Listings
Simon McCoy and Kate Silverton host NewsWatch at 7.45.
Contributors
Unknown:
Simon
McCoy
Unknown:
Kate
Silverton
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
Contributors
Unknown:
Antony
Worrall
Unknown:
Martin
Blunos.
Unknown:
Keith
Floyd
Director:
Simon
Brooke
Producer:
Michael
Kelpie
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. Producer Helen Kuttner ; Editors
Michael Cole and Carl Hicks INTERACTIVE: digital viewers can access a medals table and a news service
Contributors
Producer:
Helen
Kuttner
Producer:
Carl
Hicks
The Search for Life. Patrick Moore investigates the chances of life on other planets. Shown last Sunday on BBC1
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)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alfred
Hitchcock
Unknown:
Carole
Lombard
Unknown:
Robert
Montgomery.
Masterly thriller, concluding the Alfred Hitchcock double bill. Starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly. When playboy Tony Wendice discovers his wealthy wife is having an affair he hatches a murderous plot to ensure he doesn't wind up penniless. Review page 49.
(1954, PG)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alfred
Hitchcock
Unknown:
Ray
Milland
Unknown:
Grace
Kelly.
Unknown:
Tony
Wendice
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 www.bbc.co.uk/athletics 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.
Director Alex Lay
Death of the Tsar- Days That Shook the World is tomorrow at 1.30am
Contributors
Director:
Alex
Lay
Manchester's Town Hall welcomes Paul Martin and experts Kate Alcock and Charlie Ross.
Contributors
Unknown:
Paul
Martin
Unknown:
Kate
Alcock
Unknown:
Charlie
Ross.
Just Desserts. Fletch is outraged when he is the victim of theft. An inmate pinches his pineapple in a classic episode first shown in 1974. Writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Director/Producer Sydney Lotterby
Contributors
Unknown:
Dick
Clement
Unknown:
Ian
La Frenais
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 Mclndoe 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 Mclndoe helped shape modern plastic surgery practices. Narrated by Geraldine James. Producer Tamara Bodenham ; Executive producer Anne Laking
Repeated Tuesday on BBC4 at 12 midnight The Inside Story: page 60
Contributors
Unknown:
Archibald
McLndoe
Unknown:
Geraldine
James.
Producer:
Tamara
Bodenham
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
Contributors
Producer:
Nikki
Melluish
Producer:
Jeremy
Phillips
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)
Contributors
Unknown:
Joseph
Fiennes.
Viola:
de Lesseps
Director:
John
Madden
Viola De Lesseps:
Gwyneth
Pattrow
Will Shakespeare:
Joseph
Fiennes
Lord Wessex:
Colin
Firth
Philip Henslowe:
Geoffrey
Rush
Queen Elizabeth:
Judi
Dench
Hugh Fennyman:
Tom
Wilkinson
Ned Alleyn:
Ben
Affleck
Tilney, Master of the Revels:
Simon
Callow
Ralph Bashford:
Jim
Carter
Richard Burbage:
Martin
Clunes
Nurse:
Imelda
Staunton
Christopher Marlowe:
Rupert
Everett
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
Contributors
Unknown:
Brian
Wilson
Unknown:
Femi
Kuti
Unknown:
Elvis
Costello.
Unknown:
Eliza
Carthy
Producer:
Alison
Howe
Zone www.bbc.co.uk/ieamingzone
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