News with Bill Turnbull and Kate Sanderson.
9.00 News
Personalities and the public in the news.
John Simpson presents a new series as people at the heart of world events join him in analysis and reflection.
Guest chef Carmelita Caruana prepares a three-course meal with a Sicilian flavour: pasta with peas, ham, ricotta and saffron, aubergines cooked with meat or vegetables, and lemon and almond puddings.
From the archives, the Two Fat Ladies cook for barristers in London and, in Fruits of the Sea, Rick Stein visits a local carnival in Padstow, Cornwall.
Presented by Gregg Wallace.
Director Charlotte Harris
Series producer Sara Kozak www.bbc.co.uk/food/saturdaykitchen
Cold Start. Michael Palin 's eight-part series following his travels from the North to the South Pole begins with a journey to the gates of Russia. Palin interviews Santa Claus in the Arctic Circle, and meets a hermit trapper, a Norwegian lighthouse keeper and a Finnish MP on the way. Pole to Pole double video, £15.99; spoken word four-cassette set £13.99; book £10.99 from www.bbcshop.com
Explorers talks about their obessession.
Vin Diesel, Jennifer Ehle and The Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan are among personalities in the first of a new series. Plus a review of the new Clint Eastwood movie, Blood Work. Tom Brook and his team report from Hollywood.
The first of three consecutive episodes this afternoon of popular detective series. Is a deadly director behind a killing at a Hollywood studio? Peter Falk plays the dishevelled Lt Columbo.
Death is masked by an ill-fated illusion when a world famous magician comes out of retirement. Jack Klugman plays the medical examiner.
A beautiful publicist with a shady past is murdered. Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale and William Katt star in this feature-length episode from 1987.
(R)(S)
Live from Twickenham as the Middlesex Charity Sevens tournament reaches its climax. With Steve Rider.
Frank's got a job, but a cliff-top picnic means trouble isn't far away in the first of the second series.
Love, jealousy, passion and murder inform one of the world's most popular operas, written by Georges Bizet .
Anne Sofie von Otter , the Swedish mezzo-soprano, takes the title role for the first time in Scottish director
David McVicar 's new production from the Glyndebourne Festival. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Philippe Jordan , is led by Pieter Schoeman. The Glyndebourne Chorus is led byTecwyn Evans , and the choreography is by Andrew George.
Home Front in the Garden presenter Diarmuid Gavin will be conducting a guided tour around the famous Glyndebourne gardens during the interval, and the programme is presented by James Naughtie.
Director Sue Judd ; Executive producer Peter Maniura www.bbc.co.uk/music/classical/
Opera's newest hot ticket: page 34
Subsequent programmes may run late
Does the prison visiting room hold hope for a worried father and a lovelorn first offender?
Second World War adventure. In 1945, the Japanese decide to move a party of Allied PoWs to Japan from the infamous River Kwai. However, an American pilot joins forces with a British commando to try to halt a train carrying the prisoners to Saigon.
(Review page 41) (1988, 15) (S)
A chance to catch up with the penultimate episode of the US thriller. The final episode is tomorrow at 10pm.
Jack is ordered to contact Senator Palmer to free the frozen assets. David and Patty finally get together, while Nina and Tony believe they're close to finding a mole.
(Shown last Sunday) (24 Heaven is on BBC Choice tomorrow at 9pm)
*** Crime drama from the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
After an unsuccessful attempt at improving his fortunes in Las Vegas, John is approached by Sydney, a professional gambler who seems to see promise in the young man.
Widescreen. Review page 41. (1996, 18)
(Repeats are not indicated)
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Hands Up! (Signed): Words and Pictures: Ages 9-11 - another selection of signed stories. (S)
