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Rory Maclean explores the journey behind the travel in this
eight-part series. One eighth of the world's s population is on the move every day, and each traveller has a story to tell. Producer Mary Price

Contributors

Unknown:
Rory MacLean
Producer:
Mary Price

A four-part dramatisation of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas
Llosa's masterpiece, which explores two opposing fanaticisms. The story is based on a true incident that took place a hundred years ago in the impoverished backlands of north-east Brazil. A wandering preacher and his poor followers oppose the combined might of the Republican army.
Dramatised by Mike Walker
Director Shaun MacLoughlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Mario Vargas
Dramatised By:
Mike Walker
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Reporter:
Kerry Shale
Lion o/Natuba:
Jack Klaff
Baron de Canabrava:
Nigel Anthony
Jurema:
Carolyn Backhouse
Galileo Gall:
Bob Docherty
Rufino:
Christian Rodska
Goncalves:
David Holt
Father Joachim:
William Eedle
Fereira:
Richard Pearce

Whose Promised Land?
What lies beyond the halting "first step" of the Gaza-Jericho accord between Israel and the PLO? Stuart Simon asks what are the lessons to be learned about the principles of self-determination.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Simon

Simon Rae is joined by poet and biographer Ian Hamilton to introduce a selection of listeners' requests for American poetry. Readers Peter Whitman and Susie Fugle. Producer Sara Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rae
Unknown:
Ian Hamilton
Readers:
Peter Whitman
Readers:
Susie Fugle.
Producer:
Sara Davies

Leo Walmsley was a Yorkshire novelist whose popularity of 40 years ago has been overtaken by time and changing literary fashion. But Marilyn Barraclough tells Martyn Wiley why the man and his work should be celebrated today. Producer Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Walmsley
Unknown:
Marilyn Barraclough
Unknown:
Martyn Wiley
Producer:
Dave Sheasby

Barbara Myers talks to Professor Kay Davies , director of the new MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, about her life and her work on genetic diseases. Producer Deborah Cohen

Contributors

Talks:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Professor Kay Davies
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

Six-part dramatisation of the life of Lord Byron by Michael and Melissa Bakewell , with Jonathan Hyde as Lord Byron and Paul Daneman as the voice of the poet. 5: Outrageously Shocking. "I must love something in my old age, and probably circumstances will render Allegra a greater comfort than any offspring from Lady Byron, that misguided woman who bears my name" - Byron.
Director Rosemary Hart

Contributors

Unknown:
Melissa Bakewell
Unknown:
Jonathan Hyde
Unknown:
Paul Daneman
Director:
Rosemary Hart
Augusta Leigh:
Kate Buffery
Claire Clairmont:
Teresa Gallagher
Shelley:
Jamie Glover
Hobhouse:
Neville Jason
John Murray:
Dominic Letts
Teresa Guiccioli:
Elaine Claxton
Mary Shelley:
Cathy Sara
Pietro Gamba:
David Thorpe
Poke Spy:
John Baddeley
Vicar:
James Taylor
MargaritaCogni:
Alice Arnold

In Search of Peace. In the last of the series, Alison Hilliard talks to His Holiness
Karekin II, head of the Armenian Church in Lebanon, about his hopes and fears for the future of the country. Producer Amanda Hancox

Contributors

Talks:
Alison Hilliard
Producer:
Amanda Hancox

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