Schedule Wednesday 2nd October 2002

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Episode 4 - When the Chips Are Down

Don, a chip shop entrepreneur with a gambling problem, swindles £5,000 from each member of the Cheadle Chancers. Everything goes well - until he loses the lot on a horse and is forced to find another five grand... and another, and another.

The Mark Steel Lecture

Series 3, Episode 3 - Isaac Newton

Mark presents the life of Isaac Newton, whose great achievement was to overcome the main prejudice of his day - that religion was right about everything.

High Hopes

Series 1, Episode 1 - Saving Private Ryan

Two homeless teenagers get more than they bargain for when they break into a council house on the valley's estate. The occupants, a middle-aged, agoraphobic master criminal and his elderly mother, are ready to exact an unexpected justice.

Two Thousand Years Of Radio

Series 2, Episode 3 - Tempest FM

As the nation mourns the death of William Shakespeare, the grieving widow Anne Hathaway is annoyed by a DJ.