Bilko claims to have seen a UFO.
(Black and white) (Repeat)

How Hollywood portrayed the Second World War.
Command Decision follows.
(Repeat)

Second World Wardrama starring
Clark Gable , Walter Pidgeon
A US general is given the task of bombing targets deep inside Germany.
Director Sam Wood (1948) Black and white. * See Films: pages 50-72 ****

The first of a two-part documentary on American president Dwight D Eisenhower.
(Concludes tomorrow)

Professor Simon Conway Morris relates the turbulent history of life on Earth.

The first of four programmes this week comparing great sporting rivalries focuses on cricket's 1981 Ashes series.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Today the Munich massacre of 1972 and the boycotts of the eighties.
(Revised repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

A look at the trendy Triumph Herald of the Sixties.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Four-part comedy drama based on the novel by John Hadfield, showing this week. Starring Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips

A Whitehall civil servant is sent to assess the work of a long-forgotten ministry department.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Civil servant Jasper Pye is sent to report on a long forgotten Ministry research unit at Arcady Hall in Suffolk.

Continuing the Affairs to Remember season, starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard

A couple's chance meeting leads to a romance which they must keep secret.
(1945, PG) (Black and white)
Season continues with Portrait of Jennie, Thursday 9.05am
See Films: pages 50-72

Fantasy adventure starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling

After the death of his parents, young Luke travels to England with his grandmother, Helga. Helga has warned Luke about witches so he is not surprised when he discovers that their seaside hotel is the venue for an English witch convention. He is turned into a mouse after drinking the Grand High Witch's evil potion, and then has to try to thwart her plan to turn the nation's children into mice.
(1989. PG)
See Films: pages 50-72 ***

Simon Callow concludes a week of readings from Charles Dickens's books with a Christmas story that was immensely popular in the 1860s but is now almost unknown.
The tale of the good-hearted cheap-jack Dr Marigold is a rare piece of story-telling and is full of extraordinary changes of pitch and mood, a work which Callow considers "an astonishing masterpiece".

Carol Smillie looks back on this autumn's series of the programme which asked neighbours to redecorate rooms in each other's homes in just two days with a budget of £500. She relives some of her favourite moments and also remembers a few of the worst nightmares involved with decorating someone else's home to one's own individual taste.

A second chance to see highlights of this year's comedy news quiz, and some of the outtakes rescued from the cutting room floor. Hosted by Angus Deayton, with Ian Hislop, Paul Merton and guests.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Action adventure starring Carlos Gallardo

Two strangers, a mariachi musician and a hitman, arrive in a small Mexican border town. Both are dressed in black and carry guitar cases. But the musician - mistaken for the assassin - gets caught up in a violent feud.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
(1992)
See Films: pages 50-72 ***

Singer Alanis Morissette performs tracks from her multi-million selling debut album Jagged Little Pill. The concert, filmed in New Orleans, captures the intimacy of the Canadian artist's hits, including You Oughta Know, Head over Feet and Ironic.
(Colour and Black and white) (Stereo)

Horror fantasy, concluding the season of films by producer Val Lewton, starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith.

A draughtsman is worried by his young daughter, who lives in a world of her own. The child invents a secret companion who appears to be her father's first wife, once thought to have supernatural powers. But is Irena merely a figment of the imagination?
(1944, U) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 50-72

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