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Wartime comedy starring Olivia de Havilland

Life gets complicated for secretary Smokey Allard when her new boss arrives on the scene. His less than orthodox working methods get results, but stir up trouble for them both. (1943) (B/W)
Film Reviews pages 53-58

Contributors

Director:
Dudley Nichols
Smokey:
Olivia de Havilland
Ed Browne:
Sonny Tufts
Mrs Wright:
Agnes Moorehead
May:
Anne Shirley
Dana:
Jess Barker
Sergeant Joe:
James Dunn

Biographical sports drama starring James Stewart, June Allyson

Farm boy Monty Stratton's talent for baseball brings him success both on the pitch and in his private life, but a freak accident puts all his achievements at risk.
(1949) (B/W)
Film Reviews pages 53-58

Contributors

Director:
Sam Wood
Monty Stratton:
James Stewart
Ethel Stratton:
June Allyson
Barney Wile:
Frank Morgan
Ma Stratton:
Agnes Moorehead
Eddie Dibson:
Bill Williams

Drama starring Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone

A fire on a veteran American liner sparks off an explosion that threatens the ship and all of her passengers.
(1960)
Film Reviews pages 53-58

Contributors

Director:
Andrew L Stone
Cliff Henderson:
Robert Stack,
Laurie Henderson:
Dorothy Malone
Capt Robert Adams:
George Sanders
Second Engineer Walsh:
Edmond O'Brien
Hank Lawson:
Woody Strode

First in a new four-part series from the BBC's Disability Programmes Unit that examines the lack of educational choices for disabled children and asks if they would be better served by being placed in "mainstream" schools with non-disabled youngsters.

Disabled adults recount chilling tales of their harrowing experiences of life inside the strict regimes of "special" schools. Bullying, public humiliation, isolation and corporal punishment were commonplace in these establishments, often accompanied by poor educational standards and low expectations.

Contributors

Producer:
Ann Pugh
Series Editor:
Ian MacRae

The Ngorongoro crater, set high in the mountains of northern Tanzania, is a truly remarkable wild animal sanctuary, containing Africa's richest concentration of wild mammals within its towering lava walls. Of the species on view the black rhinos justifiably hold centre stage, not only for their appearance but also because the species has been hunted almost to extinction for the perceived properties of its horn.
Reinhard Kunkel's film captures these rare beasts in their African home.

Contributors

Director:
Reinhard Kunkel

This week, Patrick Moore from the BBC's Sky at Night visits the now redundant Equatorial Telescopes Buildings at Herstmonceux in Sussex. Built by a designer known for creating ship's interiors, the complex owes more to navigational design than to the modern era.

Sheffield's Parkhill estate will be the biggest structure ever listed in Britain, but should English Heritage be proposing such a move for the 1960s estate, which is regarded as run down even by its own residents? Architect Carolyn Steele investigates.

Plus a look at topiary, the art of hedge sculpture, including a giant chess set fashioned in Oxfordshire.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Reporter:
Patrick Moore
Reporter:
Carolyn Steele
Series Producer:
Basil Comely
Executive Producer:
Sally Angel
Executive Producer:
Roland Keating

Sardonic blue-collar comedy.

With Jimmy offering to take the children for Thanksgiving, Grace and Nadine decide to hold an anti-Thanksgiving for all those irritating things - such as the entire Kelly clan that descends upon them uninvited.
(Stereo)

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Contributors

Grace:
Brett Butler
Russell Norton:
Dave Thomas
Nadine Swoboda:
Julie White
Wade Swoboda:
Casey Sander
Faith:
Valri Bromfield
Jimmy:
Geoff Pierson

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