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Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, chooses favourite pieces of writing that illuminate her career and beliefs. Her literary choices include Charles Dickens's Bleak House. The readers are Alice Arnold and Andrew Sachs.
(Rptd Sun 12.15am)

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne Owers
Reader:
Alice Arnold
Reader:
Andrew Sachs
Producer:
Jolyon Jenkins

By John P Rooney. Rory is a teacher who knows
WB Yeats's love poetry by rote, but the poems mean nothing until he meets the mysterious Veronique.
Director Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
John P Rooney.
Director:
Pam Brighton
Rory:
James Doran
Greta:
Cathy Belton
Mark:
Garrett Keogh
Veronique:
Seannin Brennan
Victoria:
Margaret D'Arcy
Drunk:
Richard Dormer

Pippa Greenwood appeals on behalf of a charity that helps people in West Africa to help themselves.
Donations: Trax. The Birdcliffe Centre. [address removed]
Credit card donations: Freephone [number removed] Rpt of Sun 7.55am

Contributors

Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood

4: The Hijabby Ava Ming. Wearingthe hijab, the clothing of a devout Muslim woman, is supposed to make you blend into the background, but it seems to have the opposite effect for Aisha. Read by Lorna Laidlaw . Producer Rosemary Watts

Contributors

Unknown:
Hijabby Ava Ming.
Read By:
Lorna Laidlaw
Producer:
Rosemary Watts

4: Maria Tidball is bright, vocal and ambitious. But like many of her generation she is also full of self doubt. Do people see beyond her disability? And 15-year-old Ryan Dunn talks about life as a "harbour rat" and professional fisherman. Producer Bella Bannerman

Contributors

Unknown:
Maria Tidball
Talks:
Ryan Dunn
Producer:
Bella Bannerman

In the science-fiction film At: Artificial Intelligence, the central character is a boy who is in fact a robot. But how long before this becomes a reality? Quentin Cooper explores the scientific reality behind biologically inspired robots.
Producer John Watkins E-mail: material.world@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
John Watkins

2: Betting Feverby Jim Eldridge. Sandra is shocked to find that gambling is rife on Grove Hill Farm Estate, while Terry faces the romantic threat from Sandra's old flame, and helps Steve cope with his new romance.
Music by Jacqueline Dankworth and Harvey Brough Director Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown:
Feverby Jim Eldridge.
Music By:
Jacqueline Dankworth
Music By:
Harvey Brough
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Terry:
Karl Howman
Sandra:
Phyllis Logan
Steve:
Ben Crowe
Mrs McKendrick:
Sandra Voe
David:
Sean Baker
Gail:
Jennifer Wheelan
Mr Preston:
David Holt
Wendy:
Clare Corbett
Barman:
Ewan Bailey

The Sony Award-winning investigative history series continues as Mike Thomson unearths another document that sheds new light on past events.
2: Britain's Brilliant Bluff. In 1954 Winston Churchill demanded that Britain join the club of nations that possessed the devastating hydrogen bomb. A scientific and political scramble for solutions and results followed but by the summer of 1957 Britain was demonstrating its new H-bomb to the world's press off Christmas Island in the Pacific. Yet now a trail of documents and eye witness accounts gives the lie to public statements made at the time and discovers that Britain's new international status symbol was not all it Seemed. Producer Philip Sellars

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Thomson
Unknown:
Winston Churchill
Producer:
Philip Sellars

The Curse oftheZero Era. For decades rising prices were seen as the main economic problem. Suddenly we've been pitched into a world where low or almost no inflation is causing all kinds of trouble: to pensions, investments, and company profits. Peter Day asks where it will end.
Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated Sunday9.30pm

Contributors

Editor:
Stephen Chilcott

3: Infrared, Gamma Rays and Everything in Between.
In the concluding part of the series, Simon Singh explores the lucky accidents that led to the discovery of types of radiation which have changed the world of physics, including infrared, x-rays and gamma rays - and not forgetting the microwave oven. The readers are James Bryce and Crawford Logan. Producer Amanda Hargreaves

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Singh
Unknown:
James Bryce
Unknown:
Crawford Logan.
Producer:
Amanda Hargreaves

By Lynne Truss. The Spartan siege of Athens is now into its sixth month. Food is becoming increasingly scarce at the Acropolis Fish Restaurant. 3: Plays.
Heraclitus has a chance to escape Athens but itwill mean exposing Xanthippe to scorn and ridicule.
Producer Brian King

Contributors

Unknown:
Lynne Truss.
Producer:
Brian King
Heraclitus:
Stephen Moore
Aristophanes:
Alan Cox
Socrates:
Robert Hardy
Xanthippe:
Imelda Staunton
Plato:
Tom George!

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