With signing.
(Stereo)
Animation.
(Repeat)
Animation.
(Repeat)
7.50 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Zany fun.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
8.15 Peter Pan and the Pirates
Animation.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
First of today's films in the Affairs to Remember season of great screen romances.
Starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
When struggling young artist Eben Adams meets Jennie Appleton, he finds his inspiration. But her aura of mystery draws Eben into exploring her background. (1948, U)
(Black and white and Colour)
The Enchanted Cottage follows
See Films: pages 50-72 ****
Second of today's great screen romances.
Starring Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young.
Oliver, a disfigured First World War veteran, is saved from suicide when he falls in love with Laura. They hide from the rest of the world in a New England cottage.
(1945) (Black and white) (Stereo [sic])
See Films: pages 50-72 ****
Bilko's cousin Swifty causes problems.
(Black and white) (Repeat)
McGill is hired to retrieve a missing brooch.
(First shown on ITV)
Drebin gets caught up in a love triangle.
(Repeat)
Quentin Willson looks at the Golf GTi.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
The controversial 1974 British Lions rugby tour of South Africa.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)
BBC journalist Mark Tully travels the 1,000-mile rail journey across the Indian subcontinent.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)
Western starring Elvis Presley
Pacer, offspring of a white father and Indian mother, is hopelessly trapped by his divided loyalties.
Showing in widescreen format.
(1960, PG)
See Films: pages 50-72
Continuing the science-fiction series set on a space station.
When Commander Riker, on leave from the Enterprise, visits the space station, he is welcomed. But then he sets a Marquis plot in motion.
An opera in three acts by Leos Janacek, performed at the Chatelet Theatre Musical de Paris and produced by Nicholas Hytner, the director of Miss Saigon and The Madness of King George.
The opera was based on a series of illustrated newspaper articles by a Czech journalist, and Hytner takes his cue from the opera's beginnings, presenting the episodic story in brightly coloured sets and using costumes of rustic simplicity designed by Bob Crowley. It is performed by the Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Charles Mackerras.
Sung in Czech with English subtitles.
Ordinary people reflect on romance and the movies.
(Stereo)
Aston Martin's story is one of engineering triumph in the face of financial adversity. In a special profile of the company, Jeremy Clarkson has the chance to drive some of its finest cars, including the post-war Atom, a DB4GT, the DB5 used in the film Goldeneye, a DB6 Volante and the latest V12 DB7.
He tells the story of the company's decade-long struggle to win Le Mans, and talks to Stirling Moss about what the old racing Astons were like to drive.
Classic comedy from 1973 starring Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques
Hattie finds Eric's mania for golf impossible to live with, so she decides to have a go at the sport herself. To Eric's surprise, it is Hattie who proves to be the champion, giving coaching lessons to some greats of the golf world. Featuring TonyJacklin, Richard Caldicot, Sam Kydd, Felix Bowness, Robert Bridges and Leslie Noyes. Written by Eric Sykes
Producer Roger Race (Repeat)
Another chance to see the first episode of the animated saga about the Stone-Age Gogs.
(The final four parts can be seen tomorrow at 9.25pm)
(Repeat) (Stereo)
On 22 October 1995, for the first time, all the world's leaders gathered together in the United Nations in New York to have their photograph taken for the beginning of the UN's 50th anniversary celebration. Photographer Paul Skipworth's 15 minutes of supreme power is the subject of this film.
(See today's choices.)
(Subtitled)
With Peter Snow.
Another chance to see the harrowing journey through the world of London's young homeless undertaken by a young woman searching for her friend. Claire Grant, who slept rough in London three years ago, returns to the city to look for Tat, a streetwise teenager.
(Stereo)
Drama starring Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy
Walter Faber is a self-contained man of the world whose greatest fear is "uncontrolled coincidence". His survival in an aircrash leads him into just such a chain of circumstance.
(1991,15) (Stereo)
See Films: pages 50-72 ***
Followed by Weatherview