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Press lord, multi-millionaire and would-be politician William Randolph Hearst bestrode the American scene for over 60 years.
Yet at the end of the First World War he left his wife and family for a chorus-girl called Marion Davies. Never a man to do anything by halves, Hearst was determined to transform his mistress into a Hollywood star. In this programme the story of that 30-year very public private love affair is told by some of the people who were closest to them, including movie stars Ben Lyon and Eleanor Boardman, Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St Johns and Hollywood writers Sam Marx and Anita Loos. Narrator ANDREW FAULDS
Executive producer STEPHENPEET
Written and produced by CHRISTOPHER COOK

Contributors

Unknown:
William Ran
Unknown:
Ben Lyon
Unknown:
Sam Marx
Narrator:
Anita Loos.
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Andrew Faulds
Produced By:
Christopher Cook

Presented by Simon Bates and Gillian Mites
Computer Dining: the chip that tells you what to eat
Tea: the best sort of cuppa?
New Packages: convenience or gimmick?
Fruit and Vegetables: this week's good buys. "
Some of the subjects investigated in this topical series, about what, why, when and where we eat and drink. Including a special restaurant report from Russell Harty.
Film director ANNE WEBBER
Studio director JILL MARSHALL Producer HENRY MURRAY
(Russell Harty is featured on the cover of next weeks RADIOTIMES introducing his new seaside series on.BBC1)

Contributors

Presented By:
Simon Bates
Unknown:
Russell Harty.
Director:
Jill Marshall
Producer:
Henry Murray
Unknown:
Russell Harty

A series of eight films on British historic ships and maritime museums, written and presented by Anthony Burton 3: Sail and Steam
The fast cargo sailing ship reached its ultimate development in the clipper ships of the great trade routes. But well before even the famous Cutty Sark was built, experiments with steam engines on the water heralded a new era.
ANTHONY BURTON visits St Kath erine's Dock, London; the Cutty Sark at Greenwich, and the Science Museum, London, to find out about the new developments. He takes a day trip up the Clyde on the Waverley, the last sea-going paddle-steamer in the world, and an outing on the oldest screw steamer still at work, Dolly of the Windermere Steamboat Museum.
Film editor KEITH WILTON Producer MICHAEL GARROD
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Contributors

Presented By:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
Cutty Sark
Unknown:
Anthony Burton
Unknown:
St Kath
Unknown:
Cutty Sark
Editor:
Keith Wilton
Producer:
Michael Garrod

Tonight BBC Television makes its first visit to the 1982 Henry Wood Promenade concerts.
The BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Giinther Herbig in a performance of Schubert's Ninth Symphony known as the ' Great' C major
Introduced by RICHARD BAKER
Sound JEFF BAKER. Lighting HARRY THOMAS Directed by ROY TIPPING
For the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Wood
Conducted By:
Giinther Herbig
Introduced By:
Richard Baker
Introduced By:
Sound Jeff Baker.
Directed By:
Roy Tipping

starring
Victor McLaglen , Boris Karloff
Mesopotamia 1917 - small group of British cavalrymen are lost in the desert following the death of their one remaining officer. The men, led by a sergeant, are gradually decimated by Arab snipers or driven to insanity and hallucination by the scorching sun and lack of water. Yet their fellow cavalrymen cannot be far away ...
Screenplay by DUDLEY NICHOLS , GARRETT FORD from the novel Petrol by PHILIP MACDONALD Produced by MERIAL c. COOPER
Directed by JOHN FORD. Films: page 9 Black and white

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor McLaglen
Unknown:
Dudley Nichols
Unknown:
Garrett Ford
Unknown:
Philip MacDonald
Directed By:
John Ford.
Sergeant:
Victor McLaglen
Sanders:
Boris Karloff
Morelli:
Wallace Ford
Brown:
Reginald Denny
Quincannon:
J M Kerrigan
Hale:
Billy Bevan
Cook:
Alan Hale
Bell:
Brandon Hurst

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