With Toby Anstis.
Nature series.
Cartoon. Rpt
Today: the Playground Stop. A Felgate production for BBCtv
Story told by Ray Brooks.
Animated fun. Rpt
Children's drama.
June Brown (Dot in EastEnders) celebrates her faith. Last in the series.
A cabaret for the deaf. With signing and subtitles.
Comedy starring
Norman Wisdom
Norman tries to save an orphanage.
With Joan Rice and Thora Hird. Director John Paddy Carstairs (
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A profile of the kingfisher.
An exclusive report into the causes of accidents on rural roads. With John Craven. Plus the week's weather at 12.55pm.
Followed by Harry and the Hendersons
Harry helps young Ernie earn top marks at school.
A 70th birthday screening of .Richard Attenborough's
Guardian lecture about his long film career. Subtitled (A Chorus Line is at 11.1 Opm on BBC2)
Omnibus edition. Frank tries to help Pat come to terms with her freedom, while Mandy and Aidan come to blows.
The classic First
World War drama starring
Katharine Hepburn Humphrey Bogart
East Africa 1914: her home destroyed by invading
Germans, a prim missionary finds an unlikely saviour in the gin-drinking captain of a riverboat, the African Queen.
Director John Huston (1951)
Gavin Campbell finds out how to treat scalds and burns.
A Diverse production for BBCtv
FREE: a poster and booklet is available to accompany the series. Write to BBC
Education, PO Box 7, London Wl 2 7TS.
John Craven appeals for the Gardening for Disabled Trust.
DONATIONS: John Craven. [address removed](Telephone [number removed])
Join Esther Rantzen for highlights from the 1993 series - the campaign to protect witnesses who dare to help the police, and the Ann Mackey
Appeal helping desperately sick children in Russia. With Gavin Campbell
, Adrian Mills , Kevin Devine and Howard Leader.
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers The third in a series of animated adaptations of Beatrix Potter stories brings the old male rat
Samuel Whiskers to colourful life, with Sheila Hancock and Patricia Routledge among those providing the voices.
Samuel has requested a kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding for his dinner.
Director Mike Stuart
With Moira Stuart. Subtitled
Weather Ian McCaskill
Scarborough Fair. A
Scarborough trawler heads for the rocks with a lone injured fisherman trapped in the hold. A family walk in the Alps leads to a disaster that proves a child's faith to be stronger than death. Just two of the stories uncovered by Pam Rhodes in tonight's programme. She also meets a champion oyster-eater who makes Christmas pudding flavoured ice-cream and a married nun who runs a guest house with an unusual tariff.
Producer Simon Hammond Editor Helen Alexander
Comedy series by Roy Clarke , starring Bill Owen
Peter Sallis , Brian Wilde The Self-Propelled Salad
Strainer. When Nora Batty leaves home to visit a person unknown, Compo decides that the time has come to declare his deep love for her by saying it with flowers.
Director/Producer Alan J W Bell
The current series ends with dreams fulfilled and ghosts laid to rest in Strathblair.
Episode written by Allan Prior
FRANCESCA HUNT'S KIND OF DAY: page 98
Steven Spielberg 's bittersweet romantic fantasy, starring
Richard Dreyfuss Holly Hunter
John Goodman
Daredevil pilot Pete Sandich believes feisty
Dorinda Durston will be his girl for always. Then he dies, and things change, not least for
Pete who returns to earth to be an unseen mentor to young flyer Ted Baker. As if that is not difficult enough, Pete learns that Ted is in love with the grieving Dorinda.
Audrey Hepburn appears in one of her last acting roles.
(1989) Stereo Subtitled
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Weather Peter Cockroft
Why do men treat women badly? Every day new and sickening cases of male violence make the headlines.
The sheer numbers of victims deny the excuse that violent men are warped and isolated individuals. Detective Inspector Carol Bristow has seen more than her fair share of rapes, assaults and murders. Each new victim provokes the question, why? Why are some men women-haters? DI Bristow investigates this hatred and unravels the web of images and attitudes that lie deep in the minds of all men.
Producer David Willcock
Series editor John Blake
The screen version of the long-running musical hit starring
Michael Douglas shown today to mark the 70th birthday of its director Richard Attenborough.
A group of young - and not so young - hopefuls arrive at a Broadway theatre to audition for a big new show. Their hopes, lives and futures depend on their performances.
(1985) Stereo Subtitled
