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An investigation into questions of morality raised by one of the week's news stories, chaired by Michael Buerk. Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Janet Daley , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey cross-examine witnesses. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

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

6: The Sea. Fenton Heugh is by the sea, but what-use is the water if it is "steely grey like a wet sort of tarmac, relentless too, like Calvinism, or Bruce Forsyth , or God"? John McKay reminisces. Producer Noah Richler

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Forsyth
Unknown:
John McKay
Producer:
Noah Richler

Iain Johnstone hosts the last edition of the panel show with 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

In Marie Jones 's black Belfast comedy, a taxi-driver becomes an unwitting party to the Christmas traumas of his assorted passengers.
Carols sung by the choir of Lagan College Director Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie Jones
Mockers:
Tim Loane
Myrtle:
Marie Jones
Mr DunnelDaniel Demonte:
Dan Gordon
Julie:
Emma O'Neill
Mrs Duffy:
Barbara Adair
Deceiver:
Ian McElhinney
Mrs Deceived:
Paula McFetridge
Soldier:
Richard Orr

Matthew Parris investigates intriguing letters that have no known replies.
3: In 1912 D H Lawrence fell passionately in love with a married woman. A letter he wrote to her husband confessing all was cited in the ensuing divorce case. Producer Julia Gillett

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Producer:
Julia Gillett

Another perplexing Elizabethan intrigue by Ged Parsons , starring Dominic Jephcott as Marlow and Bill Wallis as Ratsbane. Episode the Second: The Turbulent Tale of the Troubl'd Tragedy. Why does an unknown patron fund the worst play ever written, and what has become of Mighty Meg?
Producer Richard Wilson

Contributors

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

Should British Conservatism reinforce individual self-reliance and the amoral power of the market, or is the country now more receptive to older traditions? Stuart Simon reports in the last of the series.
Producer Nicola Meyrick

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Simon
Producer:
Nicola Meyrick

The award-winning eight-part dramatisation of Graham Green 's novel, starring Michael Kitchen as Brown. With
Michael Feast as Jones, James Maxwell as Smith and Helen Horton as Mrs Smith.
1: An August morning in the early 1960s ... and a Dutch cargo ship, carrying a strangely ill-assorted group of passengers, is bound for the troubled island of Haiti. Dramatised by Rene Basilico
Producer John Fawcett Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Green
Unknown:
Michael Kitchen
Unknown:
Michael Feast
Unknown:
James Maxwell
Unknown:
Helen Horton
Unknown:
Mrs Smith.
Dramatised By:
Rene Basilico
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

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