6.30 Art in Italy: The Villa Farnesina
6.55 Appearance and Reality
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A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo decides she doesn't like her green hair.
Transport song: 'Wheels and crococycle'.
Book: "A Lion for Lewis" by Rosemary Wells
What is it like to be a widow? How do you learn to cope with loss? This programme explores the experience of widowhood, and shows how one woman attempted to find a new focus for her life.
A BBC/Open University production
with subtitles; Weather
Corsham Court, Wiltshire with Henry Sandon
In the family home of Lord Methuen, Arthur and his guest, porcelain expert
Henry Sandon , admire a fine 18th-century dinner service, made in the Worcester factory but decorated by James Giles of London.
Corsham is also the home of the famous Cobb commode with its exquisite inlay and ormolu work, and exceptional 18th-century mirrors by Robert Adam and Thomas Johnson.
Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer ROBIN DRAKE BBC Bristol
Have you ever wondered how they filmed whales, polar bears, komodo dragons, or went underground with ants? Have you ever wondered what goes wrong?
Miles Kington observes the sometimes strange behaviour of the species David Attenborough, and reveals a surprising world that includes a parrot that won't sit still, an antelope that changes sex behind a bush, and a beautiful girl who arrives unexpectedly. Filmed by HUGH MAYNARD and MARTIN SAUNDERS
BBC Bristol
Mark Curry looks at some hilarious and daring chases performed by the stars of the cinema's golden era. Director MARTIN HUGHES Producer JOHN BUTTERY BBC Manchester
starring Howard Keel Ann Blyth
In old Baghdad a wily beggar-poet uses his ingenuity to bring him wealth and a prince to marry his daughter.
This lavish Oriental fantasy has music based on themes by Borodin.
Screenplay by CHARLES LODERER and LUTHER DAVIS
Adapted from the musical play Kismet
Produced by ARTHUR FREED
Directed by VINCENTE MINNELU
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In a special show from the continent, Jonathan King introduces current videos from the European rock scene and predicts which will become huge hits in Britain. Some of them, he guarantees, you'll be singing along with on your summer holidays this year.
Research COUN MARCHANT Production MICHAEL HURLL
by CHARLES DICKENS
The last of eight episodes dramatised by ARTHUR HOPCRAFT starring
Denholm Elliott
Lady Dedlock has died on the steps of the burial ground where her lover, Hawdon, was anonymously interred.
Richard, now married to Ada, continues to pursue the legal cause of Jamdyce and Jamdyce with an obsession that concerns everyone....
Music GEOFFREY BURGON Production associate KATHLEEN BIDMEAD
Film editor DAVE KING Designer TIM HARVEY Executive producer JONATHAN POWELL Producers
JOHN HARRIS. BETTY WILLINGALE Directed by ROSS DEVENISH Splendid television.
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A further look at this unique festival celebrating a century of motoring which was held last weekend at Silverstone. Presented by Noel Edmonds with Mike Smith Murray Walker
Nostalgia and names: Brooklands, Le Mans,
Campbell, Cobb, Seagrave, Austin, Morris, Alvis.
Do you remember your first car, or was it a motorcycle?
Better still, do you remember your dream car at that time, and are you still faithful to its memory?
And what of your memory? When was the 70 mph speed limit first introduced? How old is the Ml?
When were traffic wardens introduced?
Where and when were the first traffic lights?
Written by JONATHAN WOOD Research by MAGDA GULVIN Directors DAVID PICKTHALL SIMON BETTS. TIM MARSHALL Television production
PETER HYLTON CLEAVER
John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.
11.50 Introductory Electronics
What is the difference between electrocardiograms and loudspeakers? Analogue electronics provides the answer.
12.15 Biology: Chicken or Egg?
To build a living organism needs a plan. Dr Norman Cohen searches within the egg itself for the factory controlling development and organisation.
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