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Lost and Found comedy drama.

Temptation visits members of a purity league after they are stranded en route to their annual convention.
(1935) (Black and white) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 65-76 **

Contributors

Director:
Graham Cutts
Director:
Austin Melford

Weekly strand reflecting Asian culture.
9.00 Network East Big Talk
Tazeen Ahmad and guests discuss why so few Asians play, orwatch, professional football in Britain.............................
9.30 Q Asia Quiztestingteams' knowledge of Asian matters, with Sahera Chohan.
10.0OCafe21 Young people talk about relationships between siblings.
Shown yesterday .................................
10.30 Network East Guests include actress Seeta Indrani (aka WPC Datta in ITV's TheBill) and there's a report from the set of Goodness Gracious Me -the Asian comedy show which returns to
BBC2on Friday at 9.30pm. Presented by Sanjeev Kohli and Sonia Deol. ... ♦ Drive a sports car for a week: page Asia 2 editor Paresh Solanki ; Videoplus code for
9.00-11.20(notPDC) ....................

Contributors

Unknown:
Tazeen Ahmad
Unknown:
Sahera Chohan.
Unknown:
Seeta Indrani
Presented By:
Sanjeev Kohli
Presented By:
Sonia Deol.
Editor:
Paresh Solanki

Another chance to see Jose Carreras ,
Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in concert in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, before last summer's World Cup football final. The performance featured a repertoire of operatic arias and popular songs.
Producer Ian Russell ; Concert producer Tibor Rudas Repeat Subtitled.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jose Carreras
Unknown:
Placido Domingo
Unknown:
Luciano Pavarotti
Producer:
Ian Russell
Producer:
Tibor Rudas

Saturday Matinee Second World War drama, starring Frank Sinatra
Also featuring Steve McQueen

In north-west Burma, a guerrilla army captain tries to woo a beautiful woman away from her boyfriend.
(Widescreen) (1959) (Subtitled) **
Steve McQueen - the King of Cool, a documentary about the actor's life, is at 5.10pm
See Films: pages 65-76

Contributors

Director:
John Sturges
Captain Tom C. Reynolds:
Frank Sinatra
Carla Vesari:
Gina Lollobrigida
Captain Grey Travis:
Peter Lawford
Bill Ringa:
Steve McQueen
Sergeant John Danforth:
Charles Bronson

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards reflect on life with the Rolling Stones and reminisce about Top of the Pops. ................ Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1

Contributors

Unknown:
Mick Jagger
Unknown:
Keith Richards

Documentary thatdraws on home-movie footage, film clips and interviews with friends and familyto provide a revealing portrait of actor Steve McQueen. Narrated by Kevin Spacey. Papillon can be seen at
9.30pm. See today's choices.
Colour/Black and white ♦ School of cool: page 63

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve McQueen.
Unknown:
Kevin Spacey.

Travel and architecture series in which guest presenters explore counties in the footsteps of guidebook writer Nikolaus Pevsner.
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Writer Philip Hoare , who was born in the Southampton suburb of Sholing, revisits the county where he spent his formative years. Hisjourney begins in the docks area of Southampton, where buildings such as South Western House-reconstructed forthe feature film Titanic -ensurethe dockside retains the nautical atmosphere of a bygone era.
Other stopping-off points include the Royal Victoria
Hospital in Netley, where Hoare discovers powerful memories of the First World War, and Winchester Cathedral. Hoare's journey conti nues on the Isle of Wight, where he looks around Osbome House, designed as a holiday home forQueen Victoria. Producer Adam Low ; Executive producer
Keith Alexander BBC BOOKLET: send a cheque for f 4.99, payable to BBC Education Production, to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Nikolaus Pevsner.
Unknown:
Philip Hoare
Producer:
Adam Low
Producer:
Keith Alexander

Presenter Brian Barron reports from the small town of Blair, West Virginia, where a row is brewing between local residents and coal companies who are dynamiting the tops of mountains and dumping waste in the valley.
In Juarez, on Mexico's northern border, Julie Flint joins local journalists who are attempting to highlight the city's appalling crime record. In southern
Sudan, cameraman
Andrew Allam watches a unique mine-clearing operation organised by a small group of Sudanese in the war-torn town ofYei. And, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Jonathan Holmes meets a water-divinerwhose methods have earned him a reputation as a miracle worker. Series producer Lucy Hetherington ; Editor FionaMurch Subtitled ............

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Barron
Unknown:
Julie Flint
Unknown:
Andrew Allam
Unknown:
Jonathan Holmes
Producer:
Lucy Hetherington

The series examining postwar conflicts between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
After Stalin 1953-6. Nikita
Khrushchev ushers in a new
Soviet era by releasing thousands from labourcamps, and Eastern bloc countries start to rise up against Soviet rule. In Budapest in 1956, a coup is ruthlessly suppressed by Russian tanks. See today's choices.
Series producer Martin Smith : Executive producers Jeremy Isaacs and Pat Mitchell

Contributors

Producer:
Martin Smith
Producers:
Jeremy Isaacs
Producers:
Pat Mitchell

Fact-based drama about an amazing prison escape.
Starring Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman

Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon, is sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island, French Guiana, for a crime he did not commit. For the next 13 years, Papillon devotes his entire energies to escape and suffers savage punishments before his final bid for freedom.
Widescreen.
(1973, 18)
See Films: pages 65-76 ****

Contributors

Director:
Franklin J Schaffner
Henri Charriere, Papillon:
Steve McQueen
Louis Dega:
Dustin Hoffman
Indian chief:
Victor Jory
Julot:
Don Gordon
Toussaint:
Anthony Zerbe
Maturette:
Robert Deman
Clusoit:
Woodrow Parfrey
Lariot:
Bill Mumy
Dr Chatal:
George Coulouris
Zoraima:
Ratna Assan
Warden Barrot:
William Smithers
Antonio:
Gregory Sierra
Mother Superior:
Barbara Morrison
Nun:
Ellen Moss
Butterfly trader:
Don Hanmer

Continuing the drama series following police officers in the town of Stanton. Natalie and Mike confront an armed criminal.
Written by Anita J Pandotfo
Director Harry Bradbeer Cast see Monday Shown last Monday Subtitled ...

Contributors

Director:
Harry Bradbeer

Drama. Mark, a radical student fleeing a campus riot, steals a private plane and flies to Death Valley. There he meets Dana, a restless young secretary who is looking for excitement.
(Widescreen)
(1970,15)
See Films: pages 65-76

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Director:
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark:
Mark Frechette
Daria:
Daria Halprin
Lee Allen:
Rod Taylor
Cafe owner:
Paul Fix
Morty:
Bill Garaway
Kathleen:
Kathleen Cleaver

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