6.10 Bangkok - a City Speaks

6.35 Bulls, Bears and China Shops

7.00 Women of Northern Ireland

7.30 The French Revolution: Impact and Sources

David Robertson and Tanya Beckett present a news and sport roundup.

Mind Bending. Howard Stableford looks at how company bosses are making better use of the brainpower of their employees. Series producer Andrew Law Repeat . FURTHER DETAILS: brochure hotline 0870 (calls charged at national rate): Ceefax: page 626; orwebsite: www.open.ac.uk/saturday

The second of two programmes looking at deaf people in Ethiopia, with Lara Crooks. With signing and in-vision subtitles. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/see_hear

John Higgins begins the defence of his title against Gerard Greene of Northern Ireland on the first day of cove rage of the 17-day World Professional Snooker championship at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield. Presented by David Vine.
Commentary is provided by Clive Everton , Ray Edmonds , Dennis Taylor ,
John Virgo , Willie Thorne , Jim Meadowcroft and John Parrott

The last in the current series announces the winner of the Food and Drink Cook with Antony competition.
(Shown last Monday)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Saturday Matinée comedy starring Danny Kaye
Glynis Johns , Basil Rathbone
The throne of England has been usurped by the evil Roderick. As part of a plan to restore the rightful heir, thejester 's place is taken by loyal minstrel Hawkins, whose attempts to infiltrate court lead to mayhem. Directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
(1956. U) ♦ See Films: pages 62-67 ****

A documentary offering an overview of the socio-historical context of Charles Dickens 's novel. There is comment from the cast and makers of Tony Marchant 's BBC dramatisation, who also talk about the filming of the classic. Great Expectations is reshown in its entirety tonight at 9.05pm.

A Video Nation look at a child's teatime, and food-buying concerns.
(Subtitled)

When the moon comes under attack from energy beams, Koenig leads a mission to their source.
(Another episode on Monday at 6.40pm)
(First shown on ITV)

Acts from the vaults include Manfred Mann , Echo and the Bunnymen and Mike and the Mechanics. With Steve Wright. Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1

David Vine hosts further coverage of the best-of-19-frames first-round clashes from Sheffield's Crucible. Nigel Bond plays Wales's Dominic Dale, while champion John Parrott leaves the commentary box to cue off against Northern Ireland's Terry Murphy.

In the week before reunified Germany reinstalls its parliament in Berlin's Reichstag, Caroline Wyatt investigates the reasons why the city has the fastest growing Jewish community in the world. Among those she meets are survivors of Nazi persecution. Lucy Ash visits Ghana to see how, despite a campaign to end ritual slavery, fetish priests are keeping girls as servants.

A new Saturday-night strand of programmes with a historical theme.
See today's choices.
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/history Meet the Ancestors
The evening starts with the first of three programmes introduced by Julian Richards from Coventry, where, with an excavation team, he tries to unearth remains from the city's lost medieval cathedral and discovers a burial vault.
Producer Ian Potts ; Executive producer Caroline van den Brul Subtitled

In the first of seven programmes Kirsty Wark recounts the turbulent history of the Scottish crown jewels, and asks whether the Queen should wear them at the opening of the new Scottish parliament. Nigel Havers returns for the first time in 30 years to Ickworth House, home of his boyhood friend the Marquess of Bristol, who died in January. Dan Cruickshank offers a potted history of the chimney stack. Series producer Tim Dunn ; Executive producer Basil Comely
Code for 7.00-7.40 ................

A search for clues to the identity of bodies found in the vault.

7.50 Timewatch: Grey Owl: the Great White Hoax
In the thirties Grey Owl tricked the establishment into believing he was the world's first eco-warrior.
Archie Belaney was in fact a Briton who had emigrated to Canada at 17 and set out on a mission to fool everyone that he was an American Indian. This first of seven documentaries examines his colourful life.
Producer Richard Bradley ; Editor Laurence Rees
(Digital widescreen)
Brave heart, forked tongue: p 30

Julian Richards concludes the evening by piecing together the lives of a family who lived more than years ago, and the cathedral is reconstructed using evidence. A new series of Meet the Ancestors will be shown in the new year.
Code for 7.40-9.05 ................ Code for 7.00-9.05 (not PDC)

A full-length dramatisation of Charles Dickens's classic novel which conflates last week's two episodes. Starring loan Gruffudd, Charlotte Rampling, Bernard Hill, Justine Waddell
On the bleak Kent marshes, a young boy has a frightening encounter that will haunt him.
Then at 10.35: Pip has become a gentleman in London, having received an inheritance.
See today's choices.
Dramatised by Tony Marchant ; Producer David Snodin ; Director Julian Jarrold Shown last Monday and Tuesday Digital widescreen
Code for 9.05pm-12.10am .. Code for 9.05-10.35(not PDC) Code for 10.35-12.10 (not PDC) BBC BOOKLET AND SOUNDTRACK: for a publication on Great Expectations, send a cheque for £5, payable to BBC Education Production, to: [address removed]. Music on CD, price £13.99, at retailers

Western starring Martin Sheen
In the 1840s a trapper's ownership of a magnificent white stallion - the Eagle's Wing - brings him into conflict with a Kiowa warrior. Widescreen.
Director Anthony Harvey (1978, PG)
* See Films: pages 62-67 ***

The Deprogrammers. A servant is kidnapped and retrained to become a rebel assassin.
Postponed from Easter Sunday
Repeat Subtitled ................
Followed by Weatherview

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