6.45 Pure Maths: Space-Time Geometry
7.10 Growing Apart at the Margins
7.35 Imaging the Eye
8.00 Gas and Steam Turbines
8.25 Prey for the Predator
The Playground Stop
Dave finds some creatures living in a garden.
Presenters: Dave Benson
Phillips and Elizabeth Watts. Puppeteer: Jane Eve. Music JONATHAN COHEN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
A FELGATE production for BBCtv (R)
What makes a Moslem girl different from her classmates?
With Mark Chatterton Lorna-Patrishe Bailey and Tony Osoba.
Director CEUA THOMSON Producer JUDY MERRY BBC North West (R)
Gary Davies joins Grace and Ian Miller in their home in Deganwy, North Wales, for a time of prayer and reflection. The Rev John Dowber develops the theme 'living in the world'.
Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC North West
starring and On V-J Day, three GIs vow to meet in ten years'time. The reunion takes place at Tim's, a bar in New York. Ted is mixed up in the fight racket; Doug has become a television cartoonist, and Angie runs a roadside diner. Meanwhile, Jackie and Madeline, two young women who are acquaintances of the boys, decide to publicise the get-together on their television programme ... resulting in pandemonium. One of the last of MGM's great dance musicals, featuring many spectacular and original numbers, choreographed by Michael Kidd.
Screenplay by BETTY COMDEN and ADOLPH GREEN
Produced by ARTHUR FREED Directed by GENE KELLY and STANLEY DONEN
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Animated fun from the classic Warner Brothers stable, featuring:
Bugs Bunny in Dumb Patrol Daffy Duck in Design for Leaving plus
The Bee-devilled Bruin Boyhood Daze
A previously broadcast programme with sign language and subtitles added. Scene - My Brother
David David Scarboro , who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders, fell to his death at Beachy Head last year. His brother Simon presents this tribute. Sign interpreter: John Lee. Editor ROLAND TONGUE Producer ROGER TONGE
Sign Extra producer IAN WOOLF (e)
Beefburgers are causing uproar in Lincolnshire. They are at the centre of a dispute involving planning, pollution and animal welfare. And they highlight the controversy surrounding modern industrial agriculture.
John Craven reports on a Latin-American-style cattle ranch in the English countryside.
Also, how horticultural heavy goods vehicles are making life a misery for villagers in the Vale of Evesham.
Plus at 12.55pm the weather for the countryside with Michael Fish.
Producers MARTIN SMALL MIKE DERBY
Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill
with Moira Stuart followed by On the Record
Presented by Jonathan Dimbleby , with John Cole. A Tory Titanic?
Over the summer, fears within the Conservative Party about the electoral impact of the poll tax (or community charge) have been simmering away.
Today, in the first of a new series, On the Record presents startling new evidence that the tax could hit the Tories where it hurts most - in marginal parts of key constituencies in England and Wales.
Reporter: Tudor Lomas. Producer NICK ROBINSON
Deputy editor DAVID JORDAN Editor DAVID AARONOVTTCH
by Tony McHale.
"So I reckon it's about time we took that holiday you won."
(Ceefax subtitles)
Another stirring
British movie in this season commemorating the start of the Second World War. Starring and In 1940, more than 338,000 men were taken off Dunkirk beach in an operation that has become a legend of the Second World War. This epic film from Ealing Studios recreates the evacuation by following the fortunes of some of the soldiers who were there, as well as the men who set sail from
England in small boats to rescue them. AND
Screenplay by DAVID divine and w. P. LIPSCOMB
Based on the novel The Big Pick-Up by ELLESTON TREVOR. and on Dunkirk by LT COL EWAN BUTLER and MAJ J. S. BRADFORD
Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by LESLIE NORMAN
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Today: Pink Panther, Le Feets Defeat and Pink on the Cob (R)
Selina Scott, Jeff Banks, Caryn Franklin and Raj Dhanda are on the prowl as the catsuit, one of the autumn's big looks, is consumer tested.
Photographer Norman Parkinson is on location shooting men in Manchester. Plus what every streetwise lad needs to wear with his set of wheels and the board which goes with them. And there's a report from deep in the countryside on the small family firm making cosmetics from natural products.
by Gerald Durrell.
Screenplay in ten parts by Charles Wood. Starring and with 3: The family becomes concerned when Spiro starts behaving very strangely. Gerry is worried when his bottle of scorpion poison goes missing ... and even more worried when Larry says he's feeling ill.
Music composed and conducted by DARYL RUNSWICK
Natural history associate NIGEL MARVEN
Producer JOE WATERS
Director PETER BARBER-FLEMING (R)
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with Moira Stuart Weather
from Brecon Jazz Festival. Presented by Roger Royle. Lillian Boutte from New Orleans joins the Welsh Jazz Orchestra and jazz enthusiasts at Brecon to sing some well-known hymns and spirituals.
Wyn Lodwick , a jazz player, and John Morgans , a church leader, talk about the impact of jazz on their lives.
Harriet Sleigh explains why she's no longer a Buddhist, and the Brecon L'Arche
Community invites Roger Royle to a picnic by the River Usk.
Conductor: John Leach.
When the Saints: 0 Jesus I Have Promised; The Old Rugged Cross; Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Steal Away; Lord of the Dance:
To God Be the Glory: Just a Closer Walk with Thee: Were You There? Down by the Riverside. Research: JUDITH PEERS Producer DAFYDD OWEN Editor ROGER HUTCHINGS
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by Roy Clarke.
July 1939: while relationships hot up for Clegg and Anita, Sherbet and Ivy, Wally is still getting nowhere with Nora - until Compo reveals a Romany ruse.
The Gypsy Fiddler with Peter Sallis as Mr Clegg. Designer STEPHAN PACZAI Produced and directed by MIKE STEPHENS
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A series in 13 parts devised by Gerard Glaister and Allan Prior , written by Douglas Watkinson. Starring and 3:'I built Relton Marine up from virtually nothing. Did any of you think I'd just kiss it goodbye?'
Title music SIMON MAY and LESLIE OSBORNE
Film cameraman JOHN WILLIAMS Designer AMANDA ATKINSON Producer GERARD GLAISTER Director PETER ROSE
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Written by Carla Lane.
Billy's divorce, Aveline's desire to get pregnant and Joey's trouble with the tax man are all briefly forgotten when Jack returns home.
Title music DAVID MACKAY
Sound supervisor ALAN MACHIN Lighting director HENRY BARBER Designer RICHARD DUPRE Produced and directed by ROBIN NASH
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by G. F. Newman.
Starring Keith Barron as Cmdr Jack Bentham, Alun Armstrong as Det Supt Frank Burroughs, Gillian Eaton as Maureen Fry, Dudley Sutton as Deputy Commissioner Sir Harry Streeter.
Britain in the mid-1990s is a divided and violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Commander Jack Bentham, a senior Scotland Yard detective already investigating shootings at a violent demonstration by radical nurses, finds himself seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers in that province. As he probes deeper into both cases, Bentham uncovers a complex web of deceit which hints at corruption at the highest levels of the establishment.
(First showing on British television)
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(Ceefax subtitles)
with Martyn Lewis ; Weather
Tibet: the Lost Nation
This year in Tibet, new riots against Chinese rule led to many deaths and the imposition of martial law. Tourists were expelled, but brought back eyewitness accounts and dramatic new pictures. Tibetan refugees in India also tell their tragic stories of life in Tibet 30 years after the great Tibetan uprising against the Chinese. Exiled in India, the former god-king ruler of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and 100,000 followers have kept alive their ancient religion. Their government-in-exile patiently awaits a recall to Tibet. But will it ever come? Producer JEFFREY IVERSON
Everyman editor JANE DRABBLE (R)
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In June 1940 a new assembly line opened in Castle
Bromwich - its product, the Spitfire. This documentary traces some of the workers responsible, many of them women, and features rare film of the factory. Producer KATIE WRIGHT
Castle Bromwich the largest producer of Spitfires during the war. This programme talks to some of the men and women responsible for this remarkable output. (1987) Show more