Silent drama, showing as part of the Chaplin Classics season.

A couple's plan to run away together to Paris is disrupted when the young man returns home to find his father is ill.
(1923) (Black and white)
(The Great Dictator is tomorrow at 6.35am)
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Shown yesterday 10.45pm BBC1

Musical, the first of three films today starring Frank Sinatra
Also starring Gene Kelly
Sailors Gabey , Chip and Ozzie are on a 24-hour pass in New York. Theirfirst priority is to find some agreeable female company. Directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly (1949. U)
Ocean's Eleven is at 3.40pm
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Actor Richard O'Brien discusses On the Town, shown earlier.
(Subtitled)

As white settlers broke their promises to the native Americans, Chief Sitting Bull urged his people to fight rather than surrender the sacred Black Hills.
(Subtitled)
(The West continues tomorrow at 10.55am)

The penultimate day's play from Melbourne in the Fourth Test

The first of three daily family concerts, introduced by Chris Jarvis and Gail Porter.

Favourite classical pieces played by the Orchestra of Scottish Opera.
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Professor Nancy Rothwell unlocks the energy contained in food and explains why children are fatter than they were 30 years ago.
(Subtitled)

Singer Frankie Vaughan talks about the film High Society.
(Subtitled)

Double bill of animated canine capers.

2.25 Adventures on Telly: Part 2
The canine friends travel to the North Pole.

And at 2.35 Adventures on Telly: Part 3
Rex and his pals get lost in space.

(Repeat) (Digital widescreen)
Videoplus code for 2.25-2.35pm
Code for 2.35-2.50pm
Code for 2.25-2.50pm (not PDC)

A two-part history of the newsreel.

Evidence of how early news films were sometimes faked by unscrupulous producers.
Shooting the Century concludes tomorrow 3.05pm)

DJ Mary Anne Hobbs talks about Frank Sinatra singing live.

Caper movie, second of today's three films starring Frank Sinatra
Also starring Dean Martin
Sammy Davis Jr Danny Ocean has a master plan: to rob five Las Vegas casinos simultaneously on New Year's Eve. Widescreen. Director Lewis Milestone (1960. PG) digital widescreen Subtitled 2906128 7 Suddenly is at 1.20am
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An operatic tale of sex, corruption, intrigue and revenge at the court of Emperor Nero. Based on David Alden's award-winning production of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea for Welsh National Opera, it is showing in five "soap opera" episodes, sung in Italian with in-vision subtitles.
Emperor Nero is becoming increasingly obsessed with his new lover, the beautiful Poppea, and together they begin to plot her rise to power.
(Digital widescreen)
(Next episode tomorrow at 5.50pm)

Anarchic American animation.

Marge is horrified to learn that Homer has revealed some of their most intimate secrets to his adult-education class.

Steve Wright introduces a glam-rock special, tracing the flamboyant music movement from its roots in the seventies through to its continuing influence on present-day hits.
Featuring archive performances by T-Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, the Sweet, Suzi Quatro and Mott the Hoople.

How to Live with a Dysfunctional President
In the year when the American presidency suffered its biggest crisis since the seventies scandal of Watergate, Mark Lawson visits the United States to find out why, despite the predictions of both politicians and pundits, Bill Clinton is still securely ensconced in the White House. Is America becoming more realistic about its politicians?
See today's choices.
(Subtitled)
(The film Nixon, about another president immersed in scandal, is at 10.15pm)

A special edition from Australia, now considered one of the most desirable holiday destinations in the world. Juliet Morris takes a train journey into the outback, Jim White samples a cricketing package holiday in Perth and Fi Glover immerses herself in the culture of Melbourne.
Simon Calder travels along a spectacular coastal highway, and holidaymakers report on swapping homes and lifestyles.
(Digital widescreen)

Another chance to see the Christmas edition from 1973.
Harold makes plans to go away for Christmas, but somehow forgets to inform Albert.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Biographical drama starring Anthony Hopkins

Oliver Stone's film looks at the rise and fall of Richard Milhous Nixon: from his humble upbringing to a seat at Congress, the defeat against Kennedy, his eventual election as US president, the Vietnam conflict and his political demise as a result of Watergate.
(1995, 15) (Colour and black and white)
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' Thriller, concluding today'striple bill of films starring Frank Sinatra
Also starring Sterling Hayden
The calm of the small American town of Suddenly is shattered when three armed men arrive and hold a family hostage. Their target is the president of the United States, whose train is about to pass through town. Director Lewis Allen (1954, PG)
Black and white Subtitled.......
Anchors Aweigh is tomorrow at 8.35am
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