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BBC One brings live coverage from Motegi, Japan, as the MotoGP season approaches the final lap.
With just four rounds left, Italy's Valentino Rossi looks set to win his fifth MotoGP title and his first since 2005. It has been a real return to form for the 29-year-old Yamaha rider, but reigning champion Casey Stoner has been pushing Rossi hard this season and won't consider himself out of the title reckoning yet.
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Alec d'Urberville (Hans
Matheson) proposes to an
already-married Tess A heartbroken Retty doesn't attend the wedding, as David Nicholls's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel of love and betrayal continues. As a small, but joyful, ceremony takes place, she tries to drown herself.
After hearing of Retty's attempted suicide while on their honeymoon, a suddenly troubled Angel decides it is time for him and Tess to make known their former transgressions. Solemnly, he informs Tess of a wrongdoing in his past and is surprised when she readily forgives him. Tess, meanwhile, has misjudged the situation and thinks that if she forgives him he will forgive her and reveals all about Alec D'Urberville.
Angel is appalled and tells her that she is no longer the woman he loved and that they will remain married but must part. To the fury of her parents, Tess reveals what has happened. Angel isn't as honest with his own parents, however, and says that he and Tess have merely separated and that he is going to Brazil to set up a farm there.
Angel later meets Izzy, Tess's friend, and asks her if she will accompany him on his new adventure. But when she tells him that nobody could love him more than Tess, he acknowledges the folly of his request and sets off for Brazil by himself.
Tess finds a job on a bleak farm run by Groby, the cruel bailiff – at least she has comfort in the companionship of her two friends, Izzy and Marion. Izzy persuades her to swallow her pride and ask Angel's parents for help. Her nerve fails her, however, when she overhears Angel's brothers discussing his ill-advised marriage.
On her way back to the farm, she comes across Alec D'Urberville preaching in a tent. He tells her that he has found God and that he's a changed man. She tells him that she had a child, who is now dead, and that they must never see each other again.
Inflamed by the meeting, Alec turns up at Groby's farm and proposes marriage. Tess reveals that she is already married, but Alec is determined to have her. Tess, in desperation, writes to Angel, begging him to come and rescue her. But Angel is in Brazil, dreadfully ill and close to death.
Retty is played by Emily Beecham, Angel Clare by Eddie Redmayne, Tess by Gemma Arterton, Tess's parents, John Durbeyfield and Joan Durbeyfield, by Ian Puleston-Davies and Ruth Jones, Alec D'Urberville by Hans Matheson, Izzy by Jodie Whittaker, Groby by Christopher Fairbank and Marion by Rebekah Staton.
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| BBC TWO Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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Rugby
League – Super League Play-Offs: Highlights
Sunday 28 September
12.00-12.45pm BBC TWO
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The road to Old Trafford and the grand final of the engage Super League XIII is almost here.
The final eliminator represents a last chance for the losers of last weekend's qualifying semi-final and the winners of the elimination semi-final to claim the one remaining place in the grand final.
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Suzi Perry introduces highlights from this morning's MotoGP in Motegi, Japan. Commentary comes from Steve Parrish and Charlie Cox.
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Hazel Irvine introduces live coverage of the final day of the 2008 British Masters from the Brabazon Course at The Belfry, as the tournament reaches its climax.
Lee Westwood won the title 12 months ago by five shots after a fine closing round of 65. The tournament was also a first professional outing for Rory McIlroy – the young Northern Irish player finished two over par and will be keen to demonstrate his improvement over the last year.
There have been 21 different winners of the tournament since Seve Ballesteros won the first of his two titles in 1986. Will there be another new name on the trophy this year?
Peter Alliss, Ken Brown, Andrew Cotter, Philip Parkin, Paul Eales and Maureen Madill make up the commentary team.
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Viewers can enjoy highlights this evening of the men's road race on the final day of the 2008 World Road Cycling Championships in Varese, Italy.
Paolo Bettini is bidding for his third consecutive world title in front of his home crowd, while Olympic champion Samuel Sanchez of Spain is among those trying to stop him.
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Charley
Boorman –
Ireland To Sydney By Any Means Ep 4/6
Sunday 28 September
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After a spiritually enriching time in India, it's now time for Charley Boorman to head north towards Nepal, as he continues his most daring journey so far, aiming to travel through three continents, 25 countries and over 20,000 miles using only locally available means of transport. And what better way to start this next leg of the journey than on tuk tuks, one of Charley's favourite modes of transport. Charley and the team enjoy it so much that they decide to buy one!
Leaving the chaos of the streets, Charley boards a train at Varanasi and is met at Gorakhpur by a tremendous downpour of rain. The team have an easy border crossing and find themselves in the comparatively peaceful land of Nepal, where they take a tractor, a multicoloured local bus and a dugout canoe all the way to the Royal Chitwan National Park.
Charley bonds with an elephant that takes him through remote Nepali villages before he transfers to a jeep and travels over deep valleys and Indiana Jones-style suspension bridges.
Meanwhile, in Kathmandu, the King is being deposed and the atmosphere in Nepal's capital is electric as it becomes a republic. Here, the team seize the unique opportunity to go to Everest by helicopter on the 55th anniversary of a mountaineering conquest: the summit of the world's highest mountain.
Eventually making it into China, Charley and the team make their way along the Xi Jiang River to Wuzhou on a cement barge. Now running behind schedule due to the swelling of the river, Charley hurries to Yangshou to see the breathtaking scenery of limestone cliffs and ride over this remote and captivating part of the world in a hot-air balloon.
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Adrian Chiles looks back at the weekend's Barclays Premier League action, including highlights of today's match between Portsmouth and Tottenham at Fratton Park.
Portsmouth have failed to beat Spurs in their last seven meetings and lost this fixture to a late Dimitar Berbatov goal last season. With Berbatov now at Manchester United, can Tottenham pose the same threat?
At the JJB Stadium, Wigan face Manchester City who, of course, boast their record £32m signing Robinho in their ranks. There's plenty for City fans to get excited about at the moment, but Wigan are more than capable of curbing their enthusiasm.
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| BBC THREE Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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Massive
Ep 4/6
Sunday 28 September
9.00-9.30pm BBC THREE
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HearKittyKitty get a makeover this week and the lads are caught up in a human trafficking scam, as the comedy about the owners of a fledgling record label continues.
When HearKittyKitty enter the charts at No. 12, the lads decide the pop princesses need a makeover. Danny books a session with renowned photographer Nico and Tina and Marie prepare for their transformation. The only problem is that Shady Music are skint. Luckily, Tony steps in with a job to tide them over – it pays well as long as there are no questions asked. However, Danny and Shay are worried when they're directed to illegal immigrant Zora and ordered to handcuff her to the radiator. Matters are further complicated by Swing, who is still mooning over Nancy; the girls demanding tickets to Manchester's social event of the year; and Danny putting Nico in hospital.
What's more, Ricky Lisberg is still on the scene. When he can't tempt the girls with tickets to the party, he devises a new plan to discredit Danny and Shay. Meanwhile, the lads and Swing are becoming fond of Zora. Will they be able to save her from Manchester mafia boss Big Stu?
HearKittyKitty are Beverly Rudd and Faye McKeever. Danny is played by Ralf Little, Nico by Angus Barnett, Tony by Johnny Vegas, Shay by Carl Rice, Zora by Marjorie Yates, Swing by Joel Fry, Nancy by Jo King and Ricky Lisberg by Steve Furst.
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| BBC FOUR Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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The
Art Of Arts TV – The Single Arts Film Ep
1/3
Sunday 28 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC FOUR
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For the past half century, arts programmes have delivered some of British TV's most glorious triumphs. Arts programme-makers have served up many a lustrous televisual tour de force – and, on occasion, the odd flop, too. Yet the genre remains one of the most important in the TV landscape – a cornerstone of the finest traditions of British broadcasting and a "sine qua non" of public service television.
BBC Four's new, three-part series, The Art Of Arts TV, reflects on the contribution that arts programmes have made to British broadcasting culture in the course of the past five decades. Each episode is devoted to one of the main sub-genres of the arts programme – single documentaries, live events and discussions and the great arts landmarks series.
Featuring observations, reminiscences and often trenchant insights on the genre from an illustrious line-up of TV critics, programme-makers and presenters – including Sir David Attenborough, Joan Bakewell, Melvyn Bragg, Matt Collings, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Mike Hodges, Jonathan Miller, Jonathan Meades, Ken Russell, Brian Sewell and Alan Yentob – these films revisit some of the seminal moments in the history of arts TV and assess the contribution that this genre has made to national culture.
The series is part of a week of programmes on BBC Four which gives viewers a chance to see some of the very best arts programming shown on British TV during the past 50 years.
The Art Of Arts TV opens with a programme that examines a controversial, yet much-admired, form of arts programming – the single arts documentary.
Over the course of the past 50 years, some of Britain's most talented programme-makers have produced many creative film masterpieces, which have often been shown in celebrated strands such as Monitor, Omnibus, The South Bank Show and Arena. In many cases, these films were the creation of visionary and maverick auteur directors, who were striving to deliver films that were daringly original and monumentally ambitious. Films like Arena's The Private Life Of The Ford Cortina and My Way and Ken Russell's film portrait of Edward Elgar and his profile of the British pop art movement, Pop Goes The Easel, were as ground-breaking and creative as the artworks that were featured within them.
In this film, some of Britain's most distinguished arts film-makers discuss the merits of many celebrated examples of this programming genre – and reflect ruefully on those films that received a less favourable reception from audiences and critics.
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