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M0NDAY57 FEBRUARY 2006 THE INDEPENDENT 52 vmm IWMKCOO THE 17 WEEKEND'S iniiii I TV Man in a Suitcase 6PMITV4 Another enterpreingarchival disinterment by ITV4 dates from 1967 It's a dank Cold War drama, starring Richard Bradford as rogue ex-CIA agent at large in Britain and Europe. 3-Minute Wonder the Bench 755PM CHANNEL 4 Ian Duiyssorv Baxter (right), reflects on his father's life from a bench in Richmond Park. The first of four such hench-therned tales. The KNTV Show 930AM CHANNEL 4 The enjoyably off-centre science show has animated presenters Nietzsche and Kierkegaard wondering why mushrooms make you fart Sweet Smell Success SKY CINEMA 1 Curtis (above) gives his performance as a blackmailing PR agent in Alexander Mackendrick's pungent of media corruption. THOMAS SUTCLIFFE Lsutclfffeindependentco.uk Through the Keyhole 3PMB8C2 Al-Jazeera's David Frost frontsanQthef series of the show that appeals to the impulse to nose around celebrity homes.

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1.00 BBC Learning Zone (4639428). To 6am. coasting towards the millennium as a darling of New Labour and old-style moguls, found himself nudged off the tracks after enrounteringagrieving fattier andhis estranged wife. As its title suggested, GideonsDaughterwas about parenthood, about its guar-antee of failure and its promise of lifelong anxiety; but it was about that subject in odd and unexpected ways. You might have predicted that Bill Nighy's cynical PR guru would have succumbed to Miranda Richardson's bluntly unawed mother, but not the scene in which he sat on the floor of a super-market storeroom cradling a large guinea pig.

Or the way in which the death of the Princess of Wales was exploited both as a sign of the times and as a way to thicken the theme of grief that ran through the piece. over so quick nowMirandaRichardson's character complained towards the end. This certainly wasn't, but it earned the right to take its time. Professor Kaku's series looked as if it will make time pass verybriskly. He began last night by considering biological clocks, demonstrating them with footage of a grunion fish, which returns to the same Cali-fomian beach at the same time each year to spawn.

Apparently, they have just two hours every year to have sex, which strikes you asbeingthekindofdateyou dont want to miss- Despite our subjection to mechanical time (introduced by the Industrial Revolution and cemented in place by the First World War, which transformed the wristwatch from a cissy affectation to a badge of leadership), we also have an inner dock. To demonstrate that it could be slowed down, a US scientist dropped a guinea pig (human, this time) from seven storiesup into agiant net Amazingly, he was able to read a number display running at a speed indecipherable to anyone not scared shitless, proving that time really does slow down when you thinkyouVe about to die. 2 00 2 2 TimeBBC4 Gideon's Daughter bbci "As a physicist, I know that the external world dictates the way time flows," said Professor Michio Kaku in the first episode of Time, a promisingly abstruse series for BBC4, Professor Kaku can thinkinat least 13raore dimensions than he should know that television reviewers are privy to this knowledge, too. You watch some programmes and the minutes stretch to hours, while others barely seem to have begun before the final credits are rolling. And some mysteriously do both, replacing the mechanical clockwork pulse of schedule time with something audaciously different Gideon's Daughter, Stephen Poliakoffs drama, was a case in point "Shouldn't you be getting on with it? you found yourself thinking, as the narrative ambled on its way "Do you haveno idea ofhowprecious time is?" And yet it is the slow-burn of FoEakoflfis dramas that arrest your attention.

He can bore you and intrigue you at the same time, and given that most television hyperventilates at the thought of a pensive lull, this is seductive. It doesn't work for everybody, of course, His last "big dramafbr and Crocodiles, divided the critics one from another, and, in my case, internally, too, The problem is that Poliakoff 's taste for the fabulous, forbending his re-alism into something shaped Kkeaparable, sometimes makes it difficult to tell the difference between a meaningful enigma and a hollow one. What a relief to have to think about it, though. Friends and Crocodiles suffered a little, too, because Poliakoff had built his story round an un consummated kind-of love affair, always hinted at and never fully resolved And although Gideon's Daughter began with a similar mood of teasing, toying gamesmanship, it quickly abandoned it for something much more heartfelt Gideon, a top PR man The lumbers after1 each programme1 jan VIDE0PU mmbers, -which allow programme1 your video recorder. Simply enter the corresponding; VIDEQPIuS lumber Into your VlDEOPkjs handset or VCR and the programme will be recorded automatically.

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