Spoof comedy.
A financial expert who is sent to Hollywood to probe the workings of a troubled film studio receives help from a "stand-in" actress.
(1937, U) (BW)
Films: pp 82-88 ***
Barry Norman on Leslie Howard : p69
Jane Hill and David Robertson with a roundup from News 24, plus weather updates 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 in a debate originally scheduled for last Saturday, Rajesh Mirchandani and his studio audience discuss whether sport is a viable career choice for ethnic minorities.
10.00 Network East Sonia Oeol and Sanjeev Kohli 's guests are Bollywood producer Pooja Bhatt and Goodness Gracious Me actress Nina Wadia , and there's also a report on the rise of Asian internet entrepreneurs. Asia 2 Editor Paresh Solanki
The magazine reports from the AGM of the British Deaf Association and a BBC public meeting for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Lara Crooks is joined by pupils from Heathlands School,
St Albans , who perform a signed play for Halloween, and by a deaf car-rally team. With signing and in-vision subtitles.
Repeated on Thursday at 1.15am on BBC1 WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/seejiear
More highlights from the motoring magazine show. (R) (S)
Bilko finds himself torn between a wedding and army obligations.
(BW) (R) (Postponed from 11 October)
Disney drama. A tiger escapes from a circus, sending a small community into panic, but the town is split. Should the animal be killed or merely captured?
Director Norman Tokar (1964. U) (S) Films: pp 82-88 **
Saturday Matinée musical. A neurotic chain-smoker asks a doctor to help her kick the habit, but under hypnosis she regresses to a past life. Widescreen.
Director Vincente Minnelli
(1970. U) (S) (W) Films: pp 82-88***
The Virginian is approached by a glamorous woman who tells him that her husband has taken refuge with an outlaw. (R)
To mark the show's 150th edition Steve Wright unveils a selection of archive chart-toppers including songs by Blondie, Queen, Boney M and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Shown last Wednesday (S)
PM With Andrew Rawnsley of The Observer.
Director Charles Kitchen: Producer Christine Ruth (S)
Patrick Wright takes a four-part voyage down the 210-mile course of the River Thames, looking at it through the eyes of people who live and work on it, and showing how its colourful history has helped to shape today's Britain.
The Estuary. Wright travels from Red Sand Towers in the Thames estuary to the Thames Barrier. See Choice.
Producer James Runcie : Executive producer Keith Alexander (S) (W)
Presenter Edward Stourton reports from Turkey on the grim aftermath of August's earthquake as many remain missing and aid agencies struggle to cope with survivors' needs.
Sue Lloyd-Roberts reports from Nepal on the case of a 14-year-old girl who has been jailed for 12 years for having what she claims was a forced abortion after an alleged rape. Plus a report from Julian Pettifer on fake Vietnam veterans being hunted by men who genuinely fought in the war.
Producer Lucy Hetherington ; Editor Fiona Murch (S)
Continuing the historical strand. Ends 9.00 WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/history
House Detectives Cleave Hill. In the final programme in the series, the team of Dan Cruickshank , Judith Miller and Juliet Morris investigate the secret past of a cottage near Memburyin Devon. In trying to establish whether it once housed a mysterious landowner, they find details linking the property with one of history's most notorious judges. House Detectives returns for a new series next year.
Director Andrew Nicholson : Executive producer Basil Comely (S) (W)
8.05 War of the Century Vengeance. The series ends with the summer of 1944, when the seeds of Soviet victory were sown. Producer Laurence Rees Shown last Tuesday (S)
Then Floral Britannica Profiling another British plant.
Prog 10 of 19:FOXGLOVE:A whimsical name that was given to a highly poisonous highly effective drug-producing plant, that is still a vital part of medicine
News quiz, with Angus Deayton , Ian Hislop , Paul Merton.
Shown yesterday (S) (W)
Showing across the week, this seven-part documentary from director Jennifer Fox sheds light on the state of race relations by following two years in the lives of a mixed-race married couple and their two children in New York. Welcome to America. In the first episode, which acts as an introduction to the family, Cicily leaves home to go to college. Continues tomorrow evening at 11.50pm.
Series editor Nick Fraser (S) John Peel: page 15; Programme of the week: page 95
Mark Kermode speaks to John Carpenter , director of Halloween, about the making of his landmark and much-imitated horror film, showing tomorrow at 9.40pm. Producer Andrew Abbott : Executive producer Steve Jenkins (S) (W)
AM Drama. A writer is reunited with his mother on her deathbed, and becomes involved in both a murder mystery and an affair with a married woman. Widescreen. Ends 1.35am (GMT) Director Mike Figgis (1991. 18) (S) Films: pp 82-88 ***
Repeats are not indicated.
Dynamo History (ages 5-7) Ends 4.00am (GMT) WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/education
