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Silent comedy shorts directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
The Circus (1928, U): Atrampfallsin love with a circus owner's daughter.
A Day's Pleasure (1919, U): Charlie and his family try to enjoy a day out.
Black and white More Chaplin Classics will be shown next Saturday ♦See Films: pages 63-72

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Chaplin.

Programmes reflecting Asian culture.

9.00 Network East Big Talk
Lisa Aziz and guests discuss the role of Asian women in the home and the workplace.

9.30 Q Asia
Quiz testing teams' knowledge of Asian matters, with Sahera Chohan.

10.00 Cafe 21
Another discussion on the chat show series for young British Asians.
(Shown yesterday)

10.30 BBC Asia Awards
The results of the first BBC Asia Awards, set up to recognise achievement in Britain's Asian community.
(Shown last Tuesday)

Contributors

Presenter (Network East Big Talk):
Lisa Aziz
Presenter (Q Asia):
Sahera Chohan
Editor:
Paresh Solanki

Drama, beginning a Saturday
Matinée double bill directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Starring Jennifer Jones
An untamed country girl is torn between the love of two men in the local community. Hazel Woodus JENNIFER JONES. Jack Reddin DAVID FARRAR, Edward Marston CYRIL CUSACK , Abel Woodus ESMOND KNIGHT , Mrs Marston SYBIL THORNDIKE
(1950) ♦ See Films: pages 63-72 **** * See Barry Norman : page 59

Contributors

Directed By:
Michael Powell
Directed By:
Emeric Pressburger.
Unknown:
Jennifer Jones
Unknown:
Jennifer Jones.
Unknown:
David Farrar,
Unknown:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
Abel Woodus
Unknown:
Esmond Knight
Unknown:
Mrs Marston Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
Barry Norman

More new music and past hits.... Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm
HUMAN RIGHTS SEASON
5.25 John Simpson introduces a short season of programmes about human rights around the world to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/education
5.35-6.05pm The Human Rights Map
For 50 years, the Human Rights map has provided a record of human rights abuses worldwide. This documentary assesses the impact of the 1948 Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and asks whether its articles are still relevant today. Narrated by John Simpson.
Repeated tomorrow 11.25pm Subtitled....

Contributors

Introduces:
John Simpson
Unknown:
John Simpson.

Within the American prison system an estimated 300,000 men are sexually assaulted every year. Fergal Keane reports from New York - home of the United Nations - on the epidemic of male rape in US prisons.
Reporter Isobel Hilton visits the Chilean capital of Santiago where she finds scars inflicted by ex-dictator General Pinochetrecently arrested in Britain-remain all too apparent.
Series producer Lucy Hetherington ; Editor FionaMurch Subtitled ............
♦ Andrew Duncan interviews
Fergal Keane : page 18
Then New series Article 19
First of 15 short films of censored words from around the world for the Human Rights Season.

Contributors

Unknown:
Fergal Keane
Reporter:
Isobel Hilton
Producer:
Lucy Hetherington
Unknown:
Andrew Duncan
Unknown:
Fergal Keane

The series on conflicts between the US and the Soviet Union. Vietnam 1963-8. Vietnam had been divided since the ending of French colonial rule in 1954. With the North run by communists, the United States commits armed forces to the South, despite warnings about intervening in a nationalist struggle. In 1968, amid growing protests about American involvement, the Tet offensive is launched and peace talks begin. Series producer Martin Smith ; Executive producers Jeremy Isaacs and Pat Mitchell

Contributors

Producer:
Martin Smith
Producers:
Jeremy Isaacs
Producers:
Pat Mitchell

In the last programme of her series, Lesley Garrett performs a final selection of arias and show songs in the company of her guests, singer Michael Ball and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Director Michael Leggo ; Producer
EmmaCornish Subtitled (including
English translations of songs)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Garrett
Singer:
Michael Ball
Director:
Michael Leggo

The Storyville season continues with this poignant film following the fortunes of Gigi and his pregnant girlfriend Monica in post-communist Romania.
The couple are first seen as teenagers living rough in a Bucharest railway station.
Monica wants to keep her baby but the Romanian authorities insist she is too young. The film follows the pair overtwo years as they struggle to survive and adaptto life as new parents. In Romanian with English subtitles. Directors YasminaAbdehaoui,
Benoit Dervaux ; Series editor Nick Fraser
HUMAN RIGHTS SEASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Benoit Dervaux
Editor:
Nick Fraser

Concluding the short season of Japanese thrillers directed by Takeshi Kitano.
A ruthless gangster is sent to intervene in a tropical island gangwar. In Japanese with English subtitles. Widescreen.
(1993,18) ♦ See Films: pp 63―72 *****
Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Directed By:
Takeshi Kitano.

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