Starring Steve McQueen
For Michael Delaney and his rival
Erich Stahler , to race is everything. Their latest sporting trial is Le Mans.
Director Lee H Katzin
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ROSAT - a Space Telescope
This artificial satellite sends back data on radiations of short wavelength from space. Professor Ken Pounds and Patrick Moore discuss the results.
Last in the series on sports injuries. Beware What You Wear
A RNTV/Marjan Vos production for BBCtv (R)
The last in the series of balloon flights. Sue Beardsmore travels over Albuquerque, New Mexico. Producer David Nelson (R)
Vintage American comedy.
The Night Before Christmas. Will Ralph (Jackie Gleason ) part with his prize possession in order to buy Alice (Audrey Meadows) a gift?
Starring
Glynis Johns , Cameron Mitchell
A family of Scottish immigrants struggle for a new way of life in America in the 19th century.
Director Allen Reisner
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Last in the series exploring history and archaeology under water.
Science, Salvage or Scrap? What should be done with the discoveries made in the last 25 years?
Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith . Written and produced by Derek Towers Series editor Bruce Norman (R) 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
A 91-part epic Indian drama. (In Hindi with English subtitles.
For details see tomorrow at 12.50am on BBC1)
A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer The Nobel Prize-winning writer takes a journey through his past. Director Amran Novak Producer Kirk Simon (R)
The Rose and the Ring. A film by Lotte Reiniger. (R)
The Grand Slam Cup. Semi-final action from Munich introduced by Barry Davies. Producer Philip Bernie
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England v New Zealand. World
Series Cup from Brisbane. Highlights introduced by Richie Benaud.
Television presentation Channel 9 Australia
Presented by Moira Stuart. Lynette Lithgow reviews the week, with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing. Followed by Weatherview.
Should Britain go to war with Iraq? As the massive build-up in the Gulf reaches its climax, John Tusa chairs a special edition of Assignment and asks whether sanctions have failed and if conflict has become inevitable. Producer Marsh Marshall Editor John Morrison
Tonight Arena brings you an evening of short films and a debate devoted to that most universal of subjects, food. Spitting Image has created your hosts, Meat and Two Veg. From their kitchen/diner they talk to an a la carte menu of delicacies including Colin the Couch Potato and Russell Sprout.
For Spitting Image:
Script Ged Parsons and Mike Barfield
Puppets Luck and Flaw
For Arena:
Producer Mary Dickinson
Editors Nigel Finch and Anthony Wall
Today's hypermarket is an Aladdin's cave compared to the grocery store of 30 years ago. Food Night looks at the ever-increasing gulf between what appears on the supermarket shelf and the original ingredients. Director Patrick Matthews
A salute to four great thinkers.
If Rossini had not preferred food to music there would have been no
Tornados Rossini. If Nellie Melba had not become so fat through eating too many of the Peach Melbas created for her by Escoffier, he would not have had to remedy the situation by inventing Melba Toast. If he hadn't lost his all on that last turn of the cards, would the Earl of Sandwich have found inspiration for a snack? Today, would a champion of the people like Garibaldi have to share the honours with a biscuit called the 'Mandela'?
Bernard Bresslaw, aided by David Troughton and Christopher Ryan, brings these food heroes to life.
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Food has had a part to play in religion, politics, science and war, and throughout history has underlined the social divide between prince and peasant. Today food remains as divisive as ever. Director Nicola Roberts
Some lessons in manners from the silver screen - Five Easy Pieces, Tampopo, Oliver Twist and more. Director Sarah Mortimer
This film explores the application of kosher dietary laws which have helped to preserve the separate identity of the Jewish people. Director Jill Evans
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Louisiana State Penitentiary recently released a list of the last meals ordered by prisoners about to be executed. One man, whose crime was shooting a grocery store attendant, requested Jalapeno peppers, two boxes of Frosties and a pint of milk. Food Night examines the custom of using food as a final consolation and last rite for those condemned to death. Director James Marsh
With the help of potato experts from all over the world Food Night pays homage to this nutritious, delicious, maligned and sometimes despised vegetable - the paradoxical potato. Director Christopher Bruce
A chance to sample some favourites from the kitchens of such legends as Fanny Cradock , Zena Skinner and Delia Smith. Director Sarah Mortimer
Mealworms served in a cherry tomato, grasshoppers rolled in bacon - these are just a few of the nourishing dishes served up in this film which explores repulsion and revulsion in food taste. Director Kris Clarke
A Spot On production for BBCtv
Left to your own devices, what do you eat, when do you eat it and how much of it do you eat? Director Patchy Wheatley
As Christmas approaches, time to contemplate self-denial. Director Alex Marengo
As the evening's climax, Arena assembles a forum of distinguished politicians, economists, nutritionists, moralists and senders and receivers of aid to debate the international politics of food. Producer Sally Angel
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Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto
Director Juzo Itami claims that to man, eating and sex are intrinsically the same thing. To prove his point he tosses together a gourmet gangster and his moll, a knight errant truck driver and a young woman who cannot even cook noodles, to serve up a wickedly funny 'foodie' movie.
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