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This week Breakaway goes to Texas. Julian Pettifer visits the Alamo and discovers the Big Bend National Park, while Kathy Arnold gets underneath the Texan psyche in Dallas. Producer Jill Thomas
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Contributors

Unknown:
Kathy Arnold
Producer:
Jill Thomas

This week the programme is invited to Bury St Edmunds ... with hilarious consequences. Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair, with Tim Brooke-Taylor , Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton. Colin Sell at the piano.
Producer Jon Naismith

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Willie Rushton.
Producer:
Jon Naismith

by Martyn Wade.
Greta Hall, Keswick, 16 September 1803. The events of one day in the life of the poet Coleridge cause him to reflect on the professional and personal disappointments of recent years.
Director Cherry Cookson

Contributors

Writer:
Martyn Wade
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Coleridge:
Tom Wilkinson
Southey:
Gary Bond
Sara:
Jennie Stoller
Hazlitt:
Christopher Good
Edith:
Narissa Knights
Mary Lovell:
Moir Leslie
Asra:
Amanda Murray
Mary Evans:
Elizabeth Rider
Man/Lovell:
Christopher Douglas
Schoolmaster/Landlord:
Brian Smith
Hartley:
Elizabeth Lindsay
Mrs Fricker:
Ellen McIntosh

As Government plans for commuters continue to provoke controversy, Christopher Cook discovers that even the Romans suffered traffic jams and that the fabled private railway companies of the 19th century didn't always run their trains on time. And Sean Street recalls the days when the postman was more afraid of highwaymen than dogs.
Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Sean Street
Producer:
John Knight

Roger Harrabin and David Holden meet the greenest people in Europe. The Dutch have some of the most environmentally friendly policies around, funding armies of academics and institutions, energy efficiency schemes and pollution clean-ups But they are also major consumers. Can they make the huge changes in lifestyle advocated by their politicians?
Producer Marie Helly

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Harrabin
Unknown:
David Holden
Producer:
Marie Helly

Mark Steyn claims to be too young to remember where he was when John F Kennedy was assassinated but his guests ponder some of the more curious ways in which the event still resonates in modern America.
Producer Hamish Mykura

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Unknown:
John F Kennedy
Producer:
Hamish Mykura

Paul Allen talks to Adrian Noble , who as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company for the last two and a half years holds one of the most infuential positions in British theatre.
Producer Nicki Paxman

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Adrian Noble
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

This dramatisation of H.R.F. Keating's novel, set in the India of the British Raj, is the first in a season of Gold Dagger award-winning thrillers.
It stars Zia Mohyeddin as the Maharajah who plays one April Fool's joke too many.
Dramatised by Neville Teller

Contributors

Author:
H.R.F. Keating
Dramatised by:
Neville Teller
Director:
Matthew Walters
Maharajah:
Zia Mohyeddin
DSP Howard:
Sam Dastor
Dewan:
Renu Setna
Porgy:
Lyndham Gregory
Sir Arthur:
Philip Anthony
Michael:
Luke Beeson
Dolly:
Rachel Atkins
Elaine:
Sheila Mitchell
Judy:
Oona Beeson
Ram Singh:
Amerjit Deu
Frere:
Dominic Letts
Morton:
Barry J Gordon
Joe:
Steve Hodson
Schoolmaster:
null Bhasker

Talks based on the prison journals of John Williams , read by the author.
"Strangeways is in flames. A part of my history disintegrating. The cells in which I lived and made love, burnt and gutted....
Producer Chris Paling

Contributors

Unknown:
John Williams
Producer:
Chris Paling

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