Animation.

8.10 Playdays
The Playbus stops at the Roundabout Stop.

David Frost interviews news makers, and reviews the papers with his guests.
Includingat 8.30 News; plus the weather. Series editor Barney Jones ; Executive editor
Tim Orchard

Today, Tony Robinson finds out why the Bible is still described as the Good Book.

Alison Hilliard meets people involved in, ortouched by, the conflict in Bosnia.
Music comes from Vedran Smailovic , the cellist of Sarajevo, and Heartbeat actress Kazia Pelka reads from the Book of Psalms. Stereo ....

Continuing a selection of popular programmes of recent years. Today, a look at the deaf organisation Friends of the Young Deaf(FYD) in Bude, Cornwall, which has integration as its vision. With signing and subtitles. Rpt Stereo ...

A Lassie adventure, featuring the famous collie. Kerry Holt , a little mute boy whose parents despair of him ever being able to speak, becomes friendly with Lassie and her pups and saves them from extreme danger.

Rural issues with John Craven. Plus, the week's weather at 12.25pm.

A nine-part series tackling the issues that matter in Britain today. Today's programme asks education experts whether selection should be re-introduced to all secondary schools. Presented by David Aaronovitch , with Sarah Hogg. Editor Dollan Cannell ; Executive producer
David Jordan

Omnibus edition.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Epic adventure starring
Cary Grant , Frank Sinatra
Sophia Loren
As the Spanish army retreats from
Napoleon's invading troops, only a handful of guerrillas remains to carry on the fight. Theirtarget is the heavily fortified town of Avila, which they plan to take with the biggest cannon ever made, recently abandoned by the Spanish army but hundreds of miles from the town.
Director Stanley Kramer (1957) ♦ See Films: pages 42-48 ****

Animated cat and mouse fun.....

With Jennie Bond.
Weather Ian McCaskill

An Olympic edition in which
Kriss Akabusi joins 2,000 Christians at the Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta to celebrate the opening of the centennial Olympic Games (coverage of the ceremony on Friday is at
1 2.55am). He talks to athletes about the competition and theirfaith, including Britain's Olympic hopeful
Jonathan Edwards. The music includes
Soon and Very Soon, To God Be the Glory and How Great Thou Art.
Producer John Forrest ; EditorHelen Alexander Repeated tomorrow at 8.30am on BBC2

Hugh Scully introduces anotheredition from the archives. This week, a programme recorded in 1991 in Stowmarket, Suffolk, featuring a rare Gubelin wristwatch that delighted expert Simon Bull.
Producer Christopher Lewis

Last of the wartime family saga, starring Stephanie Beacham, Alison Steadman

September 1940: both families face tragedy as the Blitz continues.
See today's choices.

With Michael Buerk.
Weather Ian McCaskill. subtmed

Comedy romance starring
Goldie Hawn , Kurt Russell
Joanna Stayton 's cold conceit and affluent arrogance land down-to-earth carpenter Dean Proffitt in deep water. So when she accidentally falls from her million-dollar yacht and loses her memory, Dean claims she is his wife to teach her a lesson in life.
Director Garry Marshall (1987. PG)
* See Films: pages 42-48 ****

Last of three programmes in which seven British Olympic contenders record their lives on camcorders in the run-up to the Atlanta Games.
Gone with the Wind. The contenders are on the last leg of their preparations. They share theirfears and frustrations, training setbacks, domestic upheavals and dreams of winninggold.
Producer Karen Hamilton ; Series producer
SueDavidson Stereo

Suspense thriller, based on a true story, starring
Stephen Shellen , Djanet Sears
Ottawa, 1986: ex-con David Maltby , disguised as a priest, enters the Bahamian High Commission, taking
Vice Consul Jane Briscoe hostage. It is the first of April, but as the situation develops into a complex stand-off, a bond develops between the two of them.
Director Murray Battle (1994) ............... * See Films: pages 42-48 **