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Jenni Mills reveals four stories behind the headlines of the last few years.
3: In May 1992, Monika Kocanekgave birth to a baby girl. The baby's father was a Catholic priest in Bedfordshire.
Producer Sarah Rowlands. Rptd Sun 9.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Monika Kocanekgave
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands.

Set in the middle of the last century, this play by the late Peter Luke tells the true story of how the Papal Swiss Guard came into being.

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Luke
Director:
Glyn Dearman
Pope Gregory XVI:
Stratford Johns
Contessa Stephanori:
June Tobin
Rabbi Moise Beer:
Cyril Shaps
Carl Rothschild:
Andrew Branch
Heidi Rothschild:
Tracy Wiles
[Actor]:
Geoffrey Whitehead
[Actor]:
David Collings
[Actor]:
Sean Barrett
[Actor]:
John Turner
[Actor]:
Stephen Critchlow
[Actor]:
John Hartley
[Actor]:
David Timson

By Rhys Davies. Lewis the Hearse's wife leaves him for another man and, from that day on, he vows never to bury a woman again: "To vex the women of the world is my intention." Read by Sion Probert. Producer Caroline Sarll

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhys Davies.
Read By:
Sion Probert.
Producer:
Caroline Sarll

A six-part comedy series in which broadcaster Roy Mallard, played by Chris Langham, sets out to give an impression of life in different occupations. Written by John Morton Producer Paul Schlesinger (Repeat)

Contributors

Written By:
John Morton
Producer:
Paul Schlesinger
Roy Mallard:
Chris Langham
Nigel Peacock:
Nicholas Le Prevost
Secretary:
Linda Regan
David Lawrence/Neil Thompson:
Kim Wall
Jane Waterford/Mrs Princep:
Alice Arnold
Other parts:
Toby Longworth
Other parts:
Kay Stonham
Other parts:
Vincent Franklin

Lissadell, on the Atlantic margins of County Sligo, is one of the great houses of Ireland. Built in the years preceding the Famine, it has been home to the Gore-Booth family ever since. Ray Goslingjoins Josslyn Gore-Booth behind the doors of the big house. Producer Alastair Wilson Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
Goslingjoins Josslyn Gore-Booth
Producer:
Alastair Wilson Rpt

Working Together....
Old habits of working and living together are retreating before profound economic and technological change. In the first of two programmes about the economics of cooperation, Andrew Dilnot asks whether it's an asset or a liability in the workplace.
Producer Michael Blastland. Rptd Sun 4.15pm Transcripts of Analysis are available for purchase. Contact BBC Newsline, PO Box
5080, London W12 6AJ or phone (0181) [number removed]for details

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Dilnot
Producer:
Michael Blastland.

The Times cartoonist Mel Calman, who died two years ago, left a final play for radio in which all of a man's body parts rise up to resist his heart attack. With Richard Griffiths as the Brain.

Contributors

Writer:
Mel Calman
Text completed by:
Deborah Moggach
Director:
Ned Chaillet
Brain:
Richard Griffiths
Heart:
Lee Montague
Stomach:
Jim Broadbent
Penis:
David de Keyser
[Actor]:
Meg Davies
[Actor]:
Tracy Wiles
[Actor]:
David Timson

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