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With Martha Kearney and guests. Reading: Speaking for Themselves edited by Mary Soames. Part 6 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

Jonathan Glancey explores the history of the Isokon flats, one of the most significant buildings in North London, and once home to intellectual refugees from Nazi Germany and writer Agatha Christie.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Glancey
Producer:
Hannah Whitley

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

The socially ambitious Maldertons are delighted when their unmarried daughter receives the attentions of the romantic Mr Sparkins.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatist:
Stephen Wyatt
Director:
Sally Avens
Boz:
Nicholas Farrell
Mr Malderton:
David Haig
Mrs Malderton:
Tessa Worsley
Teresa:
Sarah Jane Holm
Mr Sparkins:
Julian Rhind Tutt
Mr Flamwell:
Patrick Barlow
Thomas Malderton:
Adrian Schiller

A radio quiz chaired by David Hatch. What do Judi Dench and Terry Wogan have in common? With Ken Bruce ,
Simon Hoggart , Annie Nightingale and Peter Donaldson.
Producers Viv Black and Nick Utechin

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hatch.
Unknown:
Judi Dench
Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Ken Bruce
Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Annie Nightingale
Unknown:
Peter Donaldson.
Producers:
Viv Black
Producers:
Nick Utechin

by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal. A grandmother spends her last summer with her granddaughter on an island in the Gulf of Finland.

Contributors

Author:
Tove Jansson
Translated by:
Thomas Teal
Dramatised by:
Catherine Czerkawska
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Grandmother:
Phyllida Law
Grown-up granddaughter:
Sophie Thompson
Young grandchild:
Victoria O'Donnell

In five programmes Mark Lowther follows players and management of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orchestra on their tour of Mexico.
1: The Orchestral Supervisor's Tale Producer Mark Lowther Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lowther
Producer:
Mark Lowther

Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with the words of Sir Winston Churchill read by Peter Jeffrey.
Additional readings by Brett Usher. 151: Gladstone's First Budget Producer Pete Atkin Revised repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Sir Winston Churchill
Read By:
Peter Jeffrey.
Unknown:
Brett Usher.

Nicholas Parsons is joined by Jenny Eclair , Stephen Frost , Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Peter Jones for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Oxford Union.
Producer Chris Neill
Repeated Sunday 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Jenny Eclair
Unknown:
Stephen Frost
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Producer:
Chris Neill

The personal letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill , edited by their daughter Mary Soames. Alex Jennings and Sylvestra le Touzel continue reading the Churchills' war correspondence. Narrated by Helen Bourne , abridged in ten parts by Penny Leicester. Part 6 of 10. 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.

Londoner Sheila Keegan revisits the nightmare of her first parent-free holiday -hitchhiking around Ireland with two school friends - in August 1969. Watching the annual Apprentice Boys' march in Londonderry, they became caught up in the notorious and violent "Battle of theBogside".
Producer Nigel Acheson

Contributors

Unknown:
Londoner Sheila Keegan
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

The Long Arm of Uncle Sam. How great is American power in the world? is the United States about to swamp us with its economy, culture and military might? Ian Hargreaves investigates the reality of America's global position.
Producer Anthony Dworkin. Rptd Sunday 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Producer:
Anthony Dworkin.

More peregrines now breed in the British Isles than ever before in spite of pesticides, egg collectors and gamekeepers. But even now, these birds face more subtle threats which strike at the heart of how we conserve predators in a dwindling countryside. Lionel Kellaway traces the changing fortunes of this falcon.
Producer Brett Westwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kellaway
Producer:
Brett Westwood

Simon Russell Beale reads Eric Linklater's
satirical novel about the misadventures of an Italian soldier during the Second World War. Abridged in ten parts by Trevor Royle. Part 6. Producer David Jackson Young

Contributors

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

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