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invites you to Standby USA as Donny MacLeod begins a 20,000 mile journey around America. Today: New York, New York
from Old Trafford, Manchester
(Shown on BBC2 at 11am)
A new cartoon series from Czechoslovakia. Fig springs into action.
with Michael Hordern
Alice Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll
'Oh Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking glass House! Let's pretend the glass has gone soft like gauze. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! ' And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away ...
Today: The Garden of Live Flowers
with Lesley Judd, Simon Groom and Christopher Wenner
Knotty Problem? Knot when Dr Edward Hunters around! The famous inventor of Hunter's Bend shows how knot can be carved from wood.
Blue Peter Fifteenth Book, £1.35, and Blue Peter Make, Cook and Look Book, £1.50, from bookshops
with Angela Rippon
Weatherman
Presented live from London and the BBC studios around Britain. Frank Bough, Sue
Lawley, Hugh Scully, John Stapleton and Bob Wellings are the team that bring you Britain's most watched current affairs programme. Each weekday evening they present analysis of topical events plus the features and film that make up the scene Nationwide. Including Pigeonhole with Glyn Worsnip
starring James Garner
Rockford's deserved reputation for unravelling the most complicated of cases comes a real cropper when he delves into the past of notorious Nazi film director Korper. The trail leads back as far as the late, unlamented Hermann Goering but it isn't until the loquacious Irving unloads that Jim decides he's learned enough.
Written and presented by David Dimbleby
On a clear Sunday morning in December 1838, 460 Boers, trekking away from British-ruled South Africa in search of a place of their own, were attacked by a Zulu army of over 10,000. Astonishingly the Boers repelled them, killing 3,000 Zulus for only three of their men wounded, a spectacular victory which convinced them God was on their side.
The Battle of Blood River is still remembered today. 'It's the most important date in the history of South Africa,' says Riaan Kriel, farmer and church elder. 'It's Blood River that will have to keep the Afrikaner going in the years that lie ahead.'
Today the Afrikaners, a tiny minority of two-and-a-half million, rule South Africa, dominating not only the blacks but all the other whites as well. The first in this series of four films looks at their time as the underdogs and the lessons it teaches them now they are accused of being the oppressors.
with Angela Rippon; Weather
starring James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill
Dr Carey, a tough, unconventional hospital pathologist, is determined to prove his friend and colleague, David Tao , innocent of murder - a problem made difficult by the fact that the ' victim ' is the 15-year-old daughter of the hospital's belligerent director. A stylish, contemporary drama of the tensions of a large hospital - and drug thefts.
based on "A Case of Need" by Jeffrey Hudson
Presented by Denis Tuohy , Valerie Singleton and Donald MacCormick
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