Comedy starring Jerry Lewis
Dean Martin
When Melvin and Al walk past the US Navy's recruiting poster bearing the legend "The Navy Needs You", the Navy has cause to regret it. ,
Director Hal Walker (
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Musical starring Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
John and Dinah Barkley , married stars of the Broadway musical comedy stage, decide to split when Dinah is offered the lead in a new play. But will they find success apart?
Director Charles Walters 1949)
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Helen Rollason looks back at the World Gymnastics
Championships, hosted by Britain last April.
Beginning a season of films starring Audrey Hepburn who died earlier this year. This romantic comedy features the actress in her Oscar-winning performance and co-stars Gregory Peck
An American journalist finds a girl apparently in a drunken stupor and takes her home to sleep it off. The next day he discovers she is a princess.
(1953)
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Romantic drama starring Cary Grant
Deborah Kerr playboy and the girlfriend of a wealthy man fall in love on board ship. They resolve to meet and marry in six months time. But an accident jeopardises their planned rendezvous on top of the Empire State Building. Scenes from this film were featured in Sleepless in Seattle.
Director Leo McCarey (1957)
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Julian Pettifer looks back at the British Steel Challenge round the world yacht race.
The best and worst recordings from the Christmas pop archive.
Conductor Claudio Abbado had the original idea for this unusual visual version of Prokofiev's popular musical story, "Peter and the Wolf". Co-directed by Roger Law, one of the creators of Spitting Image, the film uses a combination of puppets and actors (Roy Hudd stars as the composer himself, and 10-year-old newcomer Henry Feagins as Peter) to create a visual story which matches the musical language of the piece.
Many of the puppets are life-size, and other roles are played by the innovative Theatre de Complicite. Abbado conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe playing Prokofiev's March in B flat minor, the Overture on Hebrew Themes and the Classical Symphony as well as his children's classic.
The narration is by Sting.
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The last of three "Animated 2" programmes is a new comedy adventure for Wallace and Gromit from Oscar-winning animator Nick Park, creator of "Creature Comforts". Wallace's voice is by Peter Sallis.
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George Gershwin's 1935 opera is a compendium of standards: Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' and I Loves You Porgy among them.
This production, the first recorded specially for television, is based on Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1986 Glyndebourne staging, which transferred to Covent Garden in 1992 and was immediately moved to the huge Shepperton Studios stage.
Willard White and Cynthia Haymon star in the title roles, and the London Philharmonic is conducted by Simon Rattle on a soundtrack that uses the commercially-available EMI recording.
(Stereo)
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The first of seven films exploring the virtues of vice.
Cinderella or the Vindication of Sloth. In Stephen Oliver 's opera the famous fairy story is turned on its head - the sisters are pretty, Cinderella is lazy and the Fairy Godmother is the Devil.
sung by CHARLEY HENDERSON (treble)
sung by SAMUEL BURKEY (treble) sung by DAVID COOPER (treble)
sung by NATHAN WATTS (treble) Producer Jonathan Gili
Executive producer Edward Mirzoeff
(The next programme, which looks at envy, is tomorrow at 11.00pm) Subtitled
Woody Allen's Oscar-nominated comedy drama starring Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Alan AIda, Woody Allen
When the mistress of respected eye-surgeon Judah Rosenthal threatens to expose their affair, he is faced with an agonising moral dilemma.
(1989)
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Followed by Christmas in Sarajevo
MTV's Unplugged series of concerts began as a humble idea: rock stars would come into the studio with an acoustic band and perform simple renditions of their best-known songs.
Rod Stewart 's session, recorded in Los Angeles in February, was a big success, revitalising the singer's career and proving the effectiveness of the Unplugged concept.
Stewart is reunited with Faces guitarist Ron Wood , now a Rolling Stone, and performs a set including Stay with Me,
Maggie May and Tonight's the Night. Further Unplugged concerts will be broadcast over the coming weeks.
This comedy is part of 'Black Christmas', a short festive season of madness, murder and dark humour, and stars George C Scott, Diana Rigg
A harassed chief of medicine struggles to keep order at an American hospital where staff members are being murdered. Director Arthur Hiller 1971
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