Romantic melodrama starring
Bette Davis , Mary Astor
Afterthe annulment of his hasty marriage, an aviator and explorertums to the woman he really loves. But then his ex-wife reveals she is having his baby. Director Edmund Goulding (1941)
Black and white
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Western, continuing the John Huston season and the first of two films today starring Humphrey Bogart
Three itinerant Americans get caught up in the Mexican gold rush and soon strike it rich. But success is marred by mistrust.
(1948, PG) (Black and white)
(Humphrey Bogart stars in Casablanca at 3.10pm)
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Animation about a boy and his pyjama-case dog who embark upon a magical journey by toy train.
(Subtitled)

The animated story of Beatrix Potter's good-natured but rebellious fox.

A celebration of the golden age of the Warner Brothers studio, responsible for some of Hollywood's best-loved movies.
(Colour/Black and white)

Western starring Errol Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
Tough Wade Hatton tries to bring law and orderto Dodge City. Alongthe way he contends with rustlers, a stampede and the hostility of a bereaved woman. Director Michael Curtiz (1939, PG)
Gunfightat the OK Corral is tomorrow at 6.05pm ♦ See Rims: pages 43-79

Stone Age animated comedy. The Gogs family go house-hunting with enthusiasm but no common sense.

A look at the phenomenal success of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po, the children's characters who have achieved international fame.

Lost in space, the friends are sucked into a black hole.
(Repeated on Tuesday 29 at 2.35pm)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Bart helps Grampa in his romantic exploits.
(Subtitled)

Classic romantic drama, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

Rick's Cafe is a watering hole for criminals, refugees, resistance fighters and Nazis. Its cynical owner takes risks for no one - until the arrival of Ilsa.
(1942, U) (Black and white) (Subtitled)
(The Maltese Falcon is tomorrow at 11.45pm)
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Eight choirs compete in the youth semi-final, introduced by Howard Goodall.
(Digital widescreen)

David Bintley's colourful and entertaining tribute to fifties Americana, choreographed to the Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn jazz variation on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

The dance is performed with great style and virtuosity by the ballerinas of Birmingham Royal Ballet, appearing as the characters Sugar Rum Cherry, Volga Vouty, Candy Kane, Peanut Brittle and Arabesque Cookie, among others.
(Digital widescreen)

Trevor Nunn's film version of William Shakespeare's mature comedy. Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Imogen Stubbs, Nigel Hawthorne, Richard E Grant

Twins Viola and Sebastian are shipwrecked on different parts of the same coast, with each believing the other has died. Cases of mistaken identity and romantic confusion follow.
(1996, U) (Subtitled)
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With the death of Ted Hughes in October, the world lost one of its most distinctive poetic voices. Hughes's life combined public honour, as poet laureate, and private tragedy, with the suicide of his poet wife Sylvia Plath.

This film explores Hughes's life and celebrates his literary achievement with archive interviews and readings from Hughes himself. Friends, critics and fellow poets, including Seamus Heaney, Diana Rigg, Tom Paulin and John Carey, recall the man and his work, and specially-shot sequences mirror the landscapes that shaped Hughes's powerful work.

(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Her Majesty's message to the Commonwealth. With signing and subtitles

Oscar-nominated drama, starring BJ Hogg, Kimberley McConkey

Lexie's awkward attempts to help his daughter to become a professional dancer bring them closer together.
(First shown on BBC Northern Ireland) (Subtitled)

Historical biography, beginning tonight's double bill starring Gary Oldman
Also starring Jeroen Krabbe

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies, leaving the estate to his "immortal beloved". No one knows the identity of this woman, so the composer's faithful secretary begins to investigate.
(Widescreen) (1994,15)
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Biographical drama of homosexual playwright Joe Orton, concluding tonight's double bill starring Gary Oldman
Also starring Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave

Told in flashback from his days as a youth in Leicester to his success as a playwright in London, this film deals with Joe Orton's volatile relationship with his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, which was destined to end in tragedy.
(1987, 18)
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Followed by Weatherview

(to 2.35)