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with Michael Buerk , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Janet Daley , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey.
Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Rabbi Hugo Gryn
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Edward Pearce
Unknown:
Dr David Starkey.
Producer:
David Coomes

Juliet Ace interweaves two stories of married love in Sicily during the Second World War.
Director Shaun McLoughlin

Contributors

Director:
Shaun McLoughlin
George:
Charles Simpson
Carrie:
Melinda Walker
Robert:
David Learner
Gina:
Patricia Martinelli
The Redcap:
Jonathan Nibbs
Colonel Jackson:
Bill Wallis
Captain Loyn:
Jonathan Tafler
Italian Woman:
Kate Binchy

Last in the series of portraits of radio greats. A G Street: "Just a humble peasant farmer" Arthur Street overcame disability to become a best-selling author, agricultural journalist and broadcaster. Sean Street recalls the larger than life Wiltshireman.
Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Street
Unknown:
Sean Street
Producer:
John Knight

Last in the series in which Matthew Parris investigates letters that have no known reply.
Samuel Johnson 's letter to Lord Chesterfield.
Producer Julia Gillett

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Unknown:
Samuel Johnson
Producer:
Julia Gillett

Gill Pyrah discusses the future of radio drama as Saturday Night Theatre celebrates its 50th birthday. Poet Tom Paulin is in the studio and there's a review of the Royal Ballet's Don Quixote. Producer Tim Dee
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Unknown:
Tom Paulin
Unknown:
Don Quixote.
Producer:
Tim Dee

Dennis Waterman stars in Nigel Baldwin 's thriller. 5: Too much knowledge can end in death....
Director Jane Dauncey

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Waterman
Unknown:
Nigel Baldwin
Director:
Jane Dauncey
The Teller:
Ray Smith
Beth:
Bethan Jones
Angela:
Tara Dominick
Hum:
Richard Elfyn
Sharon:
Emma Gregory
Pauline:
Eluned Jones
Laura:
Ri Richards

Three science features presented by Jez Nelson.
1: To Boldly Go ...
They have the technology, they have the capability to create in the solar system a second living planet. The science of "terraforming" has moved from fiction to fact and is now a serious concern of space scientists and environmentalists. Can the frozen wastes of Mars be turned into a living planet?
Producer Sue Broom

Contributors

Presented By:
Jez Nelson.

Flexible Friends?
The world's most powerful lending institutions, the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank, have been using their leverage to press major economic reforms on debtor countries. In the last programme of the series, Tony Killick asks whether such policies have been effective in the Third
World and how they should be improved. Producer Zareer Masani

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Killick
Producer:
Zareer Masani

In the last of the series, it's only Stephen's inspired guesswork which finds the Irish labourer and true love.
Written by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Writer:
Ian McMillan
Writer:
Martyn Wiley
Writer/Director:
Dave Sheasby
Stephen J Blackburn:
Finetime Fontayne
Tracey Duggan:
Judy Flynn
Frank Ellis/Dad:
John Branwell
Maggie/Woman Potato Picker:
Ann Rye
Rupert:
David Frederickson

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