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| BBC ONE Sunday 26 October 2008 |
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Stephen Fry In America Ep 3/6
Sunday 26 October
9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE
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Stephen Fry takes the bus to Clarksdale
It is Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Here, Stephen meets high priestess Sallie Anne Glassman, whose voodoo charms are employed to try to fix his recently broken arm.
Driving through the Lower 9th Ward with Iraqi veteran Isaiah, Stephen witnesses for himself the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, before heading to Angola, Louisiana's notorious State Penitentiary. There, warden Burl Cain takes him on a tour of the 18,000-acre prison, where 5,000 inmates, the majority of whom are African-American, are locked up for life.
In Mississippi, he heads to Clarksdale, the home of the Delta Blues. He joins Morgan Freeman at his blues club and finds out what's happening to the Delta now.
Stephen heads next to St Louis, Missouri, and then drives through the snow-covered corn fields of Iowa and on to Michigan, where he visits Henry Ford's remarkable village in a Model T before test driving the latest Cadillac with its designer, John Mancunia.
In Chicago, Stephen takes a trip down memory lane through the city's South Side, with blues legend Buddy Guy, before making a guest appearance at Second City Theater, the country's renowned training ground for improvisational comedy.
Stephen drives through thick snow to Westby in Wisconsin where he learns to milk a sheep and churn the curds with artisanal cheesemaker Brendan Jenson.
Following the now-frozen Mississippi, he arrives in Minneapolis and is surprised to find a thriving Hmong community living there. These opium-growing hill tribes people from Laos were former allies of the USA during the Vietnam War and were resettled in this most unlikely of places.
On Lake Minnetonka, Stephen goes traditional ice fishing and catches his first fish for 40 years.
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| BBC TWO Sunday 26 October 2008 |
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BBC Sport presents highlights of England's opening game in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup in Townsville, Australia. England, under the stewardship of Australian-born Tony Smith, will be hoping to at least reach the final – many of their squad were part of the Great Britain team that beat New Zealand in the Test series last year and their star players are likely to include captain Jamie Peacock and newly crowned "Man of Steel" James Graham.
The first World Cup was held back in 1951, but there have only been 11 tournaments since then, the last of which was eight years ago. Hosts Australia have lifted the World Cup nine times and will be favourites to triumph once again.
There will also be highlights of Australia's first match of the tournament against old rivals New Zealand, who they beat in the 2000 World Cup final at Old Trafford.
Coverage is presented by Dave Woods with studio guests Ian Millward and former Great Britain head coach Brian Noble.
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Jake Humphrey presents live coverage from Wembley of the National Football League encounter between the San Diego Chargers and the New Orleans Saints.
This is the second time that the NFL has staged a competitive game in London, following last year's fixture between the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins, which attracted more than 80,000 fans and proved a huge success despite the damp conditions.
San Diego will be hoping to emulate the Giants, who not only beat Miami but also went on to win the Super Bowl itself the following February. Last season, the Chargers reached the last four and they will be expected to prevail at Wembley against a New Orleans side who will be many people's sentimental favourites, given the way their city has tried to rebuild itself after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
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| BBC FOUR Sunday 26 October 2008 |
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In Love With Barbara
Sunday 26 October
9.00-10.25pm BBC FOUR
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Pretty In Pink: Anne Reid plays
Queen Of Romance Barbara
Cartland Anne Reid plays novelist Dame Barbara Cartland in her later life and Sinead Mathews plays younger Barbara in a playful and revealing film about the life and loves of the Queen of Romance.
The 90-minute film, which offers a fun and emotional insight into the private life of Barbara Cartland, also stars David Warner as Lord Mountbatten, one of her closest friends, and Tom Burke as her adored younger brother, Ronald.
Set mainly in the Seventies, at the height of Barbara's commercial success, the film uses flashbacks to provide an insight into her youth in the Twenties and Thirties, when she was forging her extraordinary career and dealing with the social stigma of a highly public divorce.
Delving behind the celebrity image, the film explores her unlikely friendship with Lord Mountbatten, who was a continued friend and support, over the months leading up to his tragic death in 1979, which she described "as the greatest sadness of my life". The story also reveals Barbara's failed first marriage and her relationship with her beloved brother, Ronald, who had a huge influence on her life.
Fabulously larger than life, with her familiar voluminous pink gowns, not only did Barbara champion traditional values and femininity but she also worked with ferocious energy as a writer, and most surprisingly, as her brother's political campaign manager.
Her career brought her fame and notoriety. As the author of more than 720 books she featured in the Guinness Book of Records. More than 100 million of her novels were printed in 37 languages. The iconic Queen of Romance received 49 marriage proposals before she passed away in 2000 at the age of 98.
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