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A tongue-in-cheek review of the week news, with Simon Hoggart , Alan Coren , Jeremy Hardy , Linda Smith and Armando lannucci. Repeated from Fnday The lure of 4: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Linda Smith
Unknown:
Armando Lannucci.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Larne, Northern Ireland, puts questions to a panel that includes the journalist Eamon McCann and Paul Bew , professor of politics at Queen's University, Belfast. Repeated from Fnday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Eamon McCann
Unknown:
Paul Bew

By Moya O'Shea. Brighton, 1954. Caroline, wealthy, privileged and high-spirited, needs a divorce. She hires an actor to pose as her lover for a night to be spent in a hotel - a night that is to be full of surprises for both of them.

Contributors

Writer:
Moya O'Shea
Producer:
Marc Beeby
Fulwood:
James Purefoy
Caroline:
Kate Fleetwood
Porter:
Andrew Harrison
Speaking clock:
Liza Sadovy

Unpaid and working late into the night in a convent, a young nun created rabbit designs for children's tableware in the 1930s as a favourfor herfather, the general manager of Royal Doulton. Still going strong, Bunnykins plates and figures made a fortune forthe company and are now eagerly sought by collectors - a fact that mystifies their creator. Sheila Keegan talked to Barbara Vernon shortly before her death, aged 92, about the rabbit phenomenon and mingles with collectors at a Bunnykins extravaganza in StOke-on-Trent. Producer Nigel Acheson The founding sister: page 35

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Keegan
Unknown:
Barbara Vernon
Producer:
Nigel Acheson

With the up-and-coming release of Winged Migration, a highly acclaimed documentary about bird migrations, Jim White explores the art of making films about the natural world for the big screen. He also looks ahead to this week's new releases. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim White
Producer:
Mohini Patel

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the cultural events of the week, including a National Theatre production of His Girl Friday, starring Alex Jennings and Zoe Wanamaker , and Monica Ali 's first novel, Brick Lane. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Alex Jennings
Unknown:
Zoe Wanamaker
Unknown:
Monica Ali
Producer:
Fiona McLean

In his first postcard, anthropologist Nigel Barley deals with the idea of the exotic. The fruit of paradise, no longerthe apple, but the coconut.
Barley shows us the ways in which this humble nut has become a repository of our most cherished and romantic ideas about the world. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Barley

Julian Pettifer offers an affectionate portrait of Tonight, the television show that launched his career. In 1957, British television news was short and serious. Then along came a programme which changed that for ever. Anchored by Cliff Michelmore, Tonight combined filmed reports, studio interviews and performances. It covered a breathtaking range of subjects - from stories about the street with randomly numbered doors to items about racial discrimination in Britain.

Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Pettifer
Producer:
Jane Beresford

CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English establishment continues with further books from the series, dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
The New Men. Lewis gets involved in the race for the atom bomb.
Producers Sally Avens and Jeremy Howe Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Jonathan Holloway.
Producers:
Sally Avens
Producers:
Jeremy Howe
Lewis:
David Haig
Walter:
Jeremy Swift
Martin:
Tim McLnnemy
Sawbridge:
Adrian Scarborough
SirHector:
John Carlisle
Irene:
Claire Skinner
Capt Smith:
Sean Baker
Edgar:
Andrew Wincott
Rubin:
Rolf Saxon

Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Claire Fox , Steven Rose , Ian Hargreaves and Melanie Phillips 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:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Melanie Phillips

Julian Glover , Isla Blair and Stefan Bednarczyk perform poems from Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon 's anthology Kings and Queens - a witty, irreverent but accurate history of English monarchs from William the Conquerorto Elizabeth II. Anne Harvey reveals how it shaped the lives of eminent historians and continues to influence young minds today. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Glover
Unknown:
Isla Blair
Unknown:
Stefan Bednarczyk
Unknown:
Herbert Farjeon
Unknown:
Conquerorto Elizabeth Ii.
Unknown:
Anne Harvey

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