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Starring Alice Faye

An engaging story of radio's early days, combining comedy, songs and romance, and of Chuck, Vicki and Rix: a threesome struggling to realise the big potential they see in sound broadcasting.
With James Newill, the Four Ink Spots, the Nicholas Brothers and the Wiere Brothers.

See Films pages 35-40

Contributors

Director:
Archie Mayo
Vicki Adams:
Alice Faye
Chuck Hadley:
Jack Oakie
Rix Martin:
John Payne
Bruce Chadwick:
Cesar Romero
Madame Rinaldi:
Eula Morgan

The final part of Raymond Bernard's film version of Victor Hugo's classic starring Harry Baur, Charles Vanel

Cosette falls in love, and Valjean is drawn into revolution in order to save the life of Cosette's sweetheart.
In French with English subtitles.
(For cast see Monday)
See Films pages 35-40

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Bernard
Unknown:
Victor Hugo
Unknown:
Harry Baur
Unknown:
Charles Vanel

Screen Generation.
Floppy-disc pornography and video murders are among the latest excesses of computer and video technology. As screen images now dominate young people's lives, the youth current-affairs series asks: are we seeing the emergence of a generation of whizzkids or zombies?
Series producer Jane Knowles Executive producer Tony Moss

Contributors

Producer:
Jane Knowles
Producer:
Tony Moss

First of seven programmes covering the search for Britain's top amateur choir. Across the country, 10,000 people have taken part in Sainsbury's Choir of the Year, and the competition features a wide variety of music from cathedral choirs to barbershops, and chamber groups to gospel choirs. Tonight Howard Goodall presents the first quarter-final. Director Andrew Quick
Producer Christina Macaulay

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Goodall
Producer:
Christina MacAulay

Miss Pym's Day Out
Drama blending fiction and reality, starring
Patricia Routledge
On 23 November 1977, novelist Barbara Pym travelled to London to attend the Booker
Prize ceremony. Tonight's Bookmark is an imaginative re-creation of that day.
With performances as themselves by Jilly Cooper , Penelope Lively , A N Wilson, Hilary Pym , Hazel Holt , Henry Harvey , Tom Maschler and Will Wyatt.
Producer/Director James Runcie Series editor Nigel Williams
(Postponed from 21 December)

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Routledge
Unknown:
Barbara Pym
Unknown:
Jilly Cooper
Unknown:
Penelope Lively
Unknown:
Hilary Pym
Unknown:
Hazel Holt
Unknown:
Henry Harvey
Unknown:
Tom Maschler
Director:
James Runcie
Editor:
Nigel Williams
Barbara Pym:
Patricia Routledge
DoraCaldicote:
Marcia Warren
BishopGrote:
John Bott
Belinda:
Susan Wooldridge
VicarofFinstock:
Ian McNiece
MrsGray:
Ann Penfold
Dr Simpson:
Hugh Dickson
Mrs Bone:
Mary Wimbush
Miss Lathbury:
Ann Windsor
Coupleonbus:
Avril Elgab
Coupleonbus:
Norman Bird

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the filming of the final episode of one of the world's best-loved TV shows.
This retrospective, hosted by Shelley Long, tries to explain the popularity of the series through a few of its memorable moments, with the help of Loretta Swit (Hot Lips), Gary Burghoff (Radar), Alan Aida (Hawkeye), Wayne Rogers
(Trapper), McLean Stevenson (Col Blake) and Larry Linville
(Frank Burns ).

Contributors

Unknown:
Loretta Swit
Unknown:
Gary Burghoff
Unknown:
Alan Aida
Unknown:
Wayne Rogers
Unknown:
McLean Stevenson
Unknown:
Larry Linville
Unknown:
Frank Burns

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