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This week Rachel Hawthorn discovers Dubai - the most liberal of the Arab states, and playground to the expats. Presented by Eddie Mair. Producer Jill Thomas
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Contributors

Unknown:
Rachel Hawthorn
Presented By:
Eddie Mair.
Producer:
Jill Thomas

With the internal borders of Europe about to come down, this week's programme reports on the likely increase in drugs trafficking. Presented by Gordon Clough. Producer Anna Carragher

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough.
Producer:
Anna Carragher

Once again, the programme comes from the showbiz capital of the south - Bury St Edmunds. Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair, with Tim Brooke-Taylor , Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton. Colin Sell is at the piano.
Producer Jon Naismith

Contributors

Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Willie Rushton
Pianist:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Jon Naismith

Vernon Bogdanor ; Rt Hon Sir Rhodes Boyson , MP; Rana Kabbani , writer; and Austin Mitchell, MP, tackle the issues raised in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Bogdanor
Unknown:
Sir Rhodes Boyson
Unknown:
Rana Kabbani
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.

What evil influences the two beautiful children at Bly? Their new governess is both fascinated and repelled in Henry James 's classic Victorian tale of horror.
Music by Wilfredo Acosta
Dramatised by John Tydeman Director Glyn Dearman

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Music By:
Wilfredo Acosta
Dramatised By:
John Tydeman
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Governess:
Charlotte Attenborough
Mrs Grose:
Rosemary Leach
Miles:
Sam Crane
flora:
Sara Jane Derrick
Master of By:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Coachman:
John Church
Storyteller:
Jonathan Adams

Following the assault on the Russian Parliament by the army, ChristopherCook recalls the dismissal of the Dumas by Nicholas II in 1906 and the installation of his reactionary prime minister, Pyotr Stolypin. He examines Russian agriculture earlierthis century and discusses Lenin's New Economic Policyforthe Soviet Union, designed to appease growing peasant unrest with Communist Party policies.
Producer John Knight

Contributors

Unknown:
Pyotr Stolypin.
Producer:
John Knight

It's Thanksgiving Weekend and America celebrates the first harvest with a festival of traffic jams and snow delays at airports. Mark Steyn gets some of the natives to explain what it's all really meant to be about. Producer Hamish Mykura

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Producer:
Hamish Mykura

An interview with the Guyanese novelist, Wilson Harris who writes about exploration, quest, danger, adultery and violent death. Drawing on images of the South American rainforest, his novels transform history into fable, and fable into myth and legend, challenging our very notions of the modern novel.
Producer Razia Iqbal

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilson Harris
Producer:
Razia Iqbal

Crime's greatest stories continue with the dramatisation of Eric Ambler 's Gold Dagger-winning story of intrigue, terror and double dealing.
Michael Howell has rescued his family's firm from nationalisation by co-operating with the new Syrian government. But can he avoid the other political forces that are at work in the Middle East?
Dramatised by James Pettifer Director Ned Chaillet

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Ambler
Unknown:
Michael Howell
Dramatised By:
James Pettifer
Director:
Ned Chaillet
Michael Howell:
Raad Rawi
Salah Ghaled:
Adam Hussein
Teresa Malandra:
Oona Beeson
Dr Hawa/Mr Hadaya:
Nadim Sawalha
Issa:
Marc Zuber
Lewis Prescott:
Neville Jason
Melanie Hammad:
Souad Faress
Frank Edwards:
Malcolm Ward
Tewfiq:
Hamid Daryael
Touzani:
Lyndham Gregory
Israeli officerlBarley:
Ofer Faragi

The award-winning sitcom for the 90s, starring Nick Revell , Alistair McGowan and Doon Mackichan.
3: The Wedding. Nick goes to the wedding of an old flame. Is he still carrying a torch for her, or does he just want to burn her house down?
Producer Jon Magnusson

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Revell
Unknown:
Alistair McGowan
Unknown:
Doon MacKichan.
Producer:
Jon Magnusson

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