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6.05 Linkage Mechanisms

6.30 Housing: Business as Usual

7.00 Imagining the Pacific

7.30 The Emperor's Gift
(Stereo)

News plus a preview of weekend sport from BBC News 24. With Maxine Mawhinney and David Robertson.

Experimenting with Science. As part of National Science, Engineering and Technology Week, David Goldblatt examines the historical importance and modern relevance of experimentation.
The results of three experiments in which viewers are invited to participate at www.open.ac.uk/saturday are relayed in The Interactive Zone, Wednesday 12.30am. Series producer Andrew Law Stereo ... BROCHURE INFORMATION: call [number removed]Calls will be charged at the national rate CEEFAX: page

Tim Grundy presents the magazine show targeted particularly towards men.

10.45 Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson test drives the new Rolls-Royce.
Shown last Thursday Stereo Subtitled.

Followed by Menzone
Fisherman Liam Dale shows how to land the biggest catch.

11.20 The Old Grey Whistle Test
Highlights from the music show, with performances from the seventies including Dr Feelgood and Canned Heat. Repeat

Followed by Menzone
More from Tim Grundy.

Menzone producer Mike Finlason

Crews prepare for the sixth leg- a 4, 750-mile journey from Sao Sebastiao , Brazil, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Presented by Steve Rider , with Richard Simmonds and Fenella George ,

Patrick Moore describes the total eclipse of the sun that he saw in the Caribbean last month.
(Shown last Sunday on BBC1)

Under review are As Good as It Gets, Wag the Dog and The Man in the Iron Mask.
(Shown last Monday on BBC1)

Drama, the first of a double bill of Saturday Matinee films, starring Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp

Lassie's son Laddie shows courage while trapped with his master in Second World War Nazi-occupied Norway.
(1945)

See Films: pages 54-60

Second World War drama, concluding the Saturday Matinee double bill, starring Gregory Peck

Bomber pilots at a US air base in England become restless when martinet General Frank Savage takes over command.
(1949, U)
(Black and white)
See Films: pages 54-60 ****

Highlights from Birmingham's NEC of the top event of the canine calendar.
Presented by Peter Purves , Jessica Holm and Mike Stockman.

Another chance to see the first of a four-part adaptation of Charles Dickens 's epic novel.
A death brings barrister Eugene Wrayburn into the life of poverty-stricken Lizzie Hexam.
Shown last Monday For part 2 and cast see Monday 9pm Stereo Subtitled.

The Boffins inherit a fortune when John Harmon, the only son and heir of their old employer, apparently drowns. A death brings Eugene Wrayburn into the life of Lizzie Hexam.

With Jennie Bond. Subtitled
Weather David Lee

As neo-Nazis prepare to fight in Germany's elections this autumn,
Isobel Hilton investigates the disturbing re-emergence of the far right; Allan Little focuses on a psychiatrist's efforts to help victims of the trauma still gripping the people of Sarajevo two years after the war in Bosnia; and, in Bombay, India, Daniel Lak examines the steps taken by the authorities to combat the city's acute rat problem. See today's choices. Series producer Lucy Hetherington ; Editor Fiona Murch
The Sarajevo item in this episode was incorrectly billed in the North West and Midlands listings for 7 March

A series of programmes in the continuing season on parenting commences with a look at the relationship between comedian Jo Brand and her mother, Joyce.
After a strict upbringing, Jo decided to leave home at the age of 16, and was reconciled with her mother on after a long period of estrangement.
Producer Gregor Cameron : Executive producer Clare Paterson BOOKLET: send a cheque for £3 made payable to BBC Education to [address removed]

Jane Watson gave up a successf u I career in translating to become a full-time motherto herthree children. Together with Mary,
Carol and Deborah -three other women who made the same decision - she challenges the way that society views full-time mothers, and also the emphasis it puts on commitment to work at the expense of devotion to family life. See today's choices. Producer Liz Jackson : Executive producer
Debbie Christie
♦ The high cost of loving: page 23

Status Quo star Francis Rossi and his son Simon talk about their relationship and the pressures of growing up with a famous father who pursued the archetypal rock 'n' roll lifestyle.

Fourwomen-Elle,
Nadine, Julie and Carolyn - who chose to move from being full-time mothers to single independent women discuss their emotional journeys and society's reaction to their controversial decision.
See today's choices. Director Jane Beckwith
Producer Susie Brooks-Smith

Jamie Baulch, one of Britain's top 400m runners, reveals how much of his success is due to the support of his adoptive mother, Marilyn, who helped him through tough times growing up as a mixed-race child in Wales.
(The film Boys on the Side is at 10.30pm)

Political comedy quiz hosted by Clive Anderson , with Graeme Garden and Jeremy Hardy.
Shown yesterday

Drama starring
Whoopi Goldberg
Mary-Louise Parker
Drew Barrymore
Three women make a break with their troubled pasts as they share a cartrip across country.
Director Herbert Ross (1995, 15)
The Having It All season continues with Juggling on Tuesday evening at 9pm
♦ See Films: pages 54-60 ****

Highlights of the third day's play in the Fifth Test between the West Indies and England, from Bridgetown, Barbados.
Introduced by Jonathan Agnew. Producers Sam Leadsom and SimonWheeler
♦ See Jonathan Agnew : page 38

Comedyfantasy starring
Kim Basinger
Gabriel Byrne , Brad Pitt
Returning war hero Frank Harris crashes his motorcycle and enters a nightmarish animated hell full of cartoon characters.
Director Ralph Bakshi (1992.15)
* See Films: pages 54-60 * *
Followed by Weatherview

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