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United Kingdom Terrestrial TV Programs
Sunday 18th July 1999
All times are local time GMT
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BBC 2 @ 18:45 hrs.
Correspondent:
BBC casts an investigative eye over the 'Free Papua Movement',
and possibly other states in the area seeking independence.
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Channel 4 @ 19:00 hrs.
Mission Impossible; The End
Part 3 and last of this anniversary series of 30 years ago.
Lost lives, the Cold War and Apollo 13 threaten to bring
lunar exploration to a standstill.
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BBC 2 @ 20:00 hrs
The Mayfair Set;(The start of a new series)
1) Col. David Stirling.
This series tracks four (shadowy) millionaires from their gambling clubs in
London's 'Mayfair' district - they tried to run Britain the way they
wanted to see it run - and not necessarily by the elected government.
Tonight we begin with Col. David Stirling, seen by one Arab as "a cross
between Lawrence of Arabia and a modern mercenary" in his dealings with
Middle East. After WWII, Stirling longed to see Britain great again and
founded his own group of fighters - the SAS - to give covert help to
countries he considered to be allies when they were threatened with foreign
invasion (their words), [not to mention domestic dissent (my words)].
His efforts paid off - Arab money poured into Britain.
But the bonanza was not to last ...
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Channel 4 @ 20:00 hrs.
Far Out; (The start of a new series)
This look at the 'hidden history of New Age Britain' might through
up some interesting nuggets. Of course Witchcraft is an ancient
form of New Ageism and 'good' witches working with medicinal herbs, are
still very much among us. One old West Country Gentleman can still recall
villagers sticking pins into a doll and chanting "Go away ... Get lost",
which
he claims, seemed to work. The history of communes formed by the forerunners
of the hippies anxious to get out of the industrial slums. And a look at the
pull of Theosophy and of evangelical Eastern Mystics who,
in the depressed Thirties, founded hugely successful missions in Britain.
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Channel 3 (ITV) @ 10:45 hrs
2000 Years; (of Christianity) Part 14 of 20
Tonight Melvyn Bragg looks at the anti-semitism and christianity
in the 14th century, when the papacy moved to Avignon in France and
the black death swept through Europe.
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Channel 4 @ 14:15 hrs
2001: A Space Odyssey;
Stanley Kubricks science-fiction masterwork of epic proportions.
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