The increasing interest in alternative medicine is now widely covered in the media. Today's programme features a homoeopathic doctor in Manchester, some of his patients, and specialists in alternative medicine.
Music is a modern Bangia song by Shaheen Mahmood. An ASIAN UNIT presentation BBC Pebble Mill
9.35 Treffpunkt Osterreich: Studio Murz-Schuller Machen Programm
A language resource programme.
How to get your own radio show on air - teenagers cover a soap box derby for Austrian radio.
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10.15 Look and Read: Badger Girl: Stripey the Superbadger
by Andrew Davies
Mick and the children have a go at saving the ponies, but they're no match for Barker and Deal.
With Margo Gunn, John Hollis, Ashiek Madhvani, James Marston, Julia Millbank, Nick Orchard, Kieron O'Shea, William Squire, Charles Collingwood, Katie Hebb and Gary Watson
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10.38 Science in Action: Sixth Sense?
Infra-red light and ultrasonic sound. Explore inner-space with a microscope and make a pair of 3-D glasses.
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11.0 Watch: Clothes: Dressing Up
How do different clothes make us feel? How can the Flat Hats and the Tall Hats stop their fighting and be friends? And can Tony turn Jaye into a pantomime character? Discover what clothes the panto dame wears at the Theatre Royal, Windsor. Presented by Jaye Griffiths, Tony Neilson
Guest appearance Bryan Burdon as Widow Twankey
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11.17 Near and Far: Tundra
Home to the Eskimos and oil people: frozen solid in winter and abounding with wildlife in summer.
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11.40 Wondermaths: Programme 10
Investigator enters the Sea of Reflections and Stella, Zak and Hudson investigate some tricky mirror problems.
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11.57 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
19: Patterns
Repeat it, slide it, give it a half-drop, even multiply it with mirrors.
20: Time Graph
How to show movement on a still picture. A bouncing ball and a car journey provide the raw material; music notation provides a clue.
(R) (e)
12.18 pm Maths Counts: What Price to Pay?
Bert falls for a 'special offer' but Elsie falls - for Solihull?
(R) (e)
12.40 Politics of Pressure: Using the Media
The last of five programmes on the art of political lobbying.
(R) (e)
1.5 Telejournal
(Shown yesterday at 11.30 pm) (e)
1.33 English Time: Buddy: Every Day It's a-Getting Closer
by Nigel Hinton
featuring Roger Daltrey as Terry
Buddy's plan to reunite his parents and to stop his dad's thieving goes disastrously wrong. There seems to be only one way out now - to leave and live on his own. But where?
(R) (e)
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo is jealous of the attention Dibs gets from Mr B.
Countdown from six to zero
Book: On my Way to School by Celia Berridge
with Michael Balfour
(R) (e)
Choices for Deaf Children
'How can you make the right decision about your deaf child's education if you don't know what the options are?' Director DAVID WILLIAMS Producer LAN WOOLF
(e) The Parent Book £3.95 from [address removed]
Also available from bookshops
for Advent Sunday
(Shown on Sunday 6.40pm BBC
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Nick Clarke presents an early edition of the nightly programme, in which he'll further explore some of the topics covered in recent days, along with live coverage of major afternoon events, including both Houses of Parliament. Newsnight's team of reporters and correspondents at home and abroad will develop the issues of the week, with the help of those who are making the news.
Editor RICHARD TAIT
Join Pamela and her guests for entertainment with music and conversation - her own alternative to Children's BBC.
Producer VANESSA WHlTBURN BBC Pebble Mill
Newlyn in Cornwall is renowned for inspiring artists. Its fish market inspires intrepid cook and bon viveur Keith Floyd to make a rich but inexpensive bouillabaisse. He also pays a respectful visit to the Duchy of Cornwall oyster farm on the Helford river, where he ponders the mystery of this curious, but expensive, shellfish.
Film editor PHIL WILKINSON Producer DAVID PRITCHARD BBC South West (R)
with Howard Stableford
Judith Hann , Peter Macann and Maggie Philbin
Using sound to see and hear inside the human heart. And the BBC Domesday discs: a unique portrait of Britain today on laser disc - the 'book' of the future.
Producer MARTIN MORTIMORE Editor RICHARD REISZ
Mystery Tour
There's a coach booked - and the videos and films are ready to roll. But Lillie, Dorothy,
Flo and Clara and all the rest of the Greenacres Over-60s Club don't know the destination. Neither do Jenny and Tony - nor the crew.
Associate producer JONATHAN KING Production PETER HAMILTON BBC Manchester
by LESLIE STEWART with After a 14-day adventure and survival course, run by the army for unemployed teenagers, Jet hates the thought of returning home. He's got better ideas - after all, he now knows how to survive.
Film editor
TIM CAWSTON
Produced and directed by ROGER TONGE
Thames Sailing Barges
Once there were more than 2,000 Thames sailing barges around the east coast of England.
Those days are long past, but some of the barges have survived and do still regularly sail.
Each year they race in barge matches, some still crewed by old bargemen who have many a tale to tell. Narrated by Tom Salmon Director
YVONNE DEUTSCHMAN
Producer BRIAN HAWKINS BBC Bristol (R)
Australia v
England RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the fourth day's play in Perth.
Television presentation CHANNEL 9. Australia
Once again Steve Race provides the questions in the light-hearted musical quiz for the competing teams of Denis Norden with Ian Wallace and John Amis with Frank Muir TV presentation DOUGLAS HESPE
Presented by Chris Kelly, Michael Barry, Jill Goolden.
Fast Food... a tasting task-force samples six types of fast food. Which is the tastiest, which the most nutritious? Healthy Food... Doctor of Nutrition Tom Sanders argues that the scare about additives obscures what's really wrong with our diets. Festive Food... three weeks before Christmas, a crafty recipe for low-fat mince pies. Drink... a new range of low-alcohol beers has been launched. Are they as good as the real thing?
with Marthe Keller
This moving love story stars Pacino as a champion racing driver who falls in love with Lillian, a girl he meets at a Swiss clinic.
She has a great zest for life, but Bobby is increasingly disturbed by her flights of fantasy and the risks she takes. There is more to Lillian than appears on the exuberant surface....
Screenplay by ALVIN SARGENT Produced and directed by SYDNEY POLLACK
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Presented by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Nick Worrall with Ian Smith , Nick Clarke Gill Nevill and Chris Lowe
