Crime adventure, continuing a season of films featuring Leslie Charteris's famous sleuth.
Starring George Sanders
Simon Templar is dispatched to south California, where his task is to foil a desperate gang of thieves.
(1941) ***
(Black and white)
See Films: pages 61-68
8.20 Palazzo Venezia, Rome
8.45 The Chemistry of Power
9.10 Persisting Dreams
Epic saga set in ancient India. Vishnu Gupta investigates the arson attack,
Live Asian arts and entertainment magazine. Presented by Mo Dutta and Rajesh Mirchandani. PHONE-IN NUMBER: [number removed]
Sahera Chohan tests teams from Bradford, Leicester and Harrow in London on their knowledge of Asian culture. TEAMS: to take part. send an SAE to: [address removed]
Barry Norman gives his views on the films Jingle All the Way, Home for the Holidays, and The Long Kiss Goodnight.
(Shown last Monday on BBC1)
(Stereo)
Comedy musical, continuing the season of films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Lawyer Stephen Arden is worried because his fiancee Amanda Cooper keeps postponing their wedding day, so he asks for help from a psychiatrist friend.
(1938, U) **
(Black and white)
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Courtroom drama, the first of today's Saturday Matinée double bill starring Ray Milland
Also starring Sylvia Syms
When his daughter is killed by a hit-and-run driver, barrister Simon Crawford swears vengeance on the man responsible. Instead, he finds himself accused of murder. Simon Crawford
QC RAY MILLAND , Sheila Larkin SYLVIA SYMS . Mr Justice Osborne FELIX AYLMER. John Naylor RAYMOND HUNTLEY , Major Hugh Maitl and GEOFFREY LUMSDEN. Charles Milburn NORMAN BARRS
Director Ray Milland (1968) ♦ See Films: pages 61-68 **
Civil War western, the second of today's Saturday Matinee films starring Ray Milland
Stripped of his rank, Kern Shatter quits the Seventh Cavalry and re-enlists at a remote outpost in Sioux territory.
(1952)
See Films: pages 61-68 **
Hits from the Top of the Pops archives, plus today's chart sounds. stereo.. Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1
Biographical drama starring Diane Keaton, Bruce Dern
On 2 July 1937, radio contact was lost between Amelia Earhart. flying somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, and her ground control. The pioneering pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan were never seen again.
(1994, PG) (Stereo)
See Films: pages 61-68 ***
Presented by Moira Stuart.
(Subtitled)
Weather Peter Cockroft
David Loyn reports from a training school for the Taliban - the Islamic student army - in northern Pakistan, and travels with a group of fighters to the frontline in Afghanistan.
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Assignment 7.15pm BBC2
An Islamic student army, the Taliban, has seized control of the Afghan capital Kabul. So strict is their regime that they impose a curfew at night, young women are forced to wear a veil and denied the right to an education, and musicians have taken to burying their instruments for fear that their playing might be deemed "unislamic" and invite punishment.
Tonight's Assignment penetrates a Taliban training school in northern Pakistan, where passionate young fundamentalists are prepared to go to the Afghan frontline. But their sway over the people of Afghanistan is not complete. Resistance troops are already preparing to push the Taliban out of the country, setting the scene for a bloody religious war.
Dorothy Grace-Elder of The Express peruses the week's national newspapers.
As a prelude to a country music night on BBC2 next month, this documentary examines the enduring influence that women have had on country music over the last century. Featuring interviews and performances from Tammy Wynette, Wynonna Judd, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Mary Chapin-Carpenter and Emmylou Harris.
Director Bud Schaetzle; Producers Martin Fischer and Douglas C Forbes
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Tonight's documentary in the provocative arts strand follows comedian Eddie Izzard on his recent world tour, starting in his teenage home town of Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex and ending in New York.
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TX 9.30pm BBC2
A rare television outing for Eddie Izzard, the accomplished comedian whose free-flowing chat dispenses with jokes. In Je Suis a Stand Up: Eddie Izzard Abroad we accompany his current tour from Bexhill-on-Sea to New York. His hometown gig proves more of a success than Paris, where his decision to perform in his schoolboy French is, well, laughable. Eddie is engaging enough hanging out backstage in Scandinavia, doing interviews in Iceland and discussing his liking for women's clothing everywhere, but it's the tantalising glimpses of him on stage that count. Watch out for Pavlov's four-legged friends and Eddie's take on style - from his too-tight, shiny plastic trousers and lacy tops to his lime-green finger nails, he's got it.
A psychological thriller, the third of four dramas from black and Asian film-makers.
Spiders and Flies
When Lena meets Robert, she believes that she has found the perfect partner. But when she encounters Lillian, one of Robert's old friends from college, she soon discovers that Robert has a very particulartaste in women.
Written by Brian Walters
Producer Colin Ludlow : Director Danny Thompson
Comedy drama starring Robin Williams, Tim Robbins
Joey O'Brien - legend, lover, auto-salesman - lives a high-rolling life. But in the space of a single weekend, things begin to fall apart. Then a gun-toting young man, crazed with jealousy, leads Joey to discover previously unsuspected reserves of heroism.
(1990, 15)
See Films: pages 61-68 ***
Drama, continuing a series of Swedish films featuring Ingrid Bergman.
A shooting incident forces Kerstin to move to Stockholm, where she adopts a new identity. But her past soon catches up with her, threatening her hope of happiness with a new man.
In Swedish with English subtitles.
(1940)
(Black and white)
(The next film in the Ingrid Bergman season is Dollar, tomorrow at 12.40am)
See Films: pages 61-68
Followed by Weatherview
