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Spy thriller, beginning a short season showing as part of the Alfred Hitchcock centenary tribute, starring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane

An aircraft factory worker is suspected of sabotage following the death of a friend.
(1942, PG) (Black and white)
(Hitchcock's Paradine Case is tomorrow at 11.10am)
See Films: pp 46-52

[NB Radio Times says that tomorrow's film is "Hitchcock's Paradise Case" (sic)]

Contributors

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Barry Kane:
Robert Cummings
Patricia Martin:
Priscilla Lane
Charles Tobin:
Otto Kruger
Freeman:
Alan Baxter

6.00 New Kid on the Block
Bart falls in love with the girl who moves in next door.

At 6.20 Homer's Triple Bypass
Homer opts for cut-price surgery after he suffers a heart attack.

(Repeat)

Videoplus code for 6.00-6.20
Code for 6.20-6.45
Code for 6.00-6.45 (not PDC)
(Another double bill is on Friday at 6pm)

Every year, India produces over 700 feature films, and every day 200 would-be actors, many from Britain, arrive in Mumbai, India, lured by the glamour of Bollywood.

Mark Tully reports on the successes and failures of the hopefuls who seek fame and fortune, despite the rumours of drink, drugs and casting couches.

Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Reporter:
Mark Tully
Producer:
Bish Mehay
Series Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

In the last programme of the series, Adam Hart-Davis celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution - made famous by pioneering scientists Michael Faraday and Humphry Davy.

Hart-Davis makes an electric motor from a meat-pie tin and shows how it was proven that when horses gallop there is a point when all four feet are airborne. A new series is planned.

Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
Paul Bader
Executive Producer:
Jonathan Drori

This week both destination reports come from France, showing the diversity and beauty of the country that is so popular with British holidaymakers.

Simon Calder travels by cycle taxi to visit his favourite places in Paris, while Juliet Morris goes to the Alps to hear about summer skiing before investigating the appeal of the Ardeche region.
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)

Factsheet: send a cheque/PO for £1, payable to the BBC, with an A4 SAE and 50p stamp, to: Travel Show Factsheet [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Reporter:
Simon Calder
Series Producer:
Liz Molyneux

Ending the spoof fly-on-the-wall series about an inept task force.

The team are distracted by the prevailing holiday atmosphere in Spain.

(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Writer/Producer/Director:
Dominic Anciano
Writer/Producer/Director:
Ray Burdis
Writer/Producer/Director:
Hugo Blick
DI Beach:
David Gillespie
DS Ash:
Ray Burdis
Bones:
Perry Benson
Strings:
John Beckett
Mark Kemp:
Mark Burdis
Sgt Dominic de Sade:
Dominic Anciano
Bill Zeebub:
William Scully
Hugo Crippin:
Hugo Buck

Three-part series, showing on consecutive nights, about the paradox of freedom in the 20th century, drawing on the ideas and values of three philosphers.

An examination of the life - and eventual descent into insanity - of the German famous for his "God is dead" declaration and his rejection of traditional moral convention.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Director:
Simon Chu
Series Producer:
Michael Poole

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Rinuccini Chapel, Florence
1.00 Brecht on Stage
1.30 Fontainebleau

The Greats
2.00 Explorers

Languages
4.00 Buongiorno Italia 13-14; Famously Fluent

Business and Training
5.00 Skills for Work

Open University
5.45 The Jews and Islam
6.10 Poetry and Landscape
(Subtitled)
6.35-7.00am Greenberg on Jackson Pollock

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