John FitzMaurice Mills looks at techniques used by artists through the ages.
Pathe News of this week in 1952.
Starring
Hedy Lamarr
An immigration agent falls in love with a glamorous Hungarian who is trying to enter the US illegally. WithJohnHodiak.James Craig and George MacCready.
Director Joseph H Lewis ● FILMS: pages 55-62
Starring
Ginger Rogers
Kitty Foyle promises to marry her doctor sweetheart but is swept away by an old flame.
With Dennis Morgan , James Craig , Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper. Director Sam Wood ● FILMS: pages 55-62
What do youngsters think of Santa Claus?
Looking at the Crab Nebula.
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Professor Sir Francis Graham-Smith joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest findings on the Crab Nebula, a gas cloud marking the remnant of the supernova which blazed out in the year 1054.
A series of five daily lectures by Dr Richard Dawkins.
1: Waking Up in the UniverseCharles Darwin 's theories of evolution and natural selection.
DirectorStuart McDonald
Producers Richard Melman, William Wodlard An InCA Ltd production for BBCtv Event sponsored by Shell
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Animated penguin fun.
When Michael falls asleep his toys come to life.
A 13-part daily series.
9: Middle East - a New Order
The new state of Israel was proclaimed, and Colonel
Nasser's influence spread across the Arab world.
(Tomorrow: A Different East)
Followed by Michael Barry 's Choice Cuts
Favourite recipes from ten years of the Food and Drink series. Today: pizza. A Bazal production for BBCtv
Personal reflections on paintings. Today,
Robert Hughes examines Mona Lisa , by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Followed by Songs of Praise
Pam Rhodes attends a mobile carol service on the Worth
Valley Steam Railway.
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A Griffin production for BBCtv ;
and Regional News; Weather
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Word game with Paul Coia. A Leslie Mitchell production for BBCtv ● STEREO
Topical daily talk show.
Jane Corbin debates national and international politics. * STEREO
The life and work of great Northern comedians.
Old Mother Riley and Her
Daughter Kitty. Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane created a screen legend with their portrayal of the wild Irish washerwoman and her flighty colleen. But their screen rows were but a pale reflection of j their real life.
Defeating pests and diseases without harming natural allies.
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Morticia 's Favourite Charity Morticia persuades the family to part with some treasures. (B/w) ● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Will Gets Committed. After a riot, the Banks family help clean up their old neighbourhood. ● STEREO
6.50pm
Dance Energy House Party Music from Boyz II Men and Altern 8, the winners of the Lift Off competition are revealed. Celebrity guests give them some advice and Vas Blackwood gets in on the action, too. Director Rick Gardner
Series producer Danielle Lux ● STEREO
Last in the series.
Twelfth Night
A puppet animation, with the voices of Roger Allam , William Rushton , Suzanne Burden , Fiona Shaw , Hugh Grant , Gerald James , Alice Arnold , Stefan Bednarczyk , and Stephen Tomkinson.
Narrator Rosemary Leach. Text abridged by Leon Garfield Executive producers
Elizabeth Babakhina and Chris Grace
Series producer/Director Dave Edwards ● STEREO
"If the helpless and vanished are seen to have friends in the world outside, the powerful sometimes listen, sometimes think, sometimes release their captives" - Booker Prize-winning novelist A S Byatt.
INFORMATION PACK: see Friday.
Last in the series.
Look Back in Anger. Eight years after he applied for medical school, John Shephard is one of many junior doctors whose idealism has vanished.
"No one seems to realise how frustrating it is and how close to tears you are most of the time." Executive producer Robin Brightwell Series producer Edward Bnffa
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Followed by Advent Calendars
Last in this series of films about unusual wine merchants.
Jancis Robinson meets Zubair Mohamed, who runs an exceptional wine business from behind his teetotal father's flower shop in Edinburgh.
An Eden production for BBCtv
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First in a two-part period thriller by Nigel Williams , based on his novel of the same name, starring Peter McEnery
Lisa Harrow , Alan Howard Whenjamie Matheson chooses 17th-century witchcraft and adultery as the story of his new film, he stirs up old rivalries and obsessions and a dangerous history begins to repeat itself, on celluloid and in real life.
Part 2 and the cast list are on Wednesday at 9.00pm. Producer Carol Parks Director Peter Sasdy â— STEREO
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Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
A series being shown over this week in which five film-makers put themselves at the heart of their films.
Innocence and Garbage. Vilgot Sjoman , Swedish director of the explicit 1967 feature film, I Am Curious Yellow, uses the same technique of mixing fact and fiction in this diary account of his days in the rotting slums of Manila's "Smokey Mountain". Editor Jeremy Gibson
(Current Events tomorrow 11.20pm)
Editor Charles Miller (Shownat4.30pm) ● STEREO