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Comedy starring Greta Garbo

Comrade Ninotchka is sent to Paris to investigate the activities of a Soviet trade delegation, but comes to learn that love is more than a chemical reaction.
(1939, U) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 42-48

Contributors

Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Ninotchka:
Greta Garbo
Count Leon d'Algout:
Melvyn Douglas
Grand Duchess Swana:
Ina Claire
Michael Iranoff:
Sig Rumann

Mark Twain's classic satire continues the season of films starring Gregory Peck

In a wager, a penniless American is given a £1million note which he must keep intact for a month.
(1953, U)
(The Gregory Peck season concludes with "The Yearling" tomorrow at 4pm)
See Films: pages 42-48
Barry Norman on Gregory Peck: pp 40

Contributors

Author:
Mark Twain
Director:
Ronald Neame
Henry Adams:
Gregory Peck
Portia Lansdowne:
Jane Griffiths
Oliver Montpelier:
Ronald Squire
Roderick Montpelier:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Duchess of Cromarty:
Joyce Grenfell

The weekend saw the streets of London's Notting Hill filled with music, dancing and festivities in Europe's most exotic and energetic annual spectacle.
Comedian Felix Dexter presents his essential guide to the carnival, and meets some of the revellers who make this colourful event so memorable.

Contributors

Presenter:
Felix Dexter
Producer:
Sara Kozak

The second of eight programmes looking at how history has shaped current news stories. Presented by Mark Urban.
Tonight the extraordinary story of Scotland's last parliament, which voted itself out of existence in 1707 and, as Australia's cricketers return home, Kev Carmody reports from the Oval on the very first Australian cricket tourists to play in England, the Aboriginal Eleven of 1868.

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Urban
Reporter:
Kev Carmody
Editor:
Archie Baron
Editor:
Neil Cameron

The first of six programmes looking at aviation through the eyes of pilots and passengers.

Tonight the pressures of long-haul flights, the bush pilots flying aid into the dirt strips of east Africa and a trip in the Royal Navy's newest helicopter. Introduced by Hazel Irvine.

See today's choices.
See This Week: page 7

Contributors

Presenter:
Hazel Irvine
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

Tracey MacLeod reports live from the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Nominated for this year's prize for the album of the year are the Prodigy, Spice Girls, Radiohead, John Tavener, Beth Orton, Chemical Brothers, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Roni Size, Primal Scream and Suede.
(An extended version of this programme will be shown on Saturday night.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tracey MacLeod
Director:
Janet Fraser
Producer:
Mark Cooper

Open University
12.30am The Changing Face of Poverty
(Rpt)
1.00 Changing Climate?
(Rpt) (Stereo)
1.30 Television to Call Our Own

Summer Nights
2.00 Book Lover Essentials

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo 17-20

Business and Work
5.00 The Small Business Programme; Twenty Steps to Better Management - the Drama

Open University
6.00 Environment - the Heat Is On
(Rpt) (Stereo) (Subtitled)
6.25 Traditions and the Environment

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