9.35 La maree et ses secrets: 3: Une ombre du passe
A five-part adventure serial in French by Christopher Russell and Jane Cottave.
(R) (E)
9.52 Economics: A Question of Choice: 3: Workers or Machines?
Why introduce new technology? An investigation of its impact on a provincial newspaper and other workplaces. How are workers, employers and society coming to terms with its effects?
(R) (E)
10.15 Science Workshop: Paper (A)
(Shown yesterday at 10.15 am) (E)
10.38 History File: From Sail to Steam
How the steamship developed and why it took so long to oust sail.
(R) (E)
11.0 Thinkabout: See How They Grow
(Shown yesterday at 2.0 pm) (E)
11.18 Higher Education: Polys and Colleges: 3: What Sort of Place?
A students'-eye-view of undergraduate life, touching on what it is like to be interviewed, to master new study skills and to branch out into new subjects.
(R) (E)
11.40 Scene: Boxing on the Ropes
(For full details see Friday at 12.32 pm) (E)
12.12 pm Media Studies
(Shown on Monday at 12.8 pm) (E)
12.45 Science Topics: Genetics and Genetic Engineering
Characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next by genes.
(R) (E)
1.5-1.30 A vous la France
For beginners in French, a multi-media course (based on recordings and film sequences made with a wide variety of French people) which aims to teach enough French to handle practical situations and make social contact.
(R) (E)
1.38 Outlook: Farming through the Ages: Turning the Soil
After centuries with little change, farming methods began to improve after the Enclosure Acts of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Presented by David Parry-Jones
(R) (E)
2.0 Watch: Trees: Leaves
A look at some of the largest living things - trees. Most common trees can be identified by the shape of their leaves.
James and Louise make a tree book using leaf patterns. The difference between evergreen and deciduous trees is introduced, which leads to the story of The Bird with the Broken Wing. Presented by Louise Hall-Taylor and James Earl Adair
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.0 am) (E)
2.15 Music Time: 3: Sound Signals
(Shown on Monday at 10.15 am) (E)
Coverage of this afternoon's debate on overseas affairs.
with subtitles, followed by Weather
The master comedian from the golden age of silent comedy in excerpts from the films that thrilled and entertained a generation. The lines are permanently engaged for Harold in Number Please as he and a rival vie for the attentions of the same girl; there are also hold-ups when he chases a bus conductress in Off the Trolley.
Television version written by PETER DURSTON
Produced by BOB HOAG (R)
The classic space adventure series chronicling the exploits of the captain and crew of the USS Enterprise.
Starring William Shatner as Captain James T Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr McCoy
Fifty thousand years of prejudice and hate come to a furious climax on board the Enterprise in the shape of two mirror-image aliens - cunning, contrary and blind to all reason. Kirk's attempts at mediation become ever more desperate - even to the extent of threatening his ship's destruction... (R)
A series in six parts 4: The Murray
Russell Braddon, Australian writer living in London, returns to his native land to travel the Murray -
Australia's greatest river - from source to sea.
He begins on foot, paddles his own canoe, then takes a ride on an assortment of boats. First a miniature paddle-steamer, the Emmy Lou. Then Paddy Hogg 's
Merrilinda. Finally the Murray Explorer.
'One hundred years hence,' says Braddon, 'Australia may have become Asian, or Russian, or unequivocally vulgar.... But the Murray will still be flowing unconcernedly from the mountains to her rendezvous with the indifferent sea.' Written and presented by RUSSELL BRADDON
Film editor PAUL CANTWELL
Director STAFFORD GARNER (R) * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
B and B - The Real Scandal 'They're paying £250 a week for me to live in a room I wouldn't give them threepence for.'
The government says hotels should be used only as a last resort, but for Clare and her daughter, and the thousands of other homeless families put up in bed-and-breakfast accommodation, London's inner city councils will this year pay out more than E40 million.
'You're in a prison, and you don't know when your time's up.'
Parents and children alike are suffering months, even years, in cramped, unhealthy and often dangerous conditions.
The councils' directors of housing now say they are powerless to stem the rising tide of homelessness. They say the real scandal is central government's unwillingness to co-operate and stop this suffering.
What is happening in London's homeless hotels, and why are the councils powerless to act?
Photography JOHN RECORD Film editor PETER PARNHAM Director STEVE CONNELLY Producer JEREMY GIBSON
This film is made with the directors of housing on behalf of the Association of London Authorities, with the help of the BBC Community Programme Unit.
The Price of the Past
A few weeks ago, a Victoria Cross, won at the battle of Rorke's Drift more than 100 years ago, was sold at auction in London.
In May, four pages from a medieval illuminated manuscript about the life of Saint Thomas Beckett changed hands for the first time in nearly 500 years. Both occasions were dominated by the vast sums of money paid out to purchase these fragments of the past. But there was precious little discussion of the actual political events that led to the battle in which James Dalton won his VC, or of the religious and social climate in which Matthew Paris wrote and illustrated his manuscripts, now so rare. Peter France introduces three films which explore the background to these historic items and the motivation of some of those who bid for them.
Producers ROBERT MARSHALL
ANTONIA BENEDEK , DENIS MORIARTY Editor ROY DAVIES
More fun and frolics as the whacky duo think it a super wheeze to rehash an old Terry and June script. Starring
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Anna Dawson Alexandra Dane Robin Driscoll Barbara Ewing Peter McCarthy Stan Young
Written by CLIVE ANDERSON BARRY BOWES. PAUL B. DAVIES
ROBIN DRISCOLL. ROGER PLANER LAURIE ROWLEY and MOHAMMED BOSTOCK-MOHAMMED Music PETER BREWIS Designers
JOHN ANDERSON and BOB COVE Director ROBIN CARR
Associate producer JAMIE RIX Producer JOHN KILBY
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
The return of the award-winning series of films on the way we live now.
Ten Days in Holloway
The governor of Britain's biggest women's prison has been tipped off to expect trouble on the main remand wing ... A drug addict, suffering from AIDS antibodies, is exercising alone. Other prisoners have threatened her....
In the Muppet House - the horrifying nickname for the psychiatric unit - officers and nurses grapple with a woman who has injured herself.... This is the new Holloway in London, which was rebuilt like a secure hospital. Nearly ten years after the first inmates arrived, it is firmly a prison and suffering from a shortage of officers in a building that is a security nightmare. Cells are overcrowded, with prisoners locked in most of the day. And these are mainly women on remand, still innocent in law. Flare-ups are sudden and frequent. This is a record of just ten days in Holloway. Photography CHRIS SEAGER Sound BRIAN BIFFIN
Film editor ALAN LYGO
Producer HARRY WEISBLOOM Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
0 FEATURE: page 3
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Robin Ray presents the third round of this year's nationwide competition.
Apart from questions to test their all-round knowledge, each contestant is examined on a specific area of the cinema.
Kenneth Davies also answers questions on Shirley MacLaine Michael Fryman on Martin Scorsese Peter Ferguson on Leslie Howard Brian Andre on German films of the 1920s Devised by ROBIN RAY Film editor/researcher MALCOLM ILUNGWORTH
Director JONATHAN BULLEN Producer JOHN BUTTERY BBC Manchester
Introduced from Bournemouth by Peter Snow
Further coverage from the annual conference of the Conservative Party, and the rest of the day's news at home and abroad.
