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Concluding the serial by Peter Whalley. 6: Richard Gillian has found the man who has been mistakenly blackmailing him and has killed him in a fight.
Director Tony Cliff

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Whalley.
Unknown:
Richard Gillian
Director:
Tony Cliff
Richard Gillian:
Paul Shelley
Claire Gillian:
Sandra Clark
Jane Gillian:
Saskia Downes
David Gillian:
John Lloyd Fillingham
Lawrence Nevison:
Russell Dixon
Det Insp Jacob:
Michael Duggan
Melissa:
Kathryn Hunt
Secretary:
Melissa Jane Sinden

Eight further exploits of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective, starring
Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.
6: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax. Watson goes to Switzerland in search of a missing aristocrat. But the trail leads back to a funeral parlour in London.
Violinist Leonard Friedman Dramatised by Peter Ling Director Enyd Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan
Unknown:
Clive Merrison
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Unknown:
Michael Williams
Unknown:
Lady Frances Carfax.
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Dramatised By:
Peter Ling
Director:
Enyd Williams
Honourable Philip Green:
Jack Klaff
Inspector Lestrade:
Stephen Thorne
Holy Peters:
Peter Wickham
Mrs Peters:
Jillie Meers
Monsieur Moser:
John Baddeley
Herr Brandt:
Colin Pinney
Marie Devine:
Rachel Atkins
Undertaker:
William Maxwell

Believing that her baby had been swapped at birth, Margaret Wheeler turned for advice to George Bernard Shaw. Their correspondence tells the stories of the mixed babies, the frustration of the parents, and provides a fascinating insight into the mind of a great social commentator. Producer Jackie Christie

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Wheeler
Unknown:
George Bernard
Producer:
Jackie Christie

Brian Sibley views the controversial film "In the Name of the Father", based on the Guildford Four and starring Daniel Day Lewis, and discusses the new breed of television cartoons.

(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Sibley
Producer:
Paul Quinn

Jim Perrin presents portraits of some important inter-war explorers. 1: Anything I Want
After a gilded youth, Gino Watkins made exploration his profession. He was to die mysteriously at the age of 25 in the ice of a Greenland fjord, but even by then he had made a permanent name for himself in the annals of Arctic exploration. Producer Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Perrin
Unknown:
Gino Watkins
Producer:
Dave Sheasby

In the last of his series, Simon Brett chooses diaries for 4 February, ranging from Joan Wyndham 's informal dancing lesson in 1940 to Kenneth Williams wanting be left alone on holiday in Las Palmas in 1969.

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Joan Wyndham
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams

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