Today's story is "An Afternoon Out" by Judy Whitfield
Told by Richard Baker

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
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the final two hours of play direct from Lord's
Introduced by Peter West
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with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight
Weather
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A personal view by Gyles Brandreth
Two hundred thousand people visited Wells Cathedral last year, many of them just to see the famous clock. But what do the tourists know about the everyday business of keeping this great building alive?
Gyles Brandreth went to the Cathedral to find out more about the community, which runs not only a religious institution but a business.

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A film about Peter Brook
When Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened on Broadway, the New York theatre critic, Clive Barnes , described it as '...without any equivocation the greatest production of Shakespeare I have seen in my life.' Now it is playing to packed houses at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
In Brook's 'Dream' there are no cobwebs and shimmering wings. Instead the lovers - pursue each other in a white walled gymnasium, Puck and Oberon juggle plates and swing on trapezes; virtually all the established conventions are challenged.
Tonight's film shows extracts from The Dream, scenes from some of Brook's previous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and a long interview first shown on Review in which Brook talked to James Mossman about his work and aspirations in the theatre.

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Mild and bitter humour, with sweet and sour songs that will tickle your palate - if you get the drift of: Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow, The Fivepenny Piece and their guests Roy Kinnear and Carmel Cryan
(from Manchester)
(The Livings talent for collecting talent: page 9)
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by Henry James
Another chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Denis Constanduros

Mrs Gereth has made plain her feelings about Mona to both Owen and Fleda. Persuaded by Owen to stay at Poynton, Fleda has agreed to speak to his mother on his behalf.
(Shown last Saturday)
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In 410 AD 'eternal' Rome fell to the barbarians. Augustine, the bishop of a small town in the province of Numidia, saw that the Roman Empire was doomed, and set himself the task of showing how a Christian civilisation might rise from its ruins. He wrote The City of God, which became the inspiration of 'the grand fiction of the Holy Roman Empire.'
In North Africa and Italy the film traces the story of how this passionate young African developed the massive intellect and deep spiritual insight which changed the face of the Western world.
The story told by Anthony Thwaite
A BBCtv/Neyrac Films Co-production
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With Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
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