6.15 Pure Maths: Diagonalising
Symmetric Matrices 3181005 6.40 III
Conditioning in Linear Equations
7.05 Maths: Least Squares
7.30 Developing World: Packaging
Culture 4432111 7.55 Understanding
Modem Societies: The West and the Rest
7272463 8.20 Networks: Tilings at the Alhambra 5783956 8.45Learningto Learn: Israel and Brazil
Cartoon based on Jules Verne 's novel
20,000 Leagues under the Sea.
Cartoon.
With guests football star Ryan Giggs and pop duo PJ and Duncan. Stereo ......................
The series from 1984.
Written by David Angus Rpt
First in a 13-partfantasy adventure series. Neri, a mysterious telepathic girl from the ocean, is discovered by an underwater research colony,
Return of the show that asks whether outrageous facts are false or true.
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Competition: to register your vote ring [number removed](False) or [number removed](True). Calls cost no more than 20p. For a copy of the rules send an sae to:
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Music news. Featuring an interview with Janet Jackson.
Shown last Friday Stereo
The Recruit. Rob considers enlisting in the British army. Stereo ................
Live entertainment series. Hosted by Donna McPhail and Katie Puckrik.
Email address: sunday@bbcnc.org.uk
Stereo............................................... SCREEN TESTS: to apply to be on the programme write to: Screen Test, PO Box 280, Manchester M60 1 SJ.
Political review. With Michael Hastings.
REGIONAL PROGRAMME ...........................
Drama starring
Clark Gable , Jean Harlow
Plantation owner Dennis Carson ends his relationship with good-time girl Vantine when he becomes smitten with the wife of his newly-wed surveyor.
DirectorVictorFleming(1932) 8/W * FILM REVIEWS pages 53-56
THE BBC
Classic MGM musical starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
The everyday adventures and romantic entanglements of the Smith family in turn-of-the-century St Louis.
Director Vincente Minnelli (1944)
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They Live by Night: Friday at 12.35am
Highlights of yesterday's Pilkington Cup semi-finals. Favourites Bath, winners eight times in the past 11 years, travel to face Harlequins, three-times finalists in the 1990s, while Leicester, runners-upforthe last two years, take on Wasps at Welford Road. Introduced by John Inverdale.
Editor Gerard Lane Stereo ...............
Jewels of the Caribbean
Once the haunt of buccaneers in search of pirates' booty, the tropical seas of the Caribbean harbour livingjewels - fish that glint with spectral colours around a coral reef that forms a backdrop to dolphins, manatees and sperm whales. Narrated by Joss Ackland. See today's choices. Executive producer John Sparks
Highlights of today's race when thousands of runners faced the challenge of a 26.2-mile course
A new generation of advertising is hitting cinema screens, poster boards and television. It is cynical and nihilistic, and directed at "generation X", the key 18-to-29-year-old consumers who currently spend nearly £2 billion a year. Advertisers believe this group's attitudes to advertising and branding are sophisticated and sceptical, making it hard to pitch their ads successfully. Jane Robins looks at how different companies are approaching this market and asks whether it is necessary for advertisers to use images of death and violence.
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This week's programme features an interview with Woody Allen , who talks about his new comedy Bullets over Broadway. There is also a visit to
Johannesburg to find out how South
African film-makers are respondingto the end of apartheid. Plus Hollywood directors, producers, studio bosses and critics explain why The Tourist remains the best script never made. Presented by Howard Schuman.
Director Michael Martin ; Producer Saskia Baron
The week's events in the Los Angeles courtroom where OJ Simpson is on trial for the murder of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. With commentary by Sue Ellicott.
The second film in the new season of Screen Two is a moving and funny drama written by Graham Reid.
Leo Doyle, in his mid-30s and single, is released into ceasefire Belfast after serving a life sentence for an IRA murder. Desperate for a new cause, he tries to rekindle an affair with his ex-fiancee.
See today's choices.
Anotherfavourite movie moment.
Tonight, Denis Healey chooses a scene from Les Diaboliques.
The next Close-Up is tomorrow at 7.55pm
A Bafta-winning film from the Tartan Shorts series, also nominated for an
Academy Award this year for Best Short Film. Richard E Grant stars as Franz Kafka, stumbling over the completion of the first sentence in his masterpiece Metamorphosis. With Ken Stott, Elaine Collins, Phyllis Logan and Crispin Letts.
Written and directed by Peter Capaldi; Producer Ruth Kenley-Letts
French film director Jean Renoir introduces Renoir, a short season of his films, beginning with this anti-war classic starring Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay
Two French officers are shot down over Germany and taken prisoner-of-war. The aristocratic Boeidieu appears to have more in common with the Prussian commandant, Von Rauffenstein, than with his down-to-earth companions, but his determination to help their escape plans is never in doubt.
(In French with English subtitles) (1937) (B/W)
The subject .... Jean Renoir is the subject of Omnibus, Tuesday BBC
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Barry Norman : page 50
