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Comedy starring Dennis O'Keefe
Ruth Hussey
A woman's attempt to get a mink coat cheaply has disastrous consequences for her husband and their neighbours.
Director William A Seiter (1953) * See Films: pp 48-54 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis O'Keefe
Unknown:
Ruth Hussey

6.00 Rivals
Quark finds himself desperate to find a counter attraction when a new rival sets up a gambling establishment.

6.45 The Alternate
Odo's mentor believes he may have discovered Odo's origins.

(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
Dr Mora Pol:
James Sloyan
Chief O'Brien:
Colm Meaney
Dr Julian Bashir:
Siddig El Fadil
Lt Jadzia Dax:
Terry Farrell
Quark:
Armin Shimerman

Richard Holmes's continuing look at how the First World War was fought.

Over 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded in one day during the Battle of the Somme.
Were Generals Haig and Rawlinson responsible through their refusal to change their battle plans even when they suspected they might fail?
See today's choices.
(Repeated next Saturday)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)
BBC Book: Western Front, priced £17.99

Contributors

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

Continuing the series looking at modern-day transport problems.

With fatalities on British roads at an all-time low, will the introduction of further speed-limiting measures - bumps, chicanes, and digital cameras - make the roads safer still? Or is speed not the main issue? PC Gary Baldwin, a traffic investigator who has attended thousands of accidents, believes the main cause of road deaths is not so much speed but bad driving.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Subject:
PC Gary Baldwin
Producer:
Jill Marshall
Series Producer:
Nick Catliff

Tracing the history of a 1972 Rover 3.5 Coupe, which has passed through the hands of the managing director of a paint company and a butcher who got the bargain of a lifetime before a self-employed courier restored the model to its former glory.
(Digital widescreen)
See John Peel: page 8

Contributors

Director:
Russell Hayes
Series Producer:
Richard Pearson

Another in the occasional series of themed comedy clips. Tonight Jo Brand raids the BBC vaults for snippets of a sporting bent and emerges with footage that includes action from The Two Ronnies, The Fast Show and French and Saunders, plus Alan Partridge and Victoria Wood.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jo Brand
Producer:
Matt O'Casey

The series about sexual politics in multicultural Britain concludes.

A look at how the disintegration in Britain of the extended family structure that existed in the Caribbean and Africa has made the problem of single-parent families a big one for the black community.

Contributors

Producer:
Andy Francis
Executive Producer:
Dele Oniya

Tiff Needell raids the archives, with a look at what's cool on the street when you're young and broke. With Jeremy Clarkson.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Followed by Holiday Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Tiff Needell
Reporter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Producer:
John Wilcox
Editor:
Jon Bentley

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Sydney: Living with Difference
1.00 Television to Call Our Own
1.30 Coming Home to Banaba

The Greats
2.00 Artists

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo 17-20

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite

Open University
5.45 Changing Berlin: Changing Europe
(Subtitled)
6.10 Berlin: Unemployment and the Family
6.35-7.00am The Heat Is On

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