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Michael Buerk talks to people who have faced a single, life-changing choice. He hears about the dilemma, the implications of the various options, and about living with the consequences.
Producer Christine Morgan Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Buerk
Producer:
Christine Morgan

Five programmes looking at the secrets of the investigator's trade. 4: Lost Souls Red Cross investigators search the archives hoping to find clues which will reunite families split up by the Second World War. More than 50 years on, has the trail gone cold, or will long-lost relatives finally meet? Producer Liz Carney

Contributors

Producer:
Liz Carney

David Attenborough 's series focusing on nature's use of sound. The last of four programmes. Barking up the Wrong Tree, draws on the latest research to look for signs of a language in the wild. Are we asking the right questions if we want to understand what the animals are saying? Producer Grant Sonnex

Contributors

Unknown:
David Attenborough
Producer:
Grant Sonnex

Northern Husbands by Kay Stonham. Hilary has everything in life - a good job in the City, a lovely house and a fast car. All she needs now is a family. Rather than waste her efforts dating, she applies to an agency that ships down single, unemployed northern men to fill the gap in the southern market.
Producer Jane Berthoud

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Stonham.
Producer:
Jane Berthoud
Hilary:
Kate Saunders
Mike:
Paul Slack

Pete McCarthy hosts the panel game for impressionists. This edition comes from the Komedia Theatre in Brighton, with guests Bobby Davro , Alistair McGowan and Steve Nallon.
Producer Chris Lang
Repeated tomorrow 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Pete McCarthy
Unknown:
Bobby Davro
Unknown:
Alistair McGowan
Unknown:
Steve Nallon.
Producer:
Chris Lang

A no-nonsense look at what the healthcare system can offer us. Children may feel pain more than adults, yet until recently they have been given fewer pain-killing drugs. Graham Easton visits Great Ormond
Street's new Pain Research Centre. Producer Julia Durbin
Repeated tomorrow 4pm E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Easton
Producer:
Julia Durbin

A new six-part series of Andy Hamilton 's comedy set in Hell. 4:
Satan has trouble with a fundamentalist and Scumspawn has trouble with a pushy computer. with Jimmy Mulville , Robert Duncan. Nick Revell , Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Repeated Thursday 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Jimmy Mulville
Unknown:
Robert Duncan.
Unknown:
Nick Revell
Unknown:
Philip Pope
Unknown:
Felicity Montagu
Producer:
Paul Mayhew-Archer
Satan:
Andy Hamilton
The Professor:
James Grout

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