6.10 Relationships
7.00 Independent Living
7.30 Classical and Romantic Music:
Putting on the Style
David Robertson and Sally Magnusson with a news and sport roundup.......
Comedian Mark Thomas explores the concept of truth, plus a look at Roman military regalia and shoemaking.
Including 9.30-10.10 The Romans in Britain - Hadrian's Wall: the Edge of Empire Examining the origins of Hadrian's Wall and the myths that surround it.
Series producer Lisa MacHale
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Featuring a look at the controversy surrounding deaf sports. With signing and in-vision subtitles.................... WEBSITE: www.bbc. co.uk/see_hear
The Summer Sky. Patrick Moore previews the total eclipse of the sun on 11 August. Shown last Sunday on BBC1 Subtitled.
Crime drama, beginning today's
Saturday Matinée double bill of films starring Jane Russell
Also starring Robert Mitchum , Vincent Price A gambler is lured to Mexico where he meets a singer and her boyfriend, and discovers the sinister reason for his visit.
Jane Russell : Scene by Scene follows the second film of the double bill at 3.20pm.
Director John Farrow (1951. 12)
Black and white
♦ See Films: pp 56-62 *** ♦ Barry Norman on Jane Russell : p54
Musical comedy, concluding today s
Saturday Matinée double bill of films starring Jane Russell
Also starring Gilbert Roland
A beautiful heiress travels incognito aboard a luxury cruise liner, hoping to find a man who'll love her for more than her money.
Director Lloyd Bacon (1954) Subtitled. * See Films: pp 56-62 **
A Video Nation look at preparations for a tow-budget meal. Subtitled ................
Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran discuss their first-ever TV sitcom......
Western. Joined by a group of men released from the army guardhouse,
Miles Archer sets out on perilous mission to rescue two kidnapped women.
Director Gordon Douglas (1953) * See Rims: pp 56-62 ***
Extended highlights from
Twickenham of this afternoon's
Tetley Bitter Cup final between Wasps and Newcastle.
Wasps were looking to make amends for their disappointing display in last season's final, which they lost 48-18 to
Saracens, while Newcastle were hoping to follow their Premiership title success with cup glory in their first final appearance.
Among those expected to make an impact on the match were Wasps's England captain Lawrence Dallaglio and Newcastle's Gary Armstrong , who skippered Scotland to success in this season's Five
Nations tournament. Armstrong forms a half-back partnership at Newcastle with England international Jonny Wilkinson. Commentary by Nigel Starmer -Smith, with Brian Moore.
Producer Ken Burton .....................
The London Coliseum provides the venue for a live performance of English National Opera's production of Semele, Handel's irreverent and sensuous opera. The three-act work, produced by Robert Carsen , stars
Rosemary Joshua as Semele, a young mortal who embarks on a passionate and ill-fated affair with the god Jupiter. During the interval Charles Hazlewood - who introduces the opera - looks at how Ovid's magical stories of the gods at play with humans, Metamorphoses, has inspired artists, musicians and writers for many centuries. See today's choices.
With the orchestra and chorus of English National Opera, conducted by Harry Bicket. Director Derek Bailey producer Caroline Speed
Digital widescreen ........................ SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST WITH RADIO 3 # Brian Kay 's Opera of the Week: page 44
Introducing two documentaries celebrating one of the world's most famous football clubs, Manchester United, as the team approaches the climax of its most exciting season.
Best is arguably the greatest player ever to appear in Manchester United's colours.
Adored by both fans and the media after shooting to fame as a 17-year-old in the early sixties, the mercurial Irishman was a key figure in United's
1968 European Cup success. In this profile, Best's friends, including his ex-wives and girlfriends, offer a revealing insight into his personality. Director Mike Wadding
Tree Documentary recalling those times in United's history where their performances failed to live up to their fans' high expectations. In 1974,
United suffered the indignity of relegation to Division Two - their fate sealed by a defeat at the hands of arch rivals
Manchester City. Promotion back to the elite was secured the following season, but sustained success eluded
United until the early eighties.
Director Sam Anthony Subtitled. Manchester United Night:
Director Ricky Kelehar ; Executive producer Alan Brown Subtitled
Code for 10.00-11.45 (not PDC)
John Inverdale introduces highlights from today's matches in Group A, which also contains England. South Africa, who are among the pre-tournament favourites to lift the trophy, opened their campaign at Hove with a game against India, while Zimbabwe and Kenya - two of the competition's outsiders - met at Taunton.
Producer Phil Bigwood ................
Political drama starring
Madeleine Stowe
Alan Rickman
In an unnamed country, an author of children's stories is taken from her bed and interrogated by the state police. Throughout the course of the interrogation she is subjected to a wide rangeof physical and mental techniques in order to make her confess to some unspecified crime.
Director Radha Bharadwaj (1991)
* See Films: pp 56-62 *** Followed by Weatherview
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GCSE Bitesize
Science 2: Biology - cell activity, humans as organisms, variation, inheritance and evolution.
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