Saturday TV Tips: 'The way they lied, those days have to be over'
The Post: a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks). The two must overcome their differences to help bring long-buried truths to light. Picture: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Storyteller Distribution Co
With the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock. The escaped zoo animals try to get back to New York by joining a circus travelling across Europe.
Romance starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton and Liev Schreiber. A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Drama with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks directed by Steven Spielberg. The true story of attempts by Washington Post journalists to publish the infamous Pentagon Papers — a set of classified documents regarding the 20-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War and earlier in French Indochina back to the 1940s.
Tour de France. Stage 8: 150.8km Oyonnax to Le Grand-Bornand. TG4, noon
Rugby Union: Ireland v Japan, Channel 4, 12.30pm
An ecumenical Service of remembrance and support for families affected by farm accidents. Mairead Lavery, former editor of Irish Country Living delivers the keynote address and traditional music is led by Tina Cuddy.
BBC World Service, 7pm: Examining the last writings of ecological campaigner, writer, and media producer Ken Saro-Wiwa, to an Irish nun from prison in Nigeria, in the run-up to his execution in November 1995.
