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Last of the series in which Jenny Cuffe assesses the effect of residential care on young people.
Weighing the Cost. A look at the cost of effective treatment compared with the price of failure.
Producer Anna Parkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Cuffe
Producer:
Anna Parkinson

In the last of the series, Chris Stuart lets Professor Lewis Wolpert , Dr Anna Grayson , Adam Hart-Davis and Professor Ian Fells loose on famous discoveries and odd inventions.
Written by Crispin Belcher. Producer Aled Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Stuart
Unknown:
Professor Lewis Wolpert
Unknown:
Dr Anna Grayson
Unknown:
Adam Hart-Davis
Unknown:
Professor Ian Fells
Written By:
Crispin Belcher.
Producer:
Aled Evans

Fay Weldon 's comic satire is set in the busy casualty department of a large city hospital. A young man is treated for couvade - a custom of the South Sea Islands whereby the father of a newborn child is put to bed and cared for as if he were physically affected by the birth. with Christian Rodska. Cornelius Garrett and Jessica Jones-Berney . Music by Andy Price Director Shaun MacLoughlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Unknown:
Christian Rodska.
Unknown:
Cornelius Garrett
Unknown:
Jessica Jones-Berney
Music By:
Andy Price
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
The Young Man:
Robert Glenister
Nurse:
Hilary MacLean
Delia:
Carolyn Backhouse
Triage Nurse:
Janet Dale
Caring Woman:
June Barrie
MrsOliphant:
Phyllida Nash
Receptionist:
Jenny Funnell
Rugby Player:
John Telfer
Al:
Clarence Smith

By Herbert Williams. "This bloke from the paper starts askin' me a lorra questions. An' I tells him everything. I'm not kiddin'. Everything." With what consequences?
Read by Erica Eirian.
Producer Caroline Sarll. Rptd next Saturday

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Williams.
Read By:
Erica Eirian.
Producer:
Caroline Sarll.

A six-part comedy-drama series by Paul Shearer and Richard Turner , starring Douglas Hodge ,
Amanda Root and Paul Bigley as Giles, Judith and David.
4: Games People Play. Giles enters the treacherous waters of property development. With Philip Glenister , Paul Shearer and Jonathan Kydd.
Music by Pete Baikie. Producer Paul Schlesinger

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Shearer
Unknown:
Richard Turner
Unknown:
Douglas Hodge
Unknown:
Amanda Root
Unknown:
Paul Bigley
Unknown:
Philip Glenister
Unknown:
Paul Shearer
Unknown:
Jonathan Kydd.
Music By:
Pete Baikie.
Producer:
Paul Schlesinger

The final part of the series looking back at 50 years of redbrick undergraduate life.
CV First, Degree to Follow Later. The grey realities of mass student life in the 80s, when a degree was just a degree.
Producer Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Producer:
Dave Sheasby

Security Alert
Have we become a frightened nation, insecure at work to the point of illness and afraid to let our children play in the streets? Richard Cockett examines the causes of our anxieties about work, crime and health and asks whether we can still expect the state to make us feel secure.
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:
Richard Cockett
Producer:
Michael Blastland.

Terry McMillan 's novel dramatised in four parts by Bonnie Greer.
Part 3: Franklin is beginning to resent Zora's positive oulook on life. with Irene Cara , Charita Thomas , Pat Bowie and Dean Hill. Director Michelle Matherson Frederick

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry McMillan
Unknown:
Bonnie Greer.
Unknown:
Irene Cara
Unknown:
Charita Thomas
Unknown:
Pat Bowie
Unknown:
Dean Hill.
Director:
Michelle Matherson Frederick
Franklin:
Ray Shell
Zora:
Shezwae Powell

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