SATURDAY February 10
» Breaking the Seal : Military Records (9.30 am BBC2). Part three of Open University series on archives first shown last year.
Pounds, Shillings and New Pence (10.30 am R4). Evan Davis marks the 30th anniversary of decimal currency's introduction with archive recordings and reminiscence.
» The Sky at Night (11.25 am BBC2). Patrick Moore and John Zarnecki talk about the Cassini space probe and its recent Jupiter fly-past.
Facing the Ocean (3.30 R4). Is there an "Atlantic mindset"? That's the thesis of Oxford prehistory expert Barry Cunliffe's new series exploring the links between societies bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The first episode begins with bronze age remains at Dun Aonghus on the Aran Islands. Cunlife talks with Dublin archaeologist John Waddell before visiting Dover, where a bronze-age boat was recently found and then the far west of Brittany, where a megalith from the third millennium BC is disappearing under the waves.
» Correspondent - Who's Putin? (6.55 BBC2). Bridget Kendall investigates the Russian president's rise to power.
Channel 4 Political Awards (8.05 C4). Westminster MPs, members of the Scottish parliament and Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies vote for the best of their peers; plus some political satire.
An Hour in the Huntley Archive (8.00 R4). John Huntley's private archive of rare film and radio recordings.
Between the Ears: Monogamy (10.00 R3). Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips's thoughts on fidelity combined with words from religion and popular culture in a feature by Russell Davies.
Bull Fight (11.40 C4). First of three programmes presented by Robert Elms follows two matadors - apprentice Antonio Bricio and established bullfighter Francisco Ordonez.
SUNDAY February 11
Stones of the Raj: The French Connection (4.30 am C4). Lucknow is the focus of this week's architectural tour of colonial India.
Two Thousand Years (11.30 am ITV). Christianity in the ninth century (revised repeat).
Five Live Report - Anna's Story (12 noon R5). The Anna Climbie case and Britain's child protection services.
Jonathan Dimbleby Special: Ask the Opposition (5.00 ITV). William Hague and Charles Kennedy interviewed.
» Sunday Feature: Bob Dylan Among the Poets (5.45 R3). Christopher Ricks explores echoes of Keats in Dylan's songs. See Pick of the week.
» Time Team (6.00 C4). "A Palace Sold for Scrap". In search of the remains of a Tudor palace in Rycote, Oxfordshire.
Learning from the Great Apes ; Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope ; and Living with Gorillas (7.00, 8.00 and 9.00 National Geographic). Three programmes as a "tribute to Jane Goodall" - the first two are repeats, but the last is new, and features primatologist Magdalena Bermejo and her cinematographer husband, German Illera. (More Congo primates on Tuesday BBC2)
Natural World (7.05 BBC2). "Dangerous Australians" - the continent's poisonous flora and fauna (repeat).
Pillories of the State (7.15 R4). This week, the internal workings of the publishing industry.
Hitler's Henchmen: Speer (8.00 C5). Profil of the Nazi architect.
The Day the World Took Off (8.00 History Channel). Part four of the series first shown on C4 last year examines the advantage that clock- and glass-making skills gave to Western technological progress; skills that other civilisations, such as those in China and Japan, lacked or undervalued.
» Panorama (10.15 BBC1). The recently tracked down internet paedophile ring.
The South Bank Show (10.45 ITV). Ken Russell profiled.
Back to Bangalore (2.40 am C4). Documentary about photojournalist Bertram Scott, returning to India for the first time in 53 years after working for the Times of India in the 1930s.
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