The life of the entertainer who exploded taboos of race and sexuality.
1/7 Ptolemy Dean visits Alderley Edge in Cheshire and Dedham in Constable country.
Ludicrus's uncle dies - but conditions apply to his inheritance. Frankie Howerd stars.
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New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik guides us inside the Big Apple - from its age of innocence to its post-9/11 uncertainty.
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Lighting Up New York 10.00pm BBC4
Essayist and commentator Adam Gopnik spent over five years as The New Yorker's man in Paris in the late 1990s, but he has returned to his home city and presents this look into the core of the Big Apple.
No tapes were available for review, but Gopnik explores the city from its ultimate elegance in the 1940s and 1950s through its dark days in the 1970s, when it became the mugging and murder capital of the world. And although New York is still in a state of uncertainty in the wake of 9/11, he reckons its best years may still lie ahead. (Simon Holden)
Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis star in Scorsese's comic drama from 1983.
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