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With violence in the classroom, record truancy and widespread graduate unemployment,
Reportage examines why the education system is failing. Series producer Jane Knowles Executive producer Tony Moss

Contributors

Producer:
Jane Knowles
Producer:
Tony Moss

Mother of the Megacities. By the year 2000 over half the human population will have left the land and moved into towns.
There will be 26 megacities with over 10 million people living in each. Cairo is one such megacity. It ought to be hell on earth - but it's not. The population grows by a thousand a day, but no one lives on the streets. Is this success unique to Cairo or are there lessons for the rest of the world as we enter a concrete future?
Producer Andrea Brown
Series editor Amanda Theunissen

Contributors

Producer:
Andrea Brown
Editor:
Amanda Theunissen

Bohumil Hrabal. An affectionate profile of the man considered by many to be Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer. Now aged 78 and in poor health, Hrabal first became famous in the west through the Oscar-winning film Closely Observed Trains. In tonight's film Hrabal and his close collaborator, director Jiri Menzel , reveal the gentle humour, melancholy sensuousness and frustrated eroticism at the heart of his world.
Producer Patrick Cazals
Series editor Nigel Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Bohumil Hrabal.
Director:
Jiri Menzel
Producer:
Patrick Cazals
Editor:
Nigel Williams

Final part of Jane Rogers 's period drama, starring Jonathan Pryce
Martha's Story. Martha enters prophet John Wroe 's household able to see, hear and feel very little. For 15 years she has lived on her father's farm, treated as an animal. But Martha is a survivor and a sensitive and silent witness to the secrets of the other virgins' lives.
Producer John Chapman ; Director Danny Boyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Rogers
Unknown:
Jonathan Pryce
Unknown:
John Wroe
Producer:
John Chapman
Director:
Danny Boyle
John Wroe:
Jonathan Pryce
Martha:
Kathy Burke
Leah:
Minnie Driver
Joanna:
Lia Williams
Hannah:
Kerry Fox
Dinah:
Moya Brady
Rachel:
Catherine Kelly
Rebekah:
Ruth Kelly
Tobias:
Freddie Jones
Moses:
Nicholas Woodeson
Samuel Walker:
Stefan Escreet
Martha's father:
Chas Bryer

BBC Two England

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