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Barry Norman hosts the last in the series of the quiz in which teams of celebrities compete to answer questions about crime-fiction books, TV, film and radio and to solve mini murder mysteries performed by the Clueless Wonders - David Timson and Joanna Brookes. This week, Dulcie Gray and Maxim Jakubowski pit their investigative wits against Francis Matthews and Michael Winner.
A Ladbroke Radio production

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Barry Norman
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David Timson
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Joanna Brookes.
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Dulcie Gray
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Maxim Jakubowski
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Francis Matthews
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Michael Winner.

Victorian hymns like Abide with me, Dear Lord and Father of mankind and Lead kindly light are still numbered among the top ten favourites. However, it did take a while for such music to be acceptable in church, one critic describing them as a "deplorable infestation". Ian Bradley explores the lasting qualities of Victorian hymns and misguided attempts to improve them over the years. Producer Clair Jaquiss

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Ian Bradley
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Clair Jaquiss

The first of seven programmes devoted to friends furry, feathered, finned or four-legged. Katie Boyle meets HRH the Princess Royal to learn about the Riding for the Disabled charity of which the princess is President, and visits an RFTD centre in Dorset.
Producer Roy Oakshott

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Katie Boyle
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Roy Oakshott

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