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Dr Faustus brews up with Willy Wonka , and Ma Larkin bares all to the butler from Remains of the Day. For the last time in the series, Miles Kington, Mark Thomas , Roger McGough and Dillie Keane deliver their wicked thoughts in the irreverent literary game. Chaired by Ian McMillan.
Producer Marc Jobst

Contributors

Unknown:
Willy Wonka
Unknown:
Ma Larkin
Unknown:
Mark Thomas
Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Dillie Keane
Unknown:
Ian McMillan.
Producer:
Marc Jobst

By Stephen Russell. Car alarms?
Midnight raves next door? Tom's had it with noise. But how far can you go in the quest for a bit of quiet? When Tom forms the Noise Crusaders, he doesn't reckon on his fellow activists' hard-line attitude to barking dogs or on their unnerving supply of military hardware. with Jimmy Hibbert. Jon Culshaw , Clare Feck and Peter Kerry. Director Martin Jameson

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Russell.
Unknown:
Jimmy Hibbert.
Unknown:
Jon Culshaw
Unknown:
Clare Feck
Unknown:
Peter Kerry.
Director:
Martin Jameson
Tom:
Jeffe Rawle
Beretta:
Maureen Beattie
MrSchindler:
Malcolm Raeburn
Mary Jane:
Melissa Sinden
Brian:
Peter Rylands

The second of six programmes in which Jeremy Nicholas visits the homes of well known personalities and explores their record collection with them in search of musical and personal revelations.
This week, chef Raymond Blanc.
Producer Jessica Isaacs. Rptd Sat 11.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Nicholas
Unknown:
Raymond Blanc.
Producer:
Jessica Isaacs.

With Daire Brehan.
Rooms with a View. 1: Mary Ingoldby climbs up a house in the clouds - a holiday bungalow built on top of a Suffolk water tower.
Editor Sharon Banoff
PHONE/ANSWERPHONE: [number removed] E MAIL: [email address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Daire Brehan.
Unknown:
Mary Ingoldby
Editor:
Sharon Banoff

Paul Vaughan discusses the mystique of the Arabian Nights - the famous tales of Scheherazade, now out in a new hardback edition, and offers a French perspective on the Crusades - that of the Moslem warrior, poet and diplomat Ousama, whose accounts of the battles he fought are voiced at London's Shaw Theatre by Nadim Sawalha.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Rvsd rpt at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Nadim Sawalha.
Producer:
Nicki Paxman.

A classic by Welsh short story doyen Rhys Davies. Worn down by the drudgery of feeding, clothing and cleaning her five demanding sons and husband, a collier's wife finds her salvation - and ultimate escape - in a silk nightgown. Read by Helen Griffin. Producer Caroline Sarll

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhys Davies.
Read By:
Helen Griffin.
Producer:
Caroline Sarll

A six-part comedy by Lucy Flannery.
4: It's party time for the students and posh hotel time for the grown-ups, and never the two shall meet, or shall they....?
Producer Liz Anstee Rpt

Contributors

Comedy By:
Lucy Flannery.
Producer:
Liz Anstee Rpt
Maria:
Barbara Flynn
Richard:
Patrick Barlow
Amy:
Linda Polan
Ruby:
Diane-Louise Jordan
Paul:
Toby Longworth

With Linda Mitchell. The last in the series asks young Asians in Bradford about their concerns at the end of an eventful year.
Producer Peter Griffiths
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Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Mitchell
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

Life in six European cities through the eyes of British residents.
5: Malta. British cartoonist Sean Gaskin talks to David Lodge about the deeper and darker side to his island home. Producer Sara Jane Hall Rpt

Contributors

Talks:
Sean Gaskin
Unknown:
David Lodge
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall Rpt

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