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With Martha Kearney and guests. Reading: Speaking for Themselves edited by Mary Soames. Part 1 of 10. Editor Ruth Gardiner
E-MAIL: [address removed] Reading repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Kearney
Edited By:
Mary Soames.
Editor:
Ruth Gardiner

Five comic stories about London life by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Imelda Staunton stars as Mrs Tibbs, the owner of a most respectable boarding house - until the arrival of a mysterious new lodger.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatist:
Stephen Wyatt.
Director:
Sally Avens
Boz:
Nicholas Farrell
Mrs Bloss:
Annette Badland
Mrs Tibbs:
Imelda Staunton
Mr Tibbs:
Christopher Hancock
Agnes:
Tracy Ann Oberman
Mr Evenson:
Stephen Critchlow
Mr Whizbottle:
Peter Gunn
Mr O'Bleary:
Jason O'Mara

A radio quiz chaired by David Hatch.
Who lived at the famous radio address at the top flat of Broadcasting House? Written by Nick Baker.
Producers Viv Black and Nick Utechin

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hatch.
Written By:
Nick Baker.
Producers:
Viv Black
Producers:
Nick Utechin

David Ashton 's Victorian detective story is based on the memoirs of a real-life
Edinburgh policeman - the tenacious Inspector James McLevy. The death of an evangelical preacher leads McLevy to the "Happy Land," a den of iniquity ruled over by a mistress of crime. with John Paul Hurley , Eliza Langland, Vicki Liddelle , Robin Thomson , Ralph Riach and Steven McNicoll. Director Patrick Rayner

Contributors

Unknown:
David Ashton
Unknown:
James McLevy.
Unknown:
John Paul Hurley
Unknown:
Vicki Liddelle
Unknown:
Robin Thomson
Unknown:
Ralph Riach
Unknown:
Steven McNicoll.
Director:
Patrick Rayner
McLevy:
Brian Cox
Jean Brash:
Phyllis Logan

Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with the words of Sir Winston Churchill read by Peter Jeffrey. Additional readings by Patrick Reinhardt. 146: The Great Exhibition and the Eve of the Crimean War Producer Pete Atkin Revised repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Sir Winston Churchill
Read By:
Peter Jeffrey.
Unknown:
Patrick Reinhardt.
Producer:
Pete Atkin

Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Tony Hawks, Peter Jones and Paul Merton for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Grand Opera House, York.
(Repeated Sunday 12 noon)

Contributors

Presenter:
Nicholas Parsons
Panellist:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Tony Hawks
Panellist:
Peter Jones
Panellist:
Paul Merton
Producer:
Chris Neill

The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill , edited by their daughter Mary Soames. Alex Jennings and Sylvestra le Touzel continue reading letters from one of the great romances of the century. 1: 1935. Clouds of war loom over
Europe. Narrated by Helen Bourne , abridged in ten parts by Penny Leicester. Producer Di Speirs. Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Clementine Churchill
Unknown:
Mary Soames.
Unknown:
Alex Jennings
Unknown:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Unknown:
Helen Bourne
Unknown:
Penny Leicester.
Producer:
Di Speirs.

To mark Eric Linklater 's centenary year, Simon Russell Beale reads the Scottish author's satirical novel about the misadventures of an Italian soldier during the Second World War. Abridged in ten parts by Trevor Royle. Part 1. Producer David Jackson Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Linklater
Unknown:
Simon Russell Beale
Unknown:
Trevor Royle.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

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