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Paul Heiney meets farmers Fiona and Jonathan Waterer in Devon. Jonathan could plough using horses by the age often and he learnt how to break and train horses in Canada. Their farm is dedicated to working with horses, but this is not a fancy stable - all the horses must literally pull their weight. Producer Hugh O'Donnell

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Jonathan Waterer
Producer:
Hugh O'Donnell

The Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, speaks on behalf of a charity which gives practical help to those in greatest need in Britain's poorest communities.
DONATIONS: The Shaftesbury Society, [address removed]. CREDIT CARDS: [number removed]. Repeated Thursday 3.28pm

PM JoiningNigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week are Martin Jarvis ,
Celia Haddon , Sue Limb and Matthew Engel. Reader Patricia Hughes. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Celia Haddon
Reader:
Matthew Engel.
Reader:
Patricia Hughes.

Michael White chairs debates on matters musical in which two protagonists armed with extracts and witness accounts argue an issue.

Professor John Deathridge says that the appeal of organs has been killed by their greatest fans - sartorially challenged, reclusive, adolescent males. Dame Gillian Weir leaps to the defence of what she regards as the king of instruments. Producer Ekene Akalawu

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
Professor John Deathridge
Unknown:
Gillian Weir
Producer:
Ekene Akalawu

By Vicki Baum , dramatised in two parts by Malcolm McKee. 2: The baron schemes to replenish his fortune. The industrialist seeks distractions from the pressure of business and the clerk is determined to taste the decadent pleasures of Berlin. Staff at the hotel are very discreet.
Director Sue Wilson. Repeated Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Vicki Baum
Unknown:
Malcolm McKee.
Director:
Sue Wilson.
The Baron:
Steven Pacey
Preysing:
David Bradley
Kringelein:
Richard Derrington
Flammchen/Kitty:
Teresa Gallagher
Dr Otternschlag/Zinnowitz:
Christopher Scott
Senf/Waitz:
Terry Molloy
Rohna/Gerstenkorn/Barber:
Ian Brooker
Georgi:
Richard Crunow

October 31st. David Stenhouse finds out if old government reports make good reading, as the Stationery Office publishes a series of government blue books for the general reader. Plus a modern retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, and Tony Robinson on writing history. Producer Erin Riley

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stenhouse
Unknown:
Tony Robinson
Producer:
Erin Riley

Frank Delaney anticipates a chilly Halloween with a clutch of supernatural poems from Walter de la Mare , Vernon Scannell and Charles Causley.
Readers Sean Barrett , Alice Arnold , Bill Wallis , Christian Rodska and Kerry Shale.
Producer Viv Beeby. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Walter de La Mare
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Readers:
Charles Causley.
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Readers:
Alice Arnold
Readers:
Bill Wallis
Readers:
Christian Rodska
Readers:
Kerry Shale.
Producer:
Viv Beeby.

Nick Clarke hosts the penultimate round of the cryptic quiz. This week Antonia Fraser and Brian J Ford of the Midlands take on the might of last year's champions, Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead Of Wales. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Brian J Ford
Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Peter Stead

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