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Starring
Gene Kelly
Master swordsman
D'Artagnan and the King's Musketeers are pitted against the forces of scheming Cardinal Richelieu in this lavish
Hollywood version of Alexander Dumas 's classic adventure.
With Van Heflin , Gig Young, Robert Coote , Lana Turner ,
Angela Lansbury , June Allyson and Vincent Price.
Director George Sidney 0 FILMS: pages 33-40

Contributors

Unknown:
Cardinal Richelieu
Unknown:
Alexander Dumas
Unknown:
Van Heflin
Unknown:
Robert Coote
Unknown:
Lana Turner
Unknown:
Angela Lansbury
Unknown:
June Allyson
Director:
George Sidney

Live coverage of the Federation Cup from the City of Nottingham
Tennis Centre. The top team tennis competition for women returns to
Britain for the first time since 1977. Commentators include Dan Maskell and Virginia Wade . Executive producer Johnnie Watherston Editor Philip Bernie
Including at
2.00pm and 3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Dan Maskell
Unknown:
Virginia Wade
Producer:
Johnnie Watherston
Editor:
Philip Bernie

Winner of the Royal
Television Society Programme Award for 1990.
The moving story of a baby's fight for life. Born with a rare heart defect, Alex was operated on just days after his birth. Antonia Higgs records the story of this pioneering operation at Harefield
Hospital, Middlesex and the effects on Alex's parents. Producer Peter Lowe

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonia Higgs
Producer:
Peter Lowe

Fourth of 11 programmes on the history of aviation.
Bombers. On 6 August 1945, a B29 bomber called Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Seventy-eight thousand people died. It was just eight years after the Wright brothers' first flight that an aeroplane dropped a bomb, bringing a new and horrific dimension to warfare.
Narrated by Anthony Quayle. Producer Dennis Adams
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Quayle.
Producer:
Dennis Adams

A new BBC film.
Winner of the 1990 Radio rimes Drama Award.
Starring Lou Hirsch, Amanda Boxer

Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1940s.
His girlfriend Danica discovers he is a fantasist while the FBI suspect him of spying. His world falls apart, with tragi-comic results.
Written by John Random
Producer Caroline Oulton
Director Paul Tickell

(Correction: we wrongly stated that Broke, the ScreenPlay shown on 10 July, won this year's Radio Times Drama Award: we apologise for any confusion this may have caused.)
Drama: page 6
Films: pages 33-40
Picture Story: page 65
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lou Hirsch
Unknown:
Amanda Boxer
Unknown:
Raymond Gold
Unknown:
Walter Mitty
Written By:
John Random
Producer:
Caroline Oulton
Director:
Paul Tickell
Raymond Gold:
Lou Hirsch
Danica Hoyt:
Amanda Boxer
Irving Brothmann:
Eugene Lipinski
Mrs Gold:
Maria Charles
Mr Gold:
Joe Melia
Klaus Fuchs:
Lex Van Delden
Hugh H CIegg:
Nicolas Colicos
Earl:
Mitch Webb
Sydney:
James Tillitt

A season of graduate films made by new producers and directors from film schools in the UK and abroad.
A downtown teenage couple ride the subway to the outskirts of New York city. They want to track down a man who intends to set himself on fire. His story becomes entangled with their own faltering romance. With
Andrew Lee Barrett ,
Kate Lanier and John Leguizamo. Written, produced and directed by Alan Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lee Barrett
Unknown:
Kate Lanier
Unknown:
John Leguizamo.
Directed By:
Alan Taylor

Mary Black sets the night alight in the last of five programmes featuring acoustic music on the Renfrew ferry, hosted by Aly Bain. Producer Maureen White
Executive producer John Archer

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Black
Unknown:
Aly Bain.
Producer:
Maureen White
Producer:
John Archer

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