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Continuing the short season of westerns. Starring
Claudette Colbert , Barry Sullivan Texas in the 1880s: Prudence Webb heads west to start a new career as a newspaper editor, but finds herself in trouble when she incurs the enmity of two ruthless cattle barons.
Director Tim Whelan (1955. U) Dragoon Wells Massacre is tomorrow at 11.05am * See Films: pp 48-55 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Claudette Colbert
Director:
Tim Whelan

Historical drama based on Charles Dickens's novel, continuing the short season of films set in France.
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin

As unrest in France builds towards bloody revolution, cynical Sydney Carton becomes involved with a young woman and a French aristocrat in a deadly chain of events.
(1958, U)
(Black and white) (Subtitled)
(Love Is a Ball is tomorrow at 1.30pm)
See Films: pp 48-55 ***

Contributors

Director:
Ralph Thomas
Sydney Carton:
Dirk Bogarde
Lucie Manette:
Dorothy Tutin
Jarvis Lorry:
Cecil Parker
Dr Manette:
Stephen Murray

6.00 Whispers
After returning from an assignment, Chief O'Brien is puzzled by the hostile behaviour of his wife and friends.

At 6.45 Paradise
Sisko and O'Brien find themselves stranded on a planet where society has rejected technology.

(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 presents the last in the series looking at how the First World War was fought.

Holmes reveals how close the Germans came to winning the war during their massive offensive of 1918.
See today's choices.
(Repeated next Sunday)
(Digital widescreen) (Subtitled)
BBC Book: Western Front, price £17.99

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Holmes
Director/Series Producer:
Mark Fielder

Concluding the documentary series about modern-day transport problems.

A comparison of Britain's rail networks and services with those in France leaves this country's looking like the poor relation. Decades of investment, government subsidy and long-term thinking appear to have paid off for the French system. But what hopes do beleaguered rail travellers in Britain have for a speedier and more comfortable ride?
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Producer:
Jill Marshall
Series Producer:
Nick Catliff

The last in the series traces the history of a 1931 Rolls-Royce, originally owned by Harry Price, a prolific writer on psychic matters. The Rolls was later bought by two impoverished students before its current owner, engineer Peter Henderson, gave it a new lease of life and went on to win a Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts Club trophy.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Subject:
Peter Henderson
Director/Producer:
Dennis Jarvis

Deborah Bull introduces three dance pieces - entitled Romance... with Footnotes, Raid and Palimpsest - by Shobana Jeyasingh, the British choreographer who founded her own dance company and uses invented movement, Indian dance forms and martial arts.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Presenter:
Deborah Bull
Choreographer:
Shobana Jeyasingh
Director:
Deborah May
Producer:
Anne McGeoch

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Open Advice: a University without Walls
1.00 Cities in a Hurry
1.30 "We the Peoples": Democracy and the UN - its post-Cold War role

The Greats
2.00 Scientists and Inventors
Inspirational creators.

Languages
4.00 The Travel Hour

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite

Open University
5.45 A Global Culture
6.10 Somewhere a Wall Came Down
6.35-7.00am Modelling in the Money Markets

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