6.45 Managing Work: England
7.10 Where Has all the Granite
Gone?
7.35 Wings: Cracks in the Forging
8.00 Flying in Birds: an Experimental Approach
8.25 Maths Modelling: Sandcastles
The Playbus stops today at the Patch Stop. Pam Ayres tells her own story Piggo and the Peacock. With Vanessa Amberleigh. (R)
Why did a Jewish merchant have nothing to sell and where do
Muslim children go to play snooker and pray? Presented by Mark Chatterton and John Jardine. Director Celia Bonner
Producer Judy Merry (R)
Norma Craddock visits the home of Paul Fitzpatrick at Barton Seagrave near Kettering. The Rev Tom Johns explores today's theme, 'a just society'. Reading: Amos 5, vv7-15. Producer Diane Reid
Editor Helen Alexander
Bugs gives his nephew a rabbit's-eye view of American history. (R)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A chance to see an edition of The Lowdown - Fighting for Breath with sign language and subtitles. Eleven-year-old Gayle Blackman goes to Pilgrims School, Sussex, Europe's only boarding-school for asthmatics.
Director Phil Shepherd Producer Eric Rowan
The Puy du Fou is a son et lumiere which is held near the village of Les Epesses in western France.
Staged by the locals twice a week throughout summer, it attracts 350,000 spectators a year. As Anne Brown reports, the event is a lifeline to the quiet farming community which spawned it, bringing back prosperity and a pride in their heritage.
Introduced by John Craven.
Including at 12.55pm the weather for the week ahead with Michael Fish.
With Moira Stuart. Followed by Speaking Volumes
Charles Palliser 's blockbusting
The Quincunx, Bill McKibben 's End of Nature and Jorge Luis Borges 's short story collection The Book of Fantasy are discussed this week by host crime-writer P D James and her guests novelist and journalist Kate Saunders , deputy leader of the Shadow Cabinet and author the Rt Hon Roy Hattersley and painter Steven Campbell. Joining them is John Fuller , editor of The Chatto Book of Love Poetry. Director Hilary Boulding Producer John Archer
More cartoon adventures. (R)
Another chance to see last week's episodes. Clyde and Celestine are still at loggerheads. Ian is in hospital, but that won't stop Wicksy and Cindy being together.
(Ceefax subtitles)
Starring
Jeff Chandler
The Pacific, 1943: fitted for battle, the USS Belinda is a new ship with a new crew and an ambitious, no-nonsense captain determined to whip them into shape. But the clash of personalities threatens to grow as heated as the war.
Director Joseph Pevney
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Last of the series on the world of childhood narrated by Judi Dench. Farewell to Childhood. In the six communities where the series began, children are facing major transitions. In Kenya, it's a ritual initiation; in Brazil, the first carnival and a first boyfriend; in Britain, a change of school; in India, leaving school; in Hungary, a first taste of work; and in China, a first sense of power.
Producer David Brown
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The series in which celebrities set out to spend £500 on a work of art for the BBC collection. In her search, actress and singer Toyah Willcox is inspired by Stonehenge.
Earthwatch: page 73
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Robert Kilroy-Silk appeals on behalf of the Homes for Homeless People Trust which provides secure accommodation for single homeless people. Special emphasis is placed on supporting clients through mental illness and alcohol-related problems. With Cliff Michelmore and Lynette Lithgow. Producer Jill Dawson
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With Moira Stuart.
Weather Michael Fish
Ian Gall visits Shetland, the most northerly part of the United Kingdom. Prayer and blessing:
The Rev Lewis Smith.
Hymns: Hosanna; The Lord's My
Shepherd (Crimond); How Great Thou Art; Meekness and Majesty; The Old
Rugged Cross; I Will Sing the Wondrous Story (Hyfrydol); To God Be the Glory; We Are Marching.
Producer Helen Alexander Editor Roger Hutchings
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Last in the series based on the books by Yorkshire vet James Herriot.
Starring Christopher Timothy Big Fish, Little Fish. Siegfried befriends 10-year-old Colin when one of his goldfish dies.
Episode written by Michael Russell Director Tony Virgo
Producer Bill Sellars (R)
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First showing on network television of the two-part film starring
Burt Lancaster , Charles Dance
A handsome new version of Gaston Leroux 's chilling romance.
Legends persist of a deformed man who rules a dark world beneath the Paris Opera. But for young
Christine Daee the legends are pure foolishness. That is, until a stagehand is murdered.
Director Tony Richardson (Part 2 next Sunday)
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With Michael Buerk.
Weather Michael Fish
Pedro and Blanca ... Going Home Pedro and Blanca are 9-year-old twins from Colombia. At the age of 6 months they were adopted by a couple from Norwich and came to live in England. Now the twins have returned to Colombia and are going in search of their roots. Producer Dick Meadows Editor Jane Drabble (R)
An American comedy drama series starring Blair Brown
Here's Why It's Tough to Sell Watermelons After Midnight
Molly (Blair Brown ) seems to have found the perfect man in Blake (Charles Frank ).
You and Your Community
Alan Watson and Dick Taverne ask what the European Community can do for your own community. Producer Laurence Vulliamy
Series editor Christopher Capron A Capron production for BBCtv
A 91-part epic Indian drama. (In Hindi with English subtitles.
Shown yesterday at 2.50pm on BBC2)
