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Story: "The Sheep and the Bird" written by Wendy Eyton, illustrated by Julek Heller.
Presenters this week Carol Chell, David Hargreaves

Contributors

Presenter:
Carol Chell
Presenter:
David Hargreaves
Author (The Sheep and the Bird):
Wendy Eyton
Illustrator (The Sheep and the Bird):
Julek Heller

with Robin Day, Ludovic Kennedy, Richard Kershaw, Angela Rippon

After the News, Lord Home of the Hirsel
MP at 28, Chamberlain's Parliamentary Private Secretary at the time of Munich, Foreign Secretary, 14th Earl of Home, returning to the Commons as Prime Minister in 1963. Lord Home reflects on over 40 years in politics.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robin Day
Presenter:
Ludovic Kennedy
Presenter:
Richard Kershaw
Newsreader:
Angela Rippon
Interviewee:
Lord Home of the Hirsel [Alec Douglas Home]
Associate Producer:
John Reynold
Producer:
Christopher Capron

by Charles Dickens
The BBC2 serial: dramatised in seven parts by Julia Jones and Donald Churchill.

Mr Boffin has given a home to Bella and employed Rokesmith as his secretary. Charley Hexam resents the attention his sister is receiving from Eugene Wrayburn.

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
Julia Jones
Adapted by:
Donald Churchill
Script editor:
Betty Willingale
Designer:
Chris Pemsel
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
Peter Hammond
Jenny Wren:
Polly James
Lizzie:
Lesley Dunlop
Eugene Wrayburn:
Nicholas Jones
Mr Dolls:
Edmond Bennett
Mrs Boffin:
Kathleen Harrison
Mr Boffin:
Leo McKern
Bella:
Jane Seymour
Betty Higden:
Hilda Barry
Sloppy:
David Troughton
John Rokesmith:
John McEnery
Silas Wegg:
Alfie Bass
Mr Venus:
Ronald Lacey
Footman:
Tom Owen
Mortimer Lightwood:
Andrew Ray
Charley Hexam:
Jack Wild
Bradley Headstone:
Warren Clarke

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Who invented the English language?
Someone off on a three-day bender
Dreamed up present predicate gender,
Torturing kids like me.

Tom Paxton sings of American life from the womb to the tomb. The programme is filmed around his home town of Bristow, Oklahoma.

Contributors

Singer/Musician:
Tom Paxton
Photography:
John Hooper
Film Editor:
Colin Hill
Producer:
John Bird
Producer:
Tony Broughton

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