Today's story is "Maurice the Mouse" by Leslie Pitt
Illustrated by Michael Foreman

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Paul Tortelier works with young professional cellists on all five Beethoven cello sonatas and a set of variations
with Martin Isepp (piano)

Tonight: Sonata in C major, Op 102

With Myra Chahin and Philip de Groote

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The Cambria is the last coasting barge in Europe still working under sail alone. She carries anything you care to put into her hold, from coal to cattle cake.
Her skipper Bob Roberts has never served in a ship with an engine, and never intends to. He's preserved his way of working and endeavours to preserve the charm and traditions of Pin Mill, the Suffolk hamlet in which he lives.

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by Clifford Simak
Dramatised by Clive Exton
With David Buck as Jon Hoff, Ronald Lacey as Joe Manx and Owen Berry as Joshua

One man knows the space ship's future and what happens when 'the end comes with a tremor.'
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This week: from India
Starring Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor
with Madhur Jaffrey

Last week the Russian Hamlet, this week the moving story of a group of strolling Shakespearean players in modern India.
James Ivory's English-speaking film, the discovery of the 1965 London Film Festival, stars a group of unknown British and Indian actors and actresses, including Felicity Kendal who later turned fantasy into reality by making her name on the British stage.
(Philip Jenkinson writes on page 12)