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In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist (Granville Jones , one of the forgotten 'greats' of old-time Fleet Street) is caught up in a coup where the Emir’s son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist’s life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman (archaeologist Romy Burton) develop and flourish. Can events also recall the journalistic skills that could save his old friend, the Emir, and save the peace of the whole region?

In May 1981 a young Turk, Mehmet Ali Ağca, shot Pope John Paul II. Who was Ağca? Why did he do it? What made him want to be a killer?

Deep-sea diving is well paid and glamorous. But the strain is huge, living in a tiny compression chamber for four weeks at a time. And if anything goes wrong, you’re a dead man.No wonder Joe can’t sleep easy at nights. His nightmares might become reality.

To Robert, Graham seems a rather peculiar sort of copper. It is only when Robert joins forces with him that he realises just how extraordinary. Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers.

Television play by Michael Palin. Ninety-year-old Miss Barwick has lived peacefully in the same house all her life, that is until a young property developer arrives at her front door to make her an offer.

For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile…