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Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from David Cook, Janet Daley, Michael Mansfield QC and David Starkey.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
David Cook
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Michael Mansfield
Unknown:
David Starkey.
Producer:
David Coomes

Chris Stuart chairs another round of the panel game in which inventions, discoveries and design are subjected to quizzical investigation. He is joined at the Science Museum by team captains Professor Lewis Wolpert and Adam Hart-Davis and guests Professor Susan Greenfield and Dr Anna Grayson. Written and compiled by Crispin Belcher Producer Aled Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Stuart
Unknown:
Professor Lewis Wolpert
Unknown:
Adam Hart-Davis
Unknown:
Susan Greenfield
Unknown:
Dr Anna Grayson.
Unknown:
Crispin Belcher
Producer:
Aled Evans

By Nigel Moffat. Jane meets the rich and charming Fox at a nightclub. Is he her ticket away from unemployed single-motherhood, or will she be repeating a familiar pattern? with Alex Jones and Alison Belbin Director Tanya Nash

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Moffat.
Unknown:
Alex Jones
Unknown:
Alison Belbin
Director:
Tanya Nash
Jane:
Adjoa Andoh
Fox:
Eddie Nestor
Maude:
Jillie Meers
Tanya:
Nicola Wainwright
Lany:
Nicholas Bailey
Sandra:
Lorna Laidlaw
Young Tanya:
Hannah Molloy
Gemma:
Lucy Jones

Paul Allen talks to Geoffrey Rush , star of the film Shine, as he produces a play, The Popular Mechanicals.
Plus a review of The Ultimate Intimacy by Czech writer Ivan Klima. Producer Mohit Bakaya
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Geoffrey Rush
Unknown:
Ivan Klima.
Producer:
Mohit Bakaya

Using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.

In 1984, Stephen Weeks was directing a major feature film in India, when he received reports from London that all the film rushes were unusable. He tried to salvage the film, only but his work had fallen prey to a massive insurance fraud.

Contributors

Subject:
Stephen Weeks
Producer:
Jules Wilkinson

People Behaving Oddly
Every day we face choices - as consumers, investors or employees. A mass of political and economic decisions depends on the assumption that we choose in our rational best interests. But do we? Michael Blastland examines a growing reassessment of economic attitudes and behaviour.
Producer Ingrid Hassler
Repeated Sunday 4.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Blastland
Producer:
Ingrid Hassler

By
Mandy Precious. Lil , newly widowed, has always been somebody's wife. Now she must contemplate life alone - until she befriends Mudassar, a young man who pushes her to emerge from the shadow of her late husband. Together they take a cruise - a voyage of discovery.
Director Kate Rowland Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Mandy Precious.
Director:
Kate Rowland
Lil:
Rita Tushingham
Mudassar:
Ravin J Ganatra

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