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6.10 Art in Australia
7.00 Fortress Europe
7.30 The Bobigny Trial
David Robertson and Tanya Beckett present a news and sport roundup.
Composer John Wilks talks about the model locomotive that has taken him
24 years to construct. Repeat .....
Flying Machines. Host Kate Bellingham investigates the physics and technology of flight, and future possibilities for this 20th-century phenomenon.
Series producer Andrew Law Repeat .... FURTHER DETAILS: brochure hotline [number removed](calls charged at national rate); Ceefax: page 626; website: www.open.ac.uk/saturday
In the latest report from US series Deaf Mosaic, Yoon Lee presents a film about Alaska. Hosted by Lara Crooks. With signing and in-vision subtitles..... WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/see_hear
Theatre director Peter Hall recalls his interview for Cambridge University.
The Dolphin Diaries. The secret lives of a community of wild dolphins studied over ten years in the Caribbean. Narrated by David Attenborough. Repeat
The Psychobombs. The aliens take over three normal people, turning them into super-humans intent on destroying SHADO. WrittSR by Tony Barwick
First shown on ITV Subtitled....................
Saturday Matinée adventure, the first of four films showing today starring Charlton Heston
Also starring Yul Brynner , Claire Bloom Keen to defend his country after the British lay siege to New Orleans, pirate Jean Lafitte puts his plundering to one side to come to the aid of General Jackson. Director Anthony Quinn (1958) * See Films: pp 48-54 *** * Barry Norman on Chartton Heston : p 44
Saturday Matinée disaster movie, continuing the quartet of films starring Charlton Heston
Also starring
David Carradine US submarine Neptune sinks after a collision, coming to rest on a ledge. With only 48 hours of oxygen, the survivors have little hope of being saved. Widescreen.
Director David Greene (1978, PG)
Digital widescreen Subtitled. Charlton Heston stars in El Cid at 9pm * See Films: pp 48-54
The first of five programmes focusing on the world of dance and choreography. Lara Glew , a student at Manchester's Northern Ballet School, carries British hopes in the biennial European Young Dancer competition. This film follows the 18-year-old from Surrey through her
British audition, the weeks of preparatory work and rehearsals with Matthew Hart , and on to the competition proper in Lyon, France, where 17 countries are taking part. Presented by Deborah Bull. Producer Nel Romano ; Director
Jean-Jacques Ansellem
The distinctive and direct works of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage , one of Britain's leading young composers, have covered such modern-day concerns as drug abuse and urban alienation, but some see in his pieces a long streak of melancholy that goes right back to Elgar and Vaughan Williams.
Brixton Academy is the venue for a full rendering of Turnage's intense saxophone concerto Your Rockaby, performed by Martin Robertson and the BBC
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis. The ensemble for this last performance of the series also featuresjazz notables drummer Peter Erskine and guitarist John Scofield.
Presented by Michael Berkeley. Director Francesca Kemp
Series producer Peter Maniura
Digital widescreen Subtitled .. An accompanying series. Six Pieces of Britain, continues on Radio 3 tomorrow at 2.30pm BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE: available monthly at retailers for £3.95
* See Music: page 38
News at home and abroad. With
Maxine Mawhinney. Weather
Peter GibbS
Continuing the historical strand.
7.40 Western Front Professor
Richard Holmes 's look at how the First World War was fought. Holding the Front. A visit to
Verdun in France, scene of the first encounter where artillery dominated the battlefield, leaving one million soldiers either killed or wounded.
Shown last Thursday
Digital widescreen
8.10 Into Africa with Henry Louis Gates
The Lost Cities of the South. On the final leg of his African journey,
Henry Louis Gates journeys from South Africa to Zimbabwe.
Along the way he explores a 1,000-year-old African city that was hidden from public view for 70 years and visits the stone citadel of Great Zimbabwe, the inspiration for King Solomon's 's Mines and now the symbol of an independent African nation. See today's choices. Director Helena Appio
Series producer Ben Goold
Digital widescreen Code for 7.40-9.00 (notPDC)
Historical adventure, the third of four films today starring Charlton Heston
Also starring Sophia Loren
During the 11th century, Spain is a country divided between small Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. From the warring factions there emerges a knight whose exploits earn him the name El Cid. Widescreen.
Director Anthony Mann (1961. U)
Digital widescreen Subtitled. Heston stars in Ruby Gentry at 12.45am
♦ See Films: pp 48-54 ***** ♦ Barry Norman on Charlton Heston : page 44
Not Stupid
Anna [text removed] is prepared to go to any lengths necessary to make sure her sons are afforded a decent education.
But no school within an hour's drive from her house in west London is prepared to admit them because they are autistic.
Frustrated at officialdom's lack of positive response, she applies to renovate a derelict school and run it herself as one of Europe's largest specialist establishments. This film follows Anna as she tries to balance the demands of being a full-time carer for her sons with raising funds, running a charity and wading through bureaucracy. Producer Rachel Foster ; Executive producer Bob Long * See Dr Mark Porter : page 36
Drama, concluding today's quartet of films starring Charlton Heston
Also starring Jennifer Jones Born on the wrong side of the tracks, tempestuous Ruby is determined to be accepted in local society. Cast aside by the man she loves, Ruby sets out to destroy all who have snubbed her.
Director King Vidor (1952. PG)
Black and white
* See Films: pp 48-54 ***
Followed by Weatherview
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DYNAMO Numeracy 7-9 Programme 2 - Dynamo and Slomo investigate fractions and money. WEBSITE: [Web address removed]
