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Comedy with Jerry Lewis
A cop attempts to reform juvenile delinquent Sidney Pythias using sympathetic handling.
With Darren McGavin, Martha Hyer, Robert Ivers, Rocky Marciano.
Director Don McGuire (1957) B/W

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerry Lewis
Unknown:
Sidney Pythias
Unknown:
Darren McGavin
Unknown:
Martha Hyer
Unknown:
Robert Ivers
Unknown:
Rocky Marciano.
Director:
Don McGuire

The popular drama series set in a comprehensive school. Annette is jealous of Fay's new friendship.
Written by Barry Purchese

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Purchese
Fay:
Alison Bettles
Annette:
Nadia Chambers
Zammo:
Lee MacDonald
Jonah:
Lee Sparke
Jeremy:
Vincent Matthews
Julie:
Lisa York
Diane:
Julie-Ann Steel

The Camikazi Kid. 6 June 1961: while President Kennedy appeals to his country's finer feelings, Sam has become a 17-year old junk-food-consuming car freak who wants to save an idealistic older sister from a disastrous marriage. With Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
(Rpt) (Stereo)

Contributors

Sam:
Scott Bakula
Unknown:
Dean Stockwell

Broadway musical comedy featuring 14 songs by Cole Porter and starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

Singing star Fred Graham, who is playing the lead in an up-dated version of The Taming of the Shrew, casts both his ex-wife and his girlfriend in the other leading roles then finds their suitability for the parts painfully obvious.
(1953)
Film Reviews pages 69-76

Contributors

Songs By:
Cole Porter
Director:
George Sidney
Lilli Vanessi, Katherine:
Kathryn Grayson
Fred Graham, Petruchio:
Howard Keel
Lois Lane, Bianca:
Ann Miller
Lippy:
Keenan Wynn
Gremio:
Bobby Van
Bill Calhoun, Lucentio:
Tommy Rall
Slug:
James Whitmore
Baptista:
Kurt Kasznar
Hortensio:
Bob Fosse

Coverage of the men's final in the British National Championships from Telford. Commentary by John Barrett and Mark Cox. With Sue Barker.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker Commentary: John Barrett
Commentary:
Mark Cox
Producer:
Johnnie Watherston

John Inverdale presents highlights of the weekend's top fixtures, as Harlequins take on Gloucester and Swansea face the South African touring side. Action, too, from the third round of the Pilkington Cup and a look ahead to next week's match between England and Romania at Twickenham.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Gerard Lane

Robin Page introduces the Young Handlers Championship and Gus Dermody describes their fortunes on the seniors' course. Competitors are Calum Miller and Cap (Scotland); David Scott and Glen (Ireland); Maralyn McNaught and Lad (Wales); and David Wood and Jim (England).
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robin Page Unknown: Gus Dermody
Unknown:
Calum Miller
Unknown:
David Scott
Unknown:
Maralyn McNaught
Unknown:
David Wood
Director:
Ian Russell
Producer:
Joy Corbett

A Money Programme special, part of the season marking the fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. When the Wall fell, a vision of a new, united Europe swept the continent.

Five years on, that vision is fading with West European politicians fearing the cost of closer relationships with their far poorer Eastern neighbours. Michael Robinson travels to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and finds the early euphoria is being replaced by uncertainty and apprehension.
Transcript: for a transcript of this programme please write to BBC, [address removed] (telephone [number removed]).

Contributors

Reporter:
Michael Robinson
Producer:
Barbara Want
Editor:
Jane Ellison

An exciting new venture for TV, in which a diverse cross-section of people from all over Britain review the past week through their own eyes and in their own words. Armed with camcorders, the contributors provide a day-by-day record of the week as it really was, a mix of national stories and personal dramas.

Contributors

Producer:
Chris Mohr

Second of two programmes which tell the story which led up to the events of 9 November 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

Members of the East German Politburo, policemen who were given arms to fire on dissidents, the man on the gate that opened the way to crowds flooding through, and Mikhail Gorbachev whose change of policy enabled it to happen, all tell exactly how one of the great events of 20th-century history came to happen.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Mikhail Gorbachev
Director/Producer:
David Ash

Contemporary music series featuring talented young musicians playing in locations that compliment the music. Mezzo soprano Lore Lixenberg performs Sin Medida by Venezuelan composer Julio d'Escrivan, with text by Luis E Perez Oramas. Lore talks to Joanna MacGregor about these urban poems from the spacious interior of the newly-built Ark in Hammersmith, London.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Mezzo Soprano:
Lore Lixenberg
Unknown:
Luis E Perez Oramas
Unknown:
Joanna MacGregor

An entire popular mythology has made the Spanish Inquisition a byword for human evil - sadistic, fanatical and omnipotent. But in reality it was none of these things. How did the truth come to be so distorted?
Through special access to the secrets of the Inquisition's own archives, Timewatch presents a very different version of history's most notorious institution. See today's choices.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Producer:
Jonathan Stamp
Editor:
Laurence Rees

First showing on network television for this comedy directed by Tom Stoppard, based on his own play.
Starring Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss

Prince Hamlet has lost his adored father and has returned to Denmark, not to be crowned king himself but only to find that his Uncle Claudius has upstaged him, taking the throne and marrying his sister-in-law. Hamlet has been behaving badly, and Claudius sends for his boyhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find out why. The friends are at a loss, but one thing's certain: there is something rotten in the state of Denmark.
The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1990. (1990)
(Subtitled)
(The season continues with Shakespeare - the Animated Tales on Wednesday at 7.30pm)
Film reviews pages 69-76

Contributors

Author/Director:
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz:
Gary Oldman
Guildenstern:
Tim Roth
Player:
Richard Dreyfuss
Ophelia:
Joanna Roth
Prince Hamlet:
Iain Glen
King Claudius:
Donald Sumpter
Queen Gertrude:
Joanna Miles
Osric:
Liubo Zecevic
Polonius:
Ian Richardson
Laertes:
Sven Medvesck
Horatio:
Vili Matula

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