Listings
: Breakfast
Presented by Asad Ahmad.Including 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, news;
6.15, 7.15, 8.15, sport;
and 6.27, 6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27, 8.57, 9.27 weather.
(S from 7am) (W)
Contributors
Presenter:
Asad
Ahmad
: The Trials of Life
Hunting and Escaping. Life-and-death duels are fought daily in the wild: an orchid turns out to be a predator, killer whales ambush sea lions and chimps pursue colobus monkeys. (R) (S)i7i: Around the World in 80 Days
Oriental Express.Michael Palin zips through Singapore harbour to catch a ship to
Hong Kong, but faces stormy weather in the South China Sea before travelling across
China by train. (R) (S)
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Palin
: Adam Hart-Davis Says Come to Your Senses
From London's Science Museum, the first in a three-part series showing on consecutive days in which Adam Hart-Davis and Katie Knapman explore the human senses. This first programme focuses on sight and hearing. (W)Contributors
Presenter:
Adam
Hart-Davis
Presenter:
Katie
Knapman
: Only the Valiant
Western starring Gregory Peck. As the Apache nation goes on the warpath, tough disciplinarian Captain Lance selects six unlikely men for a vital mission.Review page 49.
(1950, PG) (BW) (S)
Contributors
Director:
Gordon
Douglas
[Actor]:
Gregory
Peck
: Butterflies
The Christmas 1979 episode. Christmas with the Parkinsons Unhappy housewife Ria does her best to cope with the chaos of the seasonal celebrations.Written by Carla Lane (R) (S)
Contributors
Written By:
Carla
Lane
: III Met by Moonight ****
Wartime drama, the first of three films showing today starring Dirk Bogarde. Crete ,1944: in a bid to demoralise the occupying Germans, two British officers, with the help of local patriots, plan to kidnap a leading German officer.
Widescreen. Review page 49.
Directors Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger (1956. U) (BW) (S) (W) Doctor at Sea is at 6pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Dirk
Bogarde.
Directors:
Michael
Powell
Major Paddy Leigh Fermor:
Dirk
Bogarde
General Karl Kreipe:
Marius
Goring
Captain Billy Stanley Moss:
David
Oxley
Sandy:
Cyril
Cusack
Manoli:
Laurence
Payne
AndoniZoidakis:
Michael
Gough
: How to Marry a Millionaire ****
Comedy. Three women rent a luxury Manhattan apartment together in a bid to impress affluent bachelors. Widescreen. Review page 49.Director Jean Negulesco (1953. PG)
(S) (W)
Contributors
Director:
Jean
Negulesco
Loco:
Betty
Grable
Pola:
Marilyn
Monroe
Schatze Page:
Lauren
Bacall
Freddie Denmark:
David
Wayne
Eben:
Rory
Calhoun
: Weakest Link - National Champions
The second of five special editions features contestants who have all been national champions in various events, from squash to tiddlywinks. (S) (W)Another special tomorrow at 5.15pm
WEBSITE: [web address removed]
: Doctor at Sea **
Comedy, the second of today's three Dirk Bogarde films.Young medic Simon Sparrow runs away to sea to avoid marriage. But, while on board, he has to contend with the intimidating captain and a beautiful girl. Review page 49.
Director Ralph Thomas (1955, PG) (S) Arena presents a portrait of Dirk Bogarde at 9pm, while The Night Porter concludes the Bogarde film trilogy at 11.15pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Dirk
Bogarde
Unknown:
Simon
Sparrow
Director:
Ralph
Thomas
Unknown:
Dirk
Bogarde
Simon Sparrow:
Dirk
Bogarde
Helene Colbert:
Brigitte
Bardot
Muriel Mallet:
Brenda
de Banzie
Captain Hogg:
James
Robertson-Justice
Easter:
Maurice
Denham
Trail:
Michael
Medwin
Archer:
Hubert
Gregg
Fellowes:
James
Kenney
Captain Beamish:
Raymond
Huntley
Hornbeam:
Geoffrey
Keen
Carpenter:
George
Coulouris
Corbie:
Noel
Purcell
: The Naked Spur
*** Western. Embittered Howard Kemp, a veteran of the Civil War, heads westward to the Rockies on the trail of killer Ben Vandergroat, determined to claim the $5,000 reward on his head. With the money, he aims to repurchase the ranch that his fiancee had sold during his time in the army. On the way he joins ranks with a star-crossed gold miner and a recently discharged soldier. Review page 50. (1953) (S)Contributors
Director:
Anthony
Mann
Howard Kemp:
James
Stewart
Ben Vandergroat:
Robert
Ryan
Una Patch:
Janet
Leigh
Roy Anderson:
Ralph
Meeker
Jesse Tate:
Millard
Mitchell
: Arena: the Private Dirk Bogarde
In 1986, Dirk Bogarde burnt most of his personal papers at his home in southern France. However, 12 cans of home movies, shot mostly by Bogarde's long-term partner Anthony Forwood, survived the flames. This Arena special draws on this footage to present for the first time a comprehensive, two-part portrait of the reclusive actor, who died in 1999. The first film chronicles Bogarde's idyllic Sussex childhood and charts his meteoric rise to "idol of the Odeons" status in the fifties. Bogarde's sister, brother and grandmother, and Anthony Forwood's son Gareth offer their recollections. (S) (W)10.00 The second film plots Bogarde's progress to the forefront of European cinema in films such as Joseph Losey's "The Servant" and Luchino Visconti's "Death in Venice" before retiring from acting to become a writer. Tributes come from co-stars James Fox, Michael York and Charlotte Rampling. Director Adam Low (S) (W) "The Night Porter", which follows, rounds off today's Dirk Bogarde triple bill
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Stars: page 11
Contributors
Interviewee:
Gareth
Forwood
Interviewee:
James
Fox
Interviewee:
Michael
York
Interviewee:
Charlotte
Rampling
Director:
Adam
Low
: The Night Porter ***
Drama, the last of today's three films starring Dirk Bogarde. Vienna, 1957: Max, a former SS officer, is working as a night porter in a luxury hotel, where some of his wartime colleagues are also hiding, The situation gets complicated when Max's ex-lover Lucia, a former concentration-camp inmate, reappears. Widescreen. Review page 50.Director Liliana Cavani (1973, 18) (S)
Contributors
Director:
Liliana
Cavani
Max:
Dirk
Bogarde
Lucia:
Charlotte
Rampling
Klaus:
Philippe
Leroy
Hans:
Gabriele
Ferzetti
Stumm:
Giuseppe
Addobbati
Countess Stein:
Lsa
Miranda
Adolph:
Nino
Bignamini
Atherton:
Marino
Mase
Bert:
Amedeo
Amodio
Day porter:
Piero
Vida
Kurt:
Geoffrey
Copleston
Dobson:
Manfred
Freiberger
Mario:
Ugo
Cardea
Greta:
Hilda
Gunther
: Force of Evil
Crime drama continuing the Crimescenes season of film noir classics.Joe Morse, the crooked lawyer for New York racketeer Ben Tucker, serves his boss faithfully until his own brother falls victim to a plan to take over the numbers racket of the entire city.
Review page 50. (1948, PG) (BW) (S) ****
(Crimescenes continues tomorrow at 1.25am with "Beware, My Lovely")
Contributors
Director:
Abraham
Polonsky
Joe Morse:
John
Garfield
Doris Lowry:
Beatrice
Pearson
Leo Morse:
Thomas
Gomez
Freddy Bauer:
Howland
Chamberlin
Ben Tucker:
Roy
Roberts
Edna Tucker:
Marie
Windsor
Hobe Wheelock:
Paul
McVey
Johnson:
Tim
Ryan
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