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6.05 The World of the Dragon
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6.30 Cybersouls
7.00 Moscow - a City in Transition
7.30 Wembley Stadium - Venue of Legends
Chris Eakin and Jane Hill present a roundup from News 24, plus weather at 8.25.
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Exploring memory-improvement techniques, the meaning of beauty and the psychology of war.
9.30 Digital Planet - Cyberwar
Will computers be the weapons of choice in wars of the future?
From 10.10, Open Minds continues with items on alien evolution, risk and the science behind soap.
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Further Details: brochure hotline [number removed] (calls charged at national rate); Ceefax p626; website [web address removed]
The magazine examines a report that claims deaf people are at risk from doctors who do not know how to communicate with them. With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
(Repeated Thursday at 1.05am on BBC1)
Website: [web address removed]
Bilko is sent to a special army-training centre for geniuses. (BW) (R)
Another episode is on Monday at 2.40pm
A Delvian sect leader tricks the Moya Crew.
(Shown last Monday)
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Archive hits from artists including Nirvana and Terence Trent d'Arby, plus a tribute to soul singer Curtis Mayfield, who died in December.
(Shown last Wednesday)
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The three-race card from Uttoxeter features the 2.35 Midlands Grand National Steeplechase, won last year by Young Kenny, plus starts at 1.30 and 2.00.
Presented by Clare Balding. Jim McGrath is in the commentary box, with analysis from Richard Pitman and Peter Scudamore.
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Steve Cram introduces action from the World Cross Country Championships in Vilamoura, Portugal, where Paula Radcliffe takes on the world's elite in the women's long-course race. In the men's short course another Briton, John Mayock, tries to break the Africans' medal monopoly.
Jonathan Meades samples the lifestyle of the caravan dweller.
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The first of three films documenting the experiences of people who witnessed 20th-century dictatorships in action.
Nicholas Mosley - the son of fascist leader Oswald Mosley - and Nazi sympathiser James Clark were among Britons enthused by the buoyancy of Hitler's Germany in the thirties. Business leaders and press barons also found inspiration in his model for a new society. This film, narrated by Michael Pennington and featuring archive footage, hears from those who saw Nazism at work.
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Two thirds of all the world's coca leaf is cultivated in Colombia's equatorial jungles before it is refined into cocaine. Marxist guerrillas earn vast sums protecting the growers, but right-wing paramilitaries, funded by landowners, are using vicious tactics to undermine them. Now the US is set to spend 1800 million arming the Colombian military in an effort to defuse the crisis. Phil Rees reports.
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Ends 8.55.
Website: [web address removed]
History 2000: Bloodties
Martha Kearney introduces more genealogical explorations, including those of Margaret Harding, whose ancestors survived the Irish potato famine, and Anthony Joseph, who throws light on Jewish life in 18th-century Cornwall.
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Information: History 2000 events line: [number removed]. Calls are charged at national rate.
(History 2000 continues Monday at 9pm with Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea)
8.05 Timewatch The Pilgrim Obsession
American history acknowledges that the Pilgrim Fathers were religious separatists who founded the first permanent colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts. But, as this film reveals, the journey of the first European immigrants into America very nearly ended in disaster.
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Western starring James Stewart.
A stranger with a gun and a herd of cattle rides into a gold-mining town, where he soon challenges the man who owns the law and holds it in contempt.
(1955) ***
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Films: pp 64-67
Herzog - Madman or Genius, a two-day celebration of the work of eccentric German film director Werner Herzog, starts with this Storyville biographical documentary about his turbulent relationship with long-time collaborator Klaus Kinski. Herzog recalls the actor's brilliant yet troubled personality and revisits Peru, where the pair first worked together on Aguirre, Wrath of God, which follows.
(1999) ****
(Colour and BW) (S)
Films: pp 64-67
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Action drama about a former soldier who sets out for revenge when his wife is terrorised and his teenage daughter kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
Ends 2.55am.
(1994, 18) ***
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Films: pp 64-67
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Ends 5am.
