How Hollywood portrayed the American role in the Second World War.
(Repeat)
The Loch Ness Mystery. What secret lurks in the dark depths of Loch Ness?
Black and white/colour
The first of today's films featuring
James Stewart r Comedy drama starring Ginger Rogers
A naive academic impulsively marries a nightclub singer and then has to face both his ex-fiancee and his dominating father. Director George Stevens (1938, U)
Black and white ............................... The Shop around the Corner is at 10.30am ♦ See Films: pages 43-76
William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. The curious relationship between the newspapertycoon and his mistress.
Repeat Stereo ...............................
Romantic drama starring James Stewart , Margaret Sullavan
In a Budapest store, two bickering co-workers are unaware that they are, in fact, lonely hearts pen pals and in love. Director Ernst Lubitsch (1940)
Black and white Bend of the River is at 6pm
+ See Films: pages 43-76 ****
Janet Leigh remembers sharing a scene with James Stewart.
Highlights from this year's RAC Rally, which saw a memorable victory for
Britain's Colin McRae.
Jools Holland introduces a final selection of highlights from this summer's festival. Jools Holland presents Jools 's Hootenanny at
11.55pmtonight Stereo ..................
The Magical Maze
4: Chaos and Cauliflowers. Professor Ian Stewart looks for order in chaos, and asks if fractals are the key to the irregular
Shapes of nature. Stereo
Shownyesterdayat8.15pm Stereo ....
The best-selling singer recorded live in concert at New York's Central Park,
Performing his unique brand of country music. Stereo .............................
Young conductor Mark Wigglesworth follows the development of a Boulez piece from first rehearsals to the final performance.
Actor/director Richard Attenborough chooses his favourite James Stewart
Performance. Stereo ....................
Classic western, continuing the season of films starring James Stewart
Glyn McLyntock saves horse-thief Cole Garett from a lynching. A grateful Garett subsequently agrees to join McLyntock, who has been hired to guide a wagon train of farmers on the perilous journey to Oregon.
(1952) ****
The James Stewart season continues with Winchester 73 on Friday 2 January at 2.40pm See Films: pages 43-Â76
From the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, to the trial of Louise Woodward, from
Tony Bullimore's miraculous ocean rescue to the triumphal images of Labour's election victory, photographers have helped to shape the vision of the year's key news events.
Decisive Moments returns to explore the making of the images of 1997 and talks to the picture editors who selected them, the agencies who sold them and, most importantly, the photographers themselves.
They talk frankly about their work and their own complex reactions to the subjects that made the headlines. See today's choices.
Clocking off ... Angus Deayton sees out the old in The End of the Year Show
Today's Choices
Decisive Moments/The End of the Year Show/TFI 1998
7.30pm BBC2/11.00pm BBC1/11.00pm C4 I broadcasting from the Prime Minister's home (allegedly), Angus Deayton takes a satirical look back over 1997, the year of Teletubbies, The Full Monty, the Spice Girls and, on a more serious note, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Among his musical guests at "Number 10" are Louise, Erroll Brown and Lesley Garrett, who sings her personal tribute to Diana.
No doubt touching on similar subjects, Decisive Moments offers a roundup of the best news photographs of 1997 and talks to press photographers, picture agencies and editors about their ethics and their reactions to the subjects that made the headlines.
Later in the evening, Chris Evans and the TFl 1 1998 team keep partying through the night before launching headlong into the New Year.
Another chance to see Daniel Greaves's new animated film.
In wet and windy Flatworld, Matt Phlatt is beginning another dreary day. But an accident at work is about to take Matt's life into another dimension, as he finds that he can cross over into a nightmarish parallel cartoon universe of television.
(Shown on Christmas Eve at 7pm)
Another visit to the the celebrity-populated avenues of Surbiton. The series continues tomorrow at
12.20am Stereo
Science-fiction thriller.
When a man is kidnapped by aliens, not even his wife believes his story. But after a spaceship is shot down near his home, the military asks him to try to communicate with the only creature which survives.
Director Brian Trenchard-Smith
(1993.PG) ♦ See Rims: pages 43-76
Highlights from this year's muddy but ultimately character-building Glastonbury festival, with performances from Radiohead, the Prodigy, Beck, Kula Shaker, Ocean Colour Scene, Sheryl Crow, the Chemical Brothers and more.
Followed by Weatherview
