6.20 Voyages of Discovery Repeat 6039913 6.45 The Planet Earth -a Scientific Model Repeat 5008517 7.10 Seville-Gatewayto the Indies Repeat
3228130 7.35PlayingSafe Repeat
A series of programmes from Open
University taking an area of life each week and exploring it from different perspectives. The Body. David Goldblatt presents a guide to the human body, considering how it grows, works and is perceived.
Open Sunday starts tomorrow at 7.25am. Executive producer Chris Palmer INFORMATION: call (01908) [number removed]for a free brochure. and see Ceefax page 617. The internet address is: http://www.open.ac.uk/saturday/
The Centre of the Galaxy. Patrick Moore explores this mysterious region.
Shown last SundayonBBCl
Comedy starring W.C. Fields
The Great Man goes to Esoteric Studios with a film script, but comes up against an unsympathetic producer.
(1941)
(Black and white)
See Films: pages 48-51
Reviews of Ransom, Extreme Measures, Carla's Song and Looking for Richard.
Shown last Monday on BBC1
Stereo
Subtitled
' Spy drama,the first film in a Saturday Matinée Orson Welles triple bill. Starring Joseph Cotten
An American munitions expert's trip to
Istanbul turns sourwhen he suffers an attempt on his life by an Axis agent. Howard Graham
JOSEPH COTTEN , Colonel Haki ORSON WELLES
Josette Martel .DOLORES DEL RIO. Stephanie
Graham RUTH WARRICK , Mrs Mathews AGNES MOOREHEAD
Director Norman Foster and Orson Welles (uncredited)
(1942. U) Black and white * See Films: pages 48-51
Biographical drama, continuing the Saturday Matinee triple bill.
Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
After the death of famous newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, reporters try to discover the truth about his life. Charles Foster Kane
ORSON WELLES. Jedediah Leland
JOSEPH COTTEN. Susan Alexander DOROTHY COMINGORE, Mr Bernstein EVERETT SLOANE Director Orson Welles (1941. U)
Black and white Subtitled......
See Films: pages 48-51 *****
What do you mean, you've never seen it?: page 43
Family drama, concluding today's Saturday Matinee triple bill of Orson Welles films. Starring Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead.
Unwilling to change with the times, the Amberson family reflect the decadence and faded glory of doomed America.
(1942, U) (Black and white)
("TX" is on Orson Welles, tonight at 7.40pm)
(See Films: pages 48-51)
Hits from the Top of the Pops archives, plus today's chart sounds. stereo. Topot the Pops is on Friday at 7. 30pm on BBC1
Coverage from the Guild Hall, Preston, of the World Indoor Bowls championships pairs final, which is played overfive sets. Commentary by David Rhys-Jones , Jimmy Davidson , John Bell ,
Mal Hughes and David McGill. Introduced by Dougie Donnelly. Coverage of the singles final is tomorrow at 2pm.
Editor Gerard Lane Stereo .....................
The Princess and the Playboy
As the Pakistani people go to the polls, Assignment examines a scandal threateningto engulf the country's
Bhutto family, and reports on attempts being made by the authorities to stamp out corruption.
Pakistan's President Farooq Leghari has accused deposed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband
Asif Zardari of plundering almost £1 billion from the coffers of the poverty-stricken nation. Reporter Jane Corbin investigates the allegations and talks to Bhutto and her husband, who is currently injail accused of conspiring to murder Bhutto's own brother.
Producer Thea Guest: Editor Keith Bowers
The day's national and international news, presented by Moira Stuart. Subtitled
Weather David Lee .....
John Sweeney of The Observer peruses this week's national newspapers.
Producer Brian Blake Stereo
The Lost Films of Orson Welles
Throughout his life,
Orson Welles worked on numerous projects which, mostly because of his travels and lack of money, were never completed. This documentary, made with the collaboration of companion Oja Kodar , offers a new understanding of Welles's creative achievement. See today's choices. DirectorVassili Silovic ; Series editor John Wyver
A rerun of classic episodes from Johnny Speight's sitcom continues with an episode from 1972, featuring Joan Sims. Alf breaks his leg and is confined to a wheelchair, but it does not hold him back.
(Repeat)
Beginning a four-part dramatisation of Joseph Conrad's classic novel of politics and corruption.
Starring Colin Firth, Albert Finney, Serena Scott Thomas
In the 1880s, Englishman Charles Gould returns with his young bride to his South American birthplace, where he intends to re-open a derelict silver mine.
See today's choices.
BBC Video: a double video of Nostromo is available from retailers from Monday, price £19.99
See This Week: page 7
Nostromo 9.30pm BBC2
The mere fact that the music for this adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel was written by Ennio Morricone will indicate the size of the endeavour. Producer Fernando Ghia assembled a first-class European and Latin American cast, including 15,000 extras, for Conrad's difficult but rewarding tale of political, moral and social corruption.
Set in the fictional country of Costaguana at the turn of the century, the action revolves around Englishman Charles Gould's (Colin Firth) attempts to exploit the silver from the San Tome mine closed ten years earlier by a bloody revolution. Helping him are his wife Emilia (Serena Scott Thomas), American financier Mr Holroyd (Brian Dennehy) and the incorruptible stevedore Nostromo (Claudio Amendola). Albert Finney is magnificent as the brutalised Dr Monygham and Claudia Cardinale still stuns as innkeeper Teresa.
Romantic drama, starring
Jeff Bridges
Michelle Pfeiffer
Beau Bridges
The Fabulous Baker Boys , a nightclub lounge piano duo, are beginningto fade. Playing Feelings in empty bars, night after night, is beginning to pall. Then the dazzling Susie Diamond joins them, and whole new worlds open up- but so do long-suppressed tensions.
Michelle Pfeiffer also shows off her vocal talents by singing a steamy version of the song Makin' Whoopee.
Director Steve Kloves (1989, 15)
♦ See Films: pages 48-51
Crime drama starring
Barbara Loden
Low on self esteem, Wanda passively accepts a divorce and the loss of custody over hertwo children. On the road and drifting, she takes up with a third-rate bank robber. Inevitably, their one lastjob goes disastrously wrong. Director Barbara Loden (1971,15)
(PDC 1.05-2.55 644024) # See Films: pages 48-51 ****
Followed by Weatherview
