Starring June Haver
with Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae
Life for Marilyn Miller, famous Broadway star of the 20s, was a mixture of success and tragedy. In today's film June Haver interprets some of Marilyn's hits from her most successful shows like Sally and Sunny. The story begins in Marilyn's dressing-room in 1930 Boston as the star looks back over her career and remembers her old love affair with dancing star Jack Donahue.
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Third day: coverage up to the close of play direct from The Oval
in Spitsbergen
A journey to the top of the world, to the most northerly community on earth - to the land, they say, that God forgot.
Spitsbergen has been under Norwegian sovereignty since 1925 (before that it was No Man's Land), and the Norwegians call it Svalbard - 'the cold coast.' It was fought over in the Second World War because of its importance as a weather base, and today Russian and Norwegian coal-miners have taken the place of earlier pioneers - the fur-trappers and the whale-hunters.
(BBC Scotland)
A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament
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A series featuring a selection of BBCtv programmes viewers have particularly asked to see again.
When Captain Cook landed in Hawaii the natives clubbed him to death, but the blood spilt on that beach didn't deter other white men. Every year millions go to the Pacific islands, to Hawaii, Tahiti and Fiji, in search of the sun, surf, grass skirts and free love: the world the ad-men tell us is paradise on earth.
But it is a changing world. Land developers and international hotel chains fight to keep pace with the tourist boom. Military bases and warships mean a juke-box in every port. Atomic testing, islanders claim, is a health hazard.
Jim Douglas Henry and a Man Alive film team joined the rush to the South Pacific in the hope that theirs was not the last trip to paradise.
by F. Tennyson Jesse
Dramatised in four parts by Elaine Morgan
1913: Julia Almond, pretty, lively, intelligent and full of romantic dreams, leaves school - on a ten-year journey to the gallows...
Starring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy
with Mary Boland, George Zucco, H. B. Warner
The Singing Sweethearts set sail for Caribbean romance and adventure with a cargo of songs from the Sigmund Romberg musical about a marriage of convenience that turns out to be a love match.
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Starring Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty
with George MacReady
This tense and ingenious thriller has become something of a classic. Julia Ross (Nina Foch) takes a job as resident secretary to a wealthy woman, only to find her identity in doubt - and her life in danger!
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