Starring Buster Crabbe
Flash Gordon is forced by 8: Emperor Ming and King
Vultan to fight a duel with his friend Prince Barin. (R)
Starring John Barrymore Virginia Weilder
A hopeless drunk since the death of his wife, former
Harvard academic Gregory Vance works as a night watchman. His children try to inspire their father to regain his ambition.
Director Garson Kanin
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Starring Anna Neagle Fernand Graavey
A young English heiress leaves her pompous fiance for a handsome musician.
Music/Lyrics by Noël Coward
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A series of five programmes with physicist and musician Prof Charles Taylor.
4: Wind instruments. (R)
Cartoon fun. (R)
With Don Spencer. (R)
In 1949, Major Peter Wood had a chance to realise a dream.
Director Sandra Wainwright
Executive producer Bridget Winter (R)
Weather followed by The
Historyman Bryan McNerney discovers how Long Stratton and Saffron Walden got their names.
Producer Paul Cort - Wright BBC Norwich (R)
In April 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and took over the hydro factory in Telemark. Here heavy water was made for German atomic experiments. Over 45 years ago, nine Norwegian saboteurs completely destoyed the heavy water stock. An undercover war which ended with the sinking of a ferry was fought to prevent the possibility of a German atomic bomb. Writer Paul Dehn
Producer Jeremy Bennett (R)
Weather followed by Easter Island
Second of a two-part investigation.
The islanders believe that an old woman's spell on greedy stone-carvers brought the quarrying to a halt, but hazy myth and scraps of legend can be used to reinterpret scientific finds.
Narrator: Andrew Sachs. Film editor Ray Sharman Producer John Lynch
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Dennis Taylor looks at awkward bridging, potting along the cushion and recovery shots.
(Tomorrow the modern game at
11.00am)
Novelist Jeffrey Archer is invited by Emma Freud to plunder the BBC archives.
Photography with Jon Pertwee and photographer Anita Corbin in Majorca. Producer Fiona Pitcher
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The Sharpest Show of the Universe
Today Nasa hopes to launch the Hubble Telescope. But if anything goes wrong, there's no back-up.
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Starring
Barbara Hale
Arthur Kennedy
Tommy, a small boy with an overactive imagination, cries 'wolf once too often when he witnesses a murder and no one believes him.
Director Ted Tetzlaff
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Do feminists overreact over a bit of harmless hanky panky in the workplace, or is sexual harassment a serious problem that male managers too often ignore? Are the experiences the programme uncovers more common than people care to think?
Reporters: Susan Rae , Geoff Small and John Withington. Producer/Director Lindsay Knight Series producer Andrew Forrester A Diverse production for BBCtv
A series of five films exploring the new realities of religious faith in eastern Europe.
4: Witold Przadka is a typical Polish farmer. Married with four young children, he lives in a two-roomed farm cottage outside Warsaw. Despite the new political freedoms, life is more difficult. This Easter he is agonising over his last 12 cows, which cost more to feed than he will get when he sells them.
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A comedy series by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn.
Starring Paul Eddington Nigel Hawthorne
Jim Hacker discovers another purpose for the Official Secrets Act - to protect officials.
Music Ronnie Hazlehurst Designer Tim Gleeson
Producer Sydney Lotterby (R)
The Japanese are widely seen as the world's environmental villains - slaughtering whales, chain sawing tropical forests. But what makes the Japanese so resistant to pressure from around the world?
Triona Holden reports.
Presenter: Michael Buerk. Producer Amanda Theunissen Editor Jeremy Bugler BBC Bristol
Mac to the USSR
Armed police gather in the heart of Moscow to control a growing, restless crowd. But this is no pro-democracy demonstration; it's the opening of the first
McDonald's restaurant in the USSR, and 40 Minutes was there. To us in the west, the golden arches represent cheap labour and junk food. But to McDonald's workers like Vladimir and Liuda,
Big Mac is a symbol of hope. As the barriers open, the crowd surges forward for a taste of the west.
Producer John Alexander Editor Caroline Pick
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
With Jeremy Paxman.
The arts and media live.
A look at receptive aphasia, a rare language disorder.
