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The Chaplin Classics season continues with this silent comedy, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
A snow storm in the Sierra Nevadas forces a lone gold prospectorto take shelter in a log cabin with two other men. (1925. U) Black and white..... ♦ See Films: pages 52-62 ★★★★

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Chaplin

Programmes reflecting Asian culture.
9.00 Network East: Big Talk
Another discussion about an issue prominent in the Asian community......................

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

10.00 Cafe 21
The aspirations of young British Asians are discussed in the last of Rajesh Mirchandani's chat shows.
Shown yesterday

10.30 Network East
Highlights from the arts-and-entertainment magazine, hosted by Sonia Deol and Sanjeev Kohli. The programme returns next year.
Asia 2 editor Paresh Solanki
Videoplus code for 9.00-11.20(notPDC) ....................

Contributors

Unknown:
Sahera Chohan
Unknown:
Rajesh Mirchandani
Unknown:
Sonia Deol
Unknown:
Sanjeev Kohli
Editor:
Paresh Solanki

Beginning this afternoon's Saturday Matinee double bill of westerns starring Dean Martin

A group of gamblers are stalked by a killer after they lynch a stranger who is caught cheating during a poker game.
(1968) ***
See Films: pages 52-62

Contributors

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Van Morgan:
Dean Martin
Reverend Rudd:
Robert Mitchum
Nick Evers:
Roddy McDowall
Lily Langford:
Inger Stevens
Little George:
Yaphet Kotto

Comedy western, concluding the double bill starring Dean Martin

After being wrongly accused of murder, Don Baldasar teams up with a gunrunner and gets involved in a series of scrapes.
(1966, PG)
See Films: pages 52-62 **

Contributors

Director:
Michael Gordon
Sam Hollis:
Dean Martin
Don Andrea Baldasar:
Alain Delon
Phoebe Ann Taylor:
Rosemary Forsyth
Kronk:
Joey Bishop

Continuing the travel-and-architecture series.
Bristol and Somerset
Novelist Philippa Gregory uncovers links between the slave trade and the architecture of Bristol and Somerset when she travels round the region. See today's choices.
Producer Vanessa Engle ; Executive producer Keith Alexander
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Contributors

Unknown:
Philippa Gregory
Producer:
Vanessa Engle
Producer:
Keith Alexander

Arafat's Authority
The season of programmes about human rights around the world continues with a report on the political chaos within the Palestinian National Authority that is undermining prospects for a Middle East peace deal.
Jeremy Bowen looks into a litany of human-rights violations - including torture and killings carried out inside Palestinian jails-and uncovers a web of judicial and political corruption that threatens PNA President
Yasser Arafat 's dual aim of peace with Israel and an independent Palestinian state. Series editor Fiona Murch SubMtedl
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/education Amnesty continues the season at 8pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Bowen
Unknown:
Yasser Arafat
Editor:
Fiona Murch

An insight into the workings of Amnesty
International, the world's largest voluntary body dealingwith human rights. While two researchers visit Cambodia and Yemen, a major awareness campaign is launched in the US, and lobbyists in Rometryto create an international court with powers to prosecute human-rights violators all over the world. Seetoday'schoices. Director Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones ; Producer Emma Bowman In the Name of the Father continues the Human Rights seasonat9.30pm

Contributors

Director:
Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones
Producer:
Emma Bowman

Four more programmes in the season about human rights.
Fact-based drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson

When three men and a woman are given life prison sentences after being found guilty of the 1974 Guildford pub explosions, their lawyers and supporters begin a 14-year campaign to secure their release.
(Widescreen) (1993,15)
(Subtitled)
See Films: pages 52-62 ****

Then Article 19
Another short film about censored words from around the world.

11.40 Urgent Action
Another example of human-rights abuse.
(Shown at 12.05pm) (Subtitled)

11.45 The Debate
The season marking the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights continues with a studio discussion into why the articles of the declaration have never been universally applied.
Among those joining in the debate, which is chaired by Michael Buerk, are General Sir Michael Rose, Michael Ignatieff, Sir Percy Cradock, Dennis McNamara and Rakiya Omaar.

(The season continues tomorrow 11.20pm)

Contributors

Director (In the Name of the Father):
Jim Sheridan
Gerry Conlon:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Gareth Peirce:
Emma Thompson
Guiseppe Conlon:
Pete Postlethwaite
Paul Hill:
John Lynch
Paddy Armstrong:
Mark Sheppard
Carole Richardson:
Beatie Edney
Sarah Conlon:
Marie Jones
Robert Dixon:
Corin Redgrave
Producer (Urgent Action):
Rex Bloomstein
Producer (Urgent Action):
Caroline Moorehead
Presenter (The Debate):
Michael Buerk
Panellist (The Debate):
General Sir Michael Rose
Panellist (The Debate):
Michael Ignatieff
Panellist (The Debate):
Sir Percy Cradock
Panellist (The Debate):
Dennis McNamara
Panellist (The Debate):
Rakiya Omaar
Producer (The Debate):
Marc Sigsworth
Executive Producer (The Debate):
Patrick Younge

Concluding the drama series.

Was Brian Skillet badly beaten in prison?

Contains strong language and adult material. The series returns next year.

(Shown last Monday) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Jones
Producer:
Eric Coulter
Director:
Harry Bradbeer
Mel:
Katy Cavanagh
Giffen:
Rob Dixon
Roy:
John Henshaw
Mike:
Steve Jackson
Danny:
Jack Marsden
Natalie:
Clare McGlinn
Jaz:
Parvez Qadir

Second World War adventure. As Japanese forces start to overrun the Philippines, a US battalion is sent to destroy an American base containing secret papers. Director Edward LCahn (1958)
Black and white
* See Films: pages 52-62 **
Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Director:
Edward Lcahn

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