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
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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
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 * *
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]
First in an 11-part series of the Asian arts and entertainment magazine. Bollywood stars join Mo Dutta in the studio and viewers can pose questions by calling
[number removed]. Stereo ..........
A series often programmes examining the Asian contribution to arts, performance and culture.The first looks at the celebrations in Pakistan marking
50 years of independence.
Movies under review are Volcano, Head above Water, and Nil by Mouth.
Shown last Monday. BBC1 Stereo
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
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
A Double in Diamonds. A diamond trail leads the Saint to mannequins and murder. First shown on ITV....
Memories from the Top of the Pops archives, plustoday's hits, Stereo. Top of the pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1
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
With Moira Stuart. Subtitled
Weather John Kettley .....
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
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.)
In the first of a 20-part series, TheGuardian journalist
Jim White reviews the stories in this week's papers.
Director Vernon Antcliffe : Producer
JohnMoulson Stereo ............
Pictures, Pictures.
Pictures. A new six-part series tells the stories behind some of the world's most famous photographs. It begins in the sleazy world of twenties' American tabloids, where photographers would do anythingto get a picture. See today's choices.
DirectorClare Beavan: ProducerTim Kirby Stereo..... ♦ See This Week: page 6 1
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
A compilation of classic songs and sketches from Beryl Reid 's 1968 revue series.
Producer Robin Nash
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)
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 ..
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
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With studio performances from Metallica and Donovan.
Repeat
Followed by Weatherview
Jools is joined by The Beautiful South, Metallica, Catatonia, Horace Andy and Donovan.