Programme Index

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Life under Labour. Roger White meets politicians and financial advisers to find out what life would be like for small investors if Labour won the next election. Last of the series.
Producer Sarah Pennells

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger White
Producer:
Sarah Pennells

Final episode of the comedy-drama by Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo.
With Keith Allen , Frances Barber ,
Kathy Burke and Jenny Eclair as Mother Nature.
Producer Jane Berthoud Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Eclair
Unknown:
Julie Balloo.
Unknown:
Keith Allen
Unknown:
Frances Barber
Unknown:
Kathy Burke
Unknown:
Jenny Eclair
Producer:
Jane Berthoud

Stanley Houghton's classic Lancashire comedy, written in 1911. It is Wakes Week in Hindle and Fanny Hawthorn has gone to Blackpool with her friend
Mary. At least, that's what she tells her parents.
Director Kate Rowland

Contributors

Unknown:
Fanny Hawthorn
Director:
Kate Rowland
Mr Jeffcote:
Ewan Hooper
Mrs Jeffcote:
Sue Johnston
Chris Hawthorn:
Colin Prockter
Fanny Hawthorn:
Sophie Stanton
AlanJeffcote:
Nicholas Gleaves
Mrs Hawthorn:
Bridget Turner
Sir Timothy Farrar:
Brian Rawlinson
Beatrice Farrar:
Trilby James
Ada:
Sarah Kirkman

Five years ago, Muscovites threw up barricades against the hardline
Communists who tried to overthrow
President Gorbachev. Former Moscow correspondent Tim Whewell returns to meet the defenders of democracy. Producer Tim Whewell
Repeated tomorrow at 8.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Whewell
Producer:
Tim Whewell

A four-part series in which comic Mark Steel makes radical proposals to change all our lives. Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair with Kim Wall and Maria McErlane.
Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steel
Unknown:
Pete Sinclair
Unknown:
Kim Wall
Unknown:
Maria McErlane.

A Room with a View
From the Parisian atelier of bohemian folklore to a contemporary casting foundry in East London, the studio remains at the heart of the artistic process. For artists such as Alberto Giacommetti , who never left his
Montparnasse atelier, the studio is a private universe.
Producer Matthew Dodd. Rptd Fri 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Alberto Giacommetti
Producer:
Matthew Dodd.

Eight mysteries starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Wiliams as Dr Watson.
Violinist Leonard Friedman
Dramatised by Peter Ling
Director Enyd Williams Repeat

Contributors

Dramatist:
Peter Ling
Director:
Enyd Williams
Violinist:
Leonard Friedman
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr Watson:
Michael Williams
Mrs Warren:
Joan Sims
Inspector Gregson:
Ronald Herdman
Mr Warren:
James Taylor
Emilia Lucca:
Oona Beeson
Gennaro Lucca:
Lyndam Gregory
James Leverton:
Dominic Letts
Cyrus Castle:
Phillp Anthony

By Peter Tinniswood. With
Jane Lapotaire as Fay Fuller and Lorelei King as Beth Camacho. Fay and Beth have been pen pals since they were 11, but have never met. Then Beth announces she is arriving at Gatwick, and this time she won't be put off. Fay is terrified.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood.
Unknown:
Jane Lapotaire
Unknown:
Fay Fuller
Unknown:
Lorelei King
Unknown:
Beth CamacHo.
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin

Roy Hattersley looks back at a lifetime in the Labour Party. 1: On the Threshold
1945 sees Roy Hattersley 's political baptism on a doorstep in Shalesmoor.
Producer Jane Ray Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Producer:
Jane Ray Repeat

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