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6.20 Art in 15th-century Italy: Florence 7505986 6.45 Victorian Ways of Death
7804615 7.10Scenes from Dr Faustusby Christopher Marlowe 4804219 7.35The British Car Industry - a Level Playing Field?

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Faustusby Christopher Marlowe

' Crime drama starring
' Dick Powell , Rhonda Fleming
Recently released after being wrongly imprisoned for robbery,
Rocky Malloy is determined to track down the men who framed him. With Richard Erdman. Director Robert Parrish 1951) B/W * FILM REVIEWS pages 48-58

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Powell
Unknown:
Rhonda Fleming
Unknown:
Rocky Malloy
Unknown:
Richard Erdman.
Director:
Robert Parrish

Comedy starring
Bud Abbott , Lou Costello
A couple of dim-witted tie salesmen runningfrom the law end up unwittingly enlisting in the army. With Lee Bowman and the Andrews Sisters. Veteran Hollywood director Arthur Lubin died on 12 May.
(1941) B/W .....................................

Contributors

Unknown:
Bud Abbott
Unknown:
Lou Costello
Unknown:
Lee Bowman
Director:
Arthur Lubin

Animated adventure set
' against live action backgrounds.
After eating wild berries, Dot shrinks to the exact size of a tasty meal for a group of very nasty mosquitos.
Director Yoram Gross (1986) ....

Contributors

Director:
Yoram Gross

Regional News; Weather
Followed by Endangered World A Kenyan Trilogy
The Last Ceremony. The second of three films on wildlife conservation in East Africa looks at the Masai and their relationship with their land and its animals.
The final film is tomorrow at 3.05pm

In the fifth of a six-part series on death and grieving, Irish-born writer Josephine Hart tells Bel Mooney about the agony of losing three of her siblings: her infant brother Charles from pneumonia, her sister Sheila from meningitis and her brother Owen in an accident. Although she describes herself as a cheerful person, she cannot imagine a life free from the suffering of grief.

(The series ends tomorrow at 5.40pm)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Josephine Hart
Interviewer:
Bel Mooney
Series Producer:
Tina Jenkins

Beaming back from a distressed Romulan vessel, Geordi and Ensign Ro are the victims of a transporter malfunction and are assumed to be dead. In fact, they are invisible and insubstantial - able to pass through solid matter but unable to communicate with their grieving colleagues. Is this death?

Contributors

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Patrick Stewart
Commander William Riker:
Jonathan Frakes
Lt Commander Data:
Brent Spiner
Dr Beverly Crusher:
Gates McFadden
Lt Commander Geordi LaForge:
Levar Burton
Guinan:
Whoopi Goldberg
Ensign Ro:
Michelle Forbes

A compilation of some of the best moments from the popular BBC2 true-or-false game show Call My Bluff. Frank Muir and Arthur Marshal lead the teams. Robert Robinson referees.
Producer David Housham

Contributors

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

In the first of a two-part drama documentary,
Professor Gwyn Williams investigates the historical truth about King Arthur and the process of myth-making which has created the legend. See today's choices.
Director Colin Thomas
* See This Week: page 8

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Gwyn Williams
Director:
Colin Thomas
Arthur:
Dafydd Emyr
Lancelot:
Richard Elfyn
Guinevere:
Athena Constantine
Merlin:
William Vaughan
Kay:
Nicholas McGaughey
Bedlvere:
Robert Gwyn Davin

Four Townhouse Gardens. Four small plots used for parking cars are turned into attractive gardens. With Gay
Search and Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall . Series producer David Richardson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Producer:
David Richardson

The interior design show goes into the kitchen. Fourowners of distinctive kitchens talk about how they realised their ideas. Plus a look at some of the more bizarre gadgets to be found lurking at the back of the knife drawer, and the appeal of the range cooker. With Tessa Shaw and Nick Baker.
Producer Janet Lee ; Executive producers
Janice Hadlow and Tim Kirby Stereo Subtitled ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Tessa Shaw
Unknown:
Nick Baker.
Producer:
Janet Lee
Producers:
Janice Hadlow
Producers:
Tim Kirby

This week Alison Goldie visits the ancient university town of Coimbra on Portugal's Atlantic coast, TV presenter Dale Winton heads for Walton country in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and landscape photographer Fay Godwin takes in the wild beauty of County Antrim. Presented by Penny Junor .
Series producer Liz Warner

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Goldie
Presenter:
Dale Winton
Unknown:
Fay Godwin
Presented By:
Penny Junor
Producer:
Liz Warner

The first of a four-part series in which businessman
Sir John Harvey-Jones looks back on key scenes and experiences in his own life, starting with India, where he was brought up. See today's choices. Executive producer Robin Brightwell ; Series producer Robert Thirkell ♦The Andrew Duncan Interview with Sir John Harvey-Jones : page 18 # See Carol Vorderman : page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Producer:
Robin Brightwell
Producer:
Robert Thirkell
Unknown:
Andrew Duncan
Unknown:
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Unknown:
Carol Vorderman

Simon King finds out how to persuade house martins to nest under the eaves of your house, plus news from the osprey nest at Loch Garten.
Repeated next Saturday.
INFORMATION: see Ceefax page 624. BBC Wildlife magazine, or access the Internet: the URL address is: [web address removed] or record the closing titles and playback on still frame. You can E-mail your information on: [email address removed]

Followed by Talking X's Molly Parkin on A Streetcar Named Desire.

Contributors

Presenter:
Simon King
Producer:
Graham Booth
Series Producer:
Mike Beynon

Mark Lawson chairs a debate on the issues raised by BBC2's Forbidden
Weekend series of programmes about film and censorship, shown last
Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights. Series editor Michael Poole

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Editor:
Michael Poole

BBC Two England

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