Fantasy comedy.
A politician's aim to get married is plagued by a 17th-century witch who has returned from the grave.
(1942) (BW)
Films: pp 72-76 ****
Tanya Beckett and David Robertson with a roundup from News 24, plus weather updates at 8.25.
The Asian-culture strand. Ends 10.50
Manjdhar Pakistani family drama. In Urdu with in-vision subtitles.
9.30 Café 21 Melting Pot.
Rajesh Mirchandani and his youthful audience discuss to what extent Britain can claim to be a multicultural society.
10.00 Network East Sonia Deol and Sanjeev Kohli talk to Ayub Khan Din, who wrote the screenplay for the film East Is East. Plus interviews with actress Aishwariya Rai and Hindi pop star Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, and music from Indian Ropeman. Asia 2 Editor Paresh Solanki
Including an interview with deaf footballer Raymond Drake and a look at the work of anti-land-mine charities. With signing and in-vision subtitles.
Repeated on Thursday at 1.15am on BBC1 WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/see_hear
Quentin Willson charts the history of the 59 Cadillac. (R) (S)
A con man who aims to set up a scam is distracted by a financial crisis and the bank manager's daughter. (R)
A ten-part series celebrating the work of top British cinematographers. The first programme features recollections from Guy Green, who worked with David Lean on Oliver Twist as well as Great Expectations,
Which follows. (S) (W) The series continues at 3.15pm See Barry Norman : page 63
The first in a Saturday Matinée double bill celebrating 50 years of British cinematography.
In David Lean's Oscar-winning adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel, the life of a poor young orphan suddenly changes when he comes into a fortune.
(1946, PG) (BW) (S) Films: pp 72-76 *****
Prolific cinematographer Jack Cardiff recalls his career and the work that brought him an Oscar for the film Black Narcissus, which follows. (S) (W) Repulsion cinematographer Gil Taylor is profiled tomorrow at 12 midnight
Saturday Matinée classic drama, concluding the double bill celebrating 50 years of British cinematography. Five nuns establish a school and hospital in a disused harem in the Himalayas, but cannot cope with their surroundings and the intrusive local English agent. Directors Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger (1946, U) (S) Films: pp 72-76 *****
Reflections from David Bowie on his many guises are interspersed with music spanning his career. Shown last Wednesday (S)
Peter Hitchens of The Express presents the press-review slot.
Director Charles Kitchen ; ProducerChristine Ruth (S)
Patrick Wright's continuing voyage down the River Thames. Machines in the Garden. In a journeyfrom the source of the Thames in the Cotswolds to the Goring Gap in Oxfordshire, Patrick Wright explores the conflict between the traditional idyll of pastoral England and the harsher modem realities of machinery, railways and nuclear power. Producer James Runcie : Executive producer Keith Alexander (S) (W)
In an edition devoted to Africa, Edward Stourton reports from war-ravaged Angola, where victims are preferring to seek out shamans instead of doctors. Rageh Omaar travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo game park to look into why the gorillas there have become targets for poachers, and Gary O'Donoghue visits a Ghanaian village where river blindness afflicts one person in five. See Choice. Producer Lucy Hetherington ; Editor Fiona Murch (S)
Ends 9.00
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ONE FOOT IN THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN: In this One Foot in the Past special, people recall the impact of the Festival of Britain, and size up the Millennium Dome as it nears completion. Recollections from, among others,
Terence Conran and Mary Quant accompany rare colour footage from the festival. With Kirsty Wark. One Foot in the Past is scheduled to return early next year. See Choice.
Director Kate Scholefield; Executive producer Basil Comely (S) (W)
8.05 TIMEWATCH: Ivan the Terrible. The title bestowed by history on Russia's first tsar has become synonymous with tyranny and mass bloodshed, his 16th-century reign characterised by conquest and cruelty. Yet many in Russia regard him as a national hero where he is known as the Grozny or 'awesome' tsar. Timewatch examines this man of contradictions and the contrasting reactions to his reign. Producer Andrew Williams; Editor Laurence Rees (S)
Then Floral Britannica Profiling another British plant.
Prog 12 of 19:BRAMBLE:A grasping, common weed, but the last wild harvest of the hedgerow, the last myth of country life.
News quiz, with Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop, Paul Merton. Shown yesterday (S) (W)
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows. Canadian grappler Bret "the Hitman" Hart became a huge attraction on US cable TV, his "tough but nice" persona securing him a $9m deal. But, when he refused to compromise his image for the sake of commercial interests, he faced the end of his career. Paul Jay's acclaimed film follows Hart for a year and explores the reality behind the theatre of wrestling.
Series editor Nick Fraser (S)
Drama. Ambitious Hamburg actor Hendrik Hofgen finds the path to success is plagued with depravity and betrayal, and his acceptance by the Nazi elite brings him both glory and contempt. German with English subtitles. Ends 2.45am
Director Istvan Szabo (1981. 15) Postponed from 24 October Films: pp 72-76 *****
Dynamo Literacy (ages 5-7) Ends 5.00am
