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Murder mystery, the first film in a double bill featuring Robert Young

Investigating two murders, magician Michael Morgan is drawn into a world of illusion and psychic research.
(1939)
(Black and white)
See Films: pages 50-60

Contributors

Director:
Tod Browning
Michael Morgan:
Robert Young

Comedy starri ng Lana Turner and the second film in a double bill featuring Robert Young
A bored waitress goes to New York, leaving her boss under suspicion of being involved in her sudden disappearance.
Directorwesley Ruggles (1943)
Black and white.....
# See Films: pages 50-60 * *

Contributors

Unknown:
Lana Turner
Unknown:
Robert Young
Unknown:
Directorwesley Ruggles

Return of the show, for a 15-part series, that tests three teams' knowledge of Asian culture, history and lifestyle.
Sahera Chohan asks the questions.
To take part please send an SAE to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Sahera Chohan

Prison drama starring Paul Muni
The classic Hollywood drama about a man who is trying to evade the law after escaping from a brutal chain gang.
Director Mervyn LeRoy (1932)
Blackandwhite * See Films: pages 50-60

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Muni
Director:
Mervyn Leroy
James Allen:
Paul Muni
Marie Woods:
Glen Dafarrell
Helen:
Helen Vinson
Linda:
Noel Francis
Pete:
Preston Foster

Musical biography starring
Rosalind Russell
Based on the memoirs of striptease queen
Gypsy Rose Lee who in her early years was dragged from one musical theatre to another by her domineering and ambitious mother. Showing in widescreen format.
Director Mervyn LeRoy (1962. PG)
Subtitled..... ♦ See Films: pages 50-60

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosalind Russell
Unknown:
Gypsy Rose Lee
Director:
Mervyn Leroy
Rose:
Rosalind Russell
Louise Gypsy:
Natalie Wood
Herbie Sommers:
Karl Malden
Tulsa:
Paul Wallace
TessieTura:
Betty Bruce

The Yorkshire Dales - a Dales
Diary. To visitors, little seems to have changed on the Yorkshire Dales but the last 50 years have brought many profound environmental changes to the area. Written and narrated by Richard Mabey.
Producers Mike Birkhead and David W Rolfe Repeat Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Mabey.
Producers:
Mike Birkhead
Producers:
David W Rolfe

Orlan Guerin meets people from Trieste, in northern Italy, who are struggling to come to terms with atrocities committed at the end of the Second World War. And a report on why more policemen commit suicide in South Africa than anywhere else in the world. Editor Fiona Murch

Contributors

Unknown:
Orlan Guerin
Editor:
Fiona Murch

The first in a series of 11 programmes features Oscar-winning actor Ralph Fiennes and his six siblings talking candidly about their mother, the novelist and painter Jennifer Lash.
(See today's choices.)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Ralph Fiennes
Director:
Samira Osman
Series Editor:
Michael Poole

Beryl Reid
In the first of four programmes about Britain's great character actresses, friends, fans and colleagues paytribute to the late Beryl Reid. From her early days on the radio with Archie Andrews to playing the tortured lesbian soap star in The Killing of Sister George, her career spanned drama and comedy, radio, film and television.
Producer Louis Heaton ; Editor
Gaynor Vaughan Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Beryl Reid.
Unknown:
Archie Andrews
Producer:
Louis Heaton
Editor:
Gaynor Vaughan Jones

The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan.
The former lead singer of the Pogues is known as much for his rock 'n' roll lifestyle as his music. This film tracks his personal odyssey between County Tipperary and London. It includes interviews with MacGowan and his parents, interpretations of his songs by Sinead O'Connor, Nick Cave and Christy Moore, and insights into his personality from fellow singers Bono, Steve Earle and Billy Bragg.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shane MacGowan
Songs By:
Sinead O'Connor
Songs By:
Nick Cave
Songs By:
Christy Moore
Unknown:
Steve Earle
Unknown:
Billy Bragg
Director:
Mike Connolly

Six progammes in which
Clive Barker explores the art of horror. American Psycho. Wisconsin farmer Ed Gein graduated from grave-robbingto murder in the fifties. Gein's story inspired three films: Psycho (which follows at 11.55pm), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The
Silence of the Lambs. Directors and film stars explain how fiction fed off fact.
Director Stephen White : Series producer
DevVarma Stereo Subtitled ..

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Barker
Unknown:
Ed Gein
Director:
Stephen White

Classic Hitchcock horror starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
After stealing $40,000, Marion Crane runs off to join her lover Sam Loomis, stopping at a desolate motel run by Norman Bates, an intense young man who lives with his domineering mother.
Director Alfred Hitchcock (1960, 15)
Black and white Subtitled
See Films: pp 50-60 *****
What do you mean you've never seen...?: page 49

Contributors

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Norman Bates:
Anthony Perkins
Marion Crane:
Janet Leigh
Lila Crane:
Vera Miles
Sam Loomis:
John Gavin
Milton Arbogast:
Martin Balsam

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