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Drama starring Joan Fontaine and Mark Stevens.
Bill Cummings , discharged from the army after the Second World War, waits in the employment office and recalls the pre-war years. Review page 47. Director John Berry (1946)
(BW) (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Fontaine
Unknown:
Mark Stevens.
Unknown:
Bill Cummings
Director:
John Berry

Steve Wright presents archive performances from Queen, the Tourists, Culture Club, T'Pau, the Who and Judy Collins.
(Repeated next Saturday) (S)
(Top of the Pops Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)
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Contributors

Narrator:
Steve Wright
Producer:
Mark Hagen

This week, Diarmuid Gavin deals with a garden in a midlife crisis. He decides the answer lies with 40 tons of concrete, which must be craned across three neighbouring gardens. Director Dave Smith ; Series producer Dan Adamson (R) (S) (W) BBC PRODUCTS: book, £18.99; Good Homes magazine L2.30 monthly

Contributors

Unknown:
Diarmuid Gavin
Director:
Dave Smith
Producer:
Dan Adamson

Period drama. Two years after the end of the American
Civil War, Jack Sommersby returns home to his wife. His personality seems to have drastically changed for the better, but as he has been away for seven years, his wife and others set aside their suspicions that he may be an imposter. Widescreen. Review page 47.
Director Jon Amiel (1993, 12) (S) (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Sommersby
Director:
Jon Amiel
Jack Sommersby:
Richard Gere
Laurel Sommersby:
Jodie Foster
Orin Meecham:
Bill Pullman
Judge Isaacs:
James Earl Jones
Buck:
Lanny Flaherty
Reverend Powell:
William Windom
Travis:
Wendell Wellman
Little Rob:
Brett Kelley
Esther:
Clarice Taylor
Joseph:
Frankie Faison
Dick Mead:
Ronald Lee Ermey
Doc Evans:
Richard Hamilton
Mrs Evans:
Karen Kirschenbauer

Last in the nightly three-part documentary about the film-maker who died in 1999. The programme follows Kubrick's work from the late 1970s until his death, including his films The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut, as well as the project posthumously realised by Steven Spielberg Al, which opens later this month. With contributions from Jack Nicholson , Martin Scorsese ,
Nicole Kidman , Shelley Duvall and Matthew Modine , and narrated by Tom Cruise. (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Nicholson
Unknown:
Martin Scorsese
Unknown:
Nicole Kidman
Unknown:
Shelley Duvall
Unknown:
Matthew Modine
Unknown:
Tom Cruise.

Nomad's Land.
A short film following Tsedup Karko, a Tibetan nomad who now lives in London with his English wife and works as a film extra playing a range of people of different ethnicity.
(R) (S)
Followed by 48 Preludes and Fugues (R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Series producer:
Jeremy Howe
Director:
Alex Gubbay

Repeats are not indicated.
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