Continuing the epic drama.
Challenges to his authority wreck King David's relationship with God, making vengeance inevitable.
(Next episode tomorrow 7.05am)
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Jane Hill and Andrew Harvey with a roundup from News 24, plus weather at 8.25.
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Swashbuckling adventure, starring Richard Greene as the intrepid Captain Scarlett, who fights for justice against royal tyranny in post-Napoleonic France.
(1953, U) **
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Films: pp 66-74

Lara Crooks hosts the first TV quiz for deaf children, today featuring two teams from Derby: Heathlands School and the Royal School for the Deaf. With sign language and in-vision subtitles.

(Repeated Thursday at 12.35am on BBC1)

Second-round coverage from the world championship at the Crucible in Sheffield, introduced by Dougie Donnelly.
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A Saturday Matinee literary double bill opens with an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.

Independent-minded Elizabeth Bennet attracts the attention of rich Mr Darcy, whom, much to her mother's despair, she dislikes for his arrogance.
(1940, U) ****
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Films: pp 66-74

Period drama based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, concluding the literary double bill.

Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of a world beyond the constraints of village life on Egdon Heath, where her arrival causes scandal and tragedy.
(1994) ***
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Films: pp 66-74

Archive sounds, including the Cure, Erasure, Peter Frampton and Manic Street Preachers.
(Shown last Wednesday)
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Another visit to Sheffield for more world championship action at the Crucible theatre. (S)

Jamie's girlfriend Jules persuades him to join her on a girls' night out, so he dutifully prepares some treats for their post-club pyjama party.
(Shown last Wednesday)
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One of Yehudi Menuhin's life-long ambitions was to teach a group of children to play the violin from scratch. This film, showing on what would have been his 84th birthday, follows the initial selection of 12 state primary-school children from Guildford, Surrey, their first lessons with him and the interaction with their remarkable teacher. See Choice.
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Ends 8.55.
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One Foot in the Past: Sex and the Georgian City
Behind their elegant Georgian facades, 18th-century cities were built on the profits of the sex industry, where prostitution was a sophisticated, lucrative and surprisingly respectable trade. Dan Cruickshank charts the rise to fame and fortune of two prostitutes, and sees how the obsession with sex extended to art, architecture and even landscape gardens.
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8.05 History Zone Films: Remember the Alamo
In 1836, nearly 200 Texans, including Davy Crockett, were slaughtered at the Alamo by 1,600 Mexicans. From the start, the story captured the American imagination, but, in the retelling, the truth about events became distorted. Over 160 years on, can fact be separated from fiction?
See Choice.
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(The Last Command, a film version of the Alamo, is on Monday at 10.30pm)

Information: History 2000 line: [number removed]. Charged at national rate.

David Vine introduces further second-round coverage from the Crucible theatre in Sheffield. Ray Edmonds, Clive Everton, Jim Meadowcroft, Dennis Taylor, Willie Thorne and John Virgo provide the match commentary.
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Eagle-Eye Cherry previews songs from Living in the Present Future, and, for the first time on television, collaborates with his sister Neneh as the pair perform Long Way Around. Cardiff's Super Furry Animals play tracks from their new Welsh album Mwng, and Dot Allison joins London-based dance pioneers Death in Vegas for their new single, Dirge.
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Jools is joined by Eagle-Eye Cherry, Super Furry Animals, Death in Vegas, David Gray and LSK.

Drama.

New York, 1954: a glamorous movie star is filmed with her skirt blowing in the air; a US senator tries to persuade a famous scientist to testify against communism. Later that evening, the actress invites herself into the scientist's room, intent on discussing some ideas with him...
(1985, 15) ****
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Films: pp 66-74

Sci-fi horror.

A series of deaths alert local people to strange and deadly forces unleashed by scientists at a US air force base in Canada.
Ends 2.55am.
(1957) (BW) ***
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Films: pp 66-74

(Repeats are not indicated)
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Ends 5am.