7.50 Learningto Learn 3810610 8.15 Living with Technology: A Matter of Resource 4141908 9.05 Deaf-Blind Education in Russia
9.30 Envol: Take Off in French
9.40 Opening Up Technology

Coverage from Llandudno. Presented by Glyn Mathias

10.35 Chanakya Historical drama serial.
In Hindi with English subtitles......
11.15 Network East Asian arts and entertainment series with SujataBarot and Sanjeev Baskar. This week includes an interview with composer/producer
Bappi Lahiri , and a tribute to actor-director Guru Dutt.
11.45 Style Today India'sfashion and design show visits a suburban retreat for harassed urbanites, and two of Delhi's garden homes

Political comedy starring
James Cagney
The career of an American
Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin is threatened when his boss's daughter disappears behind the Iron Curtain only to return with a young card-carrying beatnik she has secretly married. Director Billy Wilder (1961) (B/W)
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During the Second World War, life on board ship was dangerous, poorly paid and often brief: one in four British merchantmen died - a far higher casualty rate than any of the armed services. But their bravery and sacrifice has barely been acknowledged. In Forgotten Heroes the merchant seamen who braved the North Atlantic storms and the deadly U-boats to keep Britain supplied during the war tell their own moving stories.
(Postponed from 1 October) (Rpt) (Subtitled)

Film version of Shakespeare's play, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier

Having won the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury for his claim to the throne of France, Henry prepares his army of invasion.
Shakespeare - Playing the Dane, tomorrow at 9.35pm followed by Franco Zeffirelli 's Hamlet at 10.25pm.
(1944)
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5.15 TOTP 2
The best mix of current music and pop nostalgia, this week features Top of the Pops from and 1988, and also takes a look at U2's first appearance on the show performing Fire in 1981. Chart-toppers from 1978 include Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, the Undertones and Chris Rea.
Producer Ric Blaxill

6.00 Late Again
Tracey MacLeod introduces a compilation of highlights from last week on The Late Show. (Stereo)

6.45 What the Papers Say
A review of the week's press by Peter Bradshaw of London's Evening Standard.....

With Huw Edwards. Subtitled
Weather Bill Giles .....................

After the lifting of the US economic embargo against Vietnam, American entrepreneurs are flocking there, laying to rest the ghosts of the war a generation ago. A new battle is being fought for domination of Vietnam's markets which have been thrown open by the loosening of the Communist party's grip on the country. Growth rates are up to ten percent a year and many businessmen view Vietnam as the newest and most promising of the Asian tigers. Real estate rents are already higher in Hanoi than they are in London. Since the embargo was lifted in February, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan have flooded into the country and now American and British businessmen are waking up to discover they are some way behind their competitors. Julian Pettifer, who was an award-winning reporter during the Vietnam war, returns to the area to discover how rampant capitalism is co-existing with Marxist ideology now that the country is on the brink of economic growth.
(Subtitled)

A new production of one of Dennis Potter's earliest plays, written in 1967. Introduced by political interviewer Brian Walden.
Sir David Browning has twice been Prime Minister. On his retirement Parliament decides to honour him with a portrait painted by the famous artist James Player . See today's choices.
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Performance: Message for Posterity 9.30pm BBC2
A new series of classic studio drama begins with a revival of an early Dennis Potter play, Message for Posterity, first produced by the BBC in 1967.
For series producer Simon Curtis, this was a work which needed to be revived. "People don't think twice about doing new theatre productions of Arthur Miller or Harold Pinter, but it is assumed that TV plays are done once and never again. In my opinion, television playwrights of this calibre are equally deserving." Potter himself was apparently enthusiastic about the revival, though he died before it could go into production.
A typically biting Potter creation, the play stars John Neville as Sir David Browning, who has been twice Prime Minister. After he is forcibly retired from office, Parliament decides to commission a portrait of him by famous artist James Player (Eric Porter). But Browning begins to suspect a vicious plot after he finds out that Player is a diehard radical, who disagrees with everything he stands for.
Player also has qualms about the commission, but as the painting process progresses, the two old men find they have more in common than they imagined.
Future plays in the Performance season will include Measure for Measure and Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea.

The return of the topical comedy quiz. With team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. This week's guests are actor Martin Clunes and retired judge James Pickles. Hosted by Angus Deayton. Producer Colin Swash
Shown yesterday

Germaine Greer is joined by a posse of powerful women who'll fight for the last word on subjects close to their hearts, including regular panellists, broadcaster Janet Street-Porter , journalist Ann Leslie and columnist Suzanne Moore.
Producer Janet Lee ; Series editor Janice Hadlow
Stereo.............................................

This Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama, showing in the Lost and Found season, is based on a true story.
Starring Vitus Zeplichal

Peter, desperate for his parents' approbation, spends all his free time building a house for them. When he falls in love, he transfers his need for love to his fiancee, showering her with expensive presents and taking on crippling hire purchase debts. Nothing is too good for the people he loves.
(In German with English subtitles) (1976)
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Last of the irreverent Australian comedy sketch shows which take a satirical look at television culture.