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221 Oklahoma! (1999) #399 FILM Main
Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Maureen Lipman, Hugh Jackman, Josefina Gabrielle, David Shelmerdine. Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.
222 Braveheart (1995) #242 FILM Main
Directed by Mel Gibson. With Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen. When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
223 Watergate (1994) #1390 DOCUMENTARY Main
5 x 50 min episodes.
Documentary series re-examining the Watergate Affair. BBC/Discovery 1994

1 Break-in: The full story of the Watergate scandal. In 1974, Richard Nixon, brought down by the Watergate scandal, became the only US president ever to resign. This programme looks at the break-in at the Democrats' headquarters in the Watergate Hotel on the night of 17 June 1972

2 Cover-Up: Nixon's burglars are caught and the president himself is at the head of a cover-up that links the crime to the White House. In November 1972, five months after the break-in, Nixon is returned to office.

3 Scapegoat: President Richard Nixon had the Watergate burglars paid to keep silent about their links to the White House, a cover-up that enabled him to win a second presidential term in 1972. But once the facts began to emerge, the president sought a succession of scapegoats. The revelation that conversations in his office had been recorded meant his crimes were no longer a secret.

4 Massacre: The so-called Saturday Night Massacre, the chain of events that unfolded on 20 October 1973, when President Nixon demanded that special prosecutor Archibald Cox be fired.

5 Impeachment: President Nixon clings on to the White House as the case against him mounts. The automatic recording system he ordered to be installed in the Oval Office, however, contains damning evidence.
224 Awakenings (1990) #287 FILM Main
Directed by Penny Marshall. With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
225 Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) #1146 COMEDY Special
6x30minute episodes. Sitcom placing the scheming Edmund Blackadder in the trenches during the First World War.

1/6 Plan A - Captain Cook: Edmund is sent into no man's land to sketch the German positions.
2/6 Plan B - Corporal Punishment: Blackadder faces court martial for eating a carrier pigeon.
3/6 Plan C - Major Star: The October Revolution in Moscow results in a Charlie Chaplin impression from Baldrick.
4/6 Plan D - Private Plane: Edmund, George and Baldrick join the Royal Flying Corps.
5/6 Plan E - General Hospital: Melchett orders Blackadder to unmask a spy working in a hospital.
6/6 Plan F - Goodbyeee: Blackadder, George and Baldrick are told they are going over the top the next day.
226 The Fourth Protocol (1987) #1297 FILM Special
Directed by John Mackenzie. With Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy. John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
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227 25 Years in Space (1982) #525 DOCUMENTARY Main
A history of space exploration starting from the dawn of the space age in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik to the Space Shuttle Columbia. Mainly using excerpts from newsreels and television programs the story covers Laika, Jupiter-C, Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Alexey Leonov, Edward White, Apollo 1, Vladimir Komarov, Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Apollo 17, Skylab, Salyut and Voyager 1. It includes interviews and broadcasts from Sir Bernard Lovell, James Burke, Frank Borman, Brian Aldiss, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Barbara Ward, Carl Sagan and Patrick Moore.
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228 Wagner (1981) #499 FILM Main
TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times.
229 How Wars Begin 1 (1977) #10 DOCUMENTARY Main
The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire.
(Lecture 1 of 6 in the Series How Wars Begin by AJP Taylor)

[See all 6 episodes in Radio Randall / Video / Clips / AJP Taylor]
230 Pinchas Zuckerman & Itzhak Perlman: Grand Duo (I) (1977) #615 DOCUMENTARY-MUSIC Main
47 mins. Directed by Christopher Nupen for Allegro Films.

Itzhak Perlman on stage at the Royal College of Music, London, and Pinchas Zukerman. Two of the world's leading violinists appearing together for the first time. Even though they are very different as artists, in style and in temperament, they greatly enjoy each other's play, and each other's company. They have developed a remarkable relationship.

In spite of their differences, they are often mistaken for one another. They were both born in Israel. They both attended the Julliard School courses. And they both won the Leventritt Award (America's top musical prize).

They have come to London at the end of an European tour together, a tour that has produced immense enthusiasm wherever they have been. Not since Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern played together in Edinburgh in 1953 have two violinists of this calibre seriously set out to harness their individual talents to the disciplines and the pleasures of playing together.

This concert, a last minute addition to this tour, was given in front of an audience of students and musicians, and was filmed for television.
231 The Ascent of Man (1973) #1490 DOCUMENTARY Special
The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973. It was written and presented by British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski, who also authored a book adaptation. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski's highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long, elegant monologues, and its extensive location shoots. The programme began broadcasting on BBC2 at 9 pm on Saturday, 5 May 1973 and was released in the US 7 January 1975.

01 Lower than the Angels - Evolution of humans from proto-ape to the modern form 400,000 years ago.
02 The Harvest of the Seasons - Early human migration, agriculture and the first settlements, and war.
03 The Grain in the Stone - Tools, and the development of architecture and sculpture.
04 The Hidden Structure - Fire, metals and alchemy.
05 Music of the Spheres - The language of numbers and mathematics.
06 The Starry Messenger - Galileo's universe - and the implications of his trial on the shift to "northern" science.
07 The Majestic Clockwork - Explores Newton and Einstein's laws.
08 The Drive for Power - The Industrial Revolution and the effect on everyday life.
09 The Ladder of Creation - Darwin and Wallace's ideas on the origin of species.
10 World within World - The story of the periodic table - and of the atom.
11 Knowledge or Certainty - Physics and the clash of the pursuit of absolute vs. imperfect knowledge, and the misgivings of the scientists realising the terrible outcome of the conflict. Auschwitz. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
12 Generation upon Generation - The joys of life, sex and genetics and the dark side of cloning.
13 The Long Childhood - Bronowski's treatise on the commitment of humanity.
232 Harold and Maude (1971) #17 FILM Main
Directed by Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
233 Harold and Maude (1971) #26 FILM Main
Directed by Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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234 Harold and Maude (1971) #523 FILM Main
Directed by Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
235 The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show (1971) #1455 COMEDY Main
65mins. BBC. The classic 1971 Christmas show, featuring the combined talents of Andre 'Preview' Previn, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, and not forgetting the immortal Eric and Ernie.
236 Doctor Zhivago (1965) #1001 FILM Main
Directed by David Lean. With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
237 Zorba the Greek (1964) #172 FILM Main
Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
238 Elgar (1962) #1437 DOCUMENTARY-MUSIC Main
Elgar: Directed by Ken Russell. With Huw Wheldon, Peter Brett, Rowena Gregory, George McGrath. A partly dramatised account of the life of Sir Edward Elgar classical composer. Huw Wheldon narrates the life story over backdrops of beautiful mountain scenery, especially memorable is the image of young Elgar riding his horse around Malvern Hills.
1 hour. BBC. The 100th edition of the arts television programme Monitor was broadcast on 11 November 1962. It was a special film dedicated to the life of Edward Elgar, made by Ken Russell.

A straightforward documentary approach was abandoned, in favour of what is now known as docu-drama, with actors taking the parts of Elgar and his family. However, there was no dialogue and only a dry commentary from Huw Wheldon. Instead Russell filled the soundtrack with Elgar's music and created a serious yet expressive film that has become a classic of its type.

Elgar was filmed in the composer's homes, and in and around Gloucester and the Malvern Hills, where he lived for much of his life. The cameraman was Ken Higgins. Edwardian archive footage completed the picture. The artifice of the dramatized scenes was emphasised by the closing credits, which showed stills of the film crew at work.

The programme revealed the breadth of Elgar’s music and aided his rehabilitation following several decades of relative obscurity. Russell's success with Monitor led directly to feature films, though he also made more programmes for the BBC, on subjects including Debussy and Bartok. Russell died in 2011, but today it is standard practice for documentaries to contain the dramatizations of the sort that he pioneered.
239 Spartacus (1960) #205 FILM Main
Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
240 Ben-Hur (1959) #146 FILM Main
Directed by William Wyler. With Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet. When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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