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How Washington Works
A four-part documentary series about power politics in the US capital.
2: The Pentagon. This programme tells the story of massive military spending, waste and inefficiency, and reveals an intense rivalry between the armed services. Presented by Pulitzer
Prize-winningjournalist Hedrick Smith.
TheUnelected: tomorrow at9.00am

Contributors

Unknown:
Hedrick Smith.

Academy Award-winning musical drama, starring
BingCrosby
An unconventional young priest tries to help the congregation of a poor church and its parish in New York.
Director Leo McCarey 1944) B/W * FILM REVIEWS pages 49-60

Contributors

Director:
Leo McCarey
Father Chuck OMalley:
Bing Crosby
Genevieve Linden:
Rise Stevens
Father Fitzgibbon:
Barry Fitzgerald
Father TimothyO'Dowd:
Frank McHugh
TedHainesJr:
James Brown
TedHainesSr:
Gene Lockhart
Carol James:
Jean Heather
MrBelknap:
Porter Hall
TomassoBozzani:
Fortunio Bonanova
MrsCarmody:
Eily Malyon
Pee Wee:
George Nokes
Officer McCarthy:
Tom Dillon
Tony Scaponi:
Stanley Clements
Herman Langerhanke:
Carl "alfalfa" Switzer

Many writers are associated with one particular location, but the poet John Betjeman is linked with a number of places in Britain, including north Cornwall, Highgate in London, Oxford, the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire, and Norfolk. This programme traces
Betjeman's steps around many of the places he enjoyed and the words he used to celebrate them

Contributors

Unknown:
John Betjeman

Further coverage of the World Championship from Sheffield, including the opening match from round two and a chance to win £500 in a phone-in competition.
(Stereo)
Competition: daily from 18-21 April. Phone in on [number removed]; lines open 12 noon to 12 midnight. Calls are charged at 39p per minute cheap rate and 49p per minute at all other times. For a copy of the rules, send an SAE to [address removed].
Including at
3.00 News and Weather subtitled (news)
3.50 News and Weather subtitled (news) Regional News; Weather

Starring Patrick Stewart
Cause and Effect. The Enterprise is trapped in a time warp that dooms it to a cycle of endless repetition. As the crew struggles with a sense of deja vu, the ship is thrown onto a collision course with an older vessel. With a guest appearance by Kelsey Grammer , star of Frasier and Cheers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Stewart
Unknown:
Kelsey Grammer
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Patrick Stewart
CommanderWilliamRiker:
Jonathan Frakes
Lt Commander Data:
Brent Spiner
Dr Beverly Crusher:
Gates McFadden
Lt Commander Geordi LaForge:
Levar Burton
Counsellor DeannaTroi:
Marina Sirtis
LtWorf:
Michael Dorn
Captain Bateman:
Kelsey Grammer

A compilation of some of the best moments from the popular BBC2 true-or-false game show Call My Bluff. Featuring team captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell , with Robert Robinson in the chair.
Producer David Housham

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Patrick Campbell
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
David Housham

Allied to the Mafia. The extraordinary story of one of the Second World War's most secret alliances, between US Naval Intelligence and the Mafia.
Denied for 50 years, the pact involved "Lucky" Luciano and Don Calo Vizzini , the most feared Godfathers of their day, and left a tragic legacy.
Producer Richard Bradley ; Editor Laurence Rees

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Calo Vizzini
Producer:
Richard Bradley
Editor:
Laurence Rees

The first of six programmes in which a five-course meal is prepared and cooked before the cameras.
As much a drama as a cookery series, it dramatises Edouard de Pomiane's
1930s culinary classic, Cooking in Ten Minutes, adapted by Nicholas Cooper. Tonight Dr Pomiane, a Polish research scientist in Paris, creates a simple and delicious meal for his guest, the mysterious Madame X, of prawn omelette, veal with petit pois, green salad, cheese and fruit.
Producers Nicholas Cooper and Candida Julian-Jones Director David Giles

Contributors

Adapted By:
Nicholas Cooper.
Producers:
Nicholas Cooper
Director:
David Giles
Edouard de Pomiane:
Christopher Rozycki
Madame X:
Marilyn Taylerson

The return of the interior design show for home lovers.
This week, a look at new wallpapers plus the first of designer
Eve Stewart's Quick Fixes: grand curtains at budget prices. Presented by Tessa Shaw. See today's choices.
Executive producers Janice Hadlow and Tim Kirby ;
Series producer Simon Shaw * See This Week: page 9

Contributors

Presented By:
Tessa Shaw.
Producers:
Janice Hadlow
Producers:
Tim Kirby
Producer:
Simon Shaw

A series about the way we live now.
Billy, a former soldier in Northern Ireland and one-time Liverpool gangster, is obsessed by a fear of harming people. Can 12 2 weeks at the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in South London cure Billy of his obsession?
See today's choices.
Director Cathy Elliott ; Series editor Stephen Lambert

Contributors

Unknown:
Mind Billy
Director:
Cathy Elliott
Editor:
Stephen Lambert

Continuing the series of favourite movie moments, film director John Milius chooses a scene from My Darling Clementine, and writer and television producer Lynda La Plante selects a sequence from On the Waterfront.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Speaker:
John Milius
Speaker:
Lynda La Plante

The story of the home movie which shocked the world - the 22-second film made by Dallas dressmaker and .amateurfilm buff Abraham Zapruder which, by chance, captured the moment of President John F Kennedy 's assassination. In the 32 years since, the film has been bought, sold, stolen and subpoenaed, while its nightmarish imagery continues to haunt the American psyche.

Contributors

Unknown:
John F Kennedy

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