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Michael Buerk chairs the last in the series of live investigations into the moral questions behind the news.
Witnesses face cross-examination from
Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Professor Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Rabbi Hugo Gryn
Unknown:
Edward Pearce
Unknown:
Professor Roger Scruton.
Producer:
David Coomes

Between the wars, "abroad" was an unknown place over there - our view of it formed by fiction, films, anecdote and selective history. Harry Thompson looks back to this lost world in six programmes.
1: Russia, East of Mansfield. Bulldog Producer Amanda Mares Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Thompson
Producer:
Amanda Mares Rpt

Set in cantonments somewhere on the north-east frontier of India after the end of the war, Tom Wright 's gentle play tells of the day-to-day life of four soldiers waiting to go home who are joined by a newcomer, fresh out of Blighty.
Director Hamish Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Wright
Director:
Hamish Wilson
Dusty:
Neil Shackleton
Nobby:
Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Fred:
Mark McDonnell
George:
Laurance Rudic
Jock:
Liam Brennan

Robert Dawson Scott talks to
Robert Harris , the author of Fatherland, as his new book Enigma is published. Also a review of Richard III at Stratford.
Producer Helen Garrison. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm
AFRICA 95

Contributors

Talks:
Robert Dawson Scott
Unknown:
Robert Harris
Unknown:
Richard Iii
Producer:
Helen Garrison.

The second of a six-part series with comedian Harry Hill and the all-singing, all-dancing Family Hill. With Burt Kwouk, Edna Dore, Al Murray, Martin Hyder and special celebrity guests.

Contributors

Comedian:
Harry Hill
[Actor]:
Burt Kwouk
[Actor]:
Edna Dore
[Actor]:
Al Murray
[Actor]:
Martin Hyder
Producer:
Jon Magnusson

Six programmes using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.
The Lord, the Sword and the Guru. Having successfully annexed the Punjab to the British Empire in 1849, Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India, had a large collection of Sikh arms and relics shipped back to Britain. What happened to these precious items? Were they legally acquired? Mark Tully traces an allegory of Anglo-Indian relations from London, via Scotland, to Delhi.
Producers Nigel Acheson and Rani Singh

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Tully
Producers:
Nigel Acheson
Producers:
Rani Singh

Four impressions of past and present. 2: Paradise Regained. In a north London garden, Felicity Schultz and John Teevan reflect on the way the garden has become a haven for them in times of war, misunderstanding and intolerance. Producer Piers Plowright

Contributors

Unknown:
Felicity Schultz
Unknown:
John Teevan
Producer:
Piers Plowright

George Soros is a gambler. His childhood was spent hiding from the Nazi death squads. Later he bet against the Bank of England and won. In this exclusive interview he talks about his theory of making money. Producer Matt Thompson

Contributors

Unknown:
George Soros
Producer:
Matt Thompson

In poet John Hegley's first play, he whisks us away.... by train to Manchester and Wales, to Mars, ancient Rome, Jerusalem and the tortures at the end of a love affair.
(Rpt)

Contributors

Writer:
John Hegley
Music:
Nigel Piper
Director:
Anne Edyvean
John:
John Hegley
Tony:
Tony Curtis
Man:
Roland Muldoon
Woman:
Sue Norton

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