Classic comedy drama showing in the season directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin

When a baby is abandoned by its mother, the infant is discovered by a tramp.
(1921, U) (Black and white)
Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux is Tuesday, 10.30am
See Films: pages 42-48

Sarah Montague presents a news and sport roundup, and, at 8.30, Huw Edwards previews the coming political year..

Quiz testing three teams'knowledge of Asian culture, history and lifestyle..

A tale of love and sacrifice, starring Anil Kapoor
Hindi dialogue dubbed into English.
Virendra ANIL KAPOOR. Pallavi/Pooja SRIDEVI, Vinod DEEPAK MALHOTRA, Dai Maa WAHEEDA REHMAN. Prem ANUPAM KHER
DirectorY ash Chopra (1991, U) * See Films: pages 42-48 ***

Pottery skills from Mick Morgan including raku-firing and ash-glazing. Repeat

Stephen Fry narrates a look back over last year's All-England Championships, which held frustration for Tim Henman but joy for Pete Sampras and Jana Novotna.

Saturday Matinee epic starting an adventure double bill, and the first of two films showing this weekend in tribute to cinematographer Freddie Young , who died in December.
Starring Robert Taylor , Elizabeth Taylor Ivanhoe seeks to help when King Richard is taken captive and the scheming Prince John refuses to pay the ransom.
Director Richard Thorpe (1952, U) Ryan's Daughter is tomorrow at 9pm * See Films: pages 42-48

Comedy, ending the Saturday Matinee adventure double bill, starring Michael York, Raquel Welch

Plots are afoot in Paris, and it is up to Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis - and the eager D'Artagnan - to stop them.
(1973, U)
See Films: pages 42-48

Concluding the adaptation of Monteverdi's opera The Coronation of Poppea, sung in Italian with in-vision subtitles. Nero decides the fate of Ottavia and herfellow criminals.
Poppea CATRIN WYN DAVIES (soprano), Nero PAUL NILON (tenor). Ottavia SALLY BURGESS (soprano). Ottone MICHAEL CHANCE (countertenor). Seneca GWYNNE HOWELL (bass). Drusilla LINDA KITCHEN (soprano). Amor DOMINIQUEVISSE(countertenor) Digital widescreen

In LlanfairTalhaiarn, Clywd, Robin Page meets the competitors who will be demonstrating their handling skills as the sheepdog-trials series returns for an 11-part run. Commentary by Gus Dermody.
Digital widescreen

Dragon 's Domain. An astronaut causes a rift between Koenig and Dr Russell. Written by Christopher Penfold
FirstshownonlTV Subtitled ..............

Last in the series of canine animations.
Carbonara. Wendy throws Rex out with the trash after he turns himself into spaghetti. Shown yesterday Digital widescreen

Ray Stubbs is joined by darts showman Bobby George for live coverage from the first day of the World Professional Darts championship, taking place at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey.

This year, 32 oche maestros will be competing for prize money totalling £174,000, with a £50,000 bonus for a nine-dart checkout. Tony Green describes the action as Les Wallace and Ray Barneveld, winners in and 1998, start their campaigns.

Steve Wright introduces a selection of previously unshown footage by acts including easy listeningfavourites Lionel Richie and Phil Collins plus neo-country combo the Mavericks.
Producer Mark Hagen ... Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm

A three-part series in which Fergal Keane travels through his native Republic of Ireland and explores its troubled history.

Retracing his own family's political activism, Keane examines changes brought about in Ireland and asks whether the darkness of yesteryear has been left behind.
See today's choices.
(Subtitled)

The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell considers draughtsmanship on offer in the newspapers in 1998. Senes producer Christine Ruth ..

Arena: the 40-Year Face-off
An examination of the vexed and bizarre relationship between Cuba and the USA during the 40 years since the Cuban
Revolution of New Year's Day 1959. See today's choices.
8.05 Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev: How It All Began Newsreel footage from 1962, when Fidel Castro 's arrangement with then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to install nuclear-weapon sites triggered off the Cuban missile crisis.......
8.15 A Diamond in the Rough Cuba's baseball prowess has been long estabished. Fidel Castro himself was once scouted by a US team, and in 1992 Cuba surpassed even the Americans to win the first Olympic baseball gold medal. With many top Cuban players offered lucrative US contracts, this film shows how the patriotic fervour whipped up by the Cuban national sport has acted as a barometer for the country's political relations with the USA.
Director Mary Dickinson
9.15 LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years Cuba's place in world politics, from mid-sixties to mid-eighties.................
9.25 The Simpsons The Trouble with Trillions. Homer swaps jobs with Fidel Castro , who goes to work at the nuclear power plant in Springfield
9.50 Reagan and Gorbachev: Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism. The effects of the demise of the dominant political ethos in the east
10.00 Who Owns Che?The Importance of Not Being Emesto. Since his death in 1967, the face of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara has stared down from posters and banners around the world, the most reproduced image since the Mona Lisa.
This programme, written by Reggie Nadelson, explores the industry he unwittingly spawned. Director Leslie Woodhead; Executive producerMickCzaky ...
10.30 The Clinton Years: Cuba
Today and Tomorrow
Cuba's relations with the United States in recent times
Cuba Night: Arena Series editor Anthony Wall
Code 8.05-10.35pm (not PDC) Fires Within is at 1.05am

Havana ball: Fidel Castro (left) and Major Camillo Cienfuegos at a baseball match. See Cuba Night
Cuba Night
8.05pm BBC2 Following a short preface on the 1962 missile crisis, the opening film in an evening marking the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution underlines the Caribbean communist state's uneasy, almost nonexistent relationship with the USA. A Diamond in the Rough tells the story of Cuba's national sport and how its stars are continually poached by leading US teams. But Cuba still beat the Americans at their own game by winning the sport's first Olympic gold medal in 1992.
Other programmes include a look at how Che Guevara became a youth icon after his death in 1967.
There is also an episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer swaps jobs with Castro.

Comedy starring
Wesley Snipes
Patrick Swayze
When their car breaks down in a small town on the way to a drag contest, three New York drag queens befriend the locals.
Director Beeban Kidron (1995, PG)
* See Films: pages 42-48 ***

Today's highlights

Romantic drama, ending
Cuba Night, starring
Jimmy Smits , Greta Scacchl
Isabel Varona leaves Cuba with her young daughter following the arrest and imprisonment of her husband Nestor, and is rescued at sea by an American fisherman. Director Gillian Armstrong (1991, 15)
♦ See Films: pages 42-48
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