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At the recent rail crash at Potters Bar, fire brigades, police, ambulances and paramedics were on the scene within ten minutes, armed with an array of medicines, equipment and skills unheard of when the 999 service was first established. In a new series, the people of the emergency services talk about their experiences and show how their service has developed and changed over the last 50 years. 1: The Paramedic. Peter White hears from the men and women who work in what's been called the "Cinderella service": the ambulance service. Producer Elaine Walker Repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter White
Producer:
Elaine Walker Repeat

Psychologists have generally ignored the role played by feelings, preferring more easily measurable processes such as memory and learning. But now social scientists are finally focussing on feelings, as evidence mounts about the power they exert over us. 1: Fear. It is 500 million years old but it is as potent today as it ever was: fear! In the openertothis five-part series, Claudia Hammond bravely explores the first Of the feelings.Producer Marya Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Claudia Hammond
Producer:
Marya Burgess

Michael Rosen , the son of communist parents, talks to political radicals about the journeys they have made to the major sites of international socialism.
1: Beyond the Iron Curtain. Comedian Alexei Sayle and poets Attila the Stockbroker and Jackie Kay , among others, recall theiryouthful voyages of discovery to witness the Soviet experiment in eastern Europe. Producer Frances Byrnes

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Unknown:
Alexei Sayle
Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Producer:
Frances Byrnes

Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.
2: Hercule Poirot and his two acquaintances have gone to Monte Carlo, where they hear the news of another tragic death. Is this coincidence?
Director Enyd Williams

Contributors

Dramatist:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams
Hercule Poirot:
John Moffat
Mr Satterthwaite:
George Cole
Sir Charles:
Michael Cochrane
Egg:
Beth Chalmers
Col Johnson:
John Baddeley
Supt Crossfield:
Martin Hyder
Mrs Leckie:
Kathleen Helme
Little boy:
Tom Glenister

Miriam Margolyes reads Lou Wakefield 's comic tale of the modern British abroad, adapted in ten parts. 6: Marion is flattered by the attentions of a famous man. Producer Claire Grove

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Lou Wakefield
Producer:
Claire Grove

Architectural historian Joe Kerrvisits pairs of neighbouring buildings that were built as responses to the rivalry between their builders. 1: Opposite
Sides of the Tracks. London's King's Cross Station was built in 1851-2 and was hailed an important work of engineering. Fifteen years laterthe Midland Railways Company, desperate to impose itself on London and outdo rival companies, built a new station next door to King's Cross, only bigger, grander and more expensive - St Pancras. Producer Matthew Dodd

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Kerrvisits
Producer:
Matthew Dodd

Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes the most pernickety of panel games to Bradford, with Gyles Brandreth , Jenny Eclair , Clement Freud and Chris Neill. Producer Claire Jones Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on six volumes of audio cassette, in addition to a specially designed box set, at good retail outlets orwww.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Gyles Brandreth
Unknown:
Jenny Eclair
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Chris Neill.
Producer:
Claire Jones

Leo Tolstoy 's great novel of love and death, dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest. 6: One marriage is in tatters, but another is just beginning.
Director Patrick Rayner Repeat of 10.45am
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Unknown:
Robert Forrest.
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Anna:
Wendy Seager
Levin:
Richard Greenwood
Vronsky:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Karenin:
Paul Young
Lydia:
Emma Currie
Kitty:
Vicki Liddelle

India has a vast call centre industry. Many of its clients are UK-based, impressed not just by the relative cheapness of Indian workers, but also by their flexibility and motivation. Colleges have been set up around India to give elocution and culture lessons to would-be call centre workers.
Clare Jenkins goes to Delhi to find out why anyone would want the job of answering calls made a couple of continents away and to see how the training has affected their views of Britain.

Contributors

Presenter/Producer:
Clare Jenkins

Los Angeles. LA is once again going through a period of terrible violence. Burhan Wazir enters the gang heartlands of south-central and east LA to look for the reasons. Plus a visit to the set of the latest
American TV family drama -the Hispanic equivalent Of TheCosbyShOW. llam

Contributors

Unknown:
Burhan Wazir

Turkey's Wild Snowdrops. Lionel Kelleway finds out how a decade of conservation efforts have created thriving snowdrop farms in the mountains of Turkey which are helping replace the illegal wild bulb trade. Producer Grant Sonnex

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Grant Sonnex

Christopher Hope reads from his recent novel, set among the families and politics of the suburbs of 1950s Johannesburg. It is a time of perambulating, doffing and dynamite; a time when Martin gets a new dad. Abidged in ten episodes by Andrew Simpson. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hope
Unknown:
Andrew Simpson.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

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