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6.10 Structural Components
6.35 My Favourite Things 8023741 7.05 Problems with Patterns
7.30 Myth and Music
News plus a preview of weekend sport from BBC News 24. Presented by Chris Eakin and Rebecca Jones.
The Science of Sex, Life and Death
Howard Stableford embarks on a cradle-to-grave study of the human body.
Viewers are able to registertheirweb site reactions to a series of experiments at www.open.ac.uk/saturday
Feedback will feature in The Interactive Zone, Wednesdayatl2.30am.
Series producer David Poyser BROCHURE INFORMATION: call[number removed]Calls will be charged at the national rate CEEFAX: page
Ramon Woolfe looks back at the week's news. With signing......................
Musical starring Tuesday Weld
A young girl tries desperately to raise enough money to buy the dress of her dreams to wearto the local dance.
Director Will Price (1956, U)
Black and white Subtitled.... Postponed from 30 June
♦ See Films: pages 42-48 * *
Saturday Matinée adventure, the first of two films starring
Janet Leigh
Also starring Robert Wagner , James Mason Prince Valiant is forced to flee Scandia when the treacherous Sligon takes power. Venturing to Camelot, he resolves to train as a Knight of the Round Table to help his parents regain theirthrone. Widescreen.
Director Henry Hathaway (1954) ♦ See Films: pages 42-48 * *
Swashbuckling adventure, concluding the Saturday Matinee double bill starring Janet Leigh
Also starring Tony Curtis
Myles, son of the disgraced Earl of Falworth, fights treachery in the court of King Henry IV to redeem his family name.
(1954) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 42-48 **
Mystery series starring George Peppard. The Two Million Clams of Cap 'n
Jack Banacek investigates the theft of stock from a food company two days before a scheduled takeover. Repeat ......
Steve Rider introduces further coverage of action in the third round of the 127th Open championship, from the course at Royal Birkdale, Southport.
Producer Alastair Scott : Executive producer
John Shrewsbury .... * See Sport: page 36
With Moira Stuart. Subtitled
Weather Michael Fish
Followed by Conversation Piece Sculpture Season begins with ten personal views of modern works in public places. Tonight, reactions to TaroChiezo's
Super Lamb Banana and David Bowie 's impression of In
Stillness and in Silence (Sacred) by Richard Deveraux. Subtitled A two-part documentary. Henry Moore ; Carving a Reputation, starts at 8.10pm
City on the Brink
Chongqing, nowChina's most densely populated city, is undergoing drastic upheaval. Once the centre of Chairman
Mao's armaments industry, its factories are now crumbling and its socialist institutions are in decline. A new faith in market forces has led to a huge disparity in the distribution of wealth and a surge in crime - situation far removed from the egalitarian society envisaged by Mao.
The Liaos, once Red Army guards and now affluent restaurateurs, represent a new class of self-made capitalists. But single mother He Xiaoxia has lost her livelihood and, along with millions of other jobless Chinese, faces a bleak future. Isobel Hilton meets the rich and poor of Chongqing in a report exposingthe human face of China's "economic miracle".
Producers Stephen Hallett , Bill Trehame Jones Editor Fiona Murch
Six-part series profiling objects brought to Britain by West Indians who arrived during the fifties.
The Hot Comb. In the fifties and sixties, thousands of African-
Caribbean women arrived in the UK with a traditional beauty aid. The hot comb proved to be not only an essential cosmetic tool but also a focus for gatherings of black women in early "living room" hair salons.
Director Lincia Daniel ; Executive producer Debbie Christie WINDRUSH BOOKLET: send a cheque for £4.95. payable to BBC Education, to:
[address removed]. To order by credit card. phone [number removed] (calls cost no more than 12p per minute) Black Firsts continues the Windrush Season tomorrow at 7.50pm
WEB SITE: www.bbc.co.uk/education
The first of a two-part documentary marking the centenary of Henry Moore 's birth, shown as part of BBC2's Sculpture Season.
1898-1945. Cinefilmfootage and notebook extracts build up a picture of Moore's early life, from his studentdays in Leeds to his wartime experiences. Part 2 is tomorrow at 8pm. See today's choices.
Director James Runcie : Executive producer Keith Alexander BOOKLET: send a £5.99 cheque to BBC Education Production, to: [address removed]♦ See This Week: page 7
The first of two documentary programmes marking the centenary of his birth looks at the young Henry Moore and includes some frank interviews with the women who loved him.
Third-round highlights from Royal Birkdale. With Steve Rider.
Classic chiller opening a double bill of films from
Alfred Hitchcock. Starring
Tippi Hedren , Rod Taylor
A meeting in a pet shop impels Melanie Daniels to track down
Mitch Brenner in Bodega Bay. As a gift, she takesapair of lovebirds. This seemingly innocuous act unleashes the forces of nature in a totally terrifying way.
(1963.151 Subtitled ............. ♦ See Films: pages 42-48 ****
Professor Camille Paglia discusses herfascination with Alfred Hitchcock 's 1963 chiller.
Producers Andrew Abbott and Russell Leven. ....
Concluding the Hitchcock double bill and the first of two films starring
Joseph Cotten
When Uncle Charlie arrives in Santa Rosa, he is welcomed by hisfamily. But his admiring niece soon begins to harbour doubts about herfavourite uncle.
(1943, PG)
Black and white * See Films: pp 42-48 *****
Spy drama, second in a double bill of films starring Joseph Cotten
Also starring Orson Welles
A US munitions expert's visit to Istanbul turns into a nightmare when, after an attempt on his life, he is urged to flee the country.
(1942, U) (Black and white)
See Films: pages 42-48 ****
Followed by Weatherview
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Music (part 2)