(Repeats are not indicated)
6.20 The Magic Flute
6.45 Just 17: the Geometry of Patterns
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7.10 Pyramids, Plato and Football
7.35 Open Advice: A Different Way of Learning
Jane Hill and Chris Eakin with a roundup from News 24, plus weather updates at 8.25.
A one-off study of the reliability of statistical information.
The series that probes the world of ideas begins a rerun with a look at life in Glasgow, plus a guide to the work of Sigmund Freud from Raj Persaud.
9.30 The Pull of the City - Mexico City, Whose City?
The fight for power, and the struggle to survive, in one of the world's biggest cities.
From 9.40 Open Minds continues its exploration of Glasgow.
(R)
Further Details: brochure hotline [number removed](calls charged at national rate): Ceefax p 626: Website [web address removed]
Teams from York and Portsmouth battle to secure a place in the quiz final. Presented by Lara Crooks.
With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
Website: [web address removed]
Presenters Wendy Robbins and David Lowe sample the diversity of life and culture in Toulouse with the help of a local rock band and explore the turbulent history of the Cathar castles.
Sian Phillips narrates the true story of Anna Leonowens, whose relationship with the King of Siam is the subject of the recent film Anna and the King, starring Jodie Foster.
First in a Saturday Matinee double bill of British comedy, starring Dick Emery.
Con man Charlie Tully has his hands full when his womanising partner dies after banking the duo's ill-gotten gains - the account details are tattooed on the bodies of his girlfriends.
(1972, PG) **
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Films: pp 54-61
Concluding the double bill of British comedies.
Lucinda has had a crush on Neville since she was 12. When friends Katherine and Amanda try to help in her love quest, they, too, get involved in affairs of the heart.
(1996, PG)
(S) (Films: pp 54-61 **)
With an influx of Polish miners, Trampas is assigned to keep the peace between the incomers and the resentful ranchers. (R)
With Andy O'Hagan, film critic for The Daily Telegraph.
(S)
Archive pop, featuring Wham!, New Order, Ian Dury and Roxy Music.
(Shown last Wednesday)
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Jeremy Paxman introduces a selection of highlights and horrors from two decades of BBC2's news flagship. Ex-Home Secretary Michael Howard relives his verbal pummelling by Paxman, and there's another chance to see what has been tagged the BBC's worst-ever outside broadcast. See Choice. (S)
Is that a yes, minister?: David Aaronovitch on Newsnight's first 20 years, page 18
Janet Street-Porter makes the long journey to Orkney to visit the rugged St Magnus in Kirkwall, Britain's northernmost cathedral and also one of its smallest. Street-Porter immerses herself in the violent history of the islands, learning about the brutal murder of St Magnus himself and the story of how his bones were discovered in the cathedral 800 years after his death.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]
Beginning a triple bill in the It's Scary Out There season.
Xander finds an unorthodox way to take revenge on Cordelia.
(Shown last Thursday)
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Sci-fi thriller, continuing the It's Scary Out There triple bill.
A doctor returns from a trip to find people strangely altered. Gradually, he finds that their spirits have been infiltrated and that giant pods from space are taking over.
(Widescreen) (1956, PG) (BW) (S) (W)
Films: pp 54-61 *****
What do you mean, you've never seen...: page 52
Concluding tonight's It's Scary Out There trilogy. A woman takes refuge after an attack by a zombie. To her horror, she learns that the dead have been resurrected. Ends 2.50am.
Director George Romero (1968,18) (BW) (S) Rims: pp 54-61 *****
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Ends 5am
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Website: [web address removed]
