6.5 Modern Art: Guernica. 6.30 Oceanography: Carbonates. 6.55 Biology: Feeding Mechanisms. 7.10 Biology: Looking at Cells. 7.45 Fountain and Grotto.
Story: How Granny Found Her Smile Again
Written by Barbara Mitchelhill.
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
The Cornhill Test Series
England v New Zealand from Headingley
PETER WEST introduces coverage of the final afternoon's play.
Current Events
An award-winning animated film which, in a series of humorous vignettes, illustrates the uses and abuses of electrical energy.
Directed by BRUCE WOODSIDE Produced by STAN PHILLIPS
Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world.
1: Hammer of the North
Pagan poets and wrathful fishermen7 Merciless farmers and valiant craftsmen? The Vikings were an extraordinary people, complex, brilliant, unpredictable and difficult to define.
Tonight MAGNUS MAGNUSSON, himself the descendant of Vikings, looks for the spirit of the Viking age: the ships, the sagas, the heroism and the obsessions which accompanied them to the farthest edges of the world.
With COLIN BLAKELY , JEREMY KEMP JOHN BENNETT , DANIEL MASSEY
Music JACK POINT
Series adviser PROFESSOR P. H. GAWYER Research LIZ WRIGHT
Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series producer DAVID COLLISON
The theme tonight is the world of percussion, featuring the African rhythm of King Sunny Ade, Nigeria's top pop group. The courtyard echoes to more music from Spandau Ballet with their new single 'Gold'. The programme is introduced by Sally James and Paul Coia.
BBC Pebble Mill
with subtitles, followed by Weather
where the public set the agenda
The first of three programmes made with the people who work in the National Health Service. 1: the Consultant's Tale
Old people now occupy half the country's hospital beds. They are mostly dependent on the comprehensive,care of the NHS.
Dr Peter Fisher is the kind of hospital doctor who looks after them. He works at Banbury's Horton Hospital - the sort of local general hospital we all rely Oh. But Dr Fisher and some of his consultant colleagues feel that the NHS is now in real danger from Government cuts and privatisation. A week in his working life explains why we should np longer take him for granted...
Made in co-operation with the NHS Consultants Association
Director GAVIN DUTTON
Producer PETER LEE-WRIGHT
IMade by the Community programme Unit in partnership with the public. If you want to make your own programme or to suggest programme ideas, then get in touch with [address removed])
In this- second of seven programmes, Arthur Negus enjoys the company of Michael Smith , theteievision cook. Michael, in previoiis series, has provided Arthur with an 18th-century dinner and a 19th-century breakfast. This time, they discuss 'tea' from its introduction from China to England in - the 17th century, through to the Victorian high tea with fancy cakes and cucumber sandwiches. As tea became more and more fashionable, so English Craftsmen turned to making more and more tea ware, at first copying Chinese styles, but going on to develop their own strong tradition.
Lighting ALAN HITCHCOCK ' Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer ROBIN DRAKE BBC Bristol
Subtitles on Ceefax page, 270
The. last of the sensational' four-part dramatisation of the private lives of eight American Presidents. starring as the Presidents and First Ladies: and as the servants:
Maggie retired in 1939 and some of the White House staff lost their lives in World War II, but Lillian. continues to serve backstairs through Roosevelt's short-lived fourth term, the Truman years and the Eisenhower administration - though Mamie Eisenhower's eccentricities prove too much for Lillian!
Screenplay by GWEN BAGNI and PAUL DUBOV Produced by ; ED FRIENDLY and MICHAEL O'HERLIRY Directed by MICHAEL O'HERLIRY
BBC2 Invitation Pairs
Crown Green Bowling Tournament Second Quarter-final
John Butler, Jim Campbell v Robert Hitchen, Allan Thompson
The holders of the Pairs crown, Robert Hitchen and Allan Thompson, start defending their title this evening. They have to dispense with John Butler and Jim Campbell from the North Midlands-surprise Winners in the preliminary rounds when they opposed the fancied Vernon Lee and Mike Leach. Introduced by RICHARD DUCKENFIELD from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool
Commentator harry HiflfeY
Producer neitii PHILLIPS
The CornhillInsurance Test Series
England v New Zealand from Headingley
Final day
RICHIE BENAUD with highlights
12.10 Are Four Colours Sufficients
Do you like, to doodle with coloured pens? 'The good news is you only need four colours to fill any pattern, though It Took nearly 100 years to prove it.
12.35 Unemployment, Income and Economic-Policy)
Unemployment - causes and cures. Four economists examine the issue of unemployment front very different perspectives.
1.0 The Interview " Nearly everybody could improve their performance at job interviews, accord ing to expert Colin Morgart.