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Presented by Geoff Watts , and including the third of six features called Against the Odds, about people who've survived life-threatening illnesses.
Producer Gina Henry. Rptd Sunday 10.15pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Gina Henry.

Host Sophie Grigson with Marguerite Patten OBE , Catherine Brown and Nigel Slater talk about salmon in the dishwasher and hateful Agas from The Witchery within the walls of Edinburgh Castle.
A Partners in Sound production

Contributors

Unknown:
Sophie Grigson
Unknown:
Marguerite Patten OBE
Unknown:
Catherine Brown
Unknown:
Nigel Slater

The last of three programmes exploring the world of P G Wodehouse through the letters he wrote to family and friends. In 1916, two Englishmen collaborated with Jerome Kern on the early models of American musical comedy, produced at the Princess
Theatre, New York. This partnership between Wodehouse and Guy Bolton created a friendship that lasted until both were in their nineties, and their letters reveal valuable insights. With contributions from author Lee Davis and readings by Simon Cadell. Edited and introduced by Tony Staveacre. Producer Susan Roberts Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
G Wodehouse
Unknown:
Jerome Kern
Unknown:
Guy Bolton
Unknown:
Lee Davis
Unknown:
Simon Cadell.
Introduced By:
Tony Staveacre.
Producer:
Susan Roberts Rpt

In the first of six programmes, Jeremy Nicholas asks people about those moments in music that send a shiver down their spine. Today, playwight Alan Plater enthuses about the speech of his native Tyneside and the world of jazz.
Producer Ray Abbott. Rptd Saturday 11.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas
Unknown:
Alan Plater
Producer:
Ray Abbott.

By John le Carre , dramatised in seven parts by Rene Basilico. Starring Tom Baker as Barley Blair and John Rowe as Ned.
2: British Intelligence is anxious to discover why publisher Barley Blair should be sent a Russian manuscript full of highly sensitive material. with Simon Treves , Mary Chater ,
Don McCorkindale and Jillie Meers. Theme music by Max Hams. Producer John Fawcett Wilson Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
John Le Carre
Unknown:
Rene Basilico.
Unknown:
Tom Baker
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Barley Blair
Unknown:
Simon Treves
Unknown:
Mary Chater
Unknown:
Don McCorkindale
Unknown:
Jillie Meers.
Music By:
Max Hams.
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Harry:
Michael Turner
Walter:
John Webb
Clive:
Pip Torrens
Wicklow:
David Bannerman
Bob:
Bruce Boa

Michael O'Donnell returns with four portraits of contemporary family life. Robin and Pam and Jude. Robin
Sidebottom always knew he was adopted. Brought up in a conservative Devon household, it came as something of a shock to find his natural mother was a self-styled hippy. Producers Joy Hatwood and Joanna Rahim Repeated Saturday at 5.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael O'Donnell
Unknown:
Jude. Robin
Producers:
Joy Hatwood
Producers:
Joanna Rahim

A four-part series about the workings of a hospital psychiatric unit.
Since the 1950s, psychiatric medicine has been able to call on drugs to calm the manic and sedate the violent. But, as Brian James discovers in the Intensive Therapy Unit of Withington
Hospital, Manchester, some elements of mental illness are as enigmatic and intractable as those seen in Bedlam.
Producer Alastair Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian James
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

Too Much Noise. Fergal Keane presents the series of off-beat travel. 2: The sometimes heady mix of spiritual belief and modern progress: Andy Kershaw meets a preacher on a Harley at Daytona and Robert Sandier reports on the gods of Times Square. Producer Noah Richler Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Fergal Keane
Unknown:
Andy Kershaw
Producer:
Noah Richler Rpt

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