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Stamping Out Books. The public library service grew, in part, out of the temperance movement in the 1830s - an anxiety to provide people with somewhere else to go apart from the pub. Now library opening hours, book-purchase funds and staffing have been drastically cut and privatisation is on the agenda. To make her film Jill Wight , director of the National Library Campaign, has brought together many supporters including Melvyn Bragg , who says: "It's a marvellous system and it's been let slide.... when a society starts to chew off its own best bits then you're in real trouble - and the library service is certainly one of the best bits about this country." Producer Gavin Dutton
Series producerGiles Oakley
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Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Wight
Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Producer:
Gavin Dutton

Last in this series exploring what it means to be a Muslim in the modern world.
The Last Crusade? While the west lives in fear of an Islamic jihad (holy war), Muslims believe that it is they who are being persecuted - by hostile armies in some countries, by their own governments in others, by the western media everywhere. From Bosnia to
Algeria, from Egypt to Nigeria, Muslims believe they face a new crusade and prepare themselves to oppose it.
In his last programme Akbar Ahmed offers the voice of moderation which has always been at the heart of Islam. He argues that the majority of Muslims want to live their lives in peace, but the more they feel their faith is under attack, the more angry and violent their reaction will be.
Producer John Percival
Executive producers Paul Kriwaczek and Hugh Purcell
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Contributors

Unknown:
Akbar Ahmed
Producer:
John Percival
Producers:
Paul Kriwaczek
Producers:
Hugh Purcell

Second of this powerful two-part drama, written by Don Shaw, which looks at the case of the four men convicted in 1979 of the murder of Carl Bridgewater.
Following the murder at the farm next door, the mother of the youngest of the imprisoned men begins to campaign for the release of her son and the other three, one of whom dies in prison. She is supported in her fight by her son's stepfather, and a campaigning journalist on a national newspaper comes to her aid. An extraordinary rite of passage for both mother and son, the story moves through the 1980s to the present day. For full cast see Monday.

Contributors

Writer:
Don Shaw
Ann Whelan:
Susan Wooldridge
Michael Hickey:
Jonny Lee Miller
Paul Foot:
Angus Deayton
Mr Justice Glidewell:
James Greene
Lord Chief Justice Lane:
Nicholas Selby
Lord Justice Russell:
John Southworth
Dr Derek Davies:
Bill Wallis
Prison Governor:
John Rowe

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