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Drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin
Radical professor Thomas Brett marries Polly Fulton, unaware she is the daughter of a wealthy capitalist, a man who represents everything Brett despises.
(1948) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 44-53 **

Contributors

Director:
Robert Z Leonard
Polly Fulton:
Barbara Stanwyck
Thomas Brett:
Van Heflin

Adventure starring Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard
When a rebel leader becomes a target for the wrath of the British Raj on India's northwest frontier, idealistic policeman Freddy Young is unwillingly put on his trail.
(1967)
See Films: pages 44-53 *

Contributors

Unknown:
Yul Brynner
Unknown:
Trevor Howard
Unknown:
Freddy Young
Director:
Ken Annakin

Tonight, a look back on the series so far, as England prepare to face Australia in the final Ashes Test at the Oval. There's an interview with Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram, a report on how Derbyshire have coped since the departure of Dean Jones and a chat with Glamorgan's prolific batsman Steve James.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Gower
Interviewee:
Wasim Akram
Interviewee:
Steve James
Producer:
Phil Bigwood
Editor:
Philip Bernie Stereo

Twelfth in a 13-part series of investigative programmes from the BBC regions.
Reporter David Fenton looks at the threat to Britain's fossil heritage being posed by real dinosaur hunters. A trade in dinosaur bones from the south coast of England is now fetching thousands of pounds as part of a growing international fossil market -with which museums find it difficult to compete. The programme follows a group of professional dinosaur hunters from Lyme Regis to the Tucson Show in the US, where a Tyrannosaurus Rex can fetch up to $10 million.
(First shown on BBC South) (Stereo)

Contributors

Reporter/Producer:
David Fenton

Drama based on a true story starring Peter Strauss, Rachel Ticotin

Larry McLinden is overjoyed when girlfriend Diane announces that she is pregnant. For five years Larry forms a strong bond with Larry Jr. and is devastated when Diane disappears with the boy. He begins a bitter battle for custody but worse is to come, when Diane claims that Larry is not the child's real father.
(1994, PG)
See Films: pages 44-53 *

Contributors

Director:
Michael Dinner
Larry McLinden:
Peter Strauss
Diane Middleton:
Rachel Ticotin
Glen Schwartz:
Bob Dishy
Mary:
Brenda Bazinet
Bobbie Mallory:
Lynn Whitfield
Larry Jr:
Jacob Zelikpenn

On 19 August 1987, the Berkshire town of Hungerford was devastated by gunman Michael Ryan who killed 16 people and injured 15 others.
Ten years on, victims and relatives, ambulancemen and bystanders tell their own stories and explain how they have dealt with the tragedy. Among them is policeman Trevor Wainwright whose father was killed by Ryan, and who has extra reason to remember the tragic events.
See today's choices.
The Legacy of Hungerford, page 25 and Dr Mark Porter , page 34

Hungerford - Ten Years On 9.30pm BBC2
On 19 August 1987, tragedy struck the quiet market town of Hungerford, Berkshire. Michael Ryan, a local man, shot dead 16 people, wounded another 14 before shooting himself. This moving programme explores how the bereaved have lived with their losses.
It concentrates on three families, including that of local policeman Trevor Wainwright, whose story is particularly full of cruel irony. Alison Graham hears his and other residents' stories on page 25.
The word interviewees mention most is guilt: that they hadn't been able to stop Ryan before or during the massacre; that they were responsible for one of the victims being in Hungerford at that time; or simply that it wasn't them. As Tony Hill, whose daughter Sandra was the youngest to be killed, says: "We have to live with it day after day. Hungerford is always there on your mind, totally controlling your life."

Contributors

Interviewee:
Trevor Wainwright
Producer:
Lucy Jago
Executive Producer:
Debbie Christie

Don Van Vliet is regarded by many as one of the most original musicians to emerge from the rock era of the sixties and seventies. Now a highly-regarded landscape painter, he is a virtual recluse in his California home. John Peel examines the career of the man who performed as Captain Beefheart, and whose work continues to influence the likes of Tom Waits, PJ Harvey and Beck.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Peel
Director:
Elaine Shepherd
Executive Producer:
Mark Cooper
Executive Producer:
Kim Evans

Open University
12.30 The Spiral of Silence
(Subtitled)
1.00 The Information Society
1.30 This Little Flower Went to Market
(Rpt) (Stereo)

Summer Nights
2.00 Music Maestro Collections 2: The Score

Languages
4.00 The French Experience I 1-8 - French for Beginners

Open University
6.00 Four Towns and a Circus
6.25 Vibrations
6.50-7.15am Work and Energy

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