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Adventure, showing in the "Lost and Found" season of rare films.

France 1939: Czechoslovakian Karel Langer is sent as slave labour to help build a Saharan railroad for the Germans.
(1944) (Black and white)

(Postponed from 1 July)
(See Films: pages 46-51)

Contributors

Director:
Max Greene

Historical adventure, the first of three films starring John Wayne
Kentucky rifleman John Breen 's love for a woman leads him to defend French settlers against his romantic rival. Director George Waggner (1949. U)
Black and white The Fighting Seatoes is tomorrow at 1.10pm ♦ See Films: pages 46-51
2.45 News and Regional News

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wayne
Unknown:
John Breen
Director:
George Waggner

Tiff Needell assesses drivers in the Formula Palmer Audi series, and Bob Constanduros reports on the racing at the Festival of Speed at Goodwood.
(Top Gear starts a new series on Thursday at 8.30pm)

3.25 News and Regional News

Contributors

Reporter:
Tiff Needell
Reporter:
Bob Constanduros

A double bill of episodes.

There's No Disgrace like Home
Homer is concerned about how disrespectful his family members are to each other

And at 6.25 Life on the Fast Lane
Marge seeks revenge on Homer for being selfish.
(Homer's Barbershop Quartet is on Thursday at 6pm)
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Videoplus code for 6.00-6.45 (not PDC)

Adam Hart Davis begins another cycling tour in search of more tales of pioneering inventors in an eight-part fourth series.
Hart-Davis begins by exploding balloons of hydrogen and oxygen in London, just as Henry Cavendish did in the late 18th century to prove that water was H20. He also stops in Hungerford, Berkshire, where farmer Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 1701.
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Adam Hart Davis
Producer:
Paul Bader
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

Lowri Turner presents a one-off health programme in which she investigates natural ways to liven up your love life, including colour therapy, feng shui and herbalism. Three viewers try out stress-management techniques, and two men with paunches attempt to make their figures more shapely in a fortnight.
(Lowri Turner hosts Esther Wednesday 4.55pm)
Factsheet: send a cheque or postal order for £2 to: [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Lowri Turner
Producer:
Jeanine Josman

Team captains Mark Lamarr and Ulrika Jonsson are joined by actor Glenn Hugill, comedian Eddie Izzard, and television presenters Melanie Sykes and Carol Vorderman. Hosted by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Vic Reeves
Presenter:
Bob Mortimer
Team captain:
Mark Lamarr
Team captain:
Ulrika Jonsson
Panellist:
Glenn Hugill
Panellist:
Eddie Izzard
Panellist:
Melanie Sykes
Panellist:
Carol Vorderman
Director:
Mark Mylod
Producer:
Alan Marke

Beginning a rerun of the first series of the sci-fi comedy.
Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules.

The ship Red Dwarf is mining around Saturn. Within 24 hours, 168 members of its crew of 169 will be dead.
(A repeat of Red Dwarf A-Z follows at 10pm.)
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Rob Grant
Writer:
Doug Naylor
Director:
Ed Bye
Executive Producer:
Paul Jackson
Rimmer:
Chris Barrie
Lister:
Craig Charles
Cat:
Danny John-Jules

A run through the comedy show's alphabet, as cast members and celebrity fans - including Professor Stephen Hawking and sci-fi writer Terry Pratchett select their favourite moments.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Professor Stephen Hawking
Interviewee:
Terry Pratchett
Director:
Ed Bye
Executive Producer:
Doug Naylor

Six tourists were taken hostage in Kashmir three years ago. Of the group, one has been killed, one has escaped and the fate of the remaining four - two of them British - is still a mystery.
This three-part Video Diaries Special, showing on consecutive nights, follows journalist Sean Langan on a dangerous quest to the region to try to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of Blackburn's Paul Wells and Keith Mangan from Cleveland.

Contributors

Reporter:
Sean Langan
Producer:
Rachel Foster
Executive Producer:
Bob Long

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Spanish Chapel, Florence
(Subtitled)
1.00 Brecht on Stage
1.30 Richard II: Politics, Patriotism and Authority

The Greats
2.00 Scientists and Inventors: Part 2

Languages
4.00 Get By in French: Part 2
Language guide.

Business and Training
5.00 Skills for Work

Open University
5.45 Hardwick Hall: Power and Architecture
6.10 Jazz, Raga and Synthesizers
6.35-7.00am Ouverture: Dimancheen Anjou

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