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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6

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Series in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - Coughs and Sneezes

By Laura Wade. With a swine flu pandemic increasingly likely, the spotlight is thrown on an anxious couple newly returned from Mexico.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - Counting

As Iran waits for election results to be recounted, and in Britain an inquiry is announced into the Iraq War, April de Angelis looks at secrecy in the region.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - Episode 2

As experts begin the exhumation of up to 400 unknown WWI soldiers in the village of Fromelles, Bonnie Greer imagines the impact upon some of those involved.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - Episode 3

John Fletcher creates a fictional response to the week's news.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - Episode 4

Series in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news. Comedian Robin Ince imagines a man with no interest in freebies.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - I Dreamed a Dream

After the elections became a fight for one man's survival, Alistair McGowan reads Patrick Neate's story about the greatest talent show on earth.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - Parliament of Rooks

With a nod to Chaucer, playwright Steve Waters takes us to the Parliament of Rooks, where the birds are having their own crisis of leadership.

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From Fact to Fiction - Series 6 - The Underdog

Offbeat Poet Tim Key attempts to tackle the burning issues of the day, but gets distracted by England's World Cup qualifier with Andorra. With Tom Basden.

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