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This week in Russia, the long-awaited exhibition of masterpieces plundered from occupied Europe during the Second World War opens in St Petersburg. But in a special report,
Konstantin Akinsha, the Russian art historian who first revealed the existence of these treasures, discovers thousands of art works still hidden away. Plus a profile of the international city of Geneva, where forty per cent of the population are expats. Producer Tim Whewell

Contributors

Producer:
Tim Whewell

Barry Took is joined by Alan Coren ,
Nick Clarke and Jeremy Hardy at the British Council in London for another look back at the week's news.
Producer Aled Evans. Rptd Monday 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Producer:
Aled Evans.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs this week's topical discussion in Daventry,
Northamptonshire, with the Rt Hon Sir Norman Fowler MP; Margaret Hodge MP; Charles Moore , Editor of the Sunday Telegraph; and Michael Rosen , children's author and broadcaster.
Producer Nick Utechin. Rptd from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Norman Fowler
Unknown:
Margaret Hodge
Unknown:
Charles Moore
Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Producer:
Nick Utechin.

Sasha Pick stars as Judy Garland in Humphrey Carpenter 's musical entertainment depicting a day in the life of the Hollywood legend. Thirteen great Garland songs feature in a fraught rehearsal and a dazzling live broadcast.
Music performed by Vile Bodies with musical director Colin Good. Director Nigel Bryant * See This Week: page 7

Contributors

Unknown:
Sasha Pick
Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Director:
Colin Good.
Director:
Nigel Bryant
Roger Edens:
Ed Bishop
Gary Breckner:
Peter Whitman
Frank Morgan:
Matt Zimmerman
Jerry:
Lewis Hancock
Waiter:
Simon Fielder

Afour-part series on the histories of black people in Britain. 2: Saartje,
Jonathan, Christian and Gambia. The runaway, the thief, the entertainer and the child servant.... Jackie Kay draws on written records to illuminate the stories of black Britons in the 18th and 19th centuries. With Adjoa Andoh , Hugh Quarshie , Siobhan Redmond and Sheena Shepherd.
Producer Fran Acheson. Rptd Sunday 8.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Unknown:
Adjoa Andoh
Unknown:
Hugh Quarshie
Unknown:
Siobhan Redmond
Unknown:
Sheena Shepherd.
Producer:
Fran Acheson.

Martin Wainwright celebrates the achievements of individuals.
5: Douglas Mason. The academic economist who first put an alternative to the rates system on paper in 1981 and became the "father of the poll tax". Producer Alison Perks

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Unknown:
Douglas Mason.
Producer:
Alison Perks

Bernard Kops
From his childhood years in the East End of London to life as a successful playwright, novelist and poet Bernard Kops is at heart a survivor. As his latest play, Call in the Night, receives its world premiere at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, he looks back over his career with Paul Allen.
Producer Erika Wright. Rptd Friday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Kops
Unknown:
Bernard Kops
Unknown:
Paul Allen.
Producer:
Erika Wright.

by Colin Haydn Evans
With Ronald Pickup as Noel Pemberton Billing, Leslie Phillips as Lord Justice Darling and Celia Imrie as Maud Allen.
In 1917 Noel Pemberton Billing MP published a review of Oscar Wilde's Salome accusing the leading actress of treason.
Director Chris Wallis

Contributors

Writer:
Colin Haydn Evans.
Director:
Chris Wallis
Noel Pemberton Billing:
Ronald Pickup
Lord Justice Darling:
Leslie Phillips
Maud Allen:
Celia Imrie
Lloyd George:
Norman Rodway
Jack:
Robert Whelan
Eileen:
Susan Jeffrey
Casson:
Simon Carter
Ransome:
John Rowe
Repington:
Graham Padden
General:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Savage:
Andy Redman
Spencer:
Robert Daws

4: Squaddies. Albert Bown joined The Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1952. Now he revisits his old barracks to inspect the modern army and Fusilier Matthew Harmer.
Producer Lucy Lunt Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Bown
Unknown:
Fusilier Matthew Harmer.
Producer:
Lucy Lunt Rpt

by Bill Morrison, based on new documentary evidence.

Two men were shot dead in 1949 at the Cameo Cinema in Liverpool. George Kelly and Charles Connolly were charged with their murders.

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Morrison
Music:
Patrick Dineen
Director:
Kate Rowland
Chief Inspector Balmer:
George Costigan
Chief Superintendent Smith:
Nick Stringer
Charles Connolly:
James McMartin
George Kelly:
Tom Higgins
Sgt Faragher:
Chris Darwin
Jackie Dickson:
Paula Simms
Jimmy Northam:
Mark Moraghan
Donald Johnson:
Steve Book
Rose Heilbron:
Kathryn Hunt
Graham:
John Branwell
Gorman QC:
Will Tacey
Judge:
Gordon Langford Rowe

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