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2/4. Playwright Jack Rosenthal's memoirs, adapted for radio by his daughter Amy Rosenthal.

Today an account of Jack's brief spell in the Navy and his early career at Granada TV, including the first broadcast of Coronation Street, for which he wrote over 100 episodes.

Contributors

Author:
Jack Rosenthal
Adapted by:
Amy Rosenthal
Producer:
Bruce Hyman
Director:
Maureen Lipman
With [Director]:
Dirk Maggs
Maureen Lipman:
null Herself
Jack Rosenthal:
Stephen Mangan
Director/Petty:
Officer/Tony Warren/Sydney/Michael Winner/Geoff Lancashire: Rupert Degas
Adam Rosenthal:
Zachary Fox
Mr Cecil/Harry Driver:
George Layton
Jim Phoenix/George/Captain/Jack Haworth:
Toby Longworth
Amy Rosenthal:
null Herself
Woman/Ursula/Director's PA/Maxine:
Amy Shindler
Midshipman/Jack Ripley:
Colin Shindler

6/6. James Walton presides over team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh , with guests Sue Limb and John O'Farrell. The subject for pastiche is Thomas Hardy and the reader is Beth Chalmers. Producer Katie Marsden RptdSatllpm

Contributors

Unknown:
James Walton
Unknown:
Sebastian Faulks
Unknown:
John Walsh
Unknown:
John O'Farrell.
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Beth Chalmers.
Producer:
Katie Marsden

With the Luftwaffe bombing Belfast and evacuees fleeing in her direction, Marcia's key concern is to ensure she is assigned "a better of class of family". But in war, things rarelv turn out as planned. By Christopher Fitz-Simon . Producer/Director Eoin O'Callaghan

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Fitz-Simon
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan
Marcia:
Stella McCusker
Albert:
John Hewitt
Rev Dalkeith:
Mlche Docherty
Mr Turner:
Mark Lambert
Major Brunskill:
Richard Howard
Prudence:
Aine McCartney
Hilde:
Helen Koch-Cooper
Miss McNaughten:
Julia Dearden

Listeners' personal finance questions answered by Vincent Duggleby and his guests. Producer Diane Richardson PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines open from 1.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Duggleby
Producer:
Diane Richardson

1/5 Singles. When Connie goes on a singles holiday she strikes up an unexpectedly meaningful relationship with her room-mate. Read by Lynda Bellingham. The first of five Radio 4 commissions repeated as a tribute to the writer Clare Boylan , who died earlier this year. Producer Heather Brennon

Contributors

Read By:
Lynda Bellingham.
Unknown:
Clare Boylan
Producer:
Heather Brennon

1/4. Scheherazade. A journey through The Arabian Nights, also known as The Thousand and One Nights. From Aladdin's lamp to genies, this medieval collection of stories-within-stories has become part of the English language. Novelist and Arabist Robert Irwin explores Scheherazade, the woman who escaped death by turning survival into an art form. Producer Jo Glanville

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Irwin
Producer:
Jo Glanville

3/11. Nicholas Parsons hosts the devious panel game from the Mermaid Theatre in London. This week's panellists are Graham Norton , Marcus Brigstocke , Clement Freud and Pam Ayres. Producer Claire Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Graham Norton
Unknown:
Marcus Brigstocke
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Pam Ayres.
Producer:
Claire Jones

With Mark Lawson , including the verdict on the film
Stormbreaker, based on the bestselling book by Anthony Horowitz about teenage spy Alex Rider. Producer Martin smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Book By:
Anthony Horowitz
Unknown:
Alex Rider.

1/5. April in Ljubljana. By Dominic Power. In the first of this week's five short plays about men preparing to celebrate their partner's birthday, a woman plans to mark her birthday by enjoying a break in Ljubljana, alone. But her commitment-hunqry younger boyfriend has other ideas.
Producer/Director Pam Fraser Solomon Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Dominic Power.
Director:
Pam Fraser Solomon
April:
Amanda Root
Murray:
Jamie Ballard
Driver:
Tomaz Sllvnik

2/3. A Laudable Invasion? The story of a dodgy dossier and an unlawful invasion: the story of the Laudabiliter, a papal letter, which for 800 years became the legal precedent for English occupation of Ireland. But Mike Thomson has new evidence that claims that the Laudabiliter was
"sexed-up " and possibly entirely faked. Producer Neil George

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Thomson
Producer:
Neil George

New series 1/3. Africa: the Power of Two Wheels. Mark Stephen discovers the importance of the bicycle as a global barometer of social, economic and environmental change. He visits Namibia, where a bicycle can give access to healthcare, education and work, which sheer distance often renders impossible. Producer Monise Durrani

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Stephen
Producer:
Monise Durrani

1/10. Ernest Hemingway's passionate novel based on his own experiences in Spain during the Civil War.
When a young American volunteer joins a band of peasant guerrillas hiding in the mountains, he encounters both the taciturn men who will be his compatriots in arms, and a young woman, Maria. Abridged by Miranda Davies and read by Martin T Sherman. Producer Amber Barnfather RT DIRECT: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is available for E7.99 including p&p. To order, send a cheque payable to RT Direct Book Offers to:[address removed]. Call [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute). quoting RT, or visit www.rtdirect.sparkledirect.com. UK delivery only

Contributors

Abridged By:
Miranda Davies
Read By:
Martin T Sherman
Producer:
Amber Barnfather
Unknown:
Ernest Hemingway

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