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Comedy starring Norman Wisdom
Norman's efforts to aid an orphanage and provide presents for the children lead him into a succession of adventures.
(1954, U) (Black and white) (Subtitled)
See Films: pp 52-58 ***

Contributors

Norman:
Norman Wisdom
Director:
John Paddy Carstairs

6.00 Rules of Acquisition
Quark enlists Pel, a young waiter, as his assistant, but Pel is really a woman who harbours amorous designs on him.

6.45 Necessary Evil
A Bajoran woman persuades Quark to retrieve her late husband's strongbox from Deep Space Nine.

(Repeat)

Videoplus code for 6.00-6.45
Code for 6.45-7.30
Code for 6.00-7.30 (not PDC)

Contributors

Cmdr Benjamin Sisko:
Avery Brooks
Odo:
Rene Auberjonois
Major Kira Nerys:
Nana Visitor
Chief O'Brien:
Colm Meaney
Quark:
Armin Shimerman

Continuing the series in which Richard Holmes examines how the First World War was fought.

Poison gas was first used as a weapon of war on 22 April 1915 as a desperate measure to break the stalemate that had been reached. This date marked the beginning of a new era in warfare.
See today's choices.
(Repeated next Saturday)
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BBC Book: Western Front, priced £17.99

Choices: Factual: Western Front 7.30pm BBC2
Both sides were tempted to take some desperate measures to break the deadlock in the trenches in 1915. In this second programme, Professor Richard Holmes graphically explains how the conflict became a complete nightmare. In April the Germans launched the first gas attack and the British responded in kind. It was far from being a sophisticated weapon, and when the wind changed direction the British troops were enveloped in a greenish-yellow cloud of gas.

Holmes strides through the featureless fields near Loos as he replays the battle that the Germans called the "corpse field". Through the details of his narration, the story of Rudyard Kipling's only son John, who was among the reserves at Loos, and the recollections of veterans, the awful story emerges. In just one hour, 8,000 British troops were lost. By the year's end, the army had a new commander in the field.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Holmes
Director:
Steven Clarke
Series Producer:
Mark Fielder

Tonight's programme charts the changing fortunes of the motorway. Starting as an ambitious vision, Britain's first stretch of motorway was built near Preston, Lancashire, 40 years ago. The segment was just eight miles long, but a nation watched as the prime minister conducted the opening ceremony.

By contrast, bypasses are now opened in secrecy in an attempt to avoid environmental protest. Despite the initial public honeymoon period, motorways are now, because they have led to increased congestion and pollution, reviled by the public they were intended to emancipate.
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Contributors

Producer:
Nick Catliff
Series Producer:
Charlie Smith

Concluding the series filmed at London's UCH Obstetric hospital. Tonight, as three very different couples await the births of their second children, they are all preoccupied by problems.
A serious operation on their new arrival and housing troubles are the overriding concerns for one couple, while the others are worried about methods of childbirth and the inevitable juggling job of trying to combine work and parenting. Cameras then catch up with all three couples, and their babies, six months on.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Director:
Peter Gordon
Executive Producer:
Clare Paterson

This week, the Fischer Williams family - sisters Jenifer, 85 and Judith, 82 and Jenifer's daughter Joanna, 57 - discuss the familial and romantic compromises they made to pursue academic achievement.

Jenifer allowed her daughter to be raised by a nanny to advance her civil service career and led an uninhibited private life. Joanna rejected her mother's values by marrying at the age of 19, but has subsequently come out as a lesbian and given birth to a son.

The three women openly discuss these, and other family issues, for the first time.

(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Speaker:
Jenifer Fischer Williams
Speaker:
Judith Fischer Williams
Speaker:
Joanna Fischer Williams
Director:
Susanna White
Executive Producer:
Belinda Allen

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Open University
12.30 Mexico City: Whose City?
1.00 Autism
1.30 Virtual Democracy?

The Greats
2.00 Historical Figures

Languages
4.00 Buongiorno Italia 9-10; Famously Fluent

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite

Open University
5.45 Picturing the Modern City
6.10 Our Health in Our Hands
6.35-7.00am The Three Degrees

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