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Comedy starring Terry-Thomas
A group of inept criminals plan and execute the perfect kidnapping, except for one detail - they grab the wrong person. Director Mario Zampi (1958, U)
Black and white
♦ See Rims: pp 42-48 *** ♦ Teach Yourself Terry-Thomas: page 41

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Director:
Mario Zampi

6.00 Cardassians
A young Cardassian, orphaned in the war and raised by Bajorans, visits Deep Space Nine and is claimed by the Cardassian leader.

And at 6.45 Melora
An Elaysian on a scientific mission makes life difficult for everyone.

(Repeat)

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The first of six films in which Richard Holmes examines how the First World War was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers.

Holmes follows the route taken between August and December 1914 by the 100,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force as they went to fight the Germans in France.
At first it was a war of movement as huge armies were taken by rail to the front line. But by Christmas, the Great War had become bogged down in the trenches of the Western Front.
See today's choices.
(Repeated next Saturday)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)
Back to the Front: page 6

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Holmes
Director:
Keith Sheather
Series Producer:
Mark Feeder

An irreverent five-part view of the problems of modern transport.

Tonight, the mystery of why, after a long wait for a London bus, three turn up at once. The film follows a bus driver stuck in rush-hour traffic, while a mother on a school-run with four children is getting nowhere in her car, a van is blocking a bus lane, and the controller at the bus station has lots of angry passengers but no vehicles to carry them.

See John Peel: page 9

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Catliff
Executive Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff

Continuing the series filmed at London's UCH Obstetric hospital.

Tonight, the work of the neonatal unit, renowned worldwide for its research into the care of babies needing special help. Alex is one of the youngest babies ever cared for in the intensive unit.

Born at just 22 weeks, halfway through the normal gestation period, he lives among a tangle of wires and monitors. Thomas was born at just 23 weeks and five days, while Suzy and her daughter Georgia have been at the hospital for two months since the baby was born weighing only one-and-a-half pounds.

(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Director:
Peter Gordon
Executive Producer:
Clare Paterson

Another candid portrait of three generations of females who belong to the same family.

This week, the Foulger family-90-year-old Frances, daughters Pamela and Sally Anne and her granddaughter Pernelle - who have all experienced divorce.
When Frances divorced in the fifties, separation carried a great stigma. Pamela divorced her husband over his adultery, while Sally Anne was a sixties wild child. Now Pernelle's recent divorce has completed the family's unusual bond.

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Subject:
Frances Fougler
Subject:
Pamela Fougler
Subject:
Sally Anne Fougler
Subject:
Pernelle Fougler
Director:
Susanna White
Executive Producer:
Belinda Allen

Nothing
A film by photographer and video artist Nick Wapplington made during a six-month trip taking in the USA, Cuba, Japan, Brazil and Easter Island. Images that include the collapse of a glacier cliff, a cockroach under ant attack, and a Californian desert artificially lit at night are underscored by an original soundtrack from dance band Orbital.

Contributors

Film maker:
Nick Wapplington

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Open University
12.30 Cities in a Hurry
1.00 Your Place or Mine?
1.30 Open Advice: Time for You

The Greats
2.00 Scientists and Inventors
Inspirational inventors.

Languages
4.00 The Travel Hour

Working in Retail
5.00 What's in Store

Open University
5.45 Bajourou: Music of Mali
(Subtitled)
6.10-7.00am Regions Apart?

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