with subtitles, followed by Weather
Beginning a season of films starring the great American man of action, John Wayne. Also starring Vera Ralston , Philip Dorn
After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, 340 French families sought exile in Alabama. John Wayne plays brave Kentucky rifleman John Breen, whose love for a French general's daughter leads him to defend the settlers against his romantic rival, the wealthy Blake Randolph.
Produced by JOHN WAYNE
Written and directed by GEORGE WAGGNER . Films: page 16
An extra edition of the history programme presented by John Tusa War and Rumours of War
Preventing the Third World War
1984 opens amid the greatest fears of international tension and nuclear holocaust since the Cold War. Lord Bullock, biographer of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, talks about the foundation of NATO and how the West learnt to deal with the Soviet Union after the War. The Kitchener Enigma
In 1916 Lord Kitchener was drowned on his way to Russia. Now underwater pictures reveal clues as to how his ship, HMS Hampshire, was sunk. Will they lay to rest the rumour that still remains about the secrets surrounding the Imperial War Lord?
The Last Battle in England
In 1745 the Stuarts had their last chance of being restored to the English throne. Bonnie Prince Charlie reached Derby but then retreated. If he had marched on towards London, could he have seized the crown?
Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM Editor BRUCE NORMAN
A frank account of life on the ocean wave in one of Her Majesty's ships 1:Last Run Ashore
This documentary serial of ten films, winner of six major prizes, including two British Academy Awards, is considered a television classic.
The story begins in the strip clubs of Devonport the night before HMS Ark Royal is due to thread her way out to sea through the trickiest harbour in the land to ports and seas known to mariners since the days of Raleigh.
Superb television. Riveting and revealing....
(DAILY MAIL)
Outstandingly gripping stuff (OBSERVER)
Photography PATRICK TURLEY
Producer JOHN PURDIE
Lilies
In the first of ten programmes, Geoffrey Smith traces the history and origins of the most regal of all our garden flowers, the lily.
He discovers its home is in places as far apart as North America, Europe, and the Far East, and that the plants we grow in our gardens are all descendants of these wild flowers.
Film editor PETER RINGSTED
Assistant producer ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer BRIAN DAVIES
Part 2 book (same title) £4.75 from booksellers from 19 January
The second game of BBC2's International Snooker Championship for the 1984 Pot Black Trophy is between Willie Thome, of Leicester, and Tony Knowles, of Bolton, Lancashire.
They are both out to take the Championship from Steve Davis, the current holder.
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Commentator TED LOWE Referee JOHN WILLIAMS
Producer JOHN G. SMITH BBC Pebble Mill
Geoffrey Smith traces the history of one of the hardiest species, Lilium candidum (Madonna Lily), originally cultivated as a medicinal plant: 8.35
A serial in 13 parts dramatised by JULIAN BOND starring Shaughan Seymour and Sheila Ruskin with Peter Sallis
1:1927 The promise of a dazzling career at the Bar beckons Lewis Eliot to London; but his infatuation with the capricious Sheila Knight unsettles his plans for the future.
Cast in order of appearance:
Music by KENYON EMRYS-ROBERTS Film cameraman DAVID FEIG
Studio lighting PETER CATLETT Studio sound richard CHUBB Designer PAUL JOEL
Producer philip HINCHCLIFFE Directed by RONALD WILSON
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John Tusa , Peter Snow , Donald MacCormick and Joan Bakewell present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
Producers PETER BELL , TONY HALL DAVE STANFORD , JOHN MORRELL Directors
MIKE CATHERWOOD. JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editor NICK GUTHRIE Deputy editor PAUL NORRIS Editor DAVID DICKINSON
You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind ... Mirror Image starring
A young woman waiting for a bus is convinced that somebody else is in the depot with her. Then she begins to realise that it may not be somebody else at all ...
Written by ROD SERUNG Directed by JOHN BRAHM