A See-Saw programme
Farooq Alam Shah is a 44-year-old blind solicitor who works for the London Borough of Hounslow. A Cambridge graduate, he lost his sight 24 years ago in a hunting accident in Pakistan.
Today's programme features him at work and at home. Sudha Malhotra sings a modem song.
Producer BISH MEHAY
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
French for beginners in the second of 15 programmes
Asking the way in French is easy: making sense of the replies can be more difficult! Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones make sure you don't get lost.
Studio director MARY SPRENT Producer DAVID WILSON
Book, £5.25, and readers' and teachers ' notes. E2.50 from booksellers; cassettes or records from retailers
Tony Osoba , Tracie Bennett and Heather Keens with stories and songs of false idols and the true God ...
Script editor NOEL VINCENT Director CELIA THOMSON Producer MARTIN HUGHES
Executive producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
Sunday Worship
Linked by live television, viewers are invited to share half-an-hour of prayers and meditation.
Today's speaker is Sister Lilias, a chaplain to the deaf. Among her guests are residents of The Crellin Home for the Deaf in Great Malvern. The programme is subtitled and signed for deaf viewers. Old Testament Reading: Exodus 4, w 10-12
Gospel: St Mark 7. w 31-37 Hymn for meditation:
Fill thou my life (Beatitudo)
Production assistant JAN PRYNNE Director SIMON HAMMOND
Series producer ELIZABETH GORT
A weekly magazine for the deaf and hard of hearing. News, views and entertainment, with subtitles and sign language.
Introduced by Maggie Woolley and Clive Mason
Produced by CHARLES PASCOE
Six comics explore the roots of their humour.
Irene Handl is one of Britain's funniest actresses, appearing in countless plays and films in a succession of working-class cockney parts. Yet her own London background is vastly different. Born of foreign parents over 80 years ago, she grew up in a household staffed with servants, and in this film she talks about the childhood experiences that later became the basis of so many comic roles in films such as AÃ French Mistress, Morgan and I'm All Right Jack.
MICHAEL FISH
Today: The Pink Sphinx Cock-a-Doodle Deux Deux The Pink Phink
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Little Boa Peep
A closer look at the ostrich, a freak bird that can't fly - but can run at 40mph. At nine feet tall, it's the world's largest bird. It lays an egg equal to 20 hens' eggs and can kick a man to death.
with Robert Lacey. Six films on the noble families of Europe
Germany: Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis
Prince Johannes, business tycoon, reformed playboy and zealous protector of the family line, is also the largest landowner in West Germany. He gave up a rakish private life three years ago to marry the vivacious Princess Gloria, 34 years his junior.
As the head of a powerful business empire, he has made enemies: that's why he rides between his 11 palaces at 100 miles an hour in a bullet-proof car.
Robert Lacey asks how Prince Johannes will keep up the traditions of a family which made its fortune as postmen to the Holy Roman Empire.
The new Princess von Thum und Taxis speaks frankly about life.
Series producer JOHN BIRD Producer ANN PAUL
Reggie's shop is very successful, so he decides to employ some of his former colleagues. However, there is still chemistry between him and Joan and now Elizabeth wants a job. Show more
Moira Stuart ; Weatherman
starring
Dramatised in seven parts by ALAN PLATER , from The Warden and Barchester Towers by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
3: Several years have passed since Mr Harding resigned as Warden of Hiram's Hospital. Now his friend the Bishop is dying....
Music composed and conducted by DEREK BOURGEOIS
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Directed by DAVID GILES
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from Maidstone
The county town of Kent is the setting for tonight's Songs of Praise. Christians from all over Maidstone have gathered in the ancient and beautiful. Parish Church of All Saints, which has one of the widest naves in England. Paul
McDowell talks to Michael Pointer about faith tested by tragedy and sees something of the work of the Council of Churches for the elderly.
Rebecca Eames , an 11-year-old, tells him how she has only just been able to dance after a recent healing experience. The prayers are led by Canon Peter Naylor , Vicar of Maidstone.
Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Helen); 0 for a closer walk with God (Caithness); The Lord's my Shepherd (Crimond); Abide with me (Eventide); In heavenly love abiding (Penlan); Let there be love; Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus); For all the saints (Sine Nomine)
Organists LIONEL MARCHANT and BRIAN MOORE
Conductor PETER RICHARDS Assistant producer
LELIA GUINERY-GREEN
Series producer STEPHEN WHITTLE
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A series in ten episodes
Written by Geoff McQueen
Robby Box makes his living playing poker. Some people say he's got it made, but his girlfriend Jan isn't one of them.
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A ten-part serial created by Lavinia Warner
Part 2 by Jill Hyem
After a seemingly unending wait, the women are finally liberated. However, not everyone is looking forward to the prospect of freedom.
(Ceefax subtitles)
It is Summer 1945. The war ends and the women are rescued.
with Moira Stuart
Weatherman
Tuscany Revisited
Byron, Shelley, D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf were all at some point lured to Tuscany in northern Italy. Writers, artists and performers from all over the world still make the pilgrimage for peace and inspiration. This evening Omnibus discovers contemporary artists at work in the area. Musica Nel Chiostro is an opera festival in Batignano. Made up entirely of British singers, the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary in a tumbledown 17th-century convent with a new opera by Stephen Oliver based on the story of Beauty and the Beast. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Tuscany, the Australian painter Jeffrey Smart reflects on his own obsession with the environment. In contrast to the opera singers his own view is sharply realistic - but equally as beautiful. Sound BRUCE GALLAWAY Film cameramen
COLIN WALDECK , JOHN SENNETT Film editor CHRIS SWAYNE
Producer CHRISTOPHER SWANN Editor IAN SQUIRES
What is only 100 years old?
What were the French finally forced to accept?
And why do King Charles II, Sir Isaac Newton, Captain Cook, Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovel, the Great Western Railway and an American called Charles Dowd share a vital part in an institution of which we in Britain can be justly proud?
Patrick Moore takes an affectionate look at the stories behind the centenary of Greenwich Mean Time; asks why it incurred the wrath of the law and discovers why astronauts and space men - like mere earthlings - would be lost without Greenwich Mean Time.
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Maria da Conceicao is a 48-year-old peasant woman whose community in Ladeira, northern Portugal, has become the centre of an ecstatic cult. Her followers claim she is a saint, and she herself says she has visited heaven 15 times. Contrary to scientific evidence, she declares, the moon and various planets she passes on her way are inhabited. The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated her. This film shows two events which her followers acclaimed as miracles, witnesses the scenes of hysteria which accompanied them, and examines the reasons for her celebrity - and notoriety.
