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The last of three true stories of investigations in the field of pathology, dramatised by Michael Butt from The Ghost Disease and Other Stories by Michael Howell and Peter Ford. That Last Infirmity. Charged with unravelling the tangle of folk tales and bad science obscuring the causes of yellow fever in Cuba in 1898, Carroll and Lazear resort to extreme methods.
Director John Taylor Repeat

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Michael Butt
Stories By:
Michael Howell
Stories By:
Peter Ford.
Director:
John Taylor
James Carroll:
Colin Stinton
Jesse Lazear:
William Hope
Major Reed:
Peter Marinker
General Steinberg:
Ed Bishop
Mrs Lazear:
Bufty Davis
Dr Carlos Finlay:
Peter Banks
Trooper Thompson:
Paul Birchard

Paul Gambaccini selects the best of this week's cinema releases, including Bob Hoskins in the boxing film TwentyFourSeven and Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone in Sphere, a sci-fi film set on the ocean floor. Producer Erin Riley
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Gambaccini
Unknown:
Bob Hoskins
Unknown:
Dustin Hoffman
Unknown:
Sharon Stone
Producer:
Erin Riley

William Bligh was appointed captain of the Bounty on 16 August 1787.
Within three years, his reputation was in ruins and he had become firmly established as a tyrant. Five
Hollywood movies and more than 200 books later, author Dea Birkett investigates not only why this image of Bligh has remained, but also why today Bligh represents the scuppering of our dreams.
Producer Kate McAll

Contributors

Unknown:
William Bligh
Unknown:
Dea Birkett
Producer:
Kate McAll

Six programmes in which Melvyn Bragg talks to scientists and historians of today about the giants who have made scientific history.
5: Crick and Watson - the Secret of Life James Watson , one of the famous team who uncovered the structure of DNA, recalls the heady days of the 1950s and talks about issues in molecular biology today, in particular the question of human cloning.
Producers Ruth Gardiner and Jeanette Thomas

Contributors

Talks:
Melvyn Bragg
Unknown:
James Watson
Producers:
Ruth Gardiner
Producers:
Jeanette Thomas

A final selection of sketches from the strange world of Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong , with contributions from Samuel West and Tony Gardner. Including the last-ever episode of the tough-guy cop saga Parsons and Lampkin and Lampkin's 's Mate Steve. Producer Gareth Edwards

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Miller
Unknown:
Alexander Armstrong
Unknown:
Tony Gardner.
Unknown:
Mate Steve.
Producer:
Gareth Edwards

East Enders meets The Simpsons in a four-part audio cartoon series.
4: It is the 500th anniversary of the East End, and the Queen is visiting Barry and Garry's pub. To mark the occasion, Dodgy Phil books royal favourites Chas and Dave, but will they make it back from Las Vegas in time?
Written by Tony Roche Producer Jane Berthoud

Contributors

Unknown:
Dodgy Phil
Written By:
Tony Roche
Producer:
Jane Berthoud
Dodgy Phil:
John Thomson
Garry:
Peter Serafinowicz
Barry:
Phil Cornwell

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