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Director Franco Zeffirelli 's passionate dramatisation of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy about young Veronese lovers caught between their warring families. Review page 57.
(1968, PG) Followed by The Witness

Contributors

Director:
Franco Zeffirelli
Romeo:
Leonard Whiting
Juliet:
Olivia Hussey
Narrator:
Laurence Olivier
Friar Laurence:
Milo O'Shea
Tybalt:
Michael York

Harry Beck 's London Underground Map. In 1931, draughtsman Harry Beck realised that an electrical-circuit diagram was the ideal model for a new and improved map of the tube network. Two years later, the first version of a design icon was published. But why did he exclude everything at street level? And what dictated his choice of colour for each line? Minding the gap, Nicholas Crane finds out.
Director/Series producer Michael Waterhouse Nicholas Crane presents Coast on Friday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Beck
Unknown:
Harry Beck
Unknown:
Nicholas Crane
Unknown:
Nicholas Crane

4/10. How did a camera-shy politician end up the world's most photographed man? Initially, Hitler was suspicious of the medium, but later wielded its power as a tool for mass manipulation. Hitler's chosen photographer was Heinrich Hoffmann. In the 1930s, his carefully composed portraits showed the Nazi dictator as strong yet benevolent - insidious propaganda that was to enthral and corrupt a nation.
The Body of ... Adolf Hitler is at 11.20pm on BBC3
RT DIRECT: save £5 on The World's Most Photographed hardback book. Send a cheque for £20 (incl p&p) payable to Radio Times to: [address removed], or call [number removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Louise Hooper
Series Producer:
Chris Graniund

4/6. What makes food sexy? Merrilees Parker investigates. Plus finger-licking fare at the world barbecue championships, top Irish salmon with chef Richard Corrigan , John Sergeant's Russian chicken and Heston Blumenthal 's fizzy fruit.
Series producer Dermot Caulfield ; Exec producer Gary Hunter Spiced pork belly and spaghettini of lobster: page 34

Contributors

Unknown:
Merrilees Parker
Unknown:
Richard Corrigan
Unknown:
Heston Blumenthal
Producer:
Dermot Caulfield
Producer:
Gary Hunter

Why did the author Arthur Conan Doyle kill off his most famous creation - master detective Sherlock Holmes - at the height of his popularity? Douglas Henshall stars in an absorbing one-off drama that explores intriguing links between Doyle's work and a life scarred by guilt, grief and childhood trauma.
RT Direct: save £2 on CD audiobook The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - £15.99 incl p&p. Call [number removed], quoting ref [number removed]
Mystery within a mystery: page 22

Contributors

Writer:
David Pirie
Producer:
Richard Downes
Director:
Cilla Ware
Arthur Conan Doyle:
Douglas Henshall
Selden:
Tim McInnerny
Dr Joseph Bell:
Brian Cox
Mary Doyle:
Sinead Cusack
Jean Leckie:
Emily Blunt
Louise Doyle:
Saskia Reeves
Greenhough Smith:
Allan Corduner
Bryan Charles Waller:
Anthony Calf
Charles Doyle:
John Bett
Cleeve:
Ralph Riach
Medium:
Anne Raitt
Maid:
Gemma Burns
Harry How:
Brian Pettifer
Crighton doctor:
Finlay Welsh
Young Doyle:
Callum Tyler
Kingsley Doyle:
Ninian Wilson
Bold student:
Richard Conlon
Mary Louise Doyle:
Erin Rowan

The two teams are challenged to produce a line of clothing for a fashion show. But will the winsome models prove to be too much of a distraction?
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