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Crime adventure, continuing a season of films featuring Leslie Charteris's famous sleuth.
Starring George Sanders
Simon Templar - alias the Saint - faces one of his toughest cases yet when he attempts to help a young woman by foiling the criminals who framed her father.
(1939) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 65-72 ***
8.20 Education for All?
8.45 Empowerment
(Subtitled)
9.10 A Question of Identity
Epic saga set in ancient India. Vishnu Gupta reinstates Bhagurayan and orders him to investigate the deaths of the princes and the general.
(Stereo)
Film producer Ismail Merchant and actress Meera Syal are today's star guests as the live Asian magazine celebrates Diwali, the Festival of Lights. With Mo Dutta and Rajesh Michandani. Phone-in number: (0121)[number removed](standard ratesapply)
Sanjeev Bhaskar hosts the second semi-final of the Hindi film quiz.
Films under review this week include "Michael Collins", starring Liam Neeson.
Shown last Monday on BBC1
Stereo
Musical comedy, continuing a season of films starring
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Guy Holden comes to the rescue of a trapped damsel in distress in a crowded customs shed. But his efforts to woo her are frustrated by a case of mistaken identity. Guy Holden FRED ASTAIRE. Mimi GINGER ROGERS. Aunt Hortense ALICE BRADY , Egbert EDWARD EVERETT HORTON . RodolfoTonetti ERIK RHODES
Director Mark Sandrich (1934. U)
Black and white ♦ See Films: pages 65―72 ****
The first in a Saturday Matinee double bill of Second World War dramas starring John Mills
Also starring Eric Portman
Despatched to destroy the Nazis' latest battleship, the British submarine Sea Tiger finds herself short of fuel and food.
(1943, U)
(Black and White) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 65-72 ***
The second of today's Saturday
Matinée wartime films starring
John Mills
Also starring Michael Redgrave
1940: Peter Penrose , a young pilot who hasjustfinished training, arrives at an RAF bomber station to face happiness and tragedy in the uncertain days ahead. David Archdale
MICHAEL REDGRAVE. Peter Penrose JOHN MILLS
. Miss Toddy Todd ROSAMUND JOHN. Johnny Hollis DOUGLASS MONTGOMERY , MrPalmer STANLEY HOLLOWAY
. Squadron LeaderCarterTREVOR HOWARD
Director Anthony Asquith (1945. U)
Blackandwhite
♦ See Films: pages 65-72
Hits from the Top of the Pops archives, plus today's chart sounds.
(Stereo)
Presented by Moira Stuart.
(Subtitled)
Weather Suzanne Charlton
Summer riots in the capital Jakarta against the Indonesian government led by President Suharto have been interpreted as an indication that the country's impoverished are ready for a change from his 30-year regime.
Ben Brown investigates the story of how the Suharto family became one of the richest in the world, with a combined fortune estimated to be in the region of £20 billion. Elderly and beleaguered, with a question mark against his health, how long can the President retain his grip on power?
Christopher Sylvester of The Express peruses the week's national newspapers.
A three-part series in which Sir Bernard Ingham, former press secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, traces the route of the famous protest and considers how Britain has changed during the intervening decades.Ã
Sixty years after the march from the south bank of the Tyne to the Houses of Parliament, Bernard Ingham visits Jarrow. He talks to Lord Hailsham, who recalls his days as a Conservative minister, Peter Flannery, writer of the BBC2 drama Our Friends in the North, and Sir John Hall, businessman and chairman of Newcastle United FC.
Journalist Vincent Hanna and comedian Tony Hawks join the satirical news quiz.
(Shown yesterday)
(Stereo)
Romantic fantasy starring Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan
After a whirlwind romance, Peter and Rita are married. At the wedding a mysterious man appears and kisses the bride. From that moment her personality changes and it becomes Peter's task is to restore the "real" Rita.
(1992, PG)
See Films: pages 65-72 ***
Zeus is 23-year-old Justin Richards's alter-ego, a body-beautiful male stripper who parades in front of adoring men and women at gay clubs and hen parties.
This uninhibited account looks at the lengths to which Richards will go in the quest for fame and fortune, as well as financial and romantic complications he is facing in his hectic personal life.
Drama starring Donald Wolfit
Guests at a reunion for wartime resistance workers are told the traitor who betrayed their leader to the Gestapo is about to be unmasked.
(1957) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 65-72 **
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