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Kim Normanton presents the last of three progammes which tell stories of culture shock from a child's perspective. Bosnian Brummie
1993. When Alma's brother is badly wounded in a mortar attack, the family are flown to Britain to take up temporary residence in Birmingham Children's Hospital. Producer Cathy Drysdale

Contributors

Unknown:
Kim Normanton
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

By Carol McGuigan. 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 ofT-Rex and Donny Osmond , maxi coats and Jackie. Her new schoolfriends are deeply suspicious of her strange fashions, and fitting in with the unwritten rules of white South
Africa seems an impossible task.
Voices by Carol McGuigan. Director Michael Fox

Contributors

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

Paul Allen investigates the enduring appeal of Oscar Wilde. Plus a look at Tom Stoppard 's The Invention of Love, directed by Richard Eyre at the National Theatre, in which the life of poet AE Housman comes under the microscope.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Oscar Wilde.
Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Directed By:
Richard Eyre
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Pete McCarthy chairs the panel game for impressionists. With team captains Alistair McGowan and Steve Nallon and guests Kate Robbins and Lewis McCloud.
Producer Chris Lang

Contributors

Unknown:
Pete McCarthy
Unknown:
Alistair McGowan
Unknown:
Steve Nallon
Unknown:
Kate Robbins
Unknown:
Lewis McCloud.
Producer:
Chris Lang

The last of three programmes about the Miss America pageant and some of the women who have won the title.
The New Woman. The first major demonstration by the modern wave of feminists in the United States disrupted the 1968 pageant. Jean Snedegar meets three former title-holders who embody many of the aspirations of those protesters. Producer Sally Thompson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Snedegar
Producer:
Sally Thompson

Taking the High Road
The Foreign Secretary has committed Britain to a more moral foreign policy. John Kampfner looks at what this will mean in practice and asks whether it could raise expectations that the Government is unable or unwilling to meet.
Producer Anthony Dworkin
Repeated Sunday at 4.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Kampfner
Producer:
Anthony Dworkin

Six programmes in which a British writer exchanges letters about a shared obsession or experience with a "pen friend" elsewhere in Europe.
1: Oven-Ready. Andrew O'Hagan reveals his deep loathing of supermarkets to Anne Enright in Dublin. Producer Tessa Watt

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew O'Hagan
Unknown:
Anne Enright
Producer:
Tessa Watt

A theoretical physicist's consuming passion leads him into a great deal of trouble. By Nick Fisher. with Jenny Lee. Christopher Wright , Alison Pettitt and Jillie Meers. Director Marion Nancarrow

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Fisher.
Unknown:
Jenny Lee.
Unknown:
Christopher Wright
Unknown:
Alison Pettitt
Unknown:
Jillie Meers.
Director:
Marion Nancarrow
Prof Richard Hargreaves:
David Suchet
Jonathan Tempray:
John Rowe

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