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Six quests in search of a weird, exotic and endangered animal with Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams.
4: The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
The Rodrigues fruit bat is a noisy, randy, sociable creature, whose numbers are declining due mainly to the fact that it spends most of its time hanging around in trees in the middle of a cyclone belt. At regular intervals it is blown into oblivion somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
Production and additional music by STEVEN FAUX Series producer
GAYNOR shutte. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Carwardine
Unknown:
Douglas Adams.
Music By:
Steven Faux

by FRANK DUNNE. With and Nance and Jenny are set a school essay on what their dads do - fantasy or fact. They decide the truth might be more exciting....
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLJN BBC Bristol. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Dunne.
Directed By:
Shaun MacLoughljn
Nance:
Deborah Makepeace
Tracey:
Jenny Funnel
Tracey's dad:
William Eedle
Nance's mum:
June Barrie
Receptionist:
Alice Arnold
Lady in street:
Caroline Hunt

Elizabeth Wright presents six programmes in which the Chinese recall 40 years of Communist rule.
4: Death of an Emperor The rise and fall of the Gang of Four is recalled and Mao and his controversial wife Jiang Qing are assessed.
Producer DAVID POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Wright
Unknown:
Jiang Qing
Producer:
David Powell

The life and art of turn-of-the-century Hungary come to London; turn-of-the-century Russia is portrayed in The Cherry Orchard; and the judges of the Booker Prize approach the moment of truth.
Presenter Natalie Wheen. Producer JOHN BOUNDY Stereo (Revised repeat on Thursday at 4.35pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Natalie Wheen.

Fragments of a decade in nine parts recalled by Harry Thompson. 1: All Our Leftovers The British diet in kitchen, canteen and temperance cafe is rigorously examined.... Researcher
STEPHANIE CROWTHER
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON BBC Manchester

Contributors

Recalled By:
Harry Thompson.
Unknown:
Stephanie Crowther
Producer:
Alastair Wilson

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