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Further coverage of the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia, with Steve Rider.

9.00 Hockey
Live coverage of the men's Pool B match between England and Kenya. Plus news of England v Sri Lanka in the women's event.

10.30 Cycling
The women's 92km road race, with commentary by Hugh Porter.

10.50 Tenpin Bowling
Coverage of the men's doubles. David Vine commentates.

11.15 Boxing
The preliminary bouts get underway.

11.30 Swimming
Five finals from the Bukit Jalil swimming complex. Featuring at 11.30 men's 100m butterfly, 11.45 women's 200m freestyle, 12.05 men's 400m individual medley, 12.30 women's 200m breaststroke and 12.55 men's 4x200m freestyle relay. With commentary provided by Andy Jameson, Adrian Moorhouse and Sharron Davies.

1.00 Gymnastics
Highlights from the women's team competition. Barry Davies, Mitch Fenner and Christine Still are the commentators.

Commonwealth Games coverage continues at 4.30pm.

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Commentary (Hockey):
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Commentary (Hockey):
Cathy Harris
Commentary (Cycling):
Hugh Porter
Commentary (Tenpin Bowling):
David Vine
Commentary (Boxing):
Jim Neilly
Commentary (Swimming):
Andy Jameson
Commentary (Swimming):
Adrian Moorhouse
Commentary (Swimming):
Sharron Davies
Commentary (Gymnastics):
Barry Davies
Commentary (Gymnastics):
Mitch Fenner
Commentary (Gymnastics):
Christine Still

A double bill of the animated US comedy.

Dancin' Homer
Homer becomes a big baseball team's official mascot.

And at 2.10 Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish
Homer's boss Mr Burns stands for election as the new state governor.
(Cape Feare is tomorrow at 6pm) (Repeat)
Videoplus code for 1.45-2.30 (not PDC).

Introduced by Sue Barker.

3.30 Racing/Rowing
Racing from Longchamps in France, featuring live coverage at 3.40 of the Prix Niel and at 4.15 of the Prix Foy, plus news from the Prix Vermeille. With commentary by Jim McGrath. Interspersed with action from the final day of the World Rowing championships in Cologne, Germany.

4.30 Commonwealth Games
The early rounds of the rugby union sevens, featuring England's match against Tonga and Wales's clash with New Zealand. The commentator is Huw Llewelyn Davies.

5.20 Motorcycling
Rounds 19 and 20 of the British Superbikes championship, from Silverstone.

5.45 News roundup

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker
Commentary (Racing):
Jim McGrath
Commentary (Commonwealth Games):
Huw Llewelyn Davies
Commentary (Motorcycling):
Barry Nutley

September marks the end of the summer and this is the last chance to sit out in the garden and enjoy the sunshine.

Chris Packham and Nick Baker offer a guide to the wildlife on view, including moles, voles and rats, stick insects, slow worms, grey squirrels and house martins.

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Packham
Presenter:
Nick Baker
Series Producer:
Mike Beynon

Disturbed by his obsessive love for a holodeck character, Harry asks Tuvok to help him suppress his emotions.

Contributors

Capt Kathryn Janeway:
Kate Mulgrew
Harry Kim:
Garrett Wang
Lt Tom Paris:
Robert Duncan McNeill
Chakotay:
Robert Beltran
Tuvok:
Tim Russ
B'Elanna Torres:
Roxann Dawson
The Doctor:
Robert Picardo
Neelix:
Ethan Phillips
Marayna:
Sandra Nelson

Another in the occasional series of documentary programmes.

Next year Wales will have its own assembly, the closest thing to home rule for over 700 years, but will this development bring new wealth along with it? Dinah Lammiman joins the politically diverse members of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee as they investigate how to create an economic boom in Wales by examining the progress made in parts of Ireland and Spain.

Contributors

Reporter:
Dinah Lammiman
Producer:
Richard Nash
Editor:
Anne Tyerman

In 1944, film director George Stevens was sent to the Allied front line to improve coverage of the war for the US people. While supervising this project, he made his own personal record.

This extraordinary "home movie" re-creates his wartime journey, starting on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 and ending in the German capital in the summer of 1945, covering the liberation of Paris and including horrific footage of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. Presented by Robert Harris.
An interview follows with Steven Spielberg, whose new film concentrates on the US D-Day landing on Omaha Beach.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Harris
Director (original footage):
George Stevens
Producer:
Paul Woolwich

To coincide with the British opening of his new movie Saving Private Ryan, film director Steven Spielberg talks exclusively to Mark Cousins about his interest in the Second World War and the great challenge of depicting the brutal reality of battle. Schindler's List, for which Spielberg won his first Oscar as a director, follows.
See today's choices.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Steven Spielberg
Interviewer:
Mark Cousins
Director:
Nick Rossiter
Producer:
Danny Dignan

Steven Spielberg's multi-Oscar-winning drama, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

In 1939, Austrian businessman Oskar Schindler, a Gentile, comes to Krakow with the idea of getting rich quickly by using cheap Jewish labour in his factory supplying the German war effort. As persecution of the Jews spreads, Schindler, although a close associate of SS officers, finds it worth his while to protect his workers from the escalating evil around him.

(Widescreen)
(The documentary Survivors of the Shoah follows)
(1993.15) (Black and white and colour)
See Films: pp 48-55
Film of the Week: page 43

Contributors

Based on the novel by:
Thomas Keneally
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Oskar Schindler:
Liam Neeson
Itzhak Stern:
Ben Kingsley
Amon Goeth:
Ralph Rennes
Emilie Schindler:
Caroline Goodall
Poldek Pfefferberg:
Jonathan Sagalle
Helen Hirsch:
Embeth Davidtz
Julian Schemer:
Andrzej Seweryn
Albert Hujar:
Norbert Weisser
Diana Reiter:
Elina Lowensohn
Victoria Wonowska:
Malgoscha Gebel

In an interview with the actor Ben Kingsley, who played Itzhak Stem in Schindler's List, film director Steven Spielberg explains why he founded the Survivors of the Shoah, an organisation devoted to videotaping and archiving interviews with Holocaust survivors.
(Repeat)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Interviewer:
Ben Kingsley
Interviewee:
Steven Spielberg

(Repeats are not indicated)

The Greats
2.00 Artists: Part 1
in the first of five programmes showing on consecutive nights, Toyah Willcox documents the work of various Renaissance artists.
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Languages
4.00 Get By in Italian

Business and Training
5.00 The Business Programme: Part 16

Open University
5.45 Learning about Leadership
6.10 Windows on the Mind
6.35-7.00am Managing in the Marketplace

Contributors

Presenter (The Greats):
Toyah Willcox

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