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Chaired by Michael Buerk. Witnesses face cross-examination from Rabbi Hugo Gryn, Janet Daley , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

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

5: Music. In hopelessly middle-of-the-road Fenton Heugh , there's a lone record shop, and if a rock album sells too well, the man stops ordering it. John McKay recalls his Borders upbringing. Producer Noah Richler

Contributors

Unknown:
Fenton Heugh
Unknown:
John McKay
Producer:
Noah Richler

Presented by Iain Johnstone. This week's panel are Dick Vosburgh, Robin Ray, Nick Revell and George Baker.

Contributors

Presenter:
Iain Johnstone
Panellist:
Dick Vosburgh
Panellist:
Robin Ray
Panellist:
Nick Revell
Panellist:
George Baker
Producer:
Andy Aliffe

Last in the series of plays based on the stories of the 20s writer, Stacy Aumonier. The Baby Grand. A young girl struggles to study the piano amid her family's hostility
Dramatised by Brett Usher
Director Matthew Walters

Contributors

Author:
Stacy Aumonier
Dramatised by:
Brett Usher
Director:
Matthew Walters
Gabril:
Trevor Peacock
Lena:
Oona Beeson
Winscomb:
John Baddeley
Sir Robert:
Brett Usher
Selma:
Elaine Claxton
Katie:
Rachel Atkins
Mischa:
Malcolm Ward
Paul:
Tom Bevan
Eric:
Harriet Usher

Matthew Parris investigates intriguing letters that have no known replies.
2: Friedrich Nietzsche wrote to his sister Elisabeth berating her for portraying him to be anti-semitic. Producer Julia Gillett (Rpr)

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Producer:
Julia Gillett

First of four historical comedy mysteries by Ged Parsons , starring Dominic Jephcott as Marlowe and Bill Wallis as Ratsbane.
Amid the splendour and squalor of Elizabethan London, Christopher Marlowe , scholar, playwright and government spy, is assigned to investigate a number of baffling mysteries and perplexing intrigues. Episode the First: The Curious Case of the Curs 'd Quayside. Why do so many English warships sink for no apparent reason, and what does a certain jar contain?
Producer Richard Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Ged Parsons
Unknown:
Dominic Jephcott
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Producer:
Richard Wilson

Originally the only medicines available were herbs, then chemists went into their labs to design drugs. But in recent years. they have come out again and started to search the plant kingdom for ideas. Helen Sharman follows the story of drugs from plants to the laboratory and back again to roots.
Producers Deborah Cohen and Julia Durbin

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Sharman
Producers:
Deborah Cohen
Producers:
Julia Durbin

Last in the series by Jennifer Phillips , starring Gary Waldhorn and Harriet Walter.
A Tidy Sum. The genial minicab gangget muddled up in the art world.
With Norman Jones , Neil Dudgeon. Paul Gregory , Jon Strickland , Geraldine Fitzgerald and Philip Anthony. Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Unknown:
Jennifer Phillips
Unknown:
Gary Waldhorn
Unknown:
Harriet Walter.
Unknown:
Norman Jones
Unknown:
Neil Dudgeon.
Unknown:
Paul Gregory
Unknown:
Jon Strickland
Unknown:
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Philip Anthony.
Director:
Richard Wortley

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