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12.45 Motor Racing
2.30 Cricket/Olympics
Motor Racing
The German Grand Prix from Hockenheim. Live coverage of the whole of the race in which Britain's Nigel Mansell bids to repeat last year's victory and move a step nearer to his first world title. Commentary by Murray Walker and James Hunt. (Highlights tonight at 10.05pm) Cricket: Fourth Test
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Olympic Games
The start of the boxing competition, with commentator Harry Carpenter covering his tenth Olympics. He has seen Muhammad Ali (1960), Joe Frazier (1964),
George Foreman (1968) and Ray Leonard (1976) all win Olympic gold. In Seoul, the present WBC heavyweight titleholder
Lennox Lewis won gold for Britain. How many potential world champions are on show here in Barcelona?
Plus, shooting, women's gymnastics, and cycling action.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Mansell
Commentary By:
Murray Walker
Commentary By:
James Hunt.
Commentator:
Harry Carpenter
Unknown:
Muhammad Ali
Unknown:
Joe Frazier
Unknown:
George Foreman
Unknown:
Ray Leonard
Unknown:
Lennox Lewis

Last in this series in which
Alan Titchmarsh makes a musical pilgrimage through the country. Accompanied by the vocal group Angel Voices, he explores the hallowed world of the great British cathedrals. Doing Things Big. This week Alan Titchmarsh meets the massed voices and enthusiasm of great choirs, including the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir.
Director/Producer Bryan Izzard
A Knaves Acre production for BBCtv
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Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Producer:
Bryan Izzard

Another chance to see this play from 1975, shown as part of a major retrospective of the work of Alan Bennett and his producer Innes Lloyd.
For years Mam and Dad have dreamed of retiring to the seaside at Morecambe. But when they finally make it, they find settling down in their new surroundings much harder than they thought.
Director Stephen Frears

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Producer:
Innes Lloyd.
Director:
Stephen Frears
Mam:
Gabrielle Daye
Dad:
Harry Markham
Bertram:
Bob Peck
Woman in flats:
Christine Buckley
Woman's husband:
Bill Pilkington
Canteen lady:
Elizabeth Dawn
Gatekeeper:
Peter Wallis
Removal man:
Paul Shane
Workman:
Joe Belcher
Arthur:
Albert Modley
Mrs Longstaff:
Betty Alberge
Newsagent:
Marjorie Sudell
First man in teabar:
Clifford Kershaw
Second man in teabar:
Joe Kenyon
Milkman:
Bernard Wrigley
Boring woman:
Jill Summers
Bricklayer:
Bert Palmer
Man in garden:
Allan Bowlas
MissPassmore:
Madge Hindle
Miss Venables:
Patricia Mason
Mrs Liversidge:
Nora Pollitt
Conductor:
Harold Graham
Hotel waiter:
John Gee
Passer-by:
Sam Shed
Doctor:
William Hoyland
Nurse:
Julia Lang
Woman in post office:
Gwen Harris

The Mafia State
When Italy's top anti-Mafia investigator Giovanni Falcone was murdered in May, the nation was stunned. Since then a wave of popular anti-Mafia outrage has swept the country. But, as this special investigation by Olenka Frenkiel reveals, the Mafia is so deeply embedded in the civic fabric of Italy that the state may now be incapable of destroying the Mafia, for to do so would be to destroy itself. Editor John Morrison
Producer John Drury

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Falcone
Unknown:
Olenka Frenkiel
Editor:
John Morrison
Producer:
John Drury

Highlights of the German
Grand Prix from Hockenheim.
Nigel Mansell was crowned king of Silverstone two weeks ago following his seventh victory in nine races this season. He won at Hockenheim last year and if he can repeat that victory, the possibility of his becoming world champion looks increasingly likely.
Commentary Murray Walker , James Hunt , Jonathan Palmer. Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

Unknown:
Murray Walker
Unknown:
James Hunt
Unknown:
Jonathan Palmer.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Producer:
Jim Reside

A strange tale of southern gothic by veteran director John Huston , starring
Brad Dourif
Harry Dean Stanton Ned Beatty
Hazel Motes , the grandson of a hellfire revivalist preacher, returns from army service to his hometown in the bible-belt of southern America to set up the "Church without Christ".
This adaptation of Flannery O'Connor 's novel features a performance by Huston himself.
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Contributors

Director:
John Huston
Unknown:
Brad Dourif
Unknown:
Harry Dean Stanton
Unknown:
Ned Beatty
Unknown:
Hazel Motes
Unknown:
Flannery O'Connor
Hazel Motes:
Brad Dourif
AsaHawkes:
Harry Dean Stanton
Hoover Shoates:
Ned Beatty
Enoch Emery:
Daniel Shor
Sabbath Lily Hawks:
Amy Wright
Hazel's grandfather:
John Huston

Michael Reeves's last film, made in 1968 when he was in his 20s, was this controversial study of violence and suspicion, starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
1645: the infamous witchhunter Matthew Hopkins roams the country torturing and executing those suspected of witchcraft. Shot on location in some of Britain's most beautiful countryside, it is not a film for the squeamish.
FILMS: pages 44-51
Moviedrome producer Nick Freand Jones

Contributors

Director:
Michael Reeves
Moviedrome Producer:
Nick Freand Jones
Matthew Hopkins:
Vincent Price
Richard Marshall:
Ian Ogilvy
John Lowes:
Rupert Davies
Sara:
Hilary Dwyer
Oliver Cromwell:
Patrick Wymark
Master Coach:
Wilfrid Brambell

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