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6.10 "Patterns in the Dust" and "Batteries Included"

7.00 Lifelines
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7.30 The Bobigny Trial

The latest news plus a preview of weekend sport from BBC News 24. With Sarah Montague and Chris Eakin.

Sun, Sea, Sand.... and Science. Mike Bullivant makes a scientific study of beach life, examinestourism in Hawaii, looks at sand and asks whether extreme weather spells climatic disaster.
Senes producer David Poyser. .... BROCHURE INFORMATION: call [number removed]Calls will be charged at the national rate CEEFAX: page
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A signed review of the past week's news. With Carolyn Nabarro. .................

March of the Flamebirds. A film about
40,000 babyflamingos' struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert. Narrated by David Attenborough. Repeat

Alan Titchmarsh visits Northumberland's
Cragside and Sheffield Park in Sussex.
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Classic costume drama, starting a Saturday Matinee double bill featuring James Mason
Also starring Margaret Lockwood
"All my life I've cheated to get what I wanted." Lady Skelton lives up to her boast when she turns to highway robbery and murder.
Director Leslie Arliss (1945. PG)
Black and white Subtitled ...............
♦See Films: pages 44-51

Saturday Matinee drama, second of two films starring James Mason
Also starring John Mills
Brett Aimsley is shocked to discover that his officer in command is an arrogant man who used to work as a clerk for his father.
Director William T Kotcheff (1962, PG)
♦See Films: pages 44-51

1948-Boomtime. Individuals recall the postwar onset of prosperity that culminated in the consumer society.
Postponed from 8 August The series continues on Monday at 1.30pm Repeat Subtitled .

To Steal a King. Banacek uncovers a bitter feud between a numismatist and a rival coin collector. Repeat.....

Classic comedy, the first of three films today starring Jack Lemmon
Also stamng Marilyn Monroe , Tony Curbs
Two musicians nearly become victims of 1929's St Valentine's Day massacre.
Their only escape is ajazz band heading for Florida, but it's an all-girl orchestra. The Odd Couple is at 9pm, Scene by Scene with Jack Lemmon at 10.45pm and Glengarry Glen Ross at 11.30pm.
Director Billy Wilder (1959, U)
Black and white
* See Films: pages 44-51

The first of six programmes showing this and next weekend which showcase dance performance and documentary from around the world.

This weekend features the work of Australian choreographer Stephen Page, artistic director of the Aboriginal contemporary company the Bangarra Dance Theatre. This opening presentation is their interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, performed together with the Australian Ballet, which fuses traditional Aboriginal dance with modern stylings and seeks to capture the spiritual essence of the four elements - earth, wind, fire and water.
The series continues tomorrow at 8pm with a profile of Stephen Page and his brothers.
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With Moira Stuart

Weather Isobel Lang

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Profiling objects brought to Britain by West Indians in the fifties.
The Dutch pot has evolved into an emblem of Caribbean culinary culture. Four black Britons reveal their cooking secrets and celebrate the device known as the "dutchie".
(Subtitled)
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Lawrence Durrell - a Smile in the Mind's Eye
Television producer
Margaret McCall , a close acquaintance of Lawrence Durrell , looks back at the maverick author's life - which ended in 1990 - and seeks to unravel the complexities of his personality with the help of archive interview footage and contributions from Durrell's friends and relatives, as well as biographers and critics. See today's choices.
Director Nadia Haggar : Executive producer RogerThompson

Neil Simon 's comedy of opposites, the second of today's three films starring
Jack Lemmon
Also starring Walter Matthau When Felix Ungar 's marriage breaks up, his carefree poker pal Oscar Madison invites him to share his apartment. However, Oscar is soon determined that one of them must go. Widescreen. Scene by Scene with Jack Lemmon follows at 10.45pm.
Director Gene Saks (1968. PG)
♦See Films: pages 44-51 ****

Dramatic adaptation of David Mamet 's play. concluding the triple bill featuring Jack Lemmon Also starring Al Pacino Alec Baldwin
With the recession biting hard, competition between Chicago's real-estate agents is fierce. One office sponsors a contest, with the agent completing most sales winning a car. Widescreen.
Director James Foley (1992, 15)
♦See Films: pp44-51 *****

Crime drama, the first of two Raymond Chandler - based films noirs showing thisweekend, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery
When private eye Philip Marlowe turns his hand to writing detective stories, he finds himself dealing with a homicide as well.
Philip Marlowe ROBERT MONTGOMERY , Lt DeGarmot LLOYD NOLAN ,
Adrienne Fromsett AUDREY TOTTER , Capt Kane TOM TULLY
(1947) Black and white The Blue Dahlia is tomorrow at 12 midnight ♦See Rims: pages 44-51 **** * Barry Norman : page 40
Followed by Weatherview

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