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A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

Drama series centring the establishment of a feminist publishing house from the 1970's to the 1990's.

Lunatics in an asylum see the horror of India's partition with a lucidity that seems to escape the seemingly sane political players directing it on the outside.

Documentry looks at Viv Richards cricketing season during 1985 when the New Zealand team toured the West Indies and Viv playing for Somerset in England.

A television recording of a play first shown at The Royal Court Theatre and written by Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali in response to the fatwah against Salman Rushdie - broadcast on Channel 4 TV.

The story of how 60-year-old abstract impressionist painter Harold Shapinsky was discovered the previous year by Akumal Ramachander, an Indian professor of English.

Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and foeticide and her questionable relationships with wealthy religious and political leaders.

An intimate musical portrait of Dakar, Senegal, the Wolof culture and Mbalax rhythms through Youssou N'Dour's own experience of his country.

A mysterious "narrator" traces the origins of the Dracula myth, which in Transylvania is to do with rituals of grief and mourning for the dead - transformed by western demonology into a tale of horror.

Examines the ideas of Martin Bernal set out in book Black Athena (1987) in which he argues that the Wests view of Greek civilization has been distorted to promote the Aryan model to the detriment of black African and Semitic cultures.

A biographical documentary about Sabu, his rapid rise to stardom as The Elephant Boy. His years of success making films in Britain and in the States. His wartime service in the US Army Air force and his post-war professional decline with the B-pictures but his happy family life until his early death.