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A new series in which Paul Jackson goes behind the scenes to look at some of the programmes that have become icons of television history.
1: The Street. Coronation Street defined a new gritty realism in British life, a recognition that ordinary lives had their own validity. Yet when it was created in 1960 it was almost shelved by Granada, who saw it as incomprehensibly northern. Producer Paul Kobrak Alison Graham on the Street: page 115

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Jackson
Producer:
Paul Kobrak
Producer:
Alison Graham

Topical satire series starring Steve Punt ,
Hugh Dennis , Marcus Brigstocke , Emma Kennedy , Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Marcus Brigstocke
Unknown:
Emma Kennedy
Unknown:
Jon Holmes
Unknown:
Mitch Benn.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Knowbury in Shropshire puts questions to a panel that includes the Secretary of State for
Wales Peter Hain, Helen Mary Jones of Plaid Cymru and the chief executive of Action Aid. Salil Shetty.
Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Helen Mary Jones
Unknown:
Salil Shetty.

By John Sayers. Starring Jemma Redgrave and David Threlfall , this contemporary thriller set in London's Primrose Hill deals with the emotional trauma of baby-snatching and confronts our fears and doubts about the supernatural. A mysterious Irish girl enters the lives of a couple just a few months before the arrival of their first child. They have little warning of the tragedy that this apparently gentle soul will rai ic<=> them in the months to come.
Music Robert Hartshorn
Producers Bruce Hyman and David Prest Director Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown:
John Sayers.
Unknown:
Jemma Redgrave
Unknown:
David Threlfall
Unknown:
Primrose Hill
Music:
Robert Hartshorn
Producers:
Bruce Hyman
Producers:
David Prest
Director:
Andy Jordan
Anna:
Jemma Redgrave
Mike:
David Threlfall
Frank:
Tom Georgeson
Clare:
Nlamh Unehan
Superintendent:
John Baddeley
Potter:
Stephen Critchlow
Tom:
Jonathan Tafler
Tanya:
Elaine Claxton
Angus:
Dean Clish

"Penny plain and twopence coloured...." A phrase familiar to generations of pre-television children that describes the toy theatres of Benjamin Pollock , a printerfrom Hoxton. Simon Callow explores the magic world of the cardboard actor, which tells us so much about the real theatre of the 19th century. Producer Merilyn Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Pollock
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

Love them or hate them, Carry On films are part of our national heritage, and to mark the release of a special edition of the films on VHS the programme looks at what can be deduced about British social history from the Carry On catalogue. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Producer:
Mohini Patel

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Michele Roberts , Anthony Horowitz and Amanda Vickery cast a critical eye over the week's cultural events, including a look at the new Fashion and Textile Museum and the latest novel by Margaret Atwood. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Michele Roberts
Unknown:
Anthony Horowitz
Unknown:
Amanda Vickery
Novel By:
Margaret Atwood.
Producer:
Fiona McLean

The second part of the programme in which two gentle giants of folk music, British-born Bob Copper and American protest singer Pete Seeger , ruminate on the similarities and the differences in their lives. With contributions from their families, including Seeger's sister Peggy, about the tradition of folk music that both men have promoted. Presented by Bob Copper. Producer Angela Hind

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Copper
Singer:
Pete Seeger
Presented By:
Bob Copper.
Producer:
Angela Hind

Mary Webb 's heart-rending love story, set in Shropshire in the early 19th century, dramatised in two parts by Beatrice Colin. 1: Prue Sarn is born "hare shotten" and it is this hare lip that is her "precious bane". She is torn between loyalty to her recklessly ambitious brother Gideon, and a deep unexpressed love for the weaver KesterWoodseaves.
Music by Kate Rusby and John McCusker
Director Gaynor Macfarlane Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Webb
Unknown:
Beatrice Colin.
Unknown:
Prue Sarn
Music By:
Kate Rusby
Music By:
John McCusker
Director:
Gaynor MacFarlane
Jancis:
Louise Breckon-Richards
Tiwy:
Laura Doddington
Kester:
Owen Teale
Prue:
Julia Ford
Gideon:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Mrs Beguildy:
Helen Schlesinger
Mother:
Maggie Steed
Beguildy:
Nigel Terry
Grimble:
Timothy Watson

In the first programme of a new series Marcel Berlins brings together listeners and lawyers to tackle moral and legal dilemmas. Employment. How would you deal with an employee whose ill-health means they can no longer do the job? Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcel Berlins

Roger McGough introduces more requests for much loved poems, including sonnets by the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, whose 175th birthday is this week. Peter Marinker , Claire Skinner and Philip Franks also read poems by Auden.Rumi, and Wendy Cope. Producer Mark Smalley Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Dante Gabriel
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Claire Skinner
Unknown:
Philip Franks
Unknown:
Wendy Cope.
Producer:
Mark Smalley

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