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Five-part dramatisation of Gillian Slovo 's acclaimed detective mystery.
2: Kate Baeir and her partner Carmen are still trying to trace the mystery man who is following Alicia.
Music composed by Anthea Gomez and played by Anthea Gomez and Tim New Dramatised by Jill Brooke Director Sue Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Slovo
Unknown:
Kate Baeir
Composed By:
Anthea Gomez
Played By:
Anthea Gomez
Dramatised By:
Jill Brooke
Director:
Sue Wilson
Kate Baeir:
Samantha Bond
Carmen:
Sandra James-Young
Alicia Weatherby:
Teresa Gallagher
Marion Weatherby:
Jill Graham
Pete Archie:
James Duke
Inspector Crant:
John Dixon
Headmistress/Eva:
Sunny Ormonde
Etmore James:
Patterson Joseph
Sam/Jim:
David Holt
James I Policeman:
Philip Anthony
Caretaker:
John Webb
Terry:
Matthew Morgan

In the last in the current series featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective, Holmes and Watson meet for the last time.
Clive Merrison stars as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.
In 1914 the services of a certain beekeeper are called upon to help his country in her darkest hour.

Contributors

Writer:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised By:
Bert Coules
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Director:
Enyd Williams
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson:
Michael Williams
Captain Kell:
Michael Cochrane
Stamford:
Norman Rodway
Prime Minister:
Preston Lockwood
Foreign Secretary:
Donald Pickering
Von Bork:
James Telfer
Von Herling:
Colin Pinney
Martha:
Lala Lloyd
Altamont:
Bob Sherman
Agent:
Ed Bishop
O'Brien:
Eamonn Fleming
First student:
Ben Lemel

Martin Wainwright celebrates the achievements of those who have been overlooked by history.
2: Rosalind Franklin. This scientist came close to unravelling the structure of DNA, but her early death denied her any claim to the Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Watson, Crick and Williams in 1968. Producer Alison Perks

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Unknown:
Rosalind Franklin.
Producer:
Alison Perks

Brian Sibley sees the Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia, the first major Hollywood film to tackle Aids. And he talks to the portrait photographer Annie Leibowitz. Producer Paul Quinn (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Sibley
Unknown:
Tom Hanks
Unknown:
Annie Leibowitz.
Producer:
Paul Quinn

Six Myths of Our Time
Marina Warner gives the fifth of six talks using themes from mythology to present a critique of modern Britain.
Cannibal Tales: The Hunger for Conquest. From The Tempestto Hannibal Lecter either we eat them or they eat us.
Readers Robert Stephens and Nigel Carrington. Producer Elizabeth Burke

Contributors

Unknown:
Hannibal Lecter
Readers:
Robert Stephens
Readers:
Nigel Carrington.
Producer:
Elizabeth Burke

Chris Andrews investigates the start of Sunday smut in newspapers, the decline of the tea cosy and the rise of the tea bag. He also hears how Shakespeare avoided the rules on bad language and reveals the origin of the age-old question: "Have you been?"

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Andrews

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