A young author must agree to transport valuable jewels to Spain if he is to win the daughter of a rich local squire. With
Stewart Granger and Anne Crawford. Director Arthur Crabtree
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In 1949 Major Peter Wood bought the lease of Herm Island, near Guernsey, intending to shape an independent community.
The people of the remote islands of Indonesia still believe in the spirits of nature and the ghosts of their ancestors.
An enchanting film about an Australian boy, his Aborigine friend, and a pelican. With Greg Row , Peter Cummins and David Gulpilil. Director Henri Safran
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Lady Victoria Leatham visits Woburn Abbey.
The programme covering all aspects of entertainment from the Asian world. This week: a review of the work of one of India's most successful commercial film directors, Subash Ghai , and the latest fashions from Waseem, Pakistan's designer for the rich and famous. With Shyama Perera.
A 93-part epic from India.
67: Vidur has to make a choice. (In Hindi with English subtitles.
Repeated tomorrow at 12.30am on BBC
Orson Welles directs and stars as adventurer
Michael O'Hara who rescues a beautiful woman and then becomes involved in a murder mystery. With Rita Hayworth.
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Western. Gun salesman Steve Farrell is demonstrating the new rapid fire .45s when they are stolen by an outlaw. With Randolph Scott and Ruth Roman.
Director Edwin L Mann
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A ten-part series on Japanese, language and culture.
A look at the Japanese education system, widely regarded as the key to Japan's economic achievement, and introduces the language of time. Featuring a school excursion to Hiroshima, target of the world's first atomic bomb, and to Miyajima, one of the "three most beautiful sights of Japan". And college student Tamara Taylor offers an American view of Japanese education in practice.
Support Material: BBC book, £16.95 from retailers; audio cassettes, £29.95 per pack of five.
Information: for a a list of Japanese courses in the UK send cheque/PO for £2.00, payable to BBC Education, to [address removed].
Teachers' Notes: £6.50, from same address. Cheque/PO payable as above.
Highlights from last week's editions of The Late Show.
* STEREO
Topical comedy quiz show. * STEREO
With Moira Stuart.
Followed by Weather
An examination of the political infighting that has raged inside the Kremlin since
Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. New programmes revealing details of the events leading up to August's political turbulence and the coup itself complement the original series.
Enter Gorbachev. Victor Grishin, former boss of the Moscow
Communist Party, talks about his defeat in the 1985 leadership battle and subsequent dismissal. Director David Ash
Series producer Norma Percy
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Starring David Warner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
This new studio production of Chekhov's wistful masterpiece stars Warner as the retired professor whose return, with his beautiful young wife, to the country estate left by his deceased first wife sets in motion a typically Chekhovian comic tragedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and blighted ideals. It is a new adaptation by American playwright David Mamet (American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross) is directed by Gregory Mosher, who was responsible for the Broadway and National Theatre productions of Mamet's Speed-the-Plow.
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Semi-final highlights from the Old Course at St Andrews.
