9.35 Mach's Gut!: 2: Eating and Drinking
Basic skills in German
Buying a snack or a meal; preferences; compliments.
With Robert Rauch, Sylvia Rotter
Introduced by Paul McDowell
(E)
9.52 Look and Read: Badger Girl: 7: Mick's Map
(E)
10.15 Around Scotland: The Vikings 1: Homelands
(E)
10.38 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
Folds
followed by The Right Shape
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.57 am) (E)
11.0 Wondermaths: Programme 7
(E)
11.17 Geography Casebook: Britain: Farming: East and West
'Agri-business' in East Anglia and family dairy-farming in Northern Ireland.
(R) (E)
11.40 Look, Look and Look Again: If You Go Down to the Woods
(E)
12.0 English File: The Power of Language - Power to Move
Words can be spoken, sung, read and written to express feelings and provoke emotional responses. Ken Dodd talks about making people laugh and Linda Thompson sings a love song.
(R) (E)
12.32 pm Scene: Nobody Here Knows
by Ray Jenkins
When Danny is sent over to London from Belfast his parents hope he'll leave the Troubles behind him. But how will he come to terms with a strange city, the local lads and his feelings for his cousin Kathy?
(R) (E)
1.5 Switch on to English
Key aspects of spoken and written English are taught using extracts from well-known television series as reinforcement.
(R) (E)
1.33 General Studies: The Bugs Business
(E)
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs is upset but Cosmo doesn't notice. Later they both cheer up to discover that all living things need water.
Story: Meg's Car by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski
(R) (E)
International Tennis
The Benson and Hedges Championships from Wembley Arena
With nine players ranked in the top 20 here at Wembley, today's quarter-final matches should produce some outstanding tennis.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES
Racing from Ascot
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
2.40 The AT Cross Ascot
Hurdle Race (21m. Grade 2) For the past two seasons the top-class fields this race always draws have been dominated by the 1983 Champion Hurdler, Gaye Brief; and there's sure to be huge support for the old favourite if he goes for the hat-trick this year.
3.10 The Hurst Park Novices' Steeple Chase (2m. Grade 2)
3.40 The Lion Gate Handicap Hurdle Race (3m) Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN Producer FRED VINER
Chay Blyth and Richard Branson with tales of big money and adventure and the best and worst of British.
from Wembley Arena
Further coverage of this afternoon's quarter-finals.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT GERALD WILLIAMS , MARK COX Producers JOHNNIE WATHERSTON ALASTAIR SCOTT
Starring Lassie
with Bonita Granville, Robert Bray, Karl Swenson, Barbara Graham, John Archer.
Continuing the season of films starring one of the screen's favourite canine stars. Lassie makes friends with two youngsters living in a lake-side cabin. They come to her rescue when she is trapped in a disused mine-shaft.
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Australia v England from Brisbane
At the Oval last year David Gower lifted the Ashes amid scenes of jubilation. Now, 15 months and 11 Tests later, that remains England's last Test victory - a miserable sequence MIKE GATTING 'S men will be eager to reverse as they start their defence of the Ashes. Highlights of the first day's play are introduced by RICHIE BENAUD.
Television presentation CHANNEL 9 Australia
The weekly look at the world of information technology. Miami city managers have commissioned a new system of computerised radios that can be reprogrammed from headquarters - particularly useful for the police.
If you run a small business and are considering a computer Ian McNaught-Davis and Kathy Lang from "Personal Computer World" give some basic advice. And a unique project in Northamptonshire where programmers in a sheltered workshop are writing software for an adult training centre.
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The competition to find the Choir of the Year 1986 returns to BBC2 throughout the autumn. Already 302 amateur. choirs have taken part in preliminary heats. Tonight local choirs battle for three remaining places in the quarter-finals.
Sue Cook meets some of the singers between performances.
Lighting JOHN BLACK
Producer HILARY BOULDING Director ALAN TONGUE BBC Scotland
(In association with Sainsbury's) Record, Cardiff Singer of the World 1985, REGL/ZCF 581 available from retailers
Reporter Glyn Worsnip
Yvonne Fletcher was the policewoman murdered by Libyan diplomats. Now her mother is spear-heading a campaign to make diplomats and their families answerable to the law.
Glyn Worsnip investigates the abuses of diplomatic immunity - from ignoring parking tickets to major crimes - and reports on the campaigners who are dedicated to changing the law.
Research JULIE STUDER Film editor RON POPE Producer ALAN EREIRA
BBC South and East: Elstree (Regional programme - see variations at foot of column 5)
from Barnsdale
Presented by Geoff Hamilton, John Kelly, Margaret Waddy
Next week sees the start of a new series of Going to Pot, but in the last of this season's editions of Gardeners' World there really is plenty to do in the garden. Now is the right time for planting miniature fruit trees. These are ideal for both the small garden and for growing in containers on the patio. Even now there are vegetables which can be sown and grown over winter either in the cold greenhouse or under cloches; and some of the myths of winter digging are exploded. It is also time for lifting dahlias and storing geraniums and fuchsias, and there's how to construct an easy-to-build compost bin.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON
Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE
BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261
with John Pitman
Six films which go behind the scenes of places which are part of the British way of life.
It's spring in Albert Square. The daffs are out; the trees are in leaf and love is in the air.
Actually it's early March; the daffs are plastic, the leaves are made of material and tied on with cotton, and Den and Angie and Dot and Ethel and the gang are shivering on the outside set at Elstree.
Today Michelle and Lofty get engaged on a bench in the square. Lofty is frozen; Michelle is laughing. She's got her baby to keep her warm - a large vest padded with foam and muslin - 'jolly useful place to keep a hot water bottle or a hip flask' says Susan Tully who plays Michelle.
It's not easy living in a fantasy world. People keep asking Susan where her baby is. 'I tell them the truth - it's hanging up in the dressing room.'
As the day goes on, there's tragic news about Willy; Wendy Richard talks about her private life and Leslie Grantham explains why he's writing to the Guinness Book of Records.
Oh, and June Brown - Dot - says she's not worried about people from the past selling her secrets. 'My acquaintances were far too elegant,' she says, 'and anyway most of them are dead.'
EastEnders' records, Nick Berry - 'Every loser wins' RESL 204, The Banned - 'Something outa nothing' RESL/12RSL 205 available from retailers
Feature: page 15
by DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE 'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
Producer BRENDA REID
Director JANE HOWELL (R)
with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Nick Worrall
And the day's news from home and abroad with Ian Smith , Nick Clarke
Gill Nevill and Chris Lowe
The Benson and Hedges Championships from Wembley Arena
Highlights of this evening's matches with a place in tomorrow's semi-finals at stake.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES
Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS. MARK COX
starring with Queen of Peru
Hopes to negotiate calmly for the return of a million-dollar stolen diamond are dashed when a family travelling by camper move on, taking Jim's barbecue grill with them....
Written by DAVID CHASE
Directed by META ROSENBERG (R)
