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Starring
Douglas Fairbanks Jr Joe Martin is hungry for success and will do anything to achieve it. When he succeeds in marrying, his happiness seems complete - but not for long.
Director J Walter Ruben
0 FILMS: pages) 19-20

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr Joe Martin
Director:
J Walter Ruben
Joe Martin:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Fisher:
Edward Everett Horton
Raymond Merritt:
Frank Morgan
Sarah Griswold:
Colleen Moore

Starring Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles

Comic conflict explodes when two very different men from across the Atlantic arrive in Glen Eachon to claim what is theirs.
('Bitter Sweet' tomorrow 10.55am)
Films:pages 19-20

Contributors

Director:
Herbert Wilcox
Marissa:
Margaret Lockwood
Sanin Mengues/Sandy Menzies:
Orson Welles
Jim 'Lance' Lansing:
Forrest Tucker
Parian:
Victor McLaglen
Malcolm:
John McCallum

3: There are two different groups of instruments that use strings as their primary source of sounds: plucked instruments such as harps and guitars and bowed instruments like violins and cellos.
Professor Charles Taylor explores the extent to which science can tell us how these instruments work. (R)

Contributors

Cellos:
Professor Charles Taylor

The piepilot leads the pieman and piewife a merry dance, providing the song for the song pie: Tom He Was a Piper's Son.
Music Peter Gosling Puppets Clare Beaton
Producer Sharon Miller (R)

Contributors

Music:
Peter Gosling
Unknown:
Clare Beaton
Producer:
Sharon Miller
Piewife:
Chloe Ashcroft
Pieman:
David Hargreaves
Piepilot:
Ben Thomas

From Ascot.
Three races from Ascot's last National Hunt day of the season.
2.30 Royal Fern Novicaes ' Steeplechase (3m).
3.00 Bollinger Champagne Novices' Steeplechase Handicap (2'/2m).
3.35 Trillium Hurdle Race Handicap (2m).
Introduced by Julian Wilson. Commentators:
Peter O'Sullevan and Richard Pitman. Television presentation Bob Duncan
Including at
2.50pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Fern Novicaes
Introduced By:
Julian Wilson.
Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan
Unknown:
Richard Pitman.
Unknown:
Bob Duncan

If you want to take up one of the country's most popular pastimes, or just to improve your own game, then this is the series for you.
4: As in most games, snooker players like to win and it helps to have a game plan. Dennis Taylor looks at the break-off, safety play, laying snookers and playing the percentages.
(Tomorrow: difficult shots.)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Taylor

Starring
Roy Thinnes Vincent is to visit a Utopia being created by aliens. (R)
6.50pm
Rough Guide to Careers
Caroline Hanson and Sheryl Simms look at jobs in television. Director Gary Hunter
Series producer Paul Campbell
A Diverse production for BBCtv (R)
7.30pm Rapido
Including Australian band
Midnight Oil, and the 4 of Us in Dublin.
Presenter: Antoine de Caunes. Executive producers Alex Berger and Tim Newman
An NBdC production

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Thinnes
Unknown:
Caroline Hanson
Unknown:
Sheryl Simms
Director:
Gary Hunter
Producer:
Paul Campbell
Presenter:
Antoine de Caunes.
Producers:
Alex Berger
Producers:
Tim Newman

A series of films exploring the new realities of faith in eastern Europe.

Alex Tomsky has been exiled in London since the Prague Spring of 1968, and runs a small publishing house for writers banned in Czechoslovakia. Following the revolution, Tomsky plans to set up a new publishing house in Prague. First Easter returns to Prague with Tomsky and his wife Marta.
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Subject:
Alex Tomsky
Subject:
Marta Tomsky
Series Producer:
Peter Firstbrook
Producer:
Barbie Campbell Cole

This Easter weekend is the anniversary of Britain's worst sports ground tragedy, when 95 Liverpool football fans died on Hillsborough terraces. John Humphrys explains how the investigation has brought in a new era of high technology police work.
BBC Midlands and BBC North
('You'll Never Walk Alone' the Hillsborough Memorial Service will be shown on Easter Day on BBC1)
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Humphrys
Producer:
Merrick Simmonds
Executive Producer:
Patrick Burns

An original serial in seven parts by Andrew Davies , winner of the Writer's
Award, Bafta 1990.
Starring Peter Davison
1: With a new job and fresh start Dr Stephen Daker 's enthusiasm is boundless.
Producer Ken Riddington Director David Tucker (R)
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Davies
Unknown:
Peter Davison
Unknown:
Dr Stephen Daker
Producer:
Ken Riddington
Director:
David Tucker
Stephen Daker:
Peter Davison
Nuns:
Sonia Hart
Actor:
Nuns Elaine Turrell
Jock:
Graham Crowden
Bob:
David Troughton
Lyn Turtle:
Amanda Hillwood
Mrs Kramer:
Gillian Raine
Maureen:
Lindy Whiteford
Rose Marie:
Barbara Flynn
Antonia:
Lizcrowther
Chinese girl:
Sarah Lam
Chen Sung You:
Takashi Kawahara
Woolf:
Eliza Buckingham
Gillespie:
Michael Cule
Donizetti:
Haydn Gwynne
Bickerton:
Alexander Dore
Ackerman:
Trevor Cooper
Harrap:
Derek Beard
Ernest:
John Bird
Deirdre:
Harriet Reynolds

An enthusiast explores highways and byways of delight. E is for Eastern. Lucinda Lambton finds some unexpected pleasures of the Orient in England: a mausoleum that can only be seen from the top of a bus and eastern delights at a football club.
Executive producer Edward Mirzoeff Director Andrew Gosling
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucinda Lambton
Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff
Director:
Andrew Gosling

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