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Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) -- Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and Fridays, 2.30am. XX, women's program, Fridays, 8pm and midnight, and Saturdays, 5am. Waste Not, Want Not, environment and recycling, Saturdays, 8.30pm and 12.30am, and Sundays, 4.30am. For more information phone 649 9622. Actively Radical TV -- Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm, and Saturday, 2.30am. Movie: The Ear (1970) -- Banned in 1969, Karel Kachyna's suspenseful film recreates the chilling climate of fear in Czechoslovakia in the '50s. The story revolves around a high-ranking government official and his wife who discover that their house has been bugged. SBS, Friday, November 3, 12.30pm. From Spirit to Spirit: Mungo Lady -- Documents the fight by the people of Lake Mungo to retrieve the 20,000-year-old skeletal remains of a woman, the earliest existing evidence of what archaeologists call "modern man", which have been removed from their traditional resting place in NSW for research purposes. SBS, Friday, November 3, 6pm. Movie: Citizen Kane (1941) -- Orson Welles' innovative film, still regarded by many critics as the greatest film ever made. It tells the story of the tumultuous personal and professional life of a newspaper magnate. SBS, Friday, November 3, 9.30pm. Eveleigh: A History Revived -- This documentary traces the past, present and future of Eveleigh, which was once the biggest railway workshop in the world. SBS, Saturday, November 4, 2.20pm. The Drilling Fields -- A hard-hitting doco that unveils the complicity between the Shell Oil Company and the repressive Nigerian military regime to crush the Ogoni people's struggle for land rights and the environment. SBS, Sunday, November 5, 11.45pm. Movie: Dreaming of Lords -- The story of 17 Aboriginal cricketers who go to England to play at Lords, the fabled home of cricket. ABC TV, Tuesday, November 7, 1.25am. Sequel to The Drilling Fields: Delta Force -- The story of Ken Saro-Wiwa, leader of the Ogoni people in Nigeria, his unlawful arrest and the continuing efforts of the Nigerian military regime to restore Shell's oil production through terror. Despite a yield of $30 billion over the last 35 years, the people of Ogoniland live in poverty. SBS, Tuesday, November 7, 8.30pm. The Opposite Sex: Sex and Gender -- A series that could be informative or reactionary twaddle depending on how it is handled. It examines the "differences" between men and women -- their bodies, brains, emotions and behaviour. ABC TV, Thursday, November 9, 11.05pm.
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