Today's story is "The Lost Cow" by Ted Moult

Introduced by Alan Tammadge

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They have treasured memories of other times - firm views about present times. In the race for today few of us spare enough time to listen - even to learn - from people who also know about yesterday, as they talk to Man Alive reporters.

A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: The Other Half
Nowadays it is difficult to tell who are the New Rich - or the New Poor. Henry Taroni, for example, has dirty hands and a noisy Birmingham scrap metal yard. But he's probably worth nearly a million. Or Louis Green, selling blankets from a barrow in the East End, who picks up £100 for a morning's work. He stays in bed for most of the other six and a half days a week.
On the other hand, there are the New Poor, who despite their clean suits and their respectable worthwhile Jobs have been left behind by the affluent society. People like Frank Beveridge, a Ministry clerk, trying to bring up a family on about £24 a week. Or Frank Tebbutt, who gave up a well-paid position as a surveyor to run a charity's animal rescue home.
Hunter Davies wrote a book about the New Rich and the New Poor, called The Other Half. Now Jeremy James and a Man Alive film team bring the book to television.

on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC1 and BBC Wales)

by Evelyn Waugh
Dramatised by John and Michael Ashe
Starring Richard O'Callaghan as Adam Fenwick Symes, Vivian Pickles as Lottie Crump

"Midnight Orgy at Number 10," my dear, isn't that Divine! Now listen "One of the most exciting parties of the little season..."'

Stick closely to the novel: page 13

Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley