8.45 Science Preparatory Maths:
Algebra 9.00 Open Advice: Getting into Gear 9.25 Design for
Managers: Suite Dreams 9.50 Environments: Bangkok - City
Speaks 10.150peningthe Single Market 10.40 Small Business: FairTrading
The story of an Indian steel worker and his family. ● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Light pollution in the sky.
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When a young ex-army chaplain is murdered his wealthy brother decides to take revenge. Starring George Raft , Virginia Mayo and Raymond Burr.
Producer/Director Roy Del Ruth
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A look into the world of master model animator Will Vinton.
Lady Victoria Leatham visits Chatsworth House.
The programme covering all aspects of Asian entertainment. Today: Pakistani squash star Jahangir Khan.
73: Krishna must convince
Arjuna what is right.
(In Hindi with English subtitles.
Rpt tomorrow at 11. 55pm on BBC1)
Jerry Lewis plays a male Cinderella in this lavish and hilarious modern retelling of the classic fairy tale. Also starring Judith Anderson.
With Count Basie and his Orchestra.
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Round 6 of the UK
Championship from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Third of six programmes. How to Be a Winner
Conventions and psychic bidding. With Zia Mahmood. Director/Producer Gordon Menzies A GM production for BBCtv
Preview of the four-day
Lombard RAC Rally which starts tomorrow. It is the last round of the 1991 World Rally Championship. Producer Tony Rayner
Executive producer Dennis Adams
(Regular reports start tomorrow from
7.10pmonBBC2) ● SPORT: page 12
Topical comedy quiz show. ● STEREO
With Chris Lowe.
Followed by Weather
When the attempted coup of 19Augustfailedtotopple
Gorbachev, the makers of this series about the battle for perestroika returned to the USSR. Thanks to their special access to
Kremlin insiders, including Politburo members, enough material was gathered to make two further programmes. Tonight, Portents traces through frank interviews the rising tensions, warning signs and machinations that preceded Gorbachev's arrest while on holiday. Next week's programme includes insiders' accounts of the coup itself. Producer Paul Mitchell
Series producer Norma Percy
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The weekly cinema magazine starts a second series on board a Mediterranean liner, for an exclusive interview with Roman Polanski at work on his new erotic thriller Bitter Moon.
Also, do writers need directors? Four British writers who have recently directed their own screenplays, including Hanif Kureishi, talk about their move from behind the typewriter to behind the camera. Plus, Kathryn Bigelow explains how she planned Point Break's amazing 90-second bank robbery sequence. Presented by Howard Schuman. Series producer Paul Kerr
Executive producer Daniel Wolf
A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv
Moving Pictures
Presents a double-bill of Polanski's work, beginning with this high-seas adventure starring Walter Matthau
A marooned buccaneer and his young crewman are rescued by a Spanish galleon but their trials are just beginning.
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FILM The second Moving
I Pictures presentation is Polanski's classic horror starring Mia Farrow JohnCassavetes
When the Woodhouses move to
Manhattan, the neighbourly attentions of the flamboyant old couple next door soon acquire sinister overtones.
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