With Anna Jones.
Timetable on Monday
With Andrew Harvey and Sophie Raworth. Timetable on Monday
With Sophie Raworth.
(For details see Monday)
Cookery challenge presented by Fern Britton. Repeat Stereo Subtitled .
Esther Rantzen asks whether it is possible to fend off old age and whether it helps to maintain a youthful appearance. Repeat Stereo Subtitled .......................
Carol Vorderman presents a series of light-hearted scientific experiments, tests and trials using some high-tech equipment and with the participation of a studio audience
Regional News and Weather
Live coverage of the second morning's play in the Sixth Test match, between England and Australia, from the Oval. Introduced by Tony Lewis.
Including at 12.00 News Regional News and Weather
Billy receives a blast from the past. Philip and Ruth find it impossible to be alone. Toadie warns Tim to back off.
Repeated at 5.35pm Stereo Subtitled .
Weather
Live coverage of the second afternoon's play in the Sixth Test match between England and Australia, from the Oval.
Followed by the Nation's Favourite Children's Book
Terrence Hardiman , star of The Demon Headmaster, talks about his own favourite book The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITECHILDREN'S BOOK: on [number removed] (calls cost no more than 25p). Lines are open until 12 noon on 27 August. The resultswill be announced in BBC1's The Nation s Favourite Children Book on 31 August.
The action quiz with games and competitions, hosted by the Chuckle Brothers. This week's guest, BBC weather presenter Michael Fish, joins children from Wiltshire and Derby. Repeated next Monday on BBC2
The science programme with a difference. Today, a look at coconut powered trucks and solar powered planes, and a theory that explains the unexplainable.
(Repeat, Stereo)
(Shown at 12.35pm)
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
With Nicholas Witchell and Jill Dando.
Weather Suzanne Charlton
Fordetails see Monday
Followed by the Nation's Favourite Children's Book
Presenter Zoe Ball and her father, Johnny Ball, talk about Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. For voting details see listing on page 96.
Tonight weather presenters Michael Fish and Ian McCaskill , create a couple of original recipes with the help of top chefs Richard Cawley and Patrick Anthony. See today's choices. Producer Mary Ramsay
INFORMATION: see Ceefaxpage
* Michael Fish 's questionnaire: page 18
The hottest hits from the week's top 40 with live performances, the best pop videos and Britain's number one single.
Repeated tomorrow Stereo Subtitled.
TOP OF THE POPS - THE MAGAZINE: price £1.25, on sale now from newsagents
Last of a series of comedy shorts designed to offer fitness advice to the public. Starring Chris Barrie as Gordon Brittas from The Brittas Empire.
Glad All Over. When Gordon meets actress June Whitfield , who explains how activity cheers her up, he discovers that one secret of happiness is exercise. Director John Kilby ; Producer Paul Reizin
BOOKLET:£3.95, same title. is available by calling [number removed] or sending a cheque/PO payable to BBC Education. [address removed]
With Michael Buerk. Subtitled
Regional News
Weekend Weather
Suzanne Charlton Subtitled.
Thriller starring
Willem Dafoe
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mickey Rourke
Samuel L Jackson
The discovery of a corpse with a case full of money in the New Mexico desert drags deputy sheriff Ray Dolezal into a world of devious dealings and double-crosses. Dolezal assumesthe dead man's name in his quest to find out what happened.
Director Roger Donaldson (1992, 15)
* See Films: pages 44-53 ***
Classic sitcom. Raquel is thrilled to be offered an audition for a role in a Shakespeare play. Despite Del's help, she still gets the part. Show more
Comedy starring
Richard Pryor, John Candy
Monty Brewster is the pitcher for the lowly Hackensack Bulls baseball team. He's just an ordinary guy, and something of a loser-that is until he inherits a cool $300 million. The only catch is, to get his hands on it, he has to spend $30 million in 30 days and be left with nothing.
Director Walter Hill (1985, PG)
* See Rims: pages 44-53 **
' Comedy drama starring Yul Brynner , Eli Wallach
Jane Birkin
When a troop of Cossacks arrive at a small Polish bordertown, not only do they call a halt to all the horse stealingand dealing that'sgoingon, buttheyalso disrupt the womanising. The local townsfolk can only see one way to free themselves from this tyranny- a revolution.
Director Abraham Polonsky (1971)
* See Films: pages 44-53 *
