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Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Janet Daley , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

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

Maureen Lipman , Janet Suzman and Lynda Bellingham discuss sisterhood, siblings and success with Juliet Alexander. Serial: The Great Elephant Chase (4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Maureen Lipman
Unknown:
Janet Suzman
Unknown:
Lynda Bellingham
Unknown:
Juliet Alexander.

Chris Stuart tests the inventiveness of panellists Professors Lewis Wolpert and Heinz Wolff , Julian Pettifer and Carmen Pryce with more scientific discoveries and innovations. From the Wellcome Institute for Medical Science. Producer Aled Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Stuart
Unknown:
Lewis Wolpert
Unknown:
Heinz Wolff
Unknown:
Julian Pettifer
Unknown:
Carmen Pryce
Producer:
Aled Evans

Written and performed by Michael Mears. At some point or another, most of us have a go at doing a jigsaw puzzle. And the most difficult part is always the sky. This one-man play was performed to great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival. Director Enyd Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Mears.

After The Queen and I comes Two Weeks with the Queen, directed by Alan Ayckbourn in Scarborough. And Paul Allen reports on the new Brian Friel play, Molly Sweeney , in Dublin.
Producer John Goudie (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Directed By:
Alan Ayckbourn
Directed By:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Brian Friel
Unknown:
Molly Sweeney
Producer:
John Goudie

A series showing how dams reflect the political and social concerns of the societies that surround them.
3: The More Things Change. When Franklin D Roosevelt brought his scheme of dams, power and new towns to the valleys of Tennessee, he thought he was bringing prosperity to the region. But 60 years on, the local people are not interested in new deals, even less so in ideas of community. Noah Richler pays a visit to Tennessee with Southern novelist Mark Richard.
Producer Noah Richler

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin D Roosevelt
Unknown:
Noah Richler
Unknown:
Mark Richard.
Producer:
Noah Richler

All rights are won by political struggle, not handed down to humanity from on high. Conor Gaerty explores the cutting edge of the rights argument in Britain in two key areas: environmental and animal rights. Today, the controversy over the Government's road-building programme and whether "direct action" - breaking the law- is the only way forward.
Producer Elizabeth Burke

Contributors

Unknown:
Conor Gaerty
Producer:
Elizabeth Burke

Lionel Kelleway presents the first in a new, easily digestible series in which man as "dish of the day" is savoured by different diners. First to the tasting are lice - the "mechanical dandruff, ants in the pants and little pattering feet of the private parts", as one man describes the head louse, clothes louse and crab louse.
Producer Sarah Blunt
SEETHIS WEEK page 8

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Sarah Blunt

An atmospheric thriller by Nick Fisher in five parts.
When a horrifically mutilated corpse is found on the railway track near the terminus, DSI Julie Enfield's hardest job is to identify the victim.
With John Evitts, Paul Panting, Rachel Atkins and Tom Bevan. Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Rsher
Unknown:
John Evitts
Unknown:
Paul Panting
Unknown:
Rachel Atkins
Unknown:
Tom Bevan.
Director:
Richard Wortley
DSI Julie Enfield:
Imelda Staunton
DCI Michael Stanley:
Nicholas Farrell
DS Kevin Richards:
Charles Simpson
Terminus:
Dominic Letts
Enfield's father:
Geoffrey Matthews
Sarah:
Maggie McCarthy
Jim Stevens:
David Jarvis

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