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Eight programmes in which guest presenters offer a personal point of view. The Candle in the Window. Irish president Mary Robinson argues that the Irish nation -with its people spread across the world - is a model for a new kind of community for the next century.
Producer Gwyneth Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Robinson
Producer:
Gwyneth Williams

Jenni Murray meets Evelyn Lau and Maxine Hong Kingston who share similar multicultural inspirations, having both been bom in America to Chinese parents. Serial: Experiment in Love (4) For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Evelyn Lau
Unknown:
Maxine Hong Kingston

Between the Wars, "abroad" was an unknown place over there - our view of it formed by fiction, films, anecdote and selective history. In six programmes, Harry Thompson looks back to this lost world. 2: The Dark Continent Producer Amanda Mares Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Thompson
Producer:
Amanda Mares

Nigel Gearing's play is based on a short story by Jean Rhys.

In Dominica, at the turn of the century, the newly arrived Mr Ramage shies away from the British community.

Contributors

Writer:
Nigel Gearing
Based on a story by:
Jean Rhys
Director:
Michelle Matherson Frederick
Dr Cox:
Richard O'Sullivan
Mrs Cox:
Jilly Bond
Mr Ramage:
Mark Anstee
Mr Eliot:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Mrs Eliot:
Becky Hindley
Myra:
Judith Jacob
Isla:
Trish Cooke
Miss Lambton:
Linda Regan
Rosalie:
Ciara Janson
Irene:
Katy Crawford-Caston
[Actor]:
Gavin Nestor
[Actor]:
John Evitts
[Actress]:
Jean Lender
[Actor]:
Eddie Nestor
[Actor]:
Gregory Francis

Robert Dawson Scott sees a new production of Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie with Zoe Wanamaker and listens to Mike Scott , founder member of The Waterboys. Producer Robyn Read. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Dawson Scott
Unknown:
Zoe Wanamaker
Unknown:
Mike Scott
Producer:
Robyn Read.

The third 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. Producer Jon Magnusson

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Hill
Unknown:
Burt Kwouk
Unknown:
Edna Dore
Unknown:
Al Murray
Unknown:
Martin Hyder
Producer:
Jon Magnusson

Six programmes using documentary evidence to throw light on past events. 2: Through a Glass Darkly.
Patrick Wright reads the hidden depths lying in the stained glass windows of St Mary's Church, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire. Erected as a memorial to 23 villagers who died in the Great War, they contain some surprising messages. Producer Neil Trevithick

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Wright
Producer:
Neil Trevithick

Four impressions of past and present. 3: The Beach. A day out in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. As a schoolmaster shepherds his flock from station to sea, the voices of the town remember what used to be.
Producer Piers Plowright

Contributors

Producer:
Piers Plowright

Take 67 14-year-olds and seven teachers, place in a coach for four hot days and tour Europe. The result: DMs in Brussels, a seat in the new parliament building, a comment on the Eiffel Tower, a touch of heatstroke, a scream with Indiana Jones and serious questions on whether the EU is for them. Producer Mary Price

Contributors

Unknown:
Indiana Jones

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