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In 1959 Berry Gordy left the Ford motor factory in Detroitto begin his own music production company. Motown became a giant force in the history of pop and a weapon in the American racial struggle. In the first of two programmes, Stephen Evans travels to "Motor City" Detroit, to meet the likes of Gladys Knight and Martha Reeves , who were involved with the company's early SUCCeSS. Producer Paul Evans (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Berry Gordy
Unknown:
Stephen Evans
Unknown:
Gladys Knight
Unknown:
Martha Reeves
Producer:
Paul Evans

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Millfield School in Somerset puts questions on issues of the week to the culture secretary Tessa Jowell , shadow cabinet member David Willetts , Liberal Democrat party chairman Mark Oaten and the publisher of The Spectator magazine, Kimberly Fortier.
Producer Anne Peacock Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Tessa Jowell
Unknown:
David Willetts
Unknown:
Mark Oaten
Unknown:
Kimberly Fortier.
Producer:
Anne Peacock

By Arthur Schnitzler. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. In a little town near Vienna in spring 1900 the young widow Bertha Garlan walks in the park with her six-year-old son and wonders why she feels restless. Will a chance meeting with an old flame lead to romance at last? The author of La Ronde explores love, sex, and small-town hypocrisy.

Director: Chris Wallis

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Schnitzler.
Dramatised By:
Vanessa Rosenthal.
Unknown:
Bertha Garlan
Bertha:
Alison Ram
Emil:
James Duke
Anna:
Claudia Harrison
Herr Rupius:
Christopher Kent
Herr Klingemann:
Michael Jenn
Herr Garlan:
David Thorpe
Frau Garlan:
Fenella Norman
Frau Martin:
Vanessa Rosenthal
Hans:
John McCraw
Greta:
Catherine Kinsella
Fritz:
Dominic Curran
Postboy:
Sam Starling

The second of a three-part series in which
John Nightingale investigates the stories behind some extraordinary shipwrecks.
2: Trainers Galore. In March 1997 the container ship Cita was steaming westwards in the English
Channel, bound for Belfast. But the crew were fast asleep and failed to find the gap between Land's End and the Scilly Isles. When the ship rammed into
St Mary's, the islanders woke up to discover that
Christmas had come all over again. Producer Tim Maiyon

Contributors

Unknown:
John Nightingale
Producer:
Tim Maiyon

Finding Nemo is a new Walt Disney/Pixar feature that tells the comic tale of two fish: Marlin, a clown fish, and his only son, Nemo, who are taken from their Great Barrier Reef home and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney Harbour. Jim White talks to the writer and co-director Andrew Stanton about the art of animation, Pixar-style. Also on the programme, Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton on their performances in Young Adam, a film adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's novel, set on a coal barge in 1950s Glasgow.

Contributors

Talks:
Jim White
Unknown:
Andrew Stanton
Unknown:
Ewan McGregor
Unknown:
Tilda Swinton
Producer:
Mohini Patel

Tom Sutcliffe and guests look back at the week's cultural highlights, including Titus Andronicus at the RSC in Stratford, and the story of Australia's most notorious folk hero in a new film, Ned Kelly. Producer Zahid Warley

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Titus Andronicus
Unknown:
Ned Kelly.
Producer:
Zahid Warley

By Somerville and Ross, dramatised in two parts by Anne Haverty. A satire on Anglo-Irish society in 19th-century Ireland. 1: When respectable spinster
Charlotte Mullen is reluctantly obliged to look after her penniless young cousin, she decides she must marry her off to a rich man as soon as possible. However, Francie is extremely pretty and wilful.
Director Tanya Nash Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Haverty.
Unknown:
Charlotte Mullen
Director:
Tanya Nash
Charlotte:
Sorcha Cusack
Norrie:
Doreen Keogh
Francie:
Elaine Symons
Roddy:
Lorcan Cranitch
Lucy:
Maria McDermottroe
Sir Christopher:
Peter Hanly
Pamela:
Tina Kellegher
Gerald:
Richard Dormer
MissDrummond:
Jo Donnelly
Lady Dysart:
Stella McCusker

Immigration: Open the Doors?Current mechanisms for regulating immigration don't work, but what are the options for change? This week's commissioners are author Frederick Forsyth , Royal Society Fellow Professor Kay E Davies , and President of New Hall
College, Cambridge, Anne Lonsdale. Nick Ross is in the Chair. Producer Sara Nathan Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Forsyth
Unknown:
Professor Kay E Davies
Unknown:
Anne Lonsdale.
Unknown:
Nick Ross
Producer:
Sara Nathan

Five short stories by Frank O'Connor. 2: First
Confession. " was pitch dark in the confessional and I couldn't see a priest or anything else. Then I really began to be frightened. In the darkness it was a matter between God and me, and He had all the OddS." Read by TP McKenna . Producer Jane Marshall (R)

Contributors

Stories By:
Frank O'Connor.
Read By:
Tp McKenna
Producer:
Jane Marshall

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