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Diana Madill continues the series that focuses on people facing personal and professional challenges.
6: Elizabeth Filkin , the new
Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and Privileges.
Producers Dymphna Rynn and Joy Hatwood Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Madill
Unknown:
Elizabeth Filkin
Producers:
Dymphna Rynn

Jonathan Glancey concludes a five-part series telling of extraordinary architectural relationships. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano: Pompidou Centre. The tale of two radical young outsiders who created a revolutionary and controversial form of urban cathedral.
Producer Rebecca Nicholson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Glancey
Unknown:
Richard Rogers
Producer:
Rebecca Nicholson

In the first of three programmes, Simon Callow traces the life of Orson Welles.
Born in 1915, Welles was intellectually brilliant, flamboyant and physically imposing. Using archive material, Callow traces the early years of the gifted Welles, up to the extraordinary creativity that characterised his "Mercury Theatre of the Air". Revised repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Callow

By Angela Pelham , dramatised by Jennifer Curry. Angela is one of a group of British children evacuated to America during World War II. Her letters home are a constant source of tears and laughter for her family. with Selina Cadell and Mary Wimbush Directed by Cherry Cookson Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Pelham
Dramatised By:
Jennifer Curry.
Unknown:
Selina Cadell
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Directed By:
Cherry Cookson
Angela:
Mary Nighy
Mother:
Diana Quick

3: Watercolour. Artists David Austin ,
Maggie Hambling and Patrick Proctor enthuse about watercolour - quick but unforgiving, fluid, luminous and redolent of nostalgia. Producer Jenny De Yong

Contributors

Artists:
David Austin
Artists:
Maggie Hambling
Artists:
Patrick Proctor
Producer:
Jenny de Yong

The conclusion of Julie Balloo and Jenny Eclair 's comedy about a woman juggling marriage, motherhood and the media. Juliette is haunted by the faux pas that ended her primetime television career. Against all the odds, her show is nominated for an award, but is history destined to repeat itself? with Annabel Giles , Anthony Best. Julie Balloo and Deborah Stephenson Producer Helen Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Balloo
Unknown:
Jenny Eclair
Unknown:
Annabel Giles
Unknown:
Anthony Best.
Unknown:
Julie Balloo
Unknown:
Deborah Stephenson
Producer:
Helen Williams
Juliette Johnson:
Jenny Eclair
Ron Johnson:
Jeff Rawle

In the first of two programmes marking the centenary of the Boer War, historian Denis Judd explores some of its untold stories . 1: A White Man's War? Ignored during the war and deliberately excluded from history since its end, the role of the black fighter in the Boer War is only now coming to light.
Producer Philip Sellars

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Judd
Producer:
Philip Sellars

Alun Lewis looks at how the human immune system is helping scientists to develop the next generation of defences against computer viruses.
Producer Paul Arnold. E-MAIL: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Lewis
Producer:
Paul Arnold.

Kenneth Baker , Lord Baker of Dorking, takes a tour of the best-loved Gilbert and Sullivan operas and discovers that WS Gilbert was a sharp satirist of contemporary Victorian life and politics. Producer Dave Batchelor Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Baker
Unknown:
Ws Gilbert
Producer:
Dave Batchelor

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