Story: "Cave Painting"
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
A series for teachers in schools and colleges of further education.
Discussion ...means different things to different teachers.
Weather
A new film series about animal behaviour and survival.
A dog's tail is so eloquent that humans can read his mood. But can we read the signs given by the fish in our aquaria or the birds on the park lake?
This film shows how some tropical fish, greylag geese and wolves communicate by the use of body movements and postures.
(from Bristol)
(Colour)
The twins Erwin and Verner were born with an immunity deficiency which meant they were doomed to die from the least infection. So for the first two and a half years of their life they were isolated in a germ-free world, enveloped in a huge plastic tent. Michael's world is one of silence. He's 24 and deaf but determined to live a normal life. Reports from West and East European TV look at human disability and how lives are adapted to it.
Introduced by Derek Hart
A serial in four parts based on the unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised by Tom Wright
Starring Tom Fleming as Adam Weir
with Edith Macarthur, Leonard Maguire, Callum Mill and David Rintoul
To this day, when the sleet is on the window and the cattle are quiet in the byre, there will be told again the old tale of the Justice-Clerk and of his son, young Hermiston; of the two Kirsties, and the Four Black Brothers - and of 'the young fool advocate' that came to these moor-land parts to find his destiny...
(BBC Scotland)
Everybody says writer Barbara Cartland is wonderful for her age. All that honey, clean living and romance makes her a very glamorous grandmother. But her mother is even more amazing. Polly Cartland is 95 and just as fit and amusing.
Tonight she talks about her famous daughter with John Pitman
(Life was tough...: page 12)
Sun worship at dawn on the sea-shore; mystical rites round an open fire at night. Windmills made from spare bicycle wheels. Food grown with the help of natural fertilisers. These are some of the activities of a new, politically conscious breed of American scientists.
Defoliation, people-sniffers, and napalm in Vietnam have given establishment science a dirty name. Environmental problems have added to the disenchantment. Suddenly, some scientists are no longer willing to see their work exploited for selfish and military ends.
They aim, both inside and outside the lab, to find an alternative science whose new purpose is really the old purpose - the genuine welfare of people.
by Andy Ashton
The second in this season of short plays from Birmingham.
Two sailors take a couple of whores back to the ship. On the way they buy a bottle of gin and the evening takes an unexpected turn...
Ian Matthews, ex-Fairport Convention and Southern Comfort, leads the soft-rock group through their Amelia Earhart saga and rarely heard songs by Paul Siebel, Nils Lofgren.
(Colour)
with David Tindall
Weather
A weekly round-up of issues concerning the world of television. Michael Dean surveys the week's output and invites others to assess its achievements and effect.
(Colour)
