' Comedy caper starring Peter Ustinov
Maggie Smith , Karl Maiden
Fresh out of Wormwood Scrubs, embezzler Marcus Pendleton can't wait to get back into the fray. Having bluffed his way into the giant Ta-Can-Co Corporation, all he has to do is crack the computer code and he's made.
Director EricTill (1968) # See Films: pages 64-71 ***

Shown yesterday at 10.35pm

Alan Hansen examines the lucrative world of today's top soccer players. Among the stars he interviews are England captain Alan Shearer and David Beckham.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

A Eucharist for Easter Day from York Minster. The preacher and president is the Archbishop of York, the Most Rev and Rt Hon David Hope. The music, led by the choir of York Minster, includes Easter hymns: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, This Joyful Eastertide and Thine Be the Glory.

Including at 11.00 Urbi et Orbi
Live from St Peter's Square in Rome, Pope John Paul II gives his traditional
Easter message and blessing to the City and to the world. The scene is set by Denis Nowlam.

The people and the stories at the heart of the British countryside, presented by John Craven. Including weather for the week ahead at 12.5pm.

Omnibus edition.
(Subtitled)

Introduced by Sue Barker.

Davis Cup Tennis: Great Britain v USA
Continuing live coverage from Birmingham's National Indoor Arena as Great Britain's Davis Cup world group meet the USA. The singles matches conclude today as Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski aim to put Britain into the quarter-finals, to be held in July.
Commentary by John Barrett, Mark Cox, Chris Bailey, Peter Fleming and David Mercer.
Including News; Weather; Regional News (either at 4.15 or 5.30 dependent on the order of play in the tennis)

Rugby Union
Highlights of Wasps v Gloucester from Loftus Road of the second semi-final of the Tetley Bitter Cup in the interval between the two tennis matches. Commentary Nigel Starmer-Smith.

(Digital widescreen)

Actors John Nettles and Kevin
Whately, and baritone Jonathan Veirajoin presenter Pam Rhodes and the Coventry Chorale to tell the story of Easter. Filmed around
Jerusalem and Galilee, the programme travels from the early morning stillness of the Garden Tomb through the tranquil shores of the Sea of Galileeto the bustle of Temple
Mount and the road to Emmaus.
With a solo performance of How Great Thou Art by Jonathan Veira , the music includes
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, and hymns Thine Be the Gloryand Jesus Christ is Risen Today. Producer R Medwyn Hughes Editor Hugh Faupel
Digital widescreen Subtitled ....

' The first of three programmes in a short season about the tiger.
Tonight sfilm follows one tigress and herthree cubs as they struggle to survive in Kanha National Park, India.
Cameramen Hugh Miles and Chip Houseman were able to capture the life of these ferocious animals at a greater proximity than ever before by filming from the safety of an elephant's back, usinga
12-foot-high tripod. Narrated by David Attenborough. See today's choices.
The tiger season continues tomorrow with The Really Wild Show Special at 2pm
Producers Mike Birkhead and Hugh Miles Executive producer Neil Nightingale
* The wonderful thingabout tigers....: page 42

With Peter Sissons.
Weather Michael Fish

Oscar-winning comedy drama, starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright

Slow-witted Forrest Gump is encouraged by his mother to realise his full potential. He attends college on a sports scholarship, meeting President Kennedy in the process.
Then he joins the army and is sent to Vietnam. As the years pass and his life changes, he maintains contact with his childhood friend Jenny Curran.
(1994, 12)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 64-71 ****
Teach Yourself Tom Hanks: p61

Seventh part of the coastal drama series starring Nick Berry

Mike persuades the people of Bridehaven to rescue a beached whale stranded in the area. Soon everyone is too busy to notice that Kelly Blade is thinking of leaving home running off with her unsuitable new boyfriend, Granger.

(Shown last Thursday)
(Next episode on Thursday at 8pm)
(Digital widescreen)

SeeingRed. Mars, now on view in the evening sky, is a world of craters, valleys, plains and huge volcanoes. The space probe Mars Global Surveyor is at present moving around the planet. Dr Peter Catterrnole , one of Nasa's principal scientific investigators, joins
Patrick Moore to give the latest news. Producer Ian Russell Repeated next
Saturday

' Drama starring
Tommy Lee Jones
Martha Plimpton
Twelve-year-old Jonsy McCain has spent her life by the Mississippi river. Afree spirit, she has grown up without knowing her true parents, then one day she is confronted by her father who has just been released from prison.
Postponed from 24 April
Director Tom Rickman (1984,15)
* See Films: pages 64-71
Followed by Weather