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Drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Mario Vitale. Italy, 1945: a Lithuanian refugee anxious to escape destitution, marries an Italian fisherman but finds life on Stromboli violently oppressive. Director Roberto Rossellini (1950, PG)
(BW) (S) Films: pp 72-75 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Ingrid Bergman
Unknown:
Mario Vitale.
Director:
Roberto Rossellini

More drama and current affairs on the Asian culture strand. Ends 10.50. Editor Paresh Solanki
Paranda Drama series set in Pakistan about love, murder and familial relations.

Contributors

Editor:
Paresh Solanki
Editor:
Paranda Drama

First of four new chat shows made by a production team all aged under 21. Host
Luke Hyams disarms celebrity guests with his questions and asks them to nominate the next interviewee. This week Mick Jagger talks about his success with the ladies, Rory Bremner appears as Bill Clinton and S Club 7 call in from LA. See Choice. (S) Sabrina Guinness's Kind of Day: pl46

Contributors

Unknown:
Luke Hyams
Talks:
Mick Jagger
Unknown:
Rory Bremner
Unknown:
Bill Clinton

This week's Saturday Matinée is a drama set on an American liner. A fire sets off an explosion and amid the chaos, a man battles to rescue his wife from the wreckage.
Director Andrew L Stone (1960) (S) Films: pp 72-75 ***

Contributors

Director:
Andrew L Stone
Cliff Henderson:
Robert Stack
Laurie Henderson:
Dorothy Malone
Capt Robert Adams:
George Sanders
Second engineer Walsh:
Edmond O'Brien

Dougie Donnelly presents coverage of this year's Grand
Prix from Telford International Centre, featuring crowd favourite and two-time Grand Prix champion Jimmy White. The commentary is by Clive Everton , Ray Edmonds ,
Dennis Taylor , John Virgo and Willie Thorne. (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dougie Donnelly
Unknown:
Jimmy White.
Unknown:
Clive Everton
Unknown:
Ray Edmonds
Unknown:
Dennis Taylor
Unknown:
John Virgo
Unknown:
Willie Thorne.

Finding Leticia. Tom Gibbs reports on Maria Leticia Burrows, a young orphan who grew up a patriotic American, only to discover that her natural father was still alive in El Salvador. This documentary describes how Maria is reunited with her family and learns that she was the victim of a US-backed programme conducted by the Salvadoran army, in which thousands of children were murdered or abducted in an attempt to extinguish left-wing activism. See Choice.
Series producer Farah Durrani ; Editor Fiona Murch (S) (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Gibbs
Unknown:
Maria Leticia
Producer:
Farah Durrani
Editor:
Fiona Murch

Continuing the historical strand. Ends 8.50. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/history
Meet the Ancestors Treausures of the Dark Age.
Julian Richards reports from Peterborough, where an area of waste land by a business park has yielded up some fascinating artefacts. A wealth of bronze brooches, silver rings, amber beads and ivory objects imply the site was used by the first
Anglian settlers as a burial ground and suggest that the lives of those living in the period known as the Dark Ages were paradoxically full of great sophistication and colour.
Producer Jamie Simpson ; Series producer Ian Potts (R) S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Richards
Producer:
Jamie Simpson
Producer:
Ian Potts

Crime drama starring Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri.
When young Calogero witnesses a mob killing in 1960, but refuses to identify the killer, he wins the gratitude of the mob. mobster Sonny. But Calogero's upstanding father dislikes the association, and the boy suffers an enduring conflict of loyalties.
Director Robert De Niro (1993.18) (S) Films:.pp 72-75 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert de Niro
Director:
Robert de Niro
Lorenzo Anello:
Robert de Niro
Sonny:
Chazz Palminteri
Calogero Anello, aged 17:
Ullo Brancato
Calogero Anello, aged nine:
Francis Capra
Jane:
Taral Hicks
Rosina Anello:
Katherine Narducci
Jimmy:
Whispers ClemcAserta
Bobby Bars Alfred:
Sauchelli Jr
Danny Ko:
Frank Pietrangolare
Carmine:
Joe Pesci

Crime drama. Farm worker George Braden is falsely accused of murder and only with the efforts of his wife and his lawyer can he hope to escape the gallows.
Ends 2.50am.
(1953) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 72-75 **

Contributors

Director:
Don Siegel
Doug Madison:
MacDonald Carey
Ellen Braden:
Teresa Wright
George Braden:
John Craven
Paula Mitchener:
Dolores Moran
Gillespie:
Edgar Barrier
Max Verne:
Jack Elam

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