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Easy-going musical comedy starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. A ballet dancer and a musical comedy star have flagging careers. So a fake romance is fixed up. Review page 50.
Director Mark Sandrich (1937, U)
(BWXS)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Ginger Rogers.
Director:
Mark Sandrich
Petrov:
Fred Astaire
Pete Peters:
Fred Astaire
Linda Keene:
Ginger Rogers
Jeffrey Baird:
Edward Everett Horton
Cecil Flintridge:
Eric Blore

2/4. Matara Miracle Man. Was it a miracle or the sturdy buildings that helped protect a small Christian church in the southern Sri Lankan coastal town of Matara from the full effects of the tsunami? Since then Father
Herath's congregation has been on the increase. But religious conflicts of the past now threaten to rear up once more. See yesterday's choice.
Producer Steven Grandison

Contributors

Producer:
Steven Grandison

5/10. Anxious and filled with self doubt on a film set, with a photographer the Hollywood beauty felt at ease and in control. This was despite a nude photo taken at the start of her career which ended up as the first Playboy centrefold and threatened to destroy her reputation.

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Contributors

Producer:
Debbie Lee
Series Producer:
Chris Granlund

5/6. Is salad just rabbit food? Richard Johnson tries to find some worth eating. Richard Corrigan goes in search of great British ice cream, Merrilees Parker explores the highly rated cuisine of Peru, and Heston Blumenthal steams scallops using essential oils.
Series producer Dermot Caulfield ; Exec producer Gary Hunter Ice cream with bite, plus cool ice-cream maker offer p32

Contributors

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

New series 1/3. A wordy drama based on the life of British slave trader Henry Lascelles begins a season of programmes about slavery. London, 1744: Lascelles is promoting his floating slave factory ship when government inspector Robert Dinwiddie is instructed to investigate him on allegations of fraud.

Contributors

Writer:
Justin Hopper
Executive Producer:
Narinder Minhas
Director:
Michael Samuels
Henry Lascelles:
Robert Pugh
Edwin Lascelles:
Raymond Coulthard
Jennet:
Emma Buckley
Joseph:
Chuk Iwuji
Robert Dinwiddie:
Jack Shepherd
Lord Carteret:
John Standing
Hodge:
Ben Crompton
Stephen Makepeace:
Rupert Fraser
Captain Slater:
Murray Head
Samuel Cox:
Paul Jesson
Edward Lascelles:
Terence Hillyer
Captain Rollins:
Francis Magee
John Ashley:
Jonathan Coy
Lord of Trade:
Terrence Hardiman
Richard Hall:
Duncan Holmes

New series 1/6. Danny Wallace begins the unlikely odyssey of setting up and running his own country. Birth of a Nation. Danny meets people keen to help, but his attempt to secure a territory falls flat.
Director/Producer Lee Phillips INTERACTIVE: King Danny will give a ten-minute address at the end of the programme, available to digital viewers via the red button Citizens' advice: page 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Danny Wallace
Producer:
Lee Phillips

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