(to 7.20)
11.0 Watch: The Romans: 5: Roman Builders
(R) (For details see tomorrow at 2.0 pm)
11.17 Look, Look and Look Again: Bits and Pieces
In Wiltshire they examined light and dark; in Leeds they made a model city of the future and filmed a story set there.
(R)
11.37 Pages from Ceefax
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
When Gary gets paint on his best suit, Cosmo and Dibs think they can find clean clothes to fit him. Henry the kangaroo and Ellie learn to use pelican crossings. Four-year-old Jake celebrates Purim, a Jewish festival. Song: 'My hat it has three corners'
(R)
2.15 Near and Far: Drought
In 1976 the rains failed both in Britain and in Africa. In Britain it led to one of the most serious droughts on record: for the Africans it was just the beginning of a devastating drought.
(R)
2.40 Subtitle Slot: Zig Zag: Stars
A series of programmes from the year's school television output, repeated in subtitled form for hearing-impaired children.
The nature of stars and constellations - and some star stories.
(R)
4.20 The Coventry Stakes (6f)
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Forty years ago the British government offered the hospitality of this country to Polish soldiers who had fought alongside the British during the Second World War. In all 130,000 servicemen, their wives and dependants settled in Britain. A camp for displaced Polish people still exists ... in Devon. It's a place the residents call ... 'our little Poland'.
Cameraman COLIN ROWE
Videotape editor GREG WADE Producer JOHN WALMSLEY
This week Mark Ellen joins The Cure on a mystery trip.
Laurie Anderson chats about her new film to Ro Newton and demonstrates some bizarre methods of making music. Andy Kershaw introduces live studio music from The Pogues and Paul Brady , while an enthusiastic audience welcomes Blue In Heaven and Fountainhead to the University of Ulster.
Plus Richard Skinner with today's new chart. Producers JOHN BURROWES and TREVOR DANN
Director MAY MILLER Editor
MICHAEL APPLETON
starring
Nancy Allen and Bobby Di Cicco
This energetic comedy was an early collaboration between Steven Spielberg and director Zemeckis who later made Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future.
1964: The Beatles have just arrived in the United States and thousands of young
Americans throng to New
York to welcome their idols. Against the background of Beatlemania music, six teenagers from New Jersey become part of the hysteria....
Screenplay by ROBERT ZEMECKIS and BOB GALE
Produced by TAMARA ASSEYEV and ALEX ROSE
Directed by ROBERT ZEMECKIS
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Big Business in Bees
In the United States bees are big business. They spend the winter in air-conditioned comfort, live in high-rise mobile homes, have armed patrols guarding their nest sites, and are even provided with a shower before going to work. All because billions of dollars are at stake if the alfalfa crop fails.
Written and narrated by Anthony Smith Producer NED KELLY
Series editor PETER JONES BBC Bristol (R) Revised
continues a major season of films from Australia.
This week starring Arthur Dignam Nick Tate and The year is 1953, and the setting a repressive Catholic school for boys in Victoria, Australia ... Tom is just 13, experiencing the problems of puberty and increasingly doubtful about the religious 'vocation' forced upon him. This evocative and often lyrical movie - inspired by the director's own childhood -remains one of the most personal and richly observed works of Australian cinema.
Written, produced and directed by FRED SCHEPISI
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Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Ian Smith and Jenni Murray with a round-up of the news from home and abroad.
Highlights of the opening day, including a first showing of the 'Ascot Derby', the King Edward VU Stakes run late this afternoon.
According to reggae greats Bob Marley and Burning
Spear, football and Rastafari are one and the same thing. In the last week of the World Cup Rasta and the Ball takes you to the Marcus Garvey
Youth Club, the beaches and Kingston's back-street pitches where reggae music and football are played with equal dedication and enthusiasm in the same spirit of Rastafari. Bob Marley demonstrates his skills on the field and in the recording studio.
Directed by PAUL ALESSANDRINI and JEAN PIERRE JANSSEN An Arena production
Safeguarding the rights of children of gypsies and other travelling people is a difficult problem for education authorities. Different approaches are producing different results in the Irish Republic and in Buckinghamshire.
(R)
(to 0.40)
