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Deaf actress Caroline Parker previews her one-woman show, and Julian Peedle-Calloo reports on the training of deaf guides for the Tate Modern.
Plus news of a deaf storytelling evening at London's Gate theatre. With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
Rptd Tuesday 3.40am BBC1

Contributors

Unknown:
Caroline Parker
Unknown:
Julian Peedle-Calloo

In Ever Wondered about... ? Alan Coxon prepares a roast with a twist and Kathy Sykes has tips on temperature, while Darina Allen of Ireland's
Ballymaloe Cooking School joins Gregg Wallace to prepare potato soup, mackerel and perfect pastry. Plus, at 10.10, a picnic on Southend pier with Jamie Oliver in The Naked
Chef, followed, at 10.50, by Rick Stein 's Seafood Odyssey. Director Charlotte Harris ; Series producer Sara Kozak WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/food

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Coxon
Unknown:
Kathy Sykes
Unknown:
Darina Allen
Unknown:
Gregg Wallace
Unknown:
Jamie Oliver
Unknown:
Rick Stein
Director:
Charlotte Harris
Producer:
Sara Kozak

War drama, the first of a Saturday Matinee double bill.

1942: Corporal John Bramble, the only survivor of a British tank crew, holds the key to uncovering a secret that could stop Rommel's advance in Egypt.
Review page SL
(1943) (Postponed from 13 April) (BW)

Contributors

Director:
Billy Wilder
Cpl John Bramble:
Franchot Tone
Mouche:
Anne Baxter
Farid:
Akim Tamiroff
Rommel:
Erich von Stroheim
Lt Schwegler:
Peter van Eyck

Drama, concluding the Saturday Matinée double.
A screenwriter floats dead in the pool of a neglected mansion. Six months earlier, out of work and desperate, he'd been hired by a former silent-screen star hoping to make a comeback. Review page 51. (1950, PG)
Postponed from 13 April (BW)

Contributors

Director:
Billy Wilder
Joe Gillis:
William Holden
Norma Desmond:
Gloria Swanson
Max Von Mayerling:
Erich von Stroheim
Betty Schaefer:
Nancy Olson
Sheldrake:
Fred Clark
Morino:
Lloyd Gough
Artie Green:
Jack Webb
Cecil B DeMille:
null Himself
Hedda Hopper:
null Herself
Buster Keaton:
null Himself

Further coverage from the Belfry of the third round. Who will be heading the leaderboard ahead of tomorrow's climax? Last year, Sweden's
Henrik Stenson continued to defy the form book and took a three-shot lead into the final round.
Presented by Steve Rider. Executive producer Barbara Slater
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/golf

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrik Stenson
Presented By:
Steve Rider.
Producer:
Barbara Slater

On screen, he was a Hollywood tough guy, but Robert Mitchum played the same role in private life. His bar brawls and spell in jail for drug possession made headline news. Here Mitchum's relatives and friends discuss his life and films-Director Sarah Barclay ; Series producer Richard Downes

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Director:
Sarah Barclay
Producer:
Richard Downes

Western. Young officer Curtis McQuade has trouble coping with life in the cavalry under the regime of brutal captain Stephen Maddocks. Widescreen. Review page 51.
Director Joseph M Newman (1961)

Contributors

Unknown:
Curtis McQuade
Unknown:
Stephen Maddocks.
Director:
Joseph M Newman
Capt Maddocks:
Richard Boone
Lt McQuade:
George Hamilton
Tracey Hamilton:
Luana Patten
Sgt Rodermill:
Arthur O'Connell
Trooper Hanna:
Charles Bronson
Lt Porter:
Richard Chamberlain
Trooper Eddy:
Duane Eddy
Lt Gresham:
James Douglas

First in a three-part dramatised documentary, presented by Peter Ackroyd , that brings to life the story of Charles Dickens. Secrets. Ackroyd shows how the writer's early years shaped his life and work, revealing through a series of "interviews" how Dickens's childhood innocence was snatched from him, and the passion he tried to conceal.
Director Chris Granlund ; Executive producer Andrea Miller INTERACTIVE FORUM: access www.bbc.co.uk/dickens to chat with Peter Ackroyd after the programme and send in questions to a Dickens expert A glimpse into Dickens's private world: page 22

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Ackroyd
Unknown:
Charles Dickens.
Director:
Chris Granlund
Producer:
Andrea Miller
Unknown:
Peter Ackroyd
Charles Dickens:
Anton Lesser
John Dickens:
Timothy West
Elizabeth Dickens:
Prunella Scales
Catherine Dickens:
Miriam Margolyes
John Forster:
Kenneth Cranham
Thackeray:
Geoffrey Palmer
Kate Dickens:
Helen McCrory
Young Dickens:
Joseph Traynor
Ellen Ternan:
Natasha Utile
Frances Teman:
Avril Ellis
John Byrne:
Christopher Etteridge
Lawrence Mercer:
Tom Bowles
Bob Fagin:
Jack Chissick
William Barker:
Trevor Peacock

An intensive psychological test by Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 saw US students volunteer to play prisoners and guards in an bid to examine the nature of good and evil. Within five days, four prisoners had broken down and another was on hunger strike. This film, containing strong language, reveals why the test was abandoned after less than a week.

The Experiment, a four-part study of group dynamics, power and rebellion, starts on Tuesday at 9pm.

Contributors

Director:
Kim Duke
Executive Producer:
Nick Mirsky

Another chance to catch up on the action from the US thriller. The series continues tomorrow at 10pm.
7-8am. As Gaines holds Teri captive, an injured Nina tries to help Jack.
11.40 8-9am. Jack realises his wife and daughter are at the mercy of the ruthless Ira Gaines. 904701
Videoplus code for llpm-12.25am (non-PDC)

Contributors

Jack Bauer:
Kiefer Sutherland
Teri Bauer:
Leslie Hope
Kimberly Bauer:
Elisha Cuthbert
Senator Palmer:
Dennis Haysbert
Nina Myers:
Sarah Clarke
Tony Almeida:
Carlos Bernard
Ira Gaines:
Michael Massee
Jamey Farrell:
Karina Arroyave
Carl Webb:
Zach Grenier
Keith Palmer:
Vicellous Shannon

Film noir. World-weary private eye Philip Marlowe turns his hand to writing detective stories, but soon he finds
- himself dealing with a homicide as well. Review page 51.
Director Robert Montgomery (1947) (BW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Marlowe
Director:
Robert Montgomery
Philip Marlowe:
Robert Montgomery
Lieutenant DeGarmot:
Lioyd Nolan
Adrienne Fromsett:
Audrey Totter
Captain Kane:
Tom Tully
Derace Kingsby:
Leon Ames
Mildred Havelend:
Jayne Meadows

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