Crime adventure, continuing a season of films featuring Leslie Charteris 's famous sleuth.
Starring George Sanders
Inspector Fernack has been framed by a group of race-track gamblers, but Simon Templar is on their trail.
(1940) Black and white
See Films: pages 65-72
8.20 Regions Apart subtitled 8439603 9.10 A Language for Movement
9.35 Managing Biodiversity
Epic saga set in ancient India. Pauravraj and the other kings arrive at Pataliputra.
Live Asian arts and entertainment magazine. Featuring an interview with controversial Indian writer Shoba De.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar presents a special junior edition of the Hindi film quiz. Stereo..
Rivers of Fire. An exploration of northern Queensland's hollow rivers of solidified lava, which were formed after a volcanic eruption 190,000 years ago
Films under review this week include The First Wives Club and True Blue.
Shown last Monday on BBC1 Stereo
Musical biography, continuing the season of films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
When Vernon Castle, a clown in a vaudeville show, meets Irene Foote, a dancing legend is born. But tragedy is waiting in the wings.
(1939, U) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 65-72 ****
Comedy, the first in a Saturday Matinée double bill starring David Niven
"Major" Bradbury is a naturally timid man who has invented a heroic past for himself. The last thing he expects is to become involved with a group of terrorists. Walter Bradbury DAVID NIVEN , Ambassador Kagoyama TOSHIRO MIFUNE , Muller HARDY KRUGER. Koichi Kagoyama ANDO , Foreign minister IVAN DESNY
Director Ken Annakin (1974. PG) * See Films: pages 65-72 ***
The second of today's Saturday Matinée comedies starring David Niven
Spoilt and rich Irene Bullock hires Godfrey as her butler. Before long, she is falling in love with him. In widescreen format.
(1957) See Films: pages 65-72 **
Hits from the Top of the Pops archives, plus today's chart sounds.
(Stereo)
Top of the Pops is on Friday, 7pm on BBC2
This year, the Royal Television Society's Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture is delivered by BBC Broadcast's chief executive Will Wyatt, who focuses on the power of TV presenters. Citing a clutch of pre-eminent presenters spanning 60 years of television, from Kenneth Clark through to Desmond Lynam , Will Wyatt outlines the qualities they possess and the pressures they face on- and off-screen. He believes the TV presenters will remain viewers' main criterion for selecting a station as the choice of channels widens.
Presented by Jennie Bond. Subtitled
Weather Suzanne Charlton
General in Exile
General Alexander Lebed , deposed as Russia's security chief last month after an acrimonious struggle with President Boris Yeltsin , talks to reporter Tom Carver. The programme contains footage from Chechnya, where the peace deal negotiated by the General is threatened, and from Moldova, where he quashed a battle between separatists and Moldovan forces. See today's choices.
Producer Ewa Ewart ; Editor Keith Bowers
Jay Rayner of The Observer peruses the week's national newspapers.
Comedy-drama concluding the current run of Screen Two dramas. Starring Sandra Bernhard.
Dallas Adair, an American golf guru, comes to live with a middle-class family in suburban Australia. With her riotous antics and her capacity to attract both sexes, she soon sets about sexually awakening the Sommers household. Showing in widescreen format.
Director Ann Turner (1994, 18)
+ See Films: pages 65-72
The eclectic contemporary music show this week features the Beautiful South, Metallica, Catatonia, Horace Andy and folk singer Donovan. See today's choices.
Jools is joined by The Beautiful South, Metallica, Catatonia, Horace Andy and Donovan.
Spaghetti western starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski
1896: Snow has fallen on the Mexico-USA border, forcing mountain-dwelling outlaws into the valleys. Bounty hunters lie in wait, but a mute gunfighter is determined to stop the slaughter.
Silenzio JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT. Tigrero
KLAUS KINSKI. Pauline VONETTA MCGEE
Director Sergio Corbucci (1967)
See Films: pages 65-72 ***
Followed by Weatherview
