6.40 Instrumentation: Transducers. 7.5 Biology: Skeletal Adaptions. 7.30 Communication Skills.

(For details see BBC1 4.20pm)

A Yesterday's Witness special
In my aeroplane for two, I will sail away with you.
Don't waste any more time below
Let's get married and up we'll go.
In my aeroplane for two, for miles and miles we'll fly.
Oh what a sensation, a honeymoon in the sky.
This was a song being sung in 1904 within months of the news, from the other side of the Atlantic, that the first flying machine had actually managed to fly.
Tonight's programme starts in the period from the time when the first British pioneers were, literally, getting off the ground: 'The only way to learn to fly was to go and teach yourself. You started to do straight runs, getting faster each time. And then, during one of these "straights", you looked over the side and found the ground was gone!'
With old film - and music - from the archives, with new film of present-day enthusiasts who fly some of these veteran flying machines for fun, and stories by some of the intrepid pioneers themselves, we get a taste of what those golden days of flying-that 'honeymoon in the sky' - was really like.
Narrator JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Film editor WILLIAM SYMON Producer STEPHEN PEET
(A Night at the Pictures: tomorrow at 5.30 pm)

Sit tight and hang on to your seats for another lively evening of music and conversation, where anything can happen. Introduced by Sally James and special guest presenter David Soul
BBC Birmingham

with subtitles, followed by Weather

The first of six programmes
Presented by Simon Bates and Gillian Miles
Butter: is it good or bad for you? Wine: the secrets on the label.
Babies: can your diet determine the sex?
Cocktails: the stirrers and the shakers.
Some of the subjects investigated in the first of this topical series about what, why, when, and where we eat and drink. Including a report on this week's best buys in the fresh food markets.

Britain can rightly claim to be one of the world's great seafaring nations, yet surprisingly little of that illustrious past has survived. Why do we try to keep old ships anyway? Are they more than just interesting curiosities?
In this eight-part series
Anthony Burton looks at working ships and maritime museums up and down the country where the beginnings of our maritime heritage are preserved and shows why the answers to these questions are fascinating and relevant. 1: Shipshape
What were the earliest ships like? How were they built? Where can the survivors be seen and what is being done to keep traditional boats in working order?
ANTHONY BURTON visits the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, the Exeter Maritime Museum, the Windermere Steamboat Museum and the Dolphin Yard Sailing / Barge Museum.
Film editor KEITH WILTON Producer
MICHAEL GARROD f
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Starring John Wayne
with Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell

The Classic Western which brought John Wayne to stardom and marked the beginning of a long and productive association with the celebrated director John Ford.
In this opening film of a major season of Ford films, Wayne plays Ringo Kid, a fugitive from justice. He joins an assortment of passengers on the stagecoach to
Lordsburg - a journey which takes them through Indian territory...

The last in the present series Rough Trade
In the cut throat days of The Onedin Line, commercial survival usually came before safety at sea. Nowadays, shipowners wallowing in the recession, battered by problems of over capacity and growing competition from subsidised fleets are increasingly seeking refuge in the less stringent flags of convenience. Eric Robson tells the story of the ship that caused a pollution emergency after ending up 120 miles off-course on a 100-mile voyage, and examines the threat that such vessels pose to their crews, the rescue services and the coastline of Britain.
Producer DAVID GEEN Editor COLIN ADAMS
BBC Manchester

Presenters PETER SNOW, JOHN TUSA and DONALD MACCORMICK bring you the major events of the day and the pictures, interviews and analysis that explain their significance. From the programme's team of correspondents: film reports shot in Britain and around the world on the issues and topics which are making the headlines. JOAN BAKEWELL has the first news of stories from the arts; DAVID ICKE and MARSHALL LEE have the stories from behind the world of sport.