Simon McCoy and Kate Silverton host NewsWatch at 7.45.
News stories.
Lesley Waters joins Antony Worrall Thompson and two-star Michelin chef Martin Blunos. Keith Floyd 's Italian tour continues and viewers vote for one of three dishes.
Director Simon Brooke ; Series producer Michael Kelpie TO VOTE FOR DISHES: call [number removed](maximum cost lOp) or log on to the website www.bbc.co.uk/saturdaykitchen
6/8. Sunday Brunch. Including pancakes with rashers and maple syrup, and scrambled egg with smoked salmon.
12.00 Flying Gardener
The eagerly anticipated men's marathon begins at 12.20. Coverage continues on BBC1.
Interactive: digital viewers can access a medals table and a news service
Romantic comedy, first in a double bill of Alfred Hitchcock films, starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery.
A supposedly happily married couple learn that a state boundary change renders their marriage void.
Review page 49. (1941, U) (BW)
The women's 400m hurdles is among titles decided today.
4.35 Men's 4x100m semi-finals
The British men team seek a safe passage into tonight's final.
4.40 Women's shot final
5.05 Women's 400m hurdles final
5.30 Men's 4x400m round one
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Interactive: digital viewers can access a medals table and a news service
19 October 1977: Concorde makes the first supersonic test flight across the Atlantic, from Toulouse to a hostile reception at New York's JFK airport.
(Death of the Tsar - Days That Shook the World is tomorrow at 1.30am)
Manchester's Town Hall welcomes Paul Martin and experts Kate Alcock and Charlie Ross.
Fletch is outraged when he is the victim of theft. An inmate pinches his pineapple in a classic episode first shown in 1974.
Award-winning film about a painfully exclusive club: to join you had to be a Second World War pilot who was badly injured during battle and had undergone reconstructive surgery. President of the club was pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe who rebuilt the hands and faces of the pilots to give them the chance of a normal life. This powerful documentary tells the club's human stories as well as how McIndoe helped shape modern plastic surgery practices.
(Repeated Tuesday on BBC4 at 12 midnight)
The Inside Story: page 60
The Inside Story
Pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe (centre right) didn't just treat the burns sustained by Allied aircrew during the Second World War, he also created a patient support group. The prescription for recovery? Drinking, chasing girls and generally having fun. But don't think the story of The Guinea Pig Club (7.35pm BBC2) is just a piece of history, for the club still operates. Many of its 130 surviving members will turn out for the annual bash next month in East Grinstead, not far from the hospital where they were patients 50-odd years ago. Cheers!
Documentary: The Guinea Pig Club 7.35pm BBC2
The Guinea Pig Club are friends for life, united by a unique bond: they were all RAF men who suffered horrific burns in the Second World War, and they all owe their present happiness to one extraordinary man.
Archibald McIndoe, a charismatic New Zealander, had fallen into reconstructive surgery by accident, but his work at the RAF's East Grinstead hospital revolutionised the field. Improvising brilliantly, he shattered established medical practice at every turn with a series of innovations, many of which are now the norm. Crucially, he didn't stop at rebuilding his patients' faces: he made great efforts to heal their psychological wounds, too, realising that by sticking together they could form their own invaluable support network.
Using interviews and archive photographs, this superb documentary - shown last year on BBC4 - tells inspiring stories of how great hardships were determinedly overcome, thanks to life-changing minor miracles. Indeed, McIndoe, who died in 1960, emerges as an almost messianic figure. Even now, the Guinea Pig Club meet once a year to honour the man whom some of them call "God". (Jack Seale)
6/6. Salt is central to the history of the Mediterranean. It has played a crucial role in everything from ice ages to the rise of great civilisations and preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt. Dr lain Stewart's whistle-stop tour takes in tourist destinations in Egypt, Venice and Sicily. Dr Stewart returns next year with a series on the Pacific Rim. Producer Nikki Melluish ; Series producer Jeremy Phillips
First shown on BBC4
Oscar-winning romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes. Will Shakespeare's career is in crisis: his money is running out and he's suffering from writer's block. Then he meets beautiful aristocrat Viola De Lesseps and his life - and the world of English literature - will never be the same again. Film of the week: page 43.
Director John Madden 0998, 15)
Music, madness and masses of mud: yes it's time to recall one of the most eventful festivals in recent years. Including Coldplay, the White Stripes,
Basement Jaxx, Brian Wilson , Kaiser Chiefs, Femi Kuti , New Order, the Killers and Elvis Costello. Plus acoustic sets from James Blunt, Eliza Carthy and Hayseed Dixie. More on Friday at 9pm on BBC4.
Producer Alison Howe
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