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How the Other Half Lives. David Goldblatt examines the aid business -from the moment money is given, to why, where, and how it is spent. With Secretary of State for International Development Clare
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Contributors

Unknown:
David Goldblatt
Unknown:
Glenys Kinnock

Wartime drama, opening a Saturday Matinee double bill, starring Dirk Bogarde , Marius Goring
In an attempt to demoralise the German army occupying Crete, two British officers plan to kidnap a leading German officer.
Directors Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
(1956) Blackandwhite ................. * See Films: pages 50-55 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Dirk Bogarde
Unknown:
Marius Goring
Major Paddy Leigh Fermor:
Dirk Bogarde
General Karl Kreipe:
Marius Goring
Captain Billy Stanley Moss:
David Oxley
Sandy:
Cyril Cusack
Manoli:
Laurence Payne

Second World War drama, concluding the Saturday Matinee double bill, starring Jeff Chandler

The captain of a small transport ship in the South Pacific is determined to knock his inexperienced crew into shape, but his strong will causes friction among the men.
(1956)
See Films: pages 50-55 ***

Contributors

Director:
Joseph Pevney
Captain Jebediah Hawks:
Jeff Chandler
Lieutenant MacDougall:
George Nader
Commander Quigley:
Lex Barker
Nadine MacDougall:
Julie Adams

Black Gold
BBC Moscow correspondent Andrew Harding travels to
Azerbaijan, the former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea, to see where the century's last great oil boom is in full swing.
British Petroleum is leading the way in explorations, but Russia's secret services have also been busy, promoting coupd'etats and attempted assassinations - all to ensure that this newly strategic region does not fall into western hands.
President HeydarAliyev of Azerbaijan and his Georgian opposite number,
Eduard Shevardnadze , offertheirviews on who will ultimately emerge triumphant in this power struggle. Producer Paul Mitchell ; Editor Fiona Murch

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Harding
Unknown:
Eduard Shevardnadze
Producer:
Paul Mitchell
Editor:
Fiona Murch

Widely acclaimed as one of history's most influential figures in the photographic field,
Henri Cartier-Bresson , now in his 90th year, gives a revealing interview about his life, work, ideas and beliefs to coincide with three major London exhibitions.
Contributors include fellow photographers Eve Arnold and Lord Snowdon, art historian Ernst Gombrich and Lord
Healey. See today's choices. Producer Patricia Wheatley

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Unknown:
Ernst Gombrich
Producer:
Patricia Wheatley

Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's King Lear, showing in the Performance strand. Starring Ian Holm

After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge. See today's choices.
Andrew Duncan interviews Ian Holm: page 14

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Director:
Richard Eyre
Producer:
Sue Birtwistle
Producer:
Joy Spink
King Lear:
Ian Holm
Gloucester:
Timothy West
Goneril:
Barbara Flynn
Regan:
Amanda Redman
Fool:
Michael Bryant
Kent:
David Burke
Edgar:
Paul Rhys
Edmund:
Finbar Lynch
Cordelia:
Victoria Hamilton
Albany:
David Lyon
Cornwall:
Michael Simkins
Oswald:
William Osborne
Old man:
Harry Jones
France:
Adrian Irvine
Burgundy:
Nicholas Bailey
Lear's knight:
Martin Chamberlain
Captain:
Paul Benzing
Messenger:
James Kerr

Highlights of the second day's play in the Sixth Test between the West Indies and England.
Commentary comes from Michael Holding, Tony Cozier, Ian Botham, Paul Allott, Mark Nicholas and Bob Willis.
Introduced by Jonathan Agnew. Producers Sam Leadsom and Simon Wheeler
(Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Cozier
Unknown:
Ian Botham
Unknown:
Paul Allott
Unknown:
Mark Nicholas
Unknown:
Bob Willis
Introduced By:
Jonathan Agnew
Producers:
Sam Leadsom

Rodeo drama starring
Steve McQueen
Ida Lupino , Robert Preston
A rodeo star returns to his
Arizona home town to enter an annual contest. Eagerly looking forward to a family reunion, he is shocked to find land developers where his home once stood, his father in hospital and his mother living in a caravan.
Director Sam Peckinpah (1972. PG)
♦ See Rims: pages 50-55 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve McQueen
Unknown:
Ida Lupino
Unknown:
Robert Preston
Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Junior Bonner:
Steve McQueen
Elvira Bonner:
Ida Lupino
Ace Bonner:
Robert Preston
Curly Bonner:
Joe Don Baker
Buck Roan:
Ben Johnson
Charmagne:
Barbara Leigh
Ruth Bonner:
Mary Murphy

Comedy drama starring
William Forsythe
DBSweeney Robert Miranda
The three sons of a D-Day veteran, now in hospital following a stroke, come across some of theirfather's wartime love letters to a French woman, and decide to take him from New
Jersey to Normandy so that he can be reunited with his old love.
Director Alexandre Rockwell (1989)
♦ See Films: pages 50-55 ***
Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Unknown:
William Forsythe
Unknown:
Dbsweeney Robert Miranda
Director:
Alexandre Rockwell
Mike:
William Forsythe
Rich:
Db Sweeney
Fred:
Robert Miranda
Father:
Samuel Fuller
Florence:
Stephane Audran

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