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Five-part dramatisation of Gillian Slovo 's acclaimed detective mystery.
4: Alicia has gone missing. Her mother, Marion, has been burgled. Meanwhile Kate has two funerals to attend and Carmen makes a discovery in the Mateley case.
Music by Anthea Gomez Dramatised by Jill Brooke Director Sue Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Slovo
Music By:
Anthea Gomez
Dramatised By:
Jill Brooke
Director:
Sue Wilson
Kale Baeir:
Samantha Bond
Carmen:
Sandra James Young
Marion Weatherby:
Jill Graham
Trevor Plasfid:
Keith Drinkel
Eva Vicar:
Sunny Ormonde
Sam ,:
David Holt
Toby:
Mark Straker
Charles:
David Thorpe
Doorman:
Barry J Gordon

by Mike Walker.
The first in an occasional series of plays, presenting up-to-the-moment drama, in which the lives of the central characters are shaped by real issues and events as they happen today.
Following the Downing Street Declaration on the Peace Talks in Northern Ireland, two journalists seek to discover who, if anyone, is telling the truth. As London, Dublin and now Washington clamour for some kind of resolution, pressure mounts to find the big story. Director Eoin O'Callaghan

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Walker.
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan

Martin Wainwright celebrates the achievements of those who have been overlooked by history.
4: Raymond Erith. The architect who was the lonely torch bearer of classicism through the post-war fashion for modern buildings proved to be ahead of his time. Producer Alison Perks

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Unknown:
Raymond Erith.
Producer:
Alison Perks

Amy Tan 's novel transfers to the screen in The Joy-Luck Club , and Brian Sibley talks to television director Phil Agland. Producer Adnan Washboume (Revised repeat 9.15pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Amy Tan
Unknown:
Joy-Luck Club
Talks:
Brian Sibley
Director:
Phil Agland.
Producer:
Adnan Washboume

"It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel."
After a rudimentary introduction to the camel, courtesy of London Zoo, Geoffrey Moorhouse set off on an ambitious solo trek across the Sahara. He tells
Annette Kobak of his struggle with exhaustion, lice, near-starvation and loneliness and what happened when he stopped running away from fear and began to walk towards it. With readings by Sean Barrett. Producer Kate McAll

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Unknown:
Annette Kobak
Unknown:
Sean Barrett.
Producer:
Kate McAll

Donald Woods travels across South
Africa to assess its chances of making democracy work after next month's historic general election.
2: War and Peace. The major obstacle to democracy in South Africa is political violence. Woods reports from his native land on the precarious peacekeeping operations as they try to hold the ring in the townships. A Crux production

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Woods

It symbolised the decline and revival of British manufacturing - now the Germans have bought Rover. As the passions begin to die down over its £800 million sale to BMW, and in the first of the new series, Peter Day finds out what strategy can bring both companies together and where their future lies.
Editor Stephen Chilcott

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Editor:
Stephen Chilcott

The pigeon loft and the broken-down wireless that stood between Britain and invasion; the 20-year-old undergraduate who plotted the downfall of the Bismarck, and Chris Andrew finds out why Wantage is not called Kingston.

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Andrew

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