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Sandi Toksvig introduces more adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod
PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Introduces:
Sandi Toksvig
Producers:
Kevin Dawson
Producers:
Torquil MacLeod

2/3 Julian Petiffer tells the story of the unsung heroes of conservation as the movement gathered pace. At the beginning of the 1960s, environmentalists were seen as eccentrics, but a series of high-profile confrontations with government and industry began to change public opinion Bytheendofthedecadethearmyof conservationists could no longer be ignored. Producer Adam Fowler

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Petiffer
Producer:
Adam Fowler

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Colchester puts questions to a panel that includes Labour MP Gerald Kaufman , the Conservative transport spokesman Damian Green , journalist Rosie Boycott and writer AN Wilson. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Gerald Kaufman
Unknown:
Damian Green
Unknown:
Rosie Boycott
Unknown:
An Wilson.

A comedy with serious undertones by African-
American writer Richard Wright , adapted by Lavinia Murray. Just how far will a man go to provide for his family? A black man dresses as a maid to find work in Chicago during the 1950s. Written before black
Americans were given the vote, this was a brave and progressive piece for its time.
Producer/Director Pauline Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wright
Adapted By:
Lavinia Murray.
Director:
Pauline Harris
Carl-:
Paterson Joseph
Lucy:
Nicola Hughes
Henry:
Anton Rice
Dave:
John Sharian
Anne:
Barbara Bames
Rosie:
Josie Kook-Clark
Burt:
William Hope

2/4. Released in 1979 and set in the time of Christ, Terry Jones's satirical comedy about Brian Cohen - a man continually mistaken for the Messiah - outraged church leaders and was banned by many local councils. But were there any facts behind the farce? Historians reveal the real Judean Popular Front; classicists explore the fate of a second messianic Jesus; and director Terry Jones explains why the Virgin Mandy sounded like a parrot.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Terry Jones
Producer:
John Byrne

Jim White explores the art of shooting films on a shoe-string budget on the back of Peter Hedges 's Pieces of April, a movie that costjust$200,000 and took three weeks to make. And with the release of the British comedy, Sex Lives of the Potato Man, starring Johnny Vegas , White considers the British Obsession With Smut. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim White
Unknown:
Peter Hedges
Unknown:
Johnny Vegas
Producer:
Mohini Patel

Among the subjects discussed by Tom Sutcliffe and his guests are Dresden- a new book by Frederick Taylor that reappraises the events of February 1945 - and an exhibition of the work of El Greco at the National Gallery in London. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Book By:
Frederick Taylor
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Astley Jones takes a nostalgic trip to the heyday of Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor-racing circuit and birthplace of British aviation, with a social scene that rivalled Ascot and Henley.
Famous voices from the past include John Cobb and Malcolm Campbell and pioneer aviator AV Roe. Producer Merilyn Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Campbell
Unknown:
Av Roe.
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

3/12. By Anthony Trollope , dramatised by Martyn Wade. Having turned her back on Burgo for ever, Lady Glencora has committed herself fully to her marriage and is expecting a baby, which Plantagenet hopes will be a son and heir. Lady Laura has disappointed Phineas by accepting Kennedy's proposal, and John Grey continues to pursue Alice.
(Rptd from Sunday)

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Dramatised by:
Martyn Wade
Music:
Elizabeth Parker
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Trollope:
David Troughton
Plantagenet Palliser:
Ben Miles
Lady Glencora:
Sophie Thompson
Laura:
Juliet Stevenson
Alice:
Anastasia Hile
Phineas:
Conleth Hill
Chiltern:
Scott Handy
Kennedy:
Kevin McMonagle
Duke of Omnium:
Robert Lang
John:
Mark Bazeley
Burgo:
Bertie Carvel
Brentford:
John Rowe
Violet:
Jalmi Barbakoff
Slide:
Damian Lynch
Sir Omicron Pie:
Jonathan Keeble
Sir Lamda Mewnew:
Stephen Critchlow

Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Michael Gove , Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves and Professor Steven Rose cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news Stories. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Michael Gove
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Professor Steven Rose

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