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Communication is the focus of this week's programme, with socialite Tamara Beckwith and Brookside actor Steven Pinder looking at gossip and meaningful silences. FURTHER INFORMATION: call [number removed](calls charged at national rate)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Tamara Beckwith
Unknown:
Steven Pinder

Saturday Matinee action adventure starring Steve Reeves, who died recently.

Banished by King Pelias to fight the formidable Cretan bull, Hercules meets Jason, rightful heir to the throne, and together they bid to recover the legendary Golden Fleece.
Italian dialogue dubbed into English.
Widescreen.
(1957, U) ***
(S) (W)
Films: pp 60-68

Contributors

Director:
Pietro Francisci
Hercules:
Steve Reeves

The second round of the PGA championship from Wentworth, introduced by Steve Rider. Last year, Colin Montgomerie took the title for the second year in a row, but challenges to the Scot's supremacy could come from Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood , plus a formidable Spanish contingent featuring Jose Maria Olazabal, recent winner of the International Open at the Belfry.
Commentary by Peter Alliss, Alex Hay, Ken Brown, Mike Hughesdon, Beverly Lewis and Mark Roe.
Director Paul Davies ; Executive producer Barbara Slater (S)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider.
Unknown:
Colin Montgomerie
Unknown:
Darren Clarke
Unknown:
Lee Westwood
Unknown:
Jose Maria
Commentary By:
Peter Alliss
Commentary By:
Alex Hay
Commentary By:
Ken Brown
Commentary By:
Mike Hughesdon
Commentary By:
Beverly Lewis
Commentary By:
Mark Roe.
Director:
Paul Davies
Producer:
Barbara Slater

As the Dutch parliament debates a bill that could legalise euthanasia from the age of 12, Edward Stourton meets a doctor who is already providing terminally ill children with the drugs to end their own lives. Sue Lloyd-Roberts investigates how Latvia's orphanages have become targets for local and foreign sex criminals, and Olenka Frenkiel reports on Moroccan women in France who have been deprived of basic rights by Islamic family law.
(S)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Reporter:
Edward Stourton
Reporter:
Olenka Frenkiel
Editor:
Fiona Murch
Series Producer:
Lucy Hetherington

Ends 8.55.

One Foot in the Past: Decoration
Interiors can say more about how people lived than bricks and mortar. Kirsty Wark discovers a lost tradition of plasterwork in the West Country, Lucinda Lambton visits Islington to see the last surviving traditional wallpaper factory in London, which decorated Buckingham Palace, and Roger Bowdler celebrates the overlooked art form of wall paintings.
Directors Sam Hobkinson , Louise Hooper and Peter Sweasey
Series producer Tim Dunn
(S) (W)

8.05 History Zone Films: Echoes of the Raj
The final years of British rule in India are remembered in five personal stories, illustrated by home movies and photographs to recall a lost way of life and build an evocative picture of the dying days of the empire.
See Choice.
Producer Catrine Clay ; Editor Laurence Rees
(S) (W)
INFORMATION: History 2000 line: [number removed]. Charged at national rate. BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE: available monthly, priced £2.95 from newsagents. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/history
History 2000 continues on Tuesday at 8pm with Local Heroes

Factual: History Zone Films 8.05pm BBC2
Forget Jamie Oliver and go back to a time when "pukka" was a word in common parlance. Echoes of the Raj, the latest of the History Zone Films, is a glorious collection of home movies and personal recollections of life in India during the two decades before independence in 1947. For the Brits it was an era of endless social events, ceremonies and a very strict etiquette that controlled everything, including where you sat at an official dinner. Among the wonderfully evocative pieces of footage are scenes of porters carrying a memsahib's treasured possessions up the mountains to Simla and of one family's three-week trek to Gilgit near the north-west frontier. A thoroughly enjoyable film, it is preceded by One Foot in the Past at 7.35pm, which uncovers the overlooked power of interior decoration. (JR)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kirsty Wark
Unknown:
Lucinda Lambton
Unknown:
Roger Bowdler
Directors:
Sam Hobkinson
Directors:
Louise Hooper
Directors:
Peter Sweasey
Producer:
Tim Dunn
Producer:
Catrine Clay
Editor:
Laurence Rees

Soprano Lesley Garrett introduces a cocktail of popular classics, joined by Mexican-born tenor Ramon Vargas, who sings music from La Traviata and Massenet's Werther, and Elaine Paige, who makes her operatic debut with the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman as well as performing the Edith Piaf song If You Love Me.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter/Soprano:
Lesley Garrett
Tenor:
Ramon Vargas
Singer:
Elaine Paige
Director:
Michael Leggo
Producer:
Emma Cornish

Roman Polanski's classic thriller starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. When private eye JJ Gittes is hired to investigate the husband of a rich LA socialite, he stumbles into a web of deceit and murder - and uncovers a terrible secret. An interview with Polanski follows. Widescreen.
(1974,15) (S) (W) Films: pp 60-68 *****

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Nicholson
Unknown:
Faye Dunaway.
Unknown:
Jj Gittes
JJ Gittes:
Jack Nicholson
Evelyn Mulwray:
Faye Dunaway
Noah Cross:
John Huston
Escobar:
Perry Lopez
Yelburton:
John Hillerman
Hollis Mulwray:
Darrell Zwerling
Ida Sessions:
Diane Ladd
Man with knife:
Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski has made some of the 20th-century's most discussed and celebrated films, but his turbulent private life has often been blighted by tragedy. In a rare interview he talks to Mark Cousins. Polanski's debut feature, Knife in the Water, follows. See Choice.
Director Mark Cousins: Producer Pauline Law (S) (W) Andrew Duncan meets Roman Polanski: page 8

Contributors

Producer:
Pauline Law
Unknown:
Andrew Duncan

Drama. A wealthy sports journalist invites a teenage student to spend the weekend with him and his wife on board their yacht. But the student's presence on the boat soon becomes a source of tension. Polish with English subtitles. Director Roman Polanski (1962, PG) (BW) Films: pp 60-68 ****

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