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Highlights from yesterday's
NatWest Bank Trophy semi-finals. (Shown yesterday at 12 midnight on BBC
If yesterday's cricket was rained off the matches will be played today and the following schedule will be amended.

Historical epic starring Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland
The story of the British 27th
Lancers opens in India in 1850, and follows them to the famous battle in the Crimean War, when 600 men charged Russian artillery positions manned by 20,000 troops.
Lady Octavia Warrenton SPRING BYINGTON Director Michael Curtiz (1936)
SEE FILMS pages 24-28

Contributors

Unknown:
Errol Flynn
Unknown:
Lady Octavia Warrenton
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Major Geoffrey Vickers:
Errol Flynn
Elsa Campbell:
Olivia de Havilland
Capt Perry Vickers:
Patric Knowles
Sir Charles Macefield:
Henry Stephenson
SirBenjamin Warrenton:
Nigel Bruce
Colonel Campbell:
Donald Crisp
Captain Randall:
David Niven

Comedy starring
Norman Wisdom
While visiting his boss in hospital, Norman Piktin cheers up Lindy a sad orphan.
Director Robert Asher (1963)
SEE FILMS pages 24-28

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Piktin
Director:
Robert Asher
NormanPitkin:
Norman Wisdom
Grimsdale:
Edward Chapman
Janet Haskell:
Jeannette Sterke
Sir Hector:
Jerry Desmonde
Welsh:
Glyn Houston
Russell:
Peter Jones

Starring James Arness
The Wrong Man. Penniless farmer Hootie Kyle borrows money from Matt and Festus, only to lose it all to a gambler in a poker game. But when the gambler is found robbed and murdered, all the evidence points to Hootie.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Arness
Unknown:
Hootie Kyle

Alookbehindthescenesofgolf. Golf versus Technology. The many millions who now play golf have funded enormous research and development into the "tools of the trade". As Bruce Critchley discovers, this investment is causing concern that the game's integrity may be at risk and its great courses outdated. Producer Donna Geils
Executive producer Laurence St John

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Critchley
Producer:
Donna Geils
Producer:
Laurence St John

Sex Games
When is a woman not a woman?
When the International
Olympic Committee says so. On the Line investigates the hidden scandal of sex testing at international women's events.
Through the testimony of top sportswomen, it reveals the tragic trail of shattered careers and ruined lives caused by a genetic test that has been denounced by scientists the world over as inaccurate, inappropriate and unjust. Editor VyvSimson
Executive producer Tony Moss

Contributors

Producer:
Tony Moss

The season of classic BBC plays from the 60s and 70s continues with Colin Welland's powerful drama from 1973 of a middle-aged man whose affair with a barmaid throws his family into turmoil.
"This Audrey, mother, she's grabbing your only existence. Dad kissed her on his birthday in front of the whole pub. Kissed her as though he meant it. Kisses at 50!"
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Contributors

Writer:
Colin Welland
Producer:
Graeme McDonald
Director:
Michael Apted
Harry:
Bill Maynard
Rene:
Rosemarie Dunham
Audrey:
Marjorie Yates
Sandra:
Lori Wells
George:
John Comer
Helen:
Maureen Callaghan

Who is camcorder man? This Late Show film explores the world of the home video-makers who - as series like
Video Diaries and You've Been Framed demonstrate - nowadays set their sights beyond the wedding and the barbecue. Producer Stephen Pope
Editor Janice Hadlow

Contributors

Producer:
Stephen Pope
Editor:
Janice Hadlow

Last in the series of weekly multicultural debate programmes in which a selection of people from different ethnic backgrounds discuss a controversial issue.
Presented by Trevor Phillips. A Juniper production for BBCtv

Contributors

Presented By:
Trevor Phillips.

BBC Two England

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