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Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from Janet Daley
, Dr David Starkey ,
Peter Stanford and Anthony Scrivener QC. Producer David Coomes
# Face Behind the Voice: page 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Dr David Starkey
Unknown:
Peter Stanford
Unknown:
Anthony Scrivener Qc.
Producer:
David Coomes

Patrick Hannan chairs a lighthearted quiz about politics with team captains Michael White and Austin Mitchell MP. Their guests this week are the Rt Hon Roy Hattersley MP and Matthew Parris. Written by Michael Dines. Producer Ann Jobson

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Unknown:
Matthew Parris.
Written By:
Michael Dines.
Producer:
Ann Jobson

Uprooted from the teen culture of seventies Newcastle by her father's desire for a new life in South Africa, Carol McGuigan creates a vivid portrait of her adolescent longings for the music of T-Rex and Donny Osmond , maxi coats and Jackie. All voices by Carol McGuigan. Director Michael Fox

Contributors

Unknown:
Carol McGuigan
Unknown:
Donny Osmond
Voices By:
Carol McGuigan.
Director:
Michael Fox

Paul Allen considers the effects of the Spanish Civil War on its 60th anniversary and examines the fate of Picasso's Guernica -who should have the right to display it?
Producer Jerome Weatherald. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald.

By Rhidian Brook. An old girlfriend and her husband come round for dinner with Patrick and his wife. He makes a fennel salad. Why?
Read by Brendan Charleson.
Producer Caroline Sarll. Rptd next Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhidian Brook.
Read By:
Brendan Charleson.
Producer:
Caroline Sarll.

Pete McCarthy chairs the panel game for impressionists with Alistair McGowan and Steve Nallon , and this week's guests Jon Glover and Kate Robbins.
Producer Sioned Wiliam

Contributors

Unknown:
Pete McCarthy
Unknown:
Alistair McGowan
Unknown:
Steve Nallon
Unknown:
Jon Glover
Unknown:
Kate Robbins.
Producer:
Sioned Wiliam

The last of three programmes in which people revisit places where they once lived. Seven years ago, environmental campaigner and journalist George Monbiot was beaten and shot at by police and hit men as he researched a land conflict in north eastern Brazil.
He returns to discover that the danger is not yet over.
Producer Bella Bannerman

Contributors

Unknown:
George Monbiot
Producer:
Bella Bannerman

Succeeding on Merit
Equality of opportunity is endorsed by politicians of left and right as the central measure of a just society. But how easy is it to agree on what really constitutes a fair chance for all? And what do we owe to those who fall behind? Peter Kellner looks at the return of the idea of meritocracy.
Producer Anthony Dworkin. 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:
Peter Kellner
Producer:
Anthony Dworkin.

By David Marshall. When financial circumstances force Derrick
Penniman to bring his 18-year-old bride home to live with his mother, the principal question for both women is - whose Derrick is he?
Director Eoin O'Callaghan Rpt

Contributors

Unknown:
David Marshall.
Director:
Eoin O'Callaghan Rpt

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