Alan Titchmarsh visits the gardens of some of Britain's most beautiful and historic houses.
Ian Parmenter prepares pork kebabs.
The little-seen longer version of this period romance, starring James Mason Phyllis Calvert
Margaret Lockwood
Wealthy Clarissa Richmond takes impoverished Hesther Shaw under her wing only to be repaid years later by an act of cruel betrayal.
Director Leslie Arliss (1943)
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Romantic drama starring
Dana Andrews
Merle Oberon
While visiting a San
Francisco nightclub, a wealthy socialite falls in love with a blind pianist and , pretends to be blind herself in order to get closer to him. With Ethel Barrymore and Hoagy Carmichael.
Director John Cromwell (1947)
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Drama starring Yves Montand
Daniel Auteuil Emmanuelle Beart Provence, 1930s: in this sequel to Jean de Florette , Manon, Jean de Florette 's daughter, has grown up free and wild in the hills. Ugolin is infatuated with her, but Manon knows many secrets and finds the perfect revenge for her father's death. Showing in widescreen format. In French with English subtitles.
Director Claude Berri (1986)
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Highlights from Belgium.
From Hickstead, featuring the Silk Cut Derby.
Commentary by Michael Tucker and Stephen Hadley. Producer Wendy Sheppard
As a supplement to Saturday's tribute to Lew Grade there's another chance to see four of the early adventure series that helped put his company, ATV, on the map. The first stars
Terence Morgan and features an adolescent
Francesca Annis. e/w
Robert Shaw was another swashbuckling hero from the 50s. B/W
Conrad Phillips pursues a relentless struggle against the villainous Gessler in another
ATV hit. b/w
Richard Greene starred as the dashing hero with Alan Wheatley as the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.
(The season continues with The Saint at
10.30pmonBBCl) B/W
Wolves of the Sea. An award-winning film which follows packs of killer whales in action. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Series producer John Sparks
The first of three programmes tonight under the title
Blackpool Night Out provides another chance to see the documentary about the Blackpool tram. Once a high-tech means of public transport, trams have now been rediscovered as an ecologically-sound solution to traffic pollution.
Producer Andrew Johnston
Series producer Peter Grimsdale
A Brief Anatomy of Blackpool
"The kind of people who come to Blackpool aren't looking for anything but fun," says actor David Thewlis. A native of the seaside town he revisits his childhood haunts in the second of tonight's programmes being shown to mark the centenary of Blackpool's famous tower. Director Mark Kidel
Producer John Ellis
A Large Door production for BBCtv
(The third programme in Blackpool Night Out isat9.30pm) Stereo
A surreal and amusing vision of Russian history performed by the Sharmanka Theatre. ProducerSimon Broughton
As a tribute to the comic talents of the late Terry Scott, BBC2 is showing the first ever episode of the sitcom that brought Terry and June Whitfield together.
(Terry and June Tribute on Thursday at 8.30pm on BBC1)
Oscar-winning period drama starring
Glenn Close
John Malkovich Michelle Pfeiffer
Set in pre-Revolutionary France this is a story of seduction, revenge and ultimate self-destruction. With Swoosie Kurtz , Keanu Reeves ,
Mildred Natwickand Uma Thurman.
Director Stephen Frears (1988)
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One of the most acclaimed British films of the 60s, this is the story of Jo, a pregnant Salford girl, her flighty mother, black lover and gay best friend. With Rita Tushingham and Dora Bryan Director Tony Richardson (1961)
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