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Adventure, showing in the Lost and Found season of rare films, starring Anton Walbrook

Having fought with the International Brigade, Czech Karel Langer is refused refugee status by France in 1939, and is sent as slave labour to help build the Saharan railroad for the Germans.
(1944)
(Black and white) (Subtitled)

See Films: pages 60-66

Contributors

Director:
Max Greene
Karel Langer:
Anton Walbrook

Series in which women in comedy discuss their careers.

With a roll call of TV credits including Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Keeping Up Appearances, Talking Heads and Steptoe and Son, Patricia Routledge has established herself as one of Britain's foremost actresses.
Among those paying tribute are actor Nigel Hawthorne, playwrights Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, Clive Swift, who plays the long-suffering Richard in Keeping Up Appearances (an episode of which follows), and Dominic Monaghan, Geoffrey in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
See today's choices.

Contributors

Subject:
Patricia Routledge
Interviewee:
Nigel Hawthorne
Interviewee:
Alan Bennett
Interviewee:
Michael Frayn
Interviewee:
Clive Swift
Interviewee:
Dominic Monaghan
Producer:
Gabrielle Osrin
Editor:
Ben Frow

An episode from 1991 of the comedy series starring Patricia Routledge as social-climber Hyacinth Bucket.

Hyacinth has arranged one of her candlelit suppers at which she plans to impress Emmet, director of the local amateur operatic society, with her singing.
But she hasn't bargained for circumstances that threaten to take over the evening's events.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Roy Clarke
Director/Producer:
Harold Snoad
Hyacinth:
Patricia Routledge
Elizabeth:
Josephine Tewson
Richard:
Clive Swift
Emmet:
David Griffin
Onslow:
Geoffrey Hughes
Daisy:
Judy Cornwell
Rose:
Mary Millar
Mr Helliwell:
Gregory Cox
Bons:
Dicken Ashworth
Man with dog:
Stuart Sherwin

Sue Barker introduces the best of today's action from the men's s quarter-finals, in which the tournament's fast grass courts will call upon a combination of agility and power from the eight remaining competitors. Repeated tomorrow at 9am

Followed by Video Nation Caribbean Shorts

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker

Concluding the thrice-weekly fly-on-the-wall series about the city and people of Manchester.

It's time for the annual lesbian and gay Mardi Gras, one of Europe's biggest street festivals, where - more than 150,000 people descend on Manchester city centre for a weekend of partying, drinking and fund-raising.
Logistics manager John Burgess assumes overall control while Dot Shufflebottom has the task of organising the parade of floats through the crowded city and Marshall Peach directs the "Mr Leather Europe" contest.

Contributors

Subject:
John Burgess
Subject:
Dot Shufflebottom
Subject:
Marshall Peach

Comedy-drama about a family's trip to the World Cup in France. Gran takes a liking to the holy water. Owen and Ruthie's friendship develops as the Rudds concentrate on important matters of football and sex.
(For cast see Monday) (Subtitled)

Followed by Weatherview

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Mapping the Milky Way
The secrets of our galaxy.
1.00 Jets and Black Holes
Mysterious space phenomena.
1.30 Cosmology on Trial
How did the universe begin, and how will it end?

Body Matters
2.00 MRI: a Window into the Human Body
Mapping regions of the brain.
3.00 Electricity, Magnetism and the Body
Electromagnetic explorations of the brain.

World Cup French
4.00 Get By in French (Part 2)
Language survival guide.

Business and Training
5.00 RCN Nursing Update: Organ Donation
5.30 RCN Nursing Update: Clear, Clean and CFC Free

Open University
5.45 Elastomers
Why elastic bands stretch and rubber balls bounce.
6.10 Phonons
How heat is conducted.
6.35-7.00am Light from Semiconductors

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