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4: Afterthe Shout. Until recently the people who worked in the emergency services were not expected to be affected by the work they do. Now there are procedures in place to help workers cope, from "hot debriefs" to counselling. In the last in the series, emergency workers talk about what happens after the incident. Producer Elaine Walker Repeated at9.30pm

Contributors

Producer:
Elaine Walker

4: Sadness. Why do we cry? Does a good cry leave us feeling better? Can bottling it up be bad? Claudia Hammond investigates the unhappiest emotion of all and discovers that depressed people are just more realistic than the rest of us. Producer Marya Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Claudia Hammond
Producer:
Marya Burgess

Michael Bakewell's dramatisation concludes.

Is Poirot going to solve the mysteries surrounding the house party in Cornwall? He is yet to find out that another murder has taken place.

Contributors

Author:
Agatha Christie
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams
Poirot:
John Moffat
Mr Satterthwaite:
George Cole
Sir Charles:
Michael Cochrane
Egg:
Beth Chalmers
Angela:
Jemma Churchill
Oliver:
Carl Prekopp
Matron:
Natasha Pyne

by Michael Butt
The first of six weekly plays on the theme of love.

To help get her wayward daughter Angie into a Church of England school. Marcy seeks religious instruction from Richard. But Richard is more interested in jazz than Jesus, so Marcy finds her plans thoroughly complicated by comedy and romance.

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Butt
Director:
Marc Beeby
Marcy:
Samantha Spiro
Richard:
Paul Rhys
Makepeace:
Nicky Henson
Angie:
Connie Gurie
Maggie/Headteacher:
Paula Jacobs
Bishop:
Peter Marinker

Five original stories by unpublished writers.
1: Diss Grace by Laura Marney. Donna is gradually estranged from her friends as marriage and babies consume them. She is single and left behind.
Unexpectedly, she finds comfort in church-going, until one day she is spotted coming out of church by one of the old gang and makes an excuse about what she is doing there. She realises she has come to a crossroads. What does she do? Read by Tracy Wiles.

Contributors

Unknown:
Laura Marney.
Read By:
Tracy Wiles.

By Stephen Moss. Bill Paterson narrates a five-part series following the migration of a swallow from the southern tip of South Africa to a village in Scotland. The story is backed by sound recorded on location. 1: By mid-February the urge to leave the hippos and fish eagles on the banks of the Limpopo river is impossible to ignore.
Sound recordist Chris Watson Producer Sarah Blunt

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Moss.
Unknown:
Bill Paterson
Unknown:
Chris Watson
Producer:
Sarah Blunt

Julian Clary , Clement Freud , Tony Hawks and Paul Mertonjoin chairman Nicholas Parsons in Cornwall fortonight'sshow.
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:
Julian Clary
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Paul Mertonjoin
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Producer:
Claire Jones

Mark Lawson reviews Tom Stoppard 's new trilogy of plays, The Coast of Utopia, which follows the lives of a group of 19th-century Russian writers, revolutionaries and political thinkers. Producer Nicola Holloway

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
Tom Stoppard
Producer:
Nicola Holloway

By Bill Murphy.
A detective thriller in five parts about the hunt for a serial killer obsessed with mathematics.

When a frantic father asks for DS Sue Manson's help in finding his missing daughter, the only clue they have is a jumble of letters on the back of a poster
(Repeat of 10.45am)

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Murphy
Director:
Tanya Nash
Sue:
Susan Lynch
James:
Philip Glenister
Fred:
Clive Merrison
Insp Phillips:
David Bannerman
PC Langan:
Alison Pettitt
Lee:
David Holt
Supt:
Nigel Anthony
Other parts played by:
Members of the cast

The second of two programmes recorded by Jonathan Dimbleby in Ethiopia almost 30 years after he first reported the "unknown"famine of 1973. Ethiopia is entering a new age of political development, though the people face overwhelming challenges: not only food shortages and poverty, but a million children who have lost their parents to Aids. Yet remarkably, despite all the fears, he finds a country full of hope. Producer Virginia Crompton

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Virginia Crompton

Brazil. Olenka Frenkiel examines Brazil's Amazon frontier, where modern slaves are trapped in debt bondage and forced labour, cutting down the rainforest to make way for cattle ranches. Can Brazil keep its promise to get rid of slavery by the end of the year? Repeatof Thursday 11am

By Ronald Frame , abridged in ten parts by Alison Joseph. Eilidh Brogan reflects on love and art as she looks back on her life with the Scottish artist Colin Brogan in the south of France. 1: Edinburgh. The story begins with her childhood in Scotland. Read by Eileen McCallum. Producer GaynorMacfarlane

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Frame
Unknown:
Alison Joseph.
Unknown:
Eilidh Brogan
Artist:
Colin Brogan
Read By:
Eileen McCallum.

A series of documentaries every day this week, capturing the defining characteristics of people and places as heard on the BBC's local and national radio networks. 1: On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At. What spell does this West Yorkshire song hold over authors
Blake Morrison and Arnold Kellett , the participants in the Ilkley Moorfell race, a man looking for aliens, a couple who courted on the moor over 65 years ago and a Sikh family who regularly visit the moor? Producer Ruth Hickman

Contributors

Unknown:
Blake Morrison
Unknown:
Arnold Kellett
Producer:
Ruth Hickman

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