News with Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin.
The stories behind the news, with Tim Sebastian.
People at the heart of world events join John Simpson for topical discussion.
Guest chef Mark Bennett shows presenter Gregg Wallace how to make a late-summer three-course meal consisting of roquefort and hazelnut tarts, followed by roasted, stuffed poussin with potato roseti, and a fruit brûlée with pistachio biscuits for dessert.
From the archives, the Two
Fat Ladies travel to Jersey to cook for the potato-pickers and, in Floyd on Food,
Keith Floyd goes to Ireland to sample Guinness and pigs' trotters and visit the Ballymaloe cookery school in Cork.
Director Richard Cook ; Series producer Sara Kozak www.bbc.co.uk/food/saturdaykitchen
Mediterranean Maze. The third leg of Michael Palin 's travels takes him through
Istanbul on the Bosporus to Aswan on the Egyptian Nile.
Pole to Pole double video, £15.99; spoken word four-cassette set £13. 99; book £10.99 from www.bbcshop.com
Gone with the Wind star Vivien Leigh 's passionate but doomed affair with the great
Laurence Olivier.
This week, a look at summer movie highlights, from action blockbusters to more thoughtful indie productions. Presented by Tom Brook.
WATCHING THE DETECTIVES
Triple bill of crimebusting drama.
Murder - a Self-Portrait. The rumpled lieutenant is on the case of an artist who has killed one of his three adoring female hangers-on in order to protect a secret.
The Eye of the Needle. Quincy's liking for a holistic doctor influences his thoughts in the case of an ailing woman's accidental death.
Case of the Glass Coffin. Mason defends the chief suspect after a magician's glamorous assistant is murdered. At the same time the attorney tries to identify the real killer.
Professionals share tricks of their trade.
The Day of Reckoning.
Fred Quilly is concerned that a failed race-fixing scam he once profited from has caught up with him. Written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
When 2,000 rifles are stolen from a US command post,
Captain Haven of the US Cavalry is ordered to track them down and keep the weapons out of the hands of a tribe of - warlike Indians. With him are a sadistic Indian-killer and a Mexican bandit. Widescreen. Review page 39.
Director Gordon Douglas (1964)
The long-running series, which keeps a watchful eye over newspaper coverage of the week's top stories, returns for a new run.
Live from London's Royal Albert Hall, Stephanie Hughes introduces a concert by one of America's most renowned orchestras, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, who under the baton of their dynamic conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen are performing two choral symphonies.
Shostakovich's Symphony No 2, descriptive of Russia's 1917 October Revolution, is followed by the traditional annual Proms performance of Beethoven's Symphony No 9 in D Minor, with its great ode to brotherhood and joy. The soloists are soprano Melanie Diener, mezzo-soprano Paula Rasmussen, tenor Robert Gambill and bass Eike Wilm Schulte, and the orchestra is joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus.
During the interval Esa-Pekka Salonen talks about conducting, composing and his musical passions.
(With in-vision subtitles)
(Also broadcast on Radio 3 and BBCi.)
(BBC Proms 2002 tomorrow at 5.45pm, with Mahler's Symphony of Thousand)
Period comedy drama. 18th-century England: everything seems perfectly in place for the wedding of a wealthy family's
- eldest daughter to aristocrat Sir John Ogeby - but complications arise when her sister Fanny attracts the attentions of both Sir John and his rakish father. Widescreen. Review page 39. Director Christopher Miles (1999.15)
Drama. Law student Mike is visited by his friend Worm - recently out of jail following a poker scam orchestrated by the pair. He is disappointed to hear that Worm intends to hit the tables once more, but also unable to avoid his own compulsion. Widescreen. Review page 39.
Director John Dahl (1998.15)
Black comedy about small-town life. Mr Chinnery has an accident with a tortoise. Benjamin is appalled by his aunt and uncle's eating habits. Show more
nA A trilogy of stories from top directors. Life Lessons traces the strained relationship between a middle-aged artist and his young painter lover. In Life without Zoe, a 12-year-old girl attempts to engineer a reconciliation between her parents, while in Oedipus Wrecks, a lawyer is haunted by his monstrous mother. Widescreen. Review page 39. Peter Gabriel Himself
Directors Martin Scorsese , Francis Coppola. Woody Allen (1989.15)
Repeats are not indicated. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/leamingzone
Special Education Go For It Relationships, Ages 12-16+ - series aimed at students with severe learning difficulties.
