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Geoffrey Wheeler looks back at the news of 50 years ago. Laurel and Hardy go down a storm at the Royal Command Performance. There is fevered bidding to buy England centre forward Tommy Lawton from Chelsea.

Contributors

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Geoffrey Wheeler
Unknown:
Tommy Lawton

Magazine programme which investigates matters psychological and psychiatric. Do children respond to therapy? In a special programme Professor Anthony Clare looks at mental health and children.
Producer Constance St Louis Repeated Sunday 10.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Anthony Clare

More literary madness from Mark Thomas. Roger McGough.
Dillie Keane and Miles Kington, chaired by Barnsley poet Ian McMillan.
Franz Kafka presents the weather forecast, Dylan Thomas writes for The Good Pub Guide and Cruella de Vii reads from her private diaries. Producer Marc Jobst

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Thomas.
Unknown:
Roger McGough.
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Dillie Keane
Unknown:
Ian McMillan.
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Franz Kafka
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Dylan Thomas
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Cruella de Vii
Producer:
Marc Jobst

A six-part series in which international musicians choose and discuss music describing the character and spirit of their native countries.
1: Andrew Green talks to Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa. who chooses music from Puccini to Takemitsu.
Producer Tracy Ross

Contributors

Producer:
Tracy Ross

Paul Vaughan visits the Freemasons Library and talks to the poet Lavinia Greenlaw. Plus there's a look at a popular American novel entitled Fup. featuring two humans and a duck. Will the idea float here? Producer Anthony Denselow Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Lavinia Greenlaw.
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

By Marie Hannigan , read by Marcella Riordan. Having failed to persuade her father to let her join the crew of his fishing boat, Valerie goes to the next village, hoping to find employment with another skipper.
But equal opportunity proves to be a tricky prize in the area. Producer Anne Simpson

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie Hannigan
Read By:
Marcella Riordan.
Producer:
Anne Simpson

Arnold Bennett 's classic novel set in the thirties, dramatised in four parts by Peter Ling.
1: Some new faces arrive at the hotel. with Sean Baker. Janet Maw.
Amanda Gordon , roan Meredith. John Hollis and Keith Drinkel. Director Enyd Williams Repeat

Contributors

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Arnold Bennett
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Peter Ling.
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Sean Baker.
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Janet Maw.
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Amanda Gordon
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John Hollis
Unknown:
Keith Drinkel.
Evelyn Orcham:
Robin Ellis
Sir Henry Savott:
Derek Waring
Gracie Savott:
Colleen Prendergast
Violet Powler:
Charlotte Attenborough
Miss Cass:
Ann Beach

The first of two documentaries following Mukti Jain Campion as she takes her children to the childhood homes of their two grandmothers - one from a rural village in India, the other from a crofting community in the Scottish Highlands.
Music Nick Sargent. Producers
Mukti Jain Campion and Chris Eldon Lee

Contributors

Unknown:
Mukti Jain Campion
Music:
Nick Sargent.
Producers:
Mukti Jain Campion
Producers:
Chris Eldon Lee

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