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With Jenni Murray. In a special from Birmingham, women including singer/songwriter Dilly Keane , clinical psychologist Myra Junter and author Sara Maitland come together to celebrate the rise of the mid-life woman.Serial: Heat Wave by Penelope Lively , read by Rowena Cooper and abridged in 12 parts by Di Speirs (10). Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie ™EB SITE: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/radio/ 'adio4/womans_hour/index.ritml

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray.
Songwriter:
Dilly Keane
Unknown:
Myra Junter
Unknown:
Sara Maitland
Unknown:
Penelope Lively
Read By:
Rowena Cooper
Unknown:
Di Speirs
Editors:
Sally Feldman

By Helen Buhaenko. They say in Byelorussia that if it rains for long enough the unicorn will come.
With Greg Ashton, Lyndam Gregory, Lynne Seymour, Robert Harper, Rolant Prys and Manon Edwards.
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Contributors

Writer:
Helen Buhaenko
Director:
Alison Hindell
Mr Solowei:
Cyril Shaps
Cara:
Clare Isaac
Giovanni:
Steve Hodson
[Actor]:
Greg Ashton
[Actor]:
Lyndam Gregory
[Actor]:
Lynne Seymour
[Actor]:
Robert Harper
[Actor]:
Rolant Prys
[Actor]:
Manon Edwards

Lynne Walker profiles Hans Werner Henze, Composer in Residence at this year's Aldeburgh Festival, and hears the sounds of LA with a review of Barney Hoskins's history of Los Angeles music, Waiting for the Sun. Producer Mohit Bakaya. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Lynne Walker
Unknown:
Hans Werner
Producer:
Mohit Bakaya.

In Martyn Wade's black comedy, Owen's loathing of the outside world has led him to barricade himself and his family inside their home. Having decapitated an intruder, Owen locks himself away, unaware that in his absence his wife and her stepson are planning a little revenge...

Contributors

Writer:
Martyn Wade
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Roberta:
Anna Massey
Freda:
Brenda Blethyn
Owen:
Stephen Moore
Robert:
Julian Rhind-Tutt

Twenty years ago, art student Daniel Meadows set out in a converted double decker bus to photograph the people living in a Britain he barely knew. Now he journeys back through a very different country. Reporter Alan Dein. Producer Mark Burman

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Meadows
Reporter:
Alan Dein.
Producer:
Mark Burman

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