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News plus a preview of weekend sport from BBC News 24. Presented by Sarah Montague and Chris Eakin.

Mind Bending. Howard Stableford looks at how company bosses are recognising that the brainpower of their workforce is an important business asset. With
"mind-map" pioneer Tony Buzan and industry expert Charles Handy.
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Ramon Woolfe looks back at the week's news. With signing......................

Rural issues, with John Craven. Plus the week's weather at 11. 20am

Bestsellingthrillerwriter Jack Higgins talks about a life-changing moment....

Beginning a Saturday Matinee double bill of musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli. Starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse

While grouse shooting in Scotland, two Americans, Tommy and Jeff, lose their way in the mist. When it clears they find themselves in a strange village.
(Widescreen) (1954 U) ****
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Concluding today's Saturday
Matinée double bill of musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli. Starring
Barbra Streisand , Yves Montand
Daisy Gamble , a neurotic chain-smoker, goes to Dr Marc Chabot to cure her of the habit. However, while under hypnosis, she regresses to a past life. Widescreen.
(1970. U) Subtitled ........................ ♦ See Films: pages 50-57

The afternoon session continues at Trent Bridge on the third day's play between
England and South Africa

The series chronicling the 20th century. 1927- Great Escape. While cinema quickly developed to become the world's major mass entertainment, governments recognised the fact that the medium could be used for propaganda purposes.
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Further coverage of the third day's play between England and South Africa. Producers Paul Davies , Alan Griffiths
EditorPhilip Bernie ...........................

Drama about life in turn-of-the-century Nebraska.
Starring Jessica Lange

The spirited daughter of Swedish immigrants takes over the failing family farm and, despite pressure, refuses to sell up.
(1992, PG) ***
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Continuing the series profiling objects brought to Britain by West Indians who arrived in the fifties.
For some Caribbeans who crossed the Atlantic, the Bible continues to be a source of comfort. But fair-skinned images of Jesus and hostility from the church have raised political awareness in others.
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The Windrush Season continues at 9.30pm with the Windrush Gala Concert.
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The literary programme returns for afour-part series with a profile of novelist, artist and poet Mervyn Peake , whose
Gormenghast trilogy of grotesque fantasies set in an imaginary world is widely regarded as a neglected masterpiece.
Born in China in 1911, Peake later lived in an artists' colony on the Channel island of Sark. He suffered intermittent nervous breakdowns - exacerbated by a trip to Belsen as a war artist in 1945 - and, from his forties to his death in 1968, was afflicted by a degenerative brain disease. Contributors include Peake's three children, explorer Sir
Ranulph Fiennes and Quentin Crisp. Narrated by Julian Glover. ProducerVanessa Engle; Executive producer Roger Thompson
Followed by Conversation Piece Fred Watson 's sculpture Inside, Outside. Subtitled

London's Alexandra Palace is the venue for a concert celebrating 50 years of black British entertainment. Presenters Patrick Robinson and Lisa I'Anson introduce an array of stars from the worlds of music, comedy, drama, sport and literature.
See today's choices. The Windrush Season continues with Black Firsts, tomorrow at 7.50pm See This Week: page 8

Richie Benaud with highlights from today's play between England and South Africa at
Trent Bridge

Cult road movie, di rected by and starri ng
Dennis Hopper
Also starring Peter Fonda
Two motorcyclists, Billy and Wyatt, decide to drop out and, with the money from a drug deal, travel across the US to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras.
Among the characters they encounter is George Hanson , an alcoholic lawyer, who decides to join them on their odyssey. A documentary about the making of this film follows at 1.35am.
(1969,18) * See Films: pp 50-57 *****

Documentary exploring how the low-budget 1969 feature film
Easy Rider was made and how it altered the face of American cinema. Contributors include two of the film's stars, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Producer Nick Freand Jones
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