Stories, poems and songs
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Nicholas Le Prevost, Eleanor David and Adam Godley star in David Edgar's drama set during the miners' strike in 1984 when a couple take in two pitmen's daughters wt)
High Table, Lower Orders, Mark Taverner's comedy thriller set in a Cambridge college, with Geoffrey Palmer, Samuel West. Rebecca Front and Sharon Small, featuring the final episode of series one followed by episodes 1-4 of series two
instalment of the US radio show titled A Prairie
Home Companion in the States, from the Fitzgerald Theatre in St Paul, Minnesota, featuring gentle satire, sketches and music, with private eye Guy Noir
Doctor Who scriptwriter Robert Shearman from storylines emailed in by BBC Radio 7 listeners, who can join the Chain Gang via bbc.co.uk/radio (8/13)
adventure written by and starring Ben Moor (5/6)
presents chilling tales, continuing with Tom
Morton-Smith's story about a virus-swept town with a rising death toll, starring Lindsey Coulson
Lemn Sissay follows in the footsteps of playwright JB Priestley 0894-1984), who travelled around the country in the 1930s and produced his seminal travelogue English Journey as a result. The poet reveals the many changes since Priestley's day, not least the multiculturalism that has blossomed over the decades (1/2)
Edward Long and Pam Ferris star in Nigel Bryant 's adaptation of Charles Dickens 's 1838 novel (3/6)
his radio comedy favourites, with episodes of The Al Read Show (1955); Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead (1971), I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (1967), two episodes of his own show Arnold Brown and Company (1990); and People Like Us (1996)
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the Commentaries Retiring
Doctor Who star David Tennant and executive producers Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner share the inside story of the most recent episode of the BBC TV hit
Gallagher sci-fi starring Sarah Badel