Screen adaptations of four short stories by W Somerset Maugham. With
Dirk Bogarde and George Cole. Directors Ken Annakin , Arthur Crabtree , Harold French and Ralph Smart
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The Dominican Republic.
Tracing the artists who created the Hastings Hours, a medieval illustrated manuscript.
Jim and Liz Frazer live in constant fear of terrorist attacks. With
Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins. Director Ken Annakin
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Lady Victoria Leatham tours Burghley House.
A new look for the programme covering all aspects of entertainment from the Asian world. This week: the threat facing India's Goa Carnival; Imran Khan 's plans to bowl out cancer in Pakistan; and there's the Video Top 10. With Shyama Perera.
A 93-part epic from India. 66: Kama learns the truth.
(In Hindi with English subtitles. Repeated tomorrow at 11.50pmon BBC1)
First showing on network television.
Wade Barton and his band of gunfighters set out to catch a murderer. With George O'Brien. Director David Howard
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Musical. A beautiful heiress changes her identity to find a prospective husband who is not just another fortune hunter.
Withjane Russell and Gilbert Roland.
Director Lloyd Bacon
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A ten-part series on Japanese language and culture.
4: Shoparound. A look at
Japanese consumerism and the language of shopping.
Presented by Yuka Nukina. Producer Terry Doyle
Highlights from last week's editions of The Late Show.
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Comedy quiz show.
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With Laurie Mayer.
Followed by Weather
This year, Hollywood will release 19 films made by African-Americans - more than the total for the last decade.
John Singleton , a 23-year-old film-maker from Los Angeles who made the successful Boyz n the Hood, has been compared to Steven Spielberg in terms of ability. But will the traditions of the industry allow these new talents to make movies that raise critical issues and entertain?
Director Henry Letts
Producer Anna Umbima
Starring Judi Dench A drama which created its own drama, this is the first television production of Rodney Ackland 's once scandalous black comedy and it starts a new season of studio dramas starring major artists. Ackland, now in his 80s, was a prolific playwright in the 30s. Absolute Hell, set in a Soho drinking club in bomb-blasted London in the weeks leading up to the 1945 election, was condemned as 'a libel on the British people' when it was first seen in 1951 under its original title The Pink Room. Recent productions have led critics to assess Ackland's portrait of seedy, Bohemian life as a significant picture of its age.
Producer Simon Curtis Director Anthony Page
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Rodney Ackland's scandalous black comedy set in a Soho drinking club in bomb-blasted London in the weeks leading up to the 1945 election.
The Made injapan cinema season ends with Yasujiro Ozu 's final movie. A widower reflects on the departure of his children into their own lives, and the changes in society. It is a moving insight into the autumn of a man's life.
A Japanese film with English subtitles. With Chishu Ryu. • FILMS: pages 39-44
