London, South and the Home Counties. Contestants include
Brendan Barnes (accountant), Stan Overall (retired businessman), Ian Wilson (head teacher) and Peter Twydell (freelance translator).
Producer Richard Edis. Rptd Wed 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson.
Unknown:
Brendan Barnes
Unknown:
Ian Wilson
Unknown:
Peter Twydell
Producer:
Richard Edis.

Three-part detective series by Juliet Ace. Look Again. Alice and Belinda are identical twins. Both have always wanted to be detectives and, through a computer error, they begin at the same north London police station on the same day. with Rachel Oldfield , Paul Nicholson ,
Janet Dale , Marilla Robson , Brian Gear and Jilly Bond Director Shaun MacLoughlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Rachel Oldfield
Unknown:
Paul Nicholson
Unknown:
Janet Dale
Unknown:
Marilla Robson
Unknown:
Brian Gear
Unknown:
Jilly Bond
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Alice:
Jenny Funnel
Belinda:
Carolyn Backhouse
Newsome:
Eric Allen
Glover:
Cornelius Garrett
Cox:
Lindsay MacK
Dobson:
Ian Sanders

By John Mortimer , continuing the season of stories by leading British writers. Jenny Agutter reads a thespian mystery with intriguing consequences. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
+ Read John Mortimer 's The Other
Girl on page 24

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mortimer
Unknown:
Jenny Agutter
Producer:
Pam Fraser Solomon
Unknown:
John Mortimer

By Alan Berrie.
Eloisa Lacy lives alone and teaches piano. Her life is pleasantly uneventful until she receives a bouquet of flowers from Iris, her young pupil. It is the start of a dangerous obsession.

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Berrie
Musician:
Harold Rich
Director:
Sue Wilson
Eloisa Lacy:
Anny Tobin
Iris Millen:
Deborah Berlin
Muriel Millen:
Kate Binchy
Desmond Lacy:
Terry Molloy
Harry Ryall:
Tony Turner
Vera Lacy:
Eileen Nicholas
Sister Juliana/Nancy Conlon:
Sunny Ormonde
Declan/Irate Motorist:
David Antrobus
Interflora Man/Paramedic:
Malcolm McKee

Nothing stands still. We all travel.
Rory MaClean explores the incurable restlessness which, in one form or another, is felt by us all.
Sound Travels. The first of five programmes looks at how sound travels and how our every utterance will travel on through time. Producer John Dryden

Contributors

Unknown:
Rory MacLean
Producer:
John Dryden

John Fordham's selection of writing about the popular music of this century. 2: Showtime! Tales of risk and adulation in live performances, including Sam Shepard 's memories of working at the bar while Nina Simone sang, the night Jerry Lee Lewis splashed petrol on his piano and put a match to it, and Joseph O'Connor 's comic account of a shaky debut gig. Producer John Goudie

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Shepard
Unknown:
Nina Simone
Unknown:
Jerry Lee Lewis
Unknown:
Joseph O'Connor
Producer:
John Goudie

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