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For the last 20 years Father Nicholas Postlethwaite has worked in Toxteth, helping young people cope with the pressures of life in Liverpool 8. He stayed throughout the riots of 1991 and in this programme he explains what makes him want to stay there for the rest of his life.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Postlethwaite

Fifth of six programmes.
Difficult and Advanced Shots Dennis Taylor looks at awkward bridging, potting along the cushion, and recovery shots. Plus the swerve, the masse and drag.
A GM production for BBCtv (Tomorrow: the modem game)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Taylor

Reviews include Sister Act, starring Whoopi Goldberg ; Single White Female with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh ; and David Lynch 's Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Whoopi Goldberg
Unknown:
Bridget Fonda
Unknown:
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Unknown:
David Lynch

Period adventure starring Ron Ely
1936: aided by the Amazing Five, Doc Savage sets out to discover the truth behind his father's murder.
Director Michael Anderson 0 FILMS: pages 48-56

Contributors

Unknown:
Ron Ely
Unknown:
Doc Savage
Director:
Michael Anderson
Doc:
Ron Ely
LongTom:
Paul Gleason
Renny:
Bill Lucking
Monk:
Michael Miller
Johnny:
Eldon Quick
Ham:
Darrell Zwerling
CaptainSeas:
Paul Wexler
Andriana:
Janice Heiden
Karen:
Robyn Hilton
Mona:
Pamela Hensley
Don Rubio Gorro:
Bob Corso
Kulkan:
Carlos Rivas

As the bloody conflict between Nelson Mandela's ANC and the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party grows increasingly violent, fears rise of a full scale civil war. The BBC Southern Africa correspondent John Harrison has gained exceptional access to Zulu leaders and reports on the Zulus' fears that their very existence in a new South Africa is threatened - and on their determination to resist what they see as "ethnic cleansing". Producer Caroline Pare Editor John Morrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Nelson Mandela
Unknown:
John Harrison
Editor:
John Morrison

Includes a visit to the beer-lover's paradise - the Munich Oktoberfest - and a taste of the new wheat beers.
Plus recipes for a vegetable lasagne and autumn apple cake. With Chris Kelly , Michael Barry and Jill Goolden. Director Linda Nash
Producers Alison Field and Tim Hincks
A Bazal production for BBCtv
Recipes on Ceefax page 686 ● STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Kelly
Unknown:
Michael Barry
Unknown:
Jill Goolden.
Director:
Linda Nash
Producers:
Alison Field
Producers:
Tim Hincks

Offbeat American science-fiction series starring Scott Bakula
Private Dancer. 1979: Sam is inside the body of a "exotic" male dancer who must steer a deaf girl towards a professional dancing career.
0 STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Bakula
Sam Beckett:
Scott Bakula
Al:
Dean Stockwell
Dianna Perry:
Rhondee Beriault
Joanne Chapman:
Debbie Allen
Mario:
Louis Mustillo

The Bafta Award-winning series with industrialist
Sir John Harvey-Jones setting out to advise UK companies. The Old Cinderella Story
Double Two, once famous as the manufacturer of "the shirt with the free spare collar", is now just another name in an overcrowded market-place. So the managing director, a product of the Harvard
Business School, has set his sights on Europe. Producer Judi Rose
Executive producer Richard Reisz
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Producer:
Judi Rose
Producer:
Richard Reisz

Living up to his reputation, a doyen of the tenor saxophone
Johnny Griffin and his quartet in a concert recorded at this year's Brecon Jazz Festival. Director Robert Coles
Producer Jonathan Davies * STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Griffin
Director:
Robert Coles
Producer:
Jonathan Davies

BBC Two England

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