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Four more programmes in which Colin Semper meets two people who, confronted by the same dilemma, arrived at very different decisions.
Charlotte and Sarah are lesbians. Both were Worried about telling their colleagues. To speak out might cost them their jobs. To keep quiet would be to live a lie.

Contributors

Presenter:
Colin Semper
Producer:
Brian King

Written and adapted by Mark Wallington.
Starring Timothy Spall. 4: A Curry at Kelmscot
Mark suggests making a Delia Smith Sri Lankan egg curry.
producer Caroline Leddy. Stereo

Contributors

Adapted By:
Mark Wallington.
Unknown:
Timothy Spall.
Unknown:
Delia Smith
Producer:
Caroline Leddy.
Narrator/Mark Wallington:
Timothy Spall
Jennifer Conway:
Carla Menoonça
Michael:
Gary Parker
Mrs Byron/Shopkeeper:
Margaret Stallard
Lock Keeper:
Terence Edmond
Landlord/Boogie:
Ronald Herdman
Percy:
Eric Allan
Fisherman 1:
John Church
Fisherman 2:
Rod Smith
Fisherman 3:
David Holt
A Bit of All Right /Curator:
Nick Murchie

In Nick McCarty's new play, marketing whizz Charles MacKenzie invests his redundancy in his uncle's Scottish fish farm. Away from London the work is hard and life is simpler. But what are the mysterious fish in the faraway pen? Would anyone really try to hide a marketing man's dream product?
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Nick McCarty
Music:
David Dorward
Director:
Hamish Wilson
Charles:
Bernard Holley
Jeannie:
Mary Ann Reid
Hamish:
Tom Watson
Actress/Stella:
Ali Walton
Producer/Radio Newsman:
Peter D'Souza
Peterson/Stevens:
Colin Mace
Kelso/DJ/Man:
Simon Christie
Andrew/Minister:
James Brice
Alastair/Smith/Cabinet Minister:
Robert Carr
Liz/Woman:
Astrid Wilson
Murdo/Photographer/MP:
Robin Thomson
Singer:
Sasha Abrams

Paul Allen discusses
Camille Paglia 's book Sex, Art and American Culture, and on stage a new production by Adventures in Motion Pictures. Producer Beaty Rubens
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Camille Paglia
Producer:
Beaty Rubens

Mother and Daughter by Michael McLaverty.
An old woman's need for superiority traps her into a mean-spirited relationship with her daughter....
Read by Barbara Adair. Producer Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael McLaverty.
Read By:
Barbara Adair.
Producer:
Pam Brighton

Did you know that the dog hasn't always been man's best friend - because millions of years ago neither dog nor man existed? More facts like this plus fun and frolics in the second in a series of back issues. With
Susie Brann , Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson ,
Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham. Producer Sarah Smith.

Contributors

Unknown:
Susie Brann
Unknown:
Alistair McGowan
Unknown:
Mary Elliot-Nelson
Unknown:
Julian Dutton
Unknown:
Peter Baynham.
Producer:
Sarah Smith.

A three-part series on Ireland by John Waters , a young Irish writer, who has new things to say about his country and its future. In this series, he travels around Ireland and talks to artists, writers and musicians, to politicians and priests. Most of all he hears the views of those often silent Irish men and women who are now trying to wake Ireland from the bottom up.
Producer Gwyneth Williams.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waters
Producer:
Gwyneth Williams.

A series of eight stories introduced by Edward De Souza , the Man in Black. Written by Denise Sims. 3: Dark Feathers
A composer's determination to achieve absolute concentration results in a callous massacre.
Director Martin Jenkins

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edward De Souza
Written By:
Denise Sims.
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Jenny:
Emily Richard
Fay:
Joanna Myers
Paul:
Matthew Morgan
Mr Batcombe:
Jonathan Adams
Young Jenny:
Siriol Jenkins
Young Fay:
Katie Jenkins
Jenny's Mum:
Melinda Walker

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