SATURDAY February 3
? : Tax Records (9.30 am BBC2). Episode two of Open University archive series, first shown last year.
Soaps on the Couch (10.30 am R4). How do soap operas influence their audiences? (repeat).
Stealing the Glory (3.30 R4). Matthew Henson, the black explorer who reached (perhaps) the North pole with Admiral Peary (repeat).
? - Rocketchiki (6.50 BBC2). Vladimir Pozner gains 'unprecedented' access to Russia's biggest missile base and reports on the rocket men there.
Bloody Foreigners (8.00 C4). First of two programmes about recent immigrants to Britain is a Dispatches special about the 'illegals'. The second programme, about asylum seekers, is on Sunday; meanwhile tonight Radio 3 has Between the Ears: Everything Will Be Fine (9.45 R3), in which a selection of asylum-seekers' stories are dramatised in a one-hour feature.
The Changing Role of the GP (8.00 R4). Family doctoring illuminated by archive material.
SUNDAY February 4
It's Your Funeral (11.05 am C5). Germaine Greer on what sort of memorial service she'd like.
Five Live Report – Shell Shocked (12 noon R5). "Shell Shocked". The depleted uranium weapons problem, and the Caribbean island that has been used as a firing range.
Private View (12 noon C5). Denis Mahon talks on his collection of 17th-century Italian art.
? (12.15 R3). Northern Ireland's Sonic Arts Research Centre.
On Being Wrong (5.40 R4). The subject of the second in Michael Rosen's series is about something called the Charles Bovary Principle
? : The John Tusa Interview (5.45 R3). Architect Nicholas Grimshaw.
? (6.00 C4). In search of the world's first working railway at Blaenafan in Gwent.
Natural World (6.50 BBC2). The killer bees of Assam.
Pillories of the State (7.15 R4). Phil Hammond looks at the "therapy industry" with Raj Persaud (who also presents Wednesday's All in the Mind (4.30 R4, repeated next Sunday).
Poisoned (7.30 C4). "Deadly Medicine" - the dangers of accidental or deliberate overdose with prescription drugs.
? : Tis Pity She's a Whore (7.30 R3). New production of Ford's play starring Jude Law and Eve Best.
Bloody Foreigners (8.00 C4). Featuring comedian Omid Djalili, the son of Iranian immigrants on a "personal mission" to find out what life is like for current asylum seekers.
The Day the World Took Off (8.00 History Channel). Part three: "Ships of Fortune", on the reasons for British domination of world trade in the 18th century (repeat from C4).
Hitler's Henchman: Himmler (8.00 C5). The Gestapo and SS chief profiled by ZDF.
The World at War (8.05 BBC2). Part four: "Alone" – Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, early blitzes, etc.
? (10.15 BBC1). On the UK's railway crisis.
The South Bank Show Awards (10.45 ITV). Awards for cultural achievement for the year 2000. (The winners have already been announced in the daily papers.)
? (12.35 am BBC1). Patrick Moore and John Zarnecki talk about the Cassini space probe and its recent "fly-by" past Jupiter.
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