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In the final programme of the current series, Paul Jackson explores the programmes that have become icons of television history.
4: It's Onlya Game. Who would have thoughtthat locking a group of strangers in the Big Brother house, with no contact with the outside world and recording their every move with a battery of cameras, would become the broadcasting phenomenon of the new millennium and change for ever our relationship with that box in the corner? Producer Paul Kobrak

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Jackson
Producer:
Paul Kobrak

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Letchworth puts questions to a panel that includes the Labour peer Lord Haskins, the art critic Brian Sewell and the founder of the Windrush Awards, Elaine Sihera. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Brian Sewell
Unknown:
Elaine Sihera.

Trevor Lloyd's play takes place on the day of the Queen's coronation in 1953. It is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's script editor, Angus MacPhail, who, according to Hitchcock, coined the name for the film plot device, the MacGuffin.
Producer Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Writer:
Trevor Lloyd
Producer:
Janet Whitaker
Angus:
Ian McDiarmid
Robert:
Peter Blythe
Katrin:
Indira Varma
Frank:
Ben Crowe
Monique:
Alison Pettitt
Freda:
Carolyn Jones
Jack:
Bruce Purchase
Geoffrey:
Stephen Critchlow
Isobel:
Lisa Sadovy
PC:
Andrew Harrison
Hitchcock:
Ewan Bailey

From "currant buns" to models of the Matterhorn - The Times gardening writer Stephen Anderton explores the changing fashions in rock gardening.
Today he looks at the influence of the landowner who wanted a landscape for his gnomes, and at the man who described his alpines as "sulky" and changed our view of the rockery. Producer Robyn Read

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Anderton

A special edition in which Jim White is scheduled to meet one of cinema's greatest stars. On his 73rd birthday, actor, writer and director Clint Eastwood reflects on the 59 films he's acted in - from the iconic, taciturn outlaw of the spaghetti westerns to the tongue-in-cheek astronaut in Space Cowboys - and on the 26 films he's directed, including his latest, the thriller Mystic River, which has just been in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim White
Director:
Clint Eastwood
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural events of the week, including an all-female production of Richard III at the Globe Theatre and a centenary exhibition of Barbara Hepworth 's sculptures at Tate St Ives. Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Richard Iii
Unknown:
Barbara Hepworth
Producer:
Anne-Marie Cole

The final programme from Phil Smith on the real world of gardening. 3: Now It's "Dung Man". The vegetable patch needs to be cleared for a compost heap but when one man goes to mow it seems a hover can be a bother. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Smith

With the above words, the Earl Marshal threatened errant BBC cameramen should they step out of line during rehearsals at Westminster Abbey for the 1953 Coronation. Covering the event was the biggest challenge yet for broadcasters, cameramen and technicians in the still fledgeling world of BBC television. Paul Heiney paints a picture of the youthful service with the help of archive recordings, written records, and new interviews with Peter Dimmock , producer of the BBC's coverage, and with Sylvia Peters , its presenter. Producer Andrew Green The day that changed our lives: page 32

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Peter Dimmock
Unknown:
Sylvia Peters
Producer:
Andrew Green

By FScott Fitzgerald , adapted for radio in two parts by Michael Hastings , and starring Michael Maloney. The conclusion of the story of the tragic entanglement of young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver , set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s.
Producer Nicholas Newton Director Sebastian Graham-Jones Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Fscott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Michael Hastings
Unknown:
Michael Maloney.
Unknown:
Rosemary Hoyt
Unknown:
Nicole Diver
Producer:
Nicholas Newton
Director:
Sebastian Graham-Jones
Rosemary:
Rebecca Hall
Mrs Speers:
Lorelei King
Dick:
Michael Maloney
Nicole:
Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Tommy:
Andrew Scott
MrMcKisco:
Trevor Ray
Mrs McKisco:
Lynne Miller
Abe:
Colin Stinton
Collis:
Dan Fredenburgh
Jules:
Joseph Mydell
Beth:
Kyra Williams

Michael Buerk returns with a new series of live debates in which Michael Gove , Steven Rose , Claire Fox and Melanie Philips cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views on the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Michael Gove
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Claire Fox

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