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6.10 Musee du Louvre (S)
7.00 Defining Moments
7.30 Passing Judgements (S)

Chris Eakin and Jane Hill present a roundup from News 24, plus weather at 8.25. (W)

Today Richard Dawkins explores the wonder of science, and Tony Buzan explains how to read faster.

9.30 Digital Planet - Cybersoul
Investigating the relationship between man and machine.

From 10.10, Open Minds continues with items on the mathematics of interest, books that inspire, and carbon dioxide.

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Memnos Costi reports on the problems facing deaf students at university, and Lara Crooks introduces a short drama about a woman who comes to terms with her deafness.
With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
(Repeated Thursday at 1.05am on BBC1)
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Zoe Ball visits Corfu.
(R)

Saturday Matinee drama, based on a true story. A seven-year-old boy, obsessed with chess master Bobby Fischer, shows an aptitude for the game and is trained to be a chess champion himself.
Widescreen.
(1993, PG)
(S) (Films: pp 66-69 ****)

Live coverage from the National Hunt event at Newbury, featuring the 1.30, 2.00 and 2.30 races, plus news of the Dubai World Cup meeting, including the UAE Derby. Introduced by Richard Pitman, Peter Scudamore, Clare Balding and Willie Carson. John Hanmer and Jim McGrath commentate.

Crichton is horrified to see Moya go into starburst without him.
(Shown last Monday) (S)

Further coverage from Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, featuring the 4.45 race and at 5.30 the Dubai World Cup, the world's richest race with a prize fund of $6 million. Presented by Clare Balding and Willie Carson, with Jim McGrath commentating.
(W)

The second of three films explores journeys in the Soviet Union through the eyes of visitors and investigates the Soviet system of hospitality, showing how writers were manipulated by their hosts and how the KGB carried out surveillance on any foreign visitor who strayed from the beaten track.
See Choice.
(S)

Pakistan's penal code, amended to embrace Islamic principles, provides for the heir of any murder victim to forgive the killer. But these laws are open to abuse, allowing family members to conspire to kill.

In this follow-up to last year's documentary Murder in Purdah, Olenka Frenkiel examines how the Senate, courts, mosques and villages conspire to imprison women, trade them in marriage and condone their murder. When so many value family honour above the right to life, what hope is there for women's rights in Pakistan?
(S)

Ends 8.55.
Website: [web address removed]

History 2000
Bloodties Martha Kearney introduces more genealogical explorations, including the connection between an Edwardian strong woman and a modern Australian circus. Plus a look at the Elizabethan interest in family history, seeing how 16th-century historian Sir John Oglander claimed to trace his lineage to the Norman conquest.
(S) (W)
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8.05 Timewatch: The Oklahoma Outlaw
In 1976, the chance discovery of a mummified body inside a ghost ride at Long Beach in California unearthed the story of a hopeless bungled train robbery and an incompetent small-time Oklahoma burglar called Elmer McCurdy, shot dead 66 years before he was finally laid to rest.
(R) (S)

(History 2000 continues on Monday at 7.30pm with Breaking the Seal)

Western starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan.

Gunfighter Cole Thornton rides into El Dorado to find that his old friend J.P. Harrah is the town's sheriff. Cole leaves town when he discovers that he has been hired to run people off their land, but it's not long before he is back to help the sheriff's fight against a cattle baron's gunfighters.
(1967, PG) *****
(S)
Films: pp 66-69

Offbeat comedy drama starring Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz.

Jjaks, a small-time criminal, reluctantly returns to his family home in Minnesota for his detested brother Sam's wedding. But things start to go off the rails when bride-to-be Freddie shows more than a little interest in Jjaks.
Widescreen.
(1996, 18) **
(S) (W)
Films: pp 66-69

Prison drama.

During a nationwide wave of riots, inmates from the punishment block of a big state prison take advantage of an inexperienced guard and barricade themselves in. Taking four officers as hostages, they demand better conditions. The warden wants to negotiate but the state prefers to use force.
Ends 2.50am BST.
(1954, 15) ****
(BW) (S)
Films: pp 66-69

(S)
(Repeats are not indicated)
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Ends 5am BST.