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Mr Griffiths pursues the toilet vandals. Mr Griffiths
GEORGE A COOPER. Robbie JOHN ALFORD
. Ziggy GEORGE WILSON , Imelda FLEUR TAYLOR . Helen RUTH CARRAWAY
Written by Sarah Daniels

Contributors

Unknown:
George A Cooper.
Unknown:
John Alford
Unknown:
George Wilson
Unknown:
Fleur Taylor
Unknown:
Ruth Carraway
Written By:
Sarah Daniels

Kenneth Branagh adapts, directs and stars in this version of Shakespeare's play, continuingthe season of key eighties movies.
Henry V , at 27, embarks on a bloody campaign to win the throne of France.
(1989) Subtitled .... ♦See Films: pages 46-51 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Branagh
Unknown:
Henry V
Henry V:
Kenneth Branagh
Chorus:
Derek Jacobi
Gloucester:
Simon Shepherd
Bedford:
James Larkin
Exeter:
Brian Blessed
York:
James Simmons
Westmoreland:
Paul Gregory
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Charles Kay
Ely:
Alec McCowen
Captain Fluellen:
Ian Holm
Williams:
Michael Williams

Highlights from the opening matches of this season's Five Nations
Championship. England, with a much changed line-up from last year, take on a resurgent France in Paris. Ireland, with new coach Murray Kidd , face
Scotland, who have new captain Rob Wainwright. With John Inverdale.
Editor Gerard Lane Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Murray Kidd
Unknown:
Captain Rob Wainwright.
Unknown:
John Inverdale.
Editor:
Gerard Lane Stereo

The wildlife series continues.

American Mike de Gruy has always had a passion for cephalopods, a group of molluscs that includes squid, octopuses and cuttlefish. Here, he travels from Puget Sound to Australia to learn more about them. Narrated by David Attenborough.
See today's choices.
(Stereo)
Who are you calling a sucker? page 22

Contributors

Subject:
Mike de Gruy
Narrator:
David Attenborough
Producer:
Robin Brown
Series Executive Producer:
John Sparks

Second of an eight-part series that follows three pairs of friends on backpackingjourneys around the world. Andrew and Matt are fightingtheirway through the Guyanese jungle in search of the world's highest single-drop waterfall, the Kaieteur Falls. Helen and Alison hit Bangkok and take a look at kick boxing. And Ade and Paul witness a traditional Spanish bull fight in Madrid. Series producer Nicola Moody
♦ See John Peel : page 9

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peel

Russia's Secret War
Some historians have always suspected that Stalin was behind the Korean War but the Soviets have denied involvement.
By obtaining documents from recently opened archives and finding new eyewitnesses, Timewatch has uncovered evidence that Stalin was involved in the war and that over 70,000 members of the Soviet military took part. Producer Paul Lashmar ; Editor Laurence Rees

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Lashmar
Editor:
Laurence Rees

Second of a three-part investigation into where power lies in Britain today.
Purchasing Power. Credit cards, home ownership and vast shopping centres give today's consumers unprecedented choice. But is purchasing power enough to make people feel in control of their destinies? Geoff Mulgan travels to Sheffield to discover how valuable consumer power is when job insecurity threatens people's financial wellbeing. Producer Mike Smith
Executive producer Helen Boaden

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Mulgan
Producer:
Mike Smith
Producer:
Helen Boaden

Third in the six-part series examining how and why tourism first evolved.
The Sun, the Sea and the Spanish. Fifty years ago, Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol, Spain, was an idyllicfishing village that was just beginningto be discovered by the jet set. The Tourist tells the story of its transformation into a cheap and cheerful package-holiday resort. It talks to Spanish people, from bar owners and hotel managers to the minister who, under General Franco's dictatorship, helped to establish modern mass tourism in the area.
Director Christopher Swayne ; Series producers Mary Dickinson and Christopher Bruce
* See John Peel: page 9

Contributors

Director:
Christopher Swayne
Producers:
Mary Dickinson
Producers:
Christopher Bruce

Drama starring
Glenn Close
Christopher Walken
Attracted by a newspaper advertisement, Sarah leaves the security of her Maine home and travels to the Kansas prairie, where she enters the lives of two motherless children and their stem, lonely father Jacob.
Director Glenn Jordan (1991) ♦See Films: pages 46-51
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Contributors

Unknown:
Glenn Close
Unknown:
Christopher Walken
Director:
Glenn Jordan
Sarah Wheaton:
Glenn Close
Jacob Witting:
Christopher Walken
Caleb Witting:
Christopher Bell
Anna Witting:
Lexi Randall
Matthew Grant:
Jon Devries
Maggie Grant:
Margaret Sophie Stein

Psychological mystery, concluding the season of films celebrating 100 years of cinema, starting Rachel Roberts
Dominic Guard , Helen Morse
On St Valentine's Day 1900, a party of girls from an exclusive boarding school goes to picnic at the awe-inspiring Hanging Rock. Three girls and a teacher mysteriously disappear.
DirectorPeterWeir(1975) ♦ See Films: pages 46-51 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Rachel Roberts
Unknown:
Dominic Guard
Unknown:
Helen Morse
Mrs Appieyard:
Rachel Roberts
Michael Fitzhubert:
Dominic Guard
DiannedePotiers:
Helen Morse
Minnie:
Jacki Weaver
Miss McCraw:
Vivean Gray
Dora Lumley:
Kirsty Child
Miranda:
Anne Lambert

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