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Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into questions of morality raised by one of the week's news stories. Witnesses face cross-examination from
Janet Daley , Peter Stanford ,
Michael Mansfield QC and Dr David Starkey. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Peter Stanford
Unknown:
Michael Mansfield
Unknown:
Dr David Starkey.
Producer:
David Coomes

Joyce Poole who has spent 14 years living alone in the Kenyan bush studying elephants tells Jenni Murray of the thrills and dangers of living in the wild. Short story: The second of three readings from Rose Tremain 's Collected Short Stories.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Poole
Unknown:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Rose Tremain

The current director at the Bush
Theatre in London,
Dominic Dromgoole , is saying farewell. Paul Vaughan reports on his swansong.
And Ted Danson takes the title role in a new TV version of Gulliver's Travels. Producer Mohit Bakaya. Rvsd rpt at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dominic Dromgoole
Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Unknown:
Ted Danson
Producer:
Mohit Bakaya.

Forever England. When
Bertram Roach came to England in 1955 from the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, his plan was to stay for a few years and then "go back home". Living in Leeds 40 years later, it's clear that things didn't quite go to plan. Today, a growing elderly West Indian population can only dream of returning to their islands in the sun. Producer Tony Phillips

Contributors

Unknown:
Bertram Roach
Producer:
Tony Phillips

The cry "God is dead" has rung throughout the 20th century. Joan Bakewell chairs an inquest to establish how far the rumours of God's death have been exaggerated. Don Cupitt of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, has "taken leave of God" on philosophical grounds. Daphne Hampson of St Andrew 's University rejects the male-dominated tradition of the Christian God , but seeks an alternative. Keith Ward , Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and writer and broadcaster David Winter face the challenge.
Producer Norman Winter

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Don Cupitt
Unknown:
Daphne Hampson
Unknown:
St Andrew
Unknown:
Christian God
Unknown:
Keith Ward
Unknown:
David Winter
Producer:
Norman Winter

In the weeks leading up to Easter, six writers have considered the enduring story of Christ's suffering and death. In the last of the series, Jimmy McGovern , writer of Cracker and Priest, recalls how while writing Priest he arrived at a new understanding of the Crucifixion. Producer Christine Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy McGovern
Producer:
Christine Morgan

... to Lovely Digs. Comedy andjazz on the road in the 1950s. In the second of Joe Dunlop 's three-part dramatisation of George Melly 's autobiography, the Mulligan Band find themselves staying with George's mother. Jazz by Mr George Melly and John Chilton 's Feetwarmers. with Carlotte Coleman , Robert Bathurst ,
Rupert Holliday Evans , Danny Peacock and Stephen Tompkinson. Director Jonathan Ruffle A Limelight Radio production

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Dunlop
Unknown:
George Melly
Unknown:
Mr George Melly
Unknown:
John Chilton
Unknown:
Carlotte Coleman
Unknown:
Robert Bathurst
Unknown:
Rupert Holliday Evans
Unknown:
Danny Peacock
Unknown:
Stephen Tompkinson.
Director:
Jonathan Ruffle
The young George Melly:
Steve Steen
Mick Mulligan:
Gary Olsen

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