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Fifty days (1985)
- Genre
- Feature; Special
Saturday Feature: Fifty Days. Extensive interview with Bill Cooke, a merchant seaman shipwright, recalling how he spent fifty 50 days at sea in an open raft after the ship SS Lulworth Hill was torpedoed by...
IRN news review of the year (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference; Special; Speech; Vox pop
Douglas Cameron introduces a review of the news stories of 1985 with award winning reporter Dave Loyn looking back on the year. Stories include air accidents and hijacks; Northern Ireland agreement; baby...
Daisy Miller (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction; Serial
Reading from the novel Daisy Miller by Henry James, tells of the confused courtship of an American girl in Rome. Continuation and to be continued. Female narrator not identified
No name (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction; Serial
One of 15 narrated episodes of Wilkie Collins’ 1862 novel No Name, set in West Somersetshire. Magdalen Vanstone, finding that she and her sister Norah are illegitimate, has contrived with the aid of...
No name (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction; Serial
One of 15 narrated episodes of Wilkie Collins’ 1862 novel No Name, set in West Somersetshire. Magdalen Vanstone, finding she and her sister Norah are illegitimate, has deceived her cousin Noel into...
Precious bane (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction; Serial
Reading from Precious Bane, a novel by Mary Webb, set in rural Shropshire after the Napoleonic wars about a girl with a hare-lip. In 19 parts, this is probably part 13. Narrator not identified.
Katherine Mansfield short stories - A birthday and New dresses (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction
Reading of A Birthday and New Dresses, two short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Female narrator not identified.
Katherine Mansfield short stories - Sixpence (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction
A reading of Sixpence, a short story by Katherine Mansfield. Mrs Bendall persuades her husband Edward to whip their disobedient son Dicky on the advice of her friend Mrs Spears. Edward immediately regrets...
Katherine Mansfield short stories - The little girl (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction; Serial
A reading of The Little Girl, a short story by Katherine Mansfield. Kezia is frightened of her father who hits her with a ruler after she tears up his speech for the Port Authority. All that changes when her...
Katherine Mansfield short stories - A cup of tea (1985)
- Genre
- Fiction
Reading of A Cup of Tea, a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. The story follows society lady Rosemary Fell who meets a poor girl named Miss Smith and invites her to tea. Rosemary’s husband Philip...