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6.05 Swedish Science in the 18th Century
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6.30 Never Mind the Quality?
7.00 Cities in a Hurry
7.30 Philosophy in Action: Debates about Boxing
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6.05 Swedish Science in the 18th Century
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6.30 Never Mind the Quality?
7.00 Cities in a Hurry
7.30 Philosophy in Action: Debates about Boxing
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Jane Hill and Andrew Harvey with a roundup from News 24, plus weather at 8.25.
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The poetry of Brian Patten, how Picasso and the Cubists portrayed realism, plus comic Mark Thomas.
9.30 The Romans in Britain: Hadrian's Wall - the Edge of Empire
The landmark's origins and myths.
From 10.10, Open Minds continues with features on peer pressure, aromatherapy and arguing.
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Words of support for those trying to give up smoking, plus a report on the rights of deaf people under arrest. With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
(Repeated Thursday at 1.05am on BBC1)
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(The season continues with Casualty Kicks the Habit on Monday at 11.30am on BBC1)
A family break in Florence.
Documentary examining the life and work of Vienna-born director Otto Preminger, who, through films such as Laura, which follows, became one of Hollywood's leading figures.
Saturday Matinee classic murder mystery starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney.
A detective investigating the brutal murder of a young woman finds himself becoming strangely attracted to the victim.
(1944, U) (BW) (S) *****
Films: pp 64-67
Aeryn and Crichton trigger a wormhole.
(Shown last Monday)
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Deborah Bull introduces this acclaimed production of Le Corsaire - the Pirate - by the American Ballet Theatre, a swashbuckling adventure loosely based on a poem by Byron.
With Trevor Kavanagh, political editor of The Sun.
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Archive hits plus exclusive new music from Kraftwerk.
(Shown last Wednesday) (S)
The second of three programmes following the investigation into the 1997 Southall rail disaster sees how the British Transport Police and the Crown Prosecution Service believed they had enough evidence to press manslaughter charges against both the driver and his employer, Great Western Trains. But, when the trial began, there was a sudden and dramatic outcome.
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Six months before Pan Am exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988, an Iranian airbus was shot down by the US warship Vincennes, killing 290. Correspondent shows what really happened that day and why the Lockerbie victims might have been the last casualties of the Gulf War.
See Choice.
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Factual: Correspondent 6.45pm BBC2
The west trumpeted the victory of the moderates in February's Iranian elections but the new government is not likely to stay flavour of the month for long. It is set to renew calls for the withdrawal of US and allied forces from the Gulf and this report reminds us why, examining the US's covert war with Iran during the eighties. It investigates how a US warship shot down an Iranian Airbus on a flight to Dubai killing 290 passengers in 1988. It seems the USS Vincennes fired two missiles at the passenger aircraft in the belief it was being attacked by an Iranian fighter. Six months later when a terrorist bomb brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, some speculated it may have been a revenge attack. (GE)
Ends 8.55.
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History 2000: Bloodties
Martha Kearney presents more advice on how to investigate family histories, including tracing the origin of old photographs. Among the remarkable stories of those who have already reconstructed their family trees is that of Richard Jeffrey, who for 15 years has been delving into the macabre career of his great-great-grandfather William Calcroft - the Hangman of the City of London.
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(History 2000 continues on Monday at 7.30pm with Breaking the Seal)
Know how: be your own bloodhound, page 40
8.05 Timewatch: Sleeping with the Enemy
After the liberation of France in summer 1944, over 10,000 women faced the People's Tribunals charged with "la collaboration horizontale".
Two women who had affairs with German soldiers recall their public humiliation, while testimony from neighbours and resistance fighters builds up a picture of wartime collaboration that was not always black and white.
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Mark Kermode introduces another in the season of classic seventies thrillers.
Racketeer Bumpy Jonas wants private eye John Shaft to find his daughter, whom he believes has been kidnapped. But Shaft is also being pressured by the police to investigate Jonas's activities. A profile of Isaac Hayes, whose soundtrack won the film an Oscar, follows.
(1971, 15) (S) ****
Films: pp 64-67
This Close Up special profiles the singer and actor whose Oscar-winning music for Shaft captured the social, sexual and racial revolutions that were sweeping America in the early seventies. Candid interviews with Hayes, and contributions from colleagues and friends, paint a portrait of one of soul music's most enduring icons. See Choice.
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Music: Isaac Hayes: Soul Man 10.40pm BBC2
Can you dig it? Isaac Hayes, who created the Shaft soundtrack, has a new generation of fans who know him as the voice (and model) for Chef in South Park. But as this entertaining profile underlines, their parents remember him as a bald-headed, bearded, Moses of African-American music. Beginning in the cottonfields of Tennessee, Hayes takes us on the long road from his poverty-stricken childhood in the forties through his songwriting (for Sam and Dave among others) to his involvement in the civil-rights movement and, later, black pride. For anyone who loves the music, it's a fascinating story, illuminated by Hayes's own views and those of contributors including James Brown, Dionne Warwick and Puff Daddy.
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Thriller. On learning that gold artefacts have been hidden in a deserted factory, two fireman search the building, but stumble upon drug dealers. Although they take the gang leader's brother hostage, their chances seem slim.
(1992, 18) **
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Films: pp 64-67
Drama starring Steve McQueen.
Returning to his Arizona home town to enter the annual rodeo contest, Junior Bonner is shocked to find land developers on the site where his home once stood.
Widescreen. Ends 2.45am.
(1972, PG) ****
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Films: pp 64-67
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