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Crime drama continuing the short season of films starring Robert Mitchum.
A police captain confronts the underworld and government corruption when he sets out to nail an old-fashioned gangster.
(1951) (Black and white)
(The Robert Mitchum season continues with The Hunters, tomorrow at 4pm)
See Films: pages 46-56

Contributors

Director:
John Cromwell
Director:
Nicholas Ray
Captain McQuigg:
Robert Mitchum
Irene:
Lizabeth Scott
Nick Scanlon:
Robert Ryan
Johnson:
William Talman
Welch:
Ray Collins
Mary McQuigg:
Joyce MacKenzie

Documentary that profiles one of Britain's most popular and colourful art institutions, the Tate Gallery in London, which celebrates its centenary today.
See today's choices.
See Polly Toynbee: page 10

Today's Choices: Mr Tate's Gallery 7.40pm BBC2
Few cultural institutions have had as stormy a history as that of the Tate Gallery, which celebrates its 100th birthday today. As Frances Spalding, author of the book The Tate: a Centenary History, says: "It's a history full of disaster, scandal, Philistinism... but there have been wonderful successes, leadership and vision."
Sugar tycoon Henry Tate was an avid art collector who donated the modern equivalent of £6 million to turn the site of the Millbank Penitentiary into a National Gallery of British Art. Now, new galleries have opened in St Ives and Liverpool and Bankside Power Station has been converted into the Tate Gallery of Modern Art.
Taking part in the programme are Britain's best-known living artist David Hockney and art critic Waldemar Januszcak. Also marking the centenary are 12 90-second films in which enthusiasts discuss their art work from the Gallery. Among them are Jeanette Winterson on Lucian Freud, Willie Carson, Michael Palin and Chris Smith MP.

Contributors

Narrator:
Frances Barber
Producer:
John Bush

This week Juliet Morris travels to Tuscany in central Italy, where she finds that caravanning provides a more affordable alternative to the traditional
Italian villa. In a Tale of Two Travellers, Fi Glover and Simon Calder provide different perspectives on holidaying in County Wicklow in Ireland.
Glover hops on to a bicycle to tackle the undulating Irish countryside, while Calder sails up Wicklow's coast in a hired boat. And in You Pay, We Say, more brave travellers allow the programme's experts to plan their holiday for them.

Contributors

Unknown:
Juliet Morris
Unknown:
Fi Glover
Unknown:
Simon Calder
Series Producer:
Andrea Michell
Editor:
Liz Warner

An original drama from the BBC Education series Scene.

In a Yorkshire business unit, Frank dreams up spy stories while his YTS trainee Alan fantasises about being a pop star. But soon both men have to confront harsh realities. Starring Keith Barron and Sean Maguire. This poignant comedy is from Preston Front writer Tim Firth.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
Tim Firth
Producer:
Andrew Rowley
Director:
Jo Johnson
Frank:
Keith Barron
Alan:
Sean Maguire

In the first of two programmes about poetry and place, poet Grace Nichols returns home to Guyana in the West Indies.
(First shown on BBC Schools)
(Revised repeat)
(The second programme, featuring Irish poet Seamus Heaney, is tomorrow at 11.45pm)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Presenter:
Grace Nichols
Producer:
Lindsay Bradbury

Open University
12.30 The Authentick and Ironicall Historie of Henry V
(Rpt)
1.30 Picasso's Guemica

Summer Nights
2.00 Fun with Kids: Collections 1: Smart and Why Don't You?

BBC Focus
4.00 Italia 2000
(Rpt)
4.30 Royal Institution Discourse
5.30 RCN Nursing Update: Unit 72

Open University
6.00 Pieter Bruegel and Popular Culture
(Rpt)
6.25 Writing and Publishing in the Marketplace
(Rpt)
6.50-7.15am The Leathart Collection

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