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A six-part dramatisation by Eric Pringle. 4: Gregory's relationship with the Alington family is placed under the strain of the approaching war.
With Susannah Corbett. Lyndam Gregory and Tom Bevan. Music played by Les Brown. Laurence Rossi and Tony Gamage Director Adrian Bean

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Pringle.
Unknown:
Susannah Corbett.
Unknown:
Lyndam Gregory
Unknown:
Tom Bevan.
Played By:
Les Brown.
Played By:
Laurence Rossi
Played By:
Tony Gamage
Director:
Adrian Bean
Gregory Dawson:
David Hargreaves
Elizabeth Earl:
Frances Jeater
Young Gregory:
Peter Kenny
Ackworth:
Steve Hodson
Mr Alington:
Gareth Armstrong
Bridget:
Teresa Gallagher
Joan:
Elaine Claxton
Eva:
Tara Dominck
Mrs Alington:
Tina Gray
Oliver:
Paul Panting
David:
Richard Pearce
Jock Bamiston:
Malcolm Ward
Dorothy:
Caroline Strong
Croxton:
Peter Whitman
Ben Kerry:
Dominic Letts
Malcolm Nixey:
David Jarvis

Six classic mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.
2: The Blanched Soldier. With Watson on his honeymoon, Holmes must solve a sinister mystery concerning a veteran of the Boer War.
Violinist Leonard Friedman Dramatised by Roger Danes Director Enyd Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Clive Merrison
Unknown:
Michael Williams
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Dramatised By:
Roger Danes
Director:
Enyd Williams
Mrs Watson:
Hannah Gordon
James Dodd:
Robert Glenister
Godfrey Emsworth:
Nicholas Boulton
Colonel Emsworth:
Derek Waring
Ralph, his butler:
John Woodnutt
Mr Kent:
Gordon Reid
Sir James Saunders:
Gerald James
Jules Gervaise:
Olivier Pierre
Lance Corporal Simpson:
Tom Bevan
Trooper Anderson:
Peter Kenny
Leper:
Don McCorkindale

Presented by Michael Rosen. Childhood recollected: Alice in Russian. 400 years of the Pied Piper, and sumptuous illustrations from Rackham and Dulac - Sylvia Horn visits a unique exhibition of children's books from the past. Producer Jill Burndge

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Rosen.
Unknown:
Sylvia Horn
Producer:
Jill Burndge

Quentin Cooper talks to Kes director Ken Loach about his new film
Ladybird, Ladybird, and sees Speed
(about a bus that will blow up if it slows to less than 50mph), starring Keanu Reeves. Plus live music from "the Latin answer to Madness", La Cucina. Producer Julian May. Revised repeat 9.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Quentin Cooper
Director:
Ken Loach
Unknown:
Keanu Reeves.

An intriguing story by Guyana's award-winning writer Roy Heath.
"He introduced me to his mother-in-law, a matriarch with slightly prominent teeth and a grand manner, who wore a white achal and fanned herself languidly. I could hardly keep my eyes off the old woman." Read by Hugh Quarshie. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Heath.
Read By:
Hugh Quarshie.
Producer:
Pam Fraser Solomon

Colin Bell and Joyce McMillan of Scotland battle with the London team of Irene Thomas and Eric Korn.
Gordon Clough and Tony Quinton ask the questions.
Repeated from Monday 12.25pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Bell
Unknown:
Joyce McMillan
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Eric Korn.
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Tony Quinton

Professor John Durant looks back at the events that sparked off the great scientific ideas of our time.
4: The impact of the discovery that the Earth's surface is made of moving plates.
Producer Deborah Cohen
Repeated Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor John Durant
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

George Monbiot travels among some of the most extraordinary people on earth - the nomads of East Africa.
Bandit Country. Banditry and drought force the nomads across the Valley of the Shadow of Death, but the seeds of hope for their future are sown by a filing clerk in Nairobi. Producer Grant Sonnex

Contributors

Unknown:
George Monbiot
Producer:
Grant Sonnex

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