With Philippa Forrester.
Nature series.
Cartoon.
Today: the Dot Stop.
A Felgate production for BBCtv
David Frost returns with a pre-recorded interview with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Executive editor Bob Wheaton
Including at 8. 15am and
First of nine programmes looking at how people of different religions respond to each other. Stories of Dialogue. Delegates to the Centenary Conference of the Parliament of the World's
Religions meet in Chicago to debate their role for the 1990s.
A series looking at the influence of saints and scholars this week considers St Cuthbert.
The first of three chat shows from the Silent Network in Texas. With signing and subtitles.
Autobiographical drama starring
Mary Steenburgen
Peter Coyote
1928: Marjorie, a sophisticated magazine editor and socialite, is also a frustrated novelist. She suddenly decides to turn her back on civilisation and buys an orange grove in a remote part of Florida. Based on the memoirs of the author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel The
Yearling, the film of which can be seen at 3.00pm.
Director Martin Ritt 1983)
SEE FILMS pages41-46
With John Craven. Plus the week's weather at 12.55pm.
On the eve of the 125th Trades Union Congress in Brighton, Geoffrey Goodman traces the ups and downs of the power and influence of the trade union movement since the first TUC at the Mechanics' Institute in Manchester in 1868. With contributions from past and present trade union bosses and veterans of the General Strike. A Capron production for BBCtv
Omnibus edition. The Butchers, Mitchells and Kathy are off to France to stock up on booze.
- Drama starring
Gregory Peck
Jane Wyman When young Jody Baxter adopts a fawn, his backwoods farming parents little dream of the heartache it will cause.
Director Clarence Brown (1946)
SEE FILMS pages41-46
Gavin Campbell learns what to do if a child begins to choke.
With paramedic Muriel Abbott. A Diverse production for BBCtv
FREE: a poster and booklet is availableto accompany the series. Write to BBC
Education, PO Box 7, London W 12 7TS.
Jimmy Savile introduces a selection of favourite "fix its" from a previous series. With links from Europe's largest evening fun run in Peterborough.
With Chris Lowe. Subtitled
Weather Rob McElwee
National Waterways Festival The finale of this waterbome series comes from the National
Waterways Festival in Peterborough, the world's largest boat rally. Pam Rhodes meets some of the folk who earned their livelihood
"working the cut", and talks to those who give up their holidays to restore Britain's canals to their former glory. Producer Moira Kean
Editor Helen Alexander
With Martyn Lewis. Subtitled
Weather Rob McElwee
Starring Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent
Written by Jack Rosenthal, this first in a new season of major BBC feature films is based on two autobiographical books by Deric Longden, Diana's Story and Lost for Words. Rosenthal has won Bafta awards for his "Bar Mitzvah Boy" and "Spend, Spend, Spend" in a long and distinguished television writing career.
The marriage of Deric and Diana Longden is a successful one, based on a shared sense of humour as well as love. It seems sure to survive even when Diana is struck down by a mysterious debilitating and, as it transpires, progressive illness. When Deric meets novelist Aileen Armitage matters become complicated, but not in predictable fashion.
The true story behind the drama SEE FEATURE page 35
Praying to Win
Former world heavyweight champion George Foreman is still boxing, though well into his 40s. He is now known as the "Punching Preacher" and is just one of the 40 per cent of American professional athletes who claim to be Christians. US
Olympic teams will not enter competition without a chaplain, and impromptu prayer meetings are becoming commonplace. But some suspect those involved are just praying to win. Producer Krishna Govender Series editor John Blake
Thriller starring
Mary Steenburgen
Roddy McDowall
When struggling actress Katie McGovern gets a part in a new movie it looks like she has landed a role in her own murder.
Director Arthur Penn (1987)
SEE FILMS pages41-46
