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Food of Love. Peter Stringfellow shows off his prowess in the kitchen and Melinda Messenger tests oysters' aphrodisiac properties as Richard E Grant reveals Britain's top romantic and seductive dishes. (AD)9i3i

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Stringfellow
Unknown:
Melinda Messenger
Unknown:
Richard E Grant

The magazine reports on the official recognition of BSL one year on, new videophone technology and the Deaf Ashes cricket tour, plus a signed song from Jesus Christ Superstar for Easter. With sign language, voiceoverand in-vision subtitles. Repeated on Tuesday at 1.45am on BBC1 www.bbc.co.uk/seehear

Contributors

Unknown:
Jesus Christ

Sue Barker and Clare Balding are at Aintree to set the scene for the world's most famous horse race, while the afternoon's card begins with the lucrative 1.45 start, which is worth £45,000.
Continues on BBC1.

Clare Balding on a family day out: p25

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker
Presenter:
Clare Balding
Producer:
Helen Kuttner
Producer:
Gerry Morrison
Editor:
Carl Hicks

Unwanted antiques are dusted off and brought to the attention of experts for valuation at the Town Hall in Reading, Berkshire. Hosted by Paul Martin , with men in the know James Braxton and Mark Stacey.
Series producer John Miller

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Martin
Unknown:
James Braxton
Unknown:
Mark Stacey.
Producer:
John Miller

Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses the murder of a woman on a train while passing by on the 4.50pm service from Paddington in this drama, first shown in 1987 and starring Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie 's elderly sleuth.
Dramatised by TR Bowen
Producer George Gallaccio ; Director Martyn Friend (AD)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs McGillicuddy
Unknown:
Joan Hickson
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Dramatised By:
Tr Bowen
Producer:
George Gallaccio
Director:
Martyn Friend
Miss Marple:
Joan Hickson
Lucy Eyelesbarrow:
Jill Meager
Luther Crackenthorpe:
Maurice Denham
Emma Crackenthorpe:
Joanna David
Cedric Crackenthorpe:
John Hallam
Alfred Crackenthorpe:
Robert East
Harold Crackenthorpe:
Bernard Brown
Bryan Eastley:
David Beames
Alexander Eastley:
Christopher Haley
James Stoddart-West:
Daniel Steel
Mrs McGillicuddy:
Mona Bruce
DrQuimper:
Andrew Burt
Inspector Duckham:
David Waller

Historian Michael Wood takes a whistle-stop tour of the land of the pharaohs as he selects his favourite Egyptian landmarks. Stopovers include tourist staples like the temples at Karnak and Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and the pyramids at Giza, as well as surprise choices such as the oldest Christian monastery in the world.
Producer Tilman Remme : Executive producer Jonathan Stamp

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Wood
Producer:
Tilman Remme
Producer:
Jonathan Stamp

Oscar-winning black comedy. Lester Burnham , a disillusioned father suffering mid-life meltdown, is increasingly alienated from his grasping, estate agent wife Carolyn, sullen teenage daughter Jane and neighbours. So when he loses his job, Lester's response is a return to adolescent hedonism that throws his family and the all-American suburb into chaos. Review page 51.
Director Sam Mendes (1999, 18) (AD) Rim highlights: page 49

Contributors

Unknown:
Lester Burnham
Director:
Sam Mendes
Lester Burnham:
Kevin Spacey
Carolyn Burnham:
Annette Bening
Jane Burnham:
Thora Birch
Ricky Fitts:
Wes Bentley
Angela Hayes:
Mena Suvari
Buddy Kane:
Peter Gallagher
Barbara Fitts:
Allison Janney
Jim Olmeyer:
Scott Bakula
Jim Berkley:
Sam Robards
Colonel Fitts:
Chris Cooper

In this lavish short film, set in the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain reconsiders his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers risking their lives daily for the British Empire. Music by Nitin Sawhney.
Writer Joseph Miller ; Producer/Director Jamie Payne

Contributors

Music By:
Nitin Sawhney.
Unknown:
Joseph Miller
Director:
Jamie Payne
Sergeant Bakshi:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Colonel Evans:
Kenneth Branagh
General Willis:
Julian Glover
Captain Greville:
Paul McGann
Lieutenant Davis:
Samuel West
Sister:
Clare Burt
Lieutenant Frewer:
Malcolm Ridley
Corporal Wright:
Wayne Cater

- First World War drama, based on the novel by Pat Barker.
Psychiatrist William Rivers begins to question his values and training when charged with healing the mentally wounded. only to return them to the Front. His doubts increase when poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon is declared shell-shocked for making an anti-war declaration. Review page 51.
Director Gillies MacKinnon (1997, 15) Gillies MacKinnon 's Hideous Kinky is on Good Friday at 11.35pm

Contributors

Novel By:
Pat Barker.
Unknown:
William Rivers
Unknown:
Siegfried Sassoon
Director:
Gillies MacKinnon
Director:
Gillies MacKinnon
Dr William Rivers:
Jonathan Pryce
Siegfried Sassoon:
James Wilby
Billy Prior Jonny:
Lee Miller
Wilfred Owen:
Stuart Bunce
Sarah:
Tanya Allen
Dr Bryce:
David Hayman
Robert Graves:
Dougray Scott
Dr Yealland:
John Neville

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