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Introduced by Steve Rider.

1.35 Rallying
The fourth round of this year's world championship comes from Portugal where Britain's Richard Burns will be full of confidence after his win in the Safari rally. Mark James and Tiff Needell commentate.

2.05 Rugby League: Leeds v Hull
Live coverage of the second Challenge Cup semi-final from Huddersfield's McAlpine stadium (kickoff 2.15pm). Hull produced the surprise result of the quarter-finals by beating Cup specialists Wigan and now have it all to do again when they face holders Leeds. Commentary by Jon Champion and Joe Lydon.
2.05-4.00 (not PDC)
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4.00 Ice Hockey
Coverage of the final of ice hockey's Challenge Cup from the London Arena, which, like last year, sees Sheffield Steelers take on Nottingham Panthers. Commentary from Bob Ballard and Shannon Hope

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Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Commentator (Rallying):
Mark James
Commentator (Rallying):
Tiff Needell
Commentator (Rugby League):
Jon Champion
Commentator (Rugby League):
Joe Lydon
Commentator (Ice Hockey):
Bob Ballard
Commentator (Ice Hockey):
Shannon Hope
Television Presentation (Rugby League):
Malcolm Kemp
Television Presentation (Ice Hockey):
Mark Wilkin

A year ago, Opec oil-producing countries decided to curb sales, resulting in a trebling of prices. Worries are now growing that the pattern of previous oil price shocks may be repeated: inflation; interest rate hikes and, finally, years of painful recession. With Maya Even.
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(See also The Money Programme Special The Age Wave, Wednesday at 7.30pm)
(As The Money Programme is topical, its subject matter may change)

Contributors

Presenter:
Maya Even
Producer:
John Withington
Editor:
Diarmuid Jeffreys

In the second of this three-part series, Michael Ignatieff follows US Marine recruits and discovers a new warrior cult where speed of thought is as necessary as physical strength. He also reports from California where the Marines put their ideas on urban warfare to the test.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Ignatieff
Producer:
Rebecca Simor
Executive Producer:
Glynn Jones

Continuing the weekly arts strand. Ends 9pm.

Mark Lawson is joined by film critic Mark Kermode, author and playwright Bonnie Greer and journalist Craig Brown to discuss the week's cultural highlights, including Denzel Washington's latest film The Hurricane, The Journals of Sylvia Plath and Harold Pinter's new play Celebration.
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Contributors

Editor (Art Zone):
Peter Maniura
Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Panellist:
Mark Kermode
Panellist:
Bonnie Greer
Panellist:
Craig Brown
Series Producer:
Mark Bell
Executive Producer:
Mary Sackville-West

A look at the theme of love in the life of the poet WH Auden, who wrote such famous poems as Stop All the Clocks (made famous in Four Weddings and a Funeral), Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love and As I Walked Out One Evening. This film centres on new interviews with Auden's close friends and looks at how his most important relationships were reflected in some of the greatest poems of the 20th century.
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Contributors

Director:
Susanna White
Executive Producer:
Peter Maniura
Executive Producer:
Roger Thompson

Biographical drama about controversial British painter Francis Bacon, starring Derek Jacobi.

When Bacon catches petty criminal George Dyer breaking into his studio, he seduces him instead of reporting him to the police. It is the beginning of a troubled relationship.
Widescreen.
(1998, 18) ***
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Films: pp 66-69

Contributors

Director:
John Maybury
Francis Bacon:
Derek Jacobi
George Dyer:
Daniel Craig
Isabel Rawsthorne:
Anne Lambton
John Deakin:
Karl Johnson
Henrietta Moraes:
Annabel Brooks
Daniel Farson:
Adrian Scarborough
Muriel Belcher:
Tilda Swinton
Blonde Billy:
Richard Newbold

Drama, the true story of a marriage against the odds between a Catholic and Protestant in fifties Ireland - a relationship that made international headlines. (Widescreen) (1999, 12) (S) (W) ***
Films: pp 66-69

Contributors

Director:
Sydney Macartney
Sean Cloney:
Liam Cunningham
Sheila Cloney:
Orla Brady
Father Stafford:
Tony Doyle
Andy Bailey:
Peter Caffrey
Bishop Staunton:
John Kavanagh
Tom Kelly:
Brian McGrath

Offbeat drama. A traumatised refugee from a religious sect is taken into the care of a forest dweller and her mute lover, but cannot escape his repressive past.
Ends 1.45am.
(1995.18) ***
Films: pp 66-69

Contributors

Director:
Philip Ridley
Darkly Noon:
Brendan Fraser
Callie:
Ashley Judd
Clay:
Viggo Mortensen
Jude:
Loren Dean
Ma:
Kate Harper
Pa:
Mel Cobb

(Repeats are not indicated)

National Test Revision
2.00 Key Stage 3: Bitesize Revision: Science 1
A look at biology and chemistry.
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Languages
4.00 French Journey: Part 1: Working for Local Government

5.00 Teleworking and Managing Change
Implementing change in the workplace.

Open University
6.00 A School for Our Times?
6.30 How We Study Children
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Ends 7.00am.

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