Thriller starring Laurence Payne On learning his sister-in-law is to have his baby, a composer asks his wife for a divorce. When she refuses, the pair plot her death. Director Montgomery Tully (1961) (BW)
Films: pp 79-84 **
Highlights from this year's half-marathon on Tyneside.
From Cardiff Bay Chris Eakin probes issues affecting Wales, plus a Rugby World Cup report.
Jane Hill has a bulletin from News 24, with weather at 8.25.
Asian-culture strand. Ends 10.50
Manjdhar Continuing the Pakistani drama about a family in turmoil. In Urdu with English subtitles.
9.30 Cafe 21 Rajesh Mirchandani hosts a debate centring on sport as a career choice for ethnic minorities.
10.00 Network East Sonia Deol and Sanjeev Kohli 's guests are actor
Kabir Bedi , wrestling champion Shak Khan and musician Jazzie B. Asia 2 Editor Paresh Solanki
The magazine debunks the myths behind the controversial cochlear implant. With signing and in-vision subtitles.
Repeated on Thursday at 1.35am on B8C1 WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/see_hear
Last in the series of football hints with the Liverpool striker. Shown yesterday (S)
Saturday Matinée comedy, the first in a double bill of films directed by Basil Dearden.
Starring Virginia McKenna
A married couple re-open a rundown cinema that was forced out of business by a rival owner.
(1957. U) (BW) (S) Films: pp 79-84 ****
Saturday Matinée black comedy concluding the Basil Dearden-directed double bill, starring Oliver Reed , Diana Rigg 1906: a mysterious woman puts out a contract on a murderous secret society's boss. Widescreen.
(1969) (W) (S) Films: pp 79-84 ****
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The men from Shiloh meet Ellen Beecher and her seven orphans. (R)
Including songs from the Animals, Teardrop Explodes and Macy Gray. Shown last Wednesday (S)
David Vine presents highlights from the Guild Hall in Preston of the closing frames in the first Grand Prix semi-final.
Producer Alison Witkover ; Executive producer Graham Fry
Presented by freelance journalist Alix Sharkey.
Director Charles Kitchen ; Producer Christine Ruth (S)
With Peter Sissons.
Weather with Sarah Wilmshurst. (S)
Sloba and Mira - Their World. Serb president Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mira Markovic retain power in the face of considerable adversity. Milosevic is indicted as a war criminal, faces huge opposition both from inside
Serbia and from abroad, and is charged with bankrupting his own country. The Kosovo: the Reckoning season concludes as Phil Rees explores the methods the couple have used to ensure their political survival. See Choice. Producer Frank Smith ; Editor Fiona Murch (S)
Continuing the historical strand. Ends 8.55pm WEBSITE; www.bbc.co.uk/history
House Detectives Blackbushe House. The team visit a remote house in Bow Hill near Chichester, West Sussex, said by locals to have been a pest house where plague victims were sent to die. With only one solid lead to work on - 18th-century carvings on two wooden doors in the garden shed - Juliet Morris , Dan Cruickshank and Judith Miller aim to put the minds of the current occupants at rest. Director Ian Leese ; Series producer Tim Dunn (S) (W)
Series exploring the bloody war between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. Witnesses speak about one of history's bloodiest battles, the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, in which the Red Army began to turn the tide against Hitler's troops. Shown last Tuesday (S)
David Vine hosts continuing coverage from the second semi-final at Preston's Guild Hall. There will be a clash of fellow Scots and former world champions Stephen Hendry and John Higgins if results have matched seedings, but the Grand Prix has been a notoriously unpredictable event in the past, with shock results commonplace.
As the snooker Is live, subsequent programmes may change
Mary Mary from Apollo 440, Jamie from Hepburn and comedian Vic Henley are guests on the last in the series of the irreverent music quiz. Hosted by Mark Lamarr.
(Shown yesterday) (S) (W)
Jools is joined by The Charlatans, Jeff Beck, country singer Shelby Lynee, Bernard Butler and Brighton band Oslo.
Drama, the first of two films this weekend directed by Istvan Szabo and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer
Despite lacking rich friends or connections, Alfred Redl rises through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian military elite. But a craving for success forces him into compromise and betrayal.
German with English subtitles.
Ends 2.55am
(1984,15)
(Mephisto is showing tomorrow at 11.10pm)
Films: pp 79-84 ****
Repeats are not indicated.
Dynamo Science (ages 7-9) Ends 5.00am WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/education
