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Comedy art series. This week, the gang re-enacts the life of Michelangelo and goes behind the scenes of a Hogarth painting. With Tyler Butterworth, Joanne Heywood and Howard Lew Lewis.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tyler Butterworth
Presenter:
Joanne Heywood
Presenter:
Howard Lew Lewis

So Help Me God. 29 July 1957: in a Louisiana courtroom, a black woman is charged with the murder of a rich white man. Sam leaps into the body of her lawyer. With Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Bakula
Unknown:
Dean Stockwell.

A 40th anniversary tribute to Sports Review of the Year. Harry Carpenter takes a nostalgic look at the show's classic moments and at some of the great names in sport, including Muhammad Ali, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and Red Rum.
See This Week: page 8

Contributors

Presenter:
Harry Carpenter
Producer:
Emma Josling

Thetraditional curtain-raiser on the World Cup circuit - La Premiere Neige in Val d'lsere - heralds Ski Sunday's 18th year. Olympic champion Tommy Moe of the USA is a hot tip in the first downhill race of the season. With David Vine........

Contributors

Unknown:
Tommy Moe

Highlights from the final match in the South Africans' tour, against the Barbarians in Dublin and the deciding fixtures from this year's Divisional
Championship. Also, a look ahead to
England vCanada at Twickenham next Saturday, the A-Z of Rugby, results of November's Try of the Month competition, and views from this week's studio guests. Presented by Johnlnverdale.
Editor Gerard Lane Stereo ...............

Contributors

Editor:
Gerard Lane Stereo

Badlands
The stunning but harsh scenery of the South Dakota Badlands acts as a stage for a wildlife drama set around the life of the Mid-West's most infamous "little critter" - the prairie dog. This programme tells the complete story of the private life of the prairie dog, with unique film of the animals in their underground towns. Series producer John Sparks
+ Little dogs on the prairie: see page 32

Contributors

Producer:
John Sparks

Jobs are being lost in Britain as companies from the rest of Europe win contracts through bribery. The cases uncovered so far are just the tip of the iceberg according to investigators. Cross border corruption is on the increase and it's almost impossible to detect. The BBC's Europe business correspondent, Jonathan Charles, looks at how the rules are being systematically broken and asks what needs to be done to stop the bribery.

Transcript: for a transcript of this programme, price £20.00, please write to [address removed] [telephone number removed].

Contributors

Reporter:
Jonathan Charles
Producer:
Stephen Horn
Editor:
Jane Ellison

People from all walks of life throughout the British Isles use camcorders to review the past week through their own eyes and in their own words. This week's contributors include a nun in a closed order who considers the Budget and celebrates Advent and a student DJ who tries to finish an essay while organising a college gig.

Contributors

Producer:
Marina Michaelides
Series Producer:
Chris Mohr

Another chance to see the five-part portrait of the British and their cars. Looking at Him Looking at You
Intimate portraits of the thoughts and fantasies of women as they pose, flirt and escape in theircars. Lynn feels powerful in her Ford Capri, Helen found a toyboy for her MX5, Frances hides her legs in herVW Golf, and Tina races men at lights in herXR3.
Director/Series producer Nicholas Barker

Contributors

Producer:
Nicholas Barker

Contemporary music series featuring talented young musicians playing in locations that complement the music. Joanna MacGregor is joined by Chi-Chi Nwanoku who performs Failing by Tom Johnson - a piece which requires the performer to play the double bass and tell a story simultaneously.
Postponed from 20 November Stereo ....66

Contributors

Music:
Joanna MacGregor
Unknown:
Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Unknown:
Tom Johnson

Khrushchev - the Peasant Premier
In the centenary year of his birth, and using previously unseen home movies, this film explores the contradictions of the Ukranian peasant's son. He contributed to the crises in Berlin and Cuba, yet he hated the arms race. As Stalin's henchman he had plenty of blood on his hands, yet he denounced his former master and ensured that the terrorwould never return.
Producer Nick Read ; Editor Laurence Rees

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Read
Editor:
Laurence Rees

The first of three films starring Michelle Pfeiffer is a comedy thriller directed by Jonathan Demme , also starring
Matthew Modine Dean Stockwell
Small-time Mafia wife Angela De Marco decides she's had enough and goes into hiding, but Godfather Tony Russo is on to her - and the FBI are on to him.
Even more complications ensue when Angela falls for an undercover agent.
(1988) Next week, The Fabulous Baker Boys
* FILM REVIEWS pages 77-84

Contributors

Unknown:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Directed By:
Jonathan Demme
Unknown:
Matthew Modine
Unknown:
Dean Stockwell
Unknown:
Angela de Marco
Unknown:
Tony Russo
Angela De Marco:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Mike Downey:
Matthew Modine
Tony the Tiger Russo:
Dean Stockwell
Cucumber Frank De Marco:
Alec Baldwin
Connie Russo:
Mercedes Ruehl
FBI Director:
Trey Wilson
Rose:
Joan Cusack
Theresa:
Ellen Foley
Ed Benitez:
Oliver Platt

Film adaptation of David Hare 's acclaimed play, starring
Meryl Streep , Charles Dance
Susan Traherne returns to Britain haunted by her experiences as a Resistance fighter in Occupied France. Postwar life seems dull, but Susan's rage against mediocrity and her attempts to find fulfilment not only damage her own life, butalterthe lives of those around her.
Director Fred Schepisi (1985)
* FILM REVIEWS pages 77-84

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hare
Unknown:
Meryl Streep
Unknown:
Charles Dance
Unknown:
Susan Traherne
Director:
Fred Schepisi
Susan Traherne:
Meryl Streep
Raymond Brock:
Charles Dance
Alice Park:
Tracey Ullman
Sir Leonard Darwin:
John Gielgud
Mick:
Sting
Sir Andrew Charleson:
Ian McKellen
Lazar:
Sam Neill
Mr Aung:
Bert Kwouk
Mme Aung:
Pik Senlim
Villon:
Andre Maranne
Michael:
Hugh Laurie

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