Simon Potter with Sunday morning's entertainment starting with:
Bananaman: Kidnap Caper
(R)
A story about a very small ship which has an amazing journey and becomes the biggest and most beautiful ship on the Seine.
Told by Tony Robinson
After 20 long years, Odysseus returns home. But no welcome awaits him...
(R)
(R)
Simon Potter with guests, competition news and features especially for you.
Join Mark, Caron and Yvette on board the Omnibus and catch up with their adventures over the past week.
by Berlie Doherty
A serial in three parts
Jeannie Tanner has lived all her life on a Northumberland sheep farm. Now events are taking place she cannot understand. Dad, Mum, elder sister Kathleen, brother Martin, even little Marion, they all have their secrets. And Gran has a secret too.
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)
(Ceefax subtitles)
Chris Serle picks choice moments of television's past from the BBC Library at Windmill Road.
This week, Chris takes a look at skill, when John Curry skates to victory: Olga Korbut balances on a beam; Barbara Woodhouse tames a Dobermann and Fanny Cradock demonstrates the art of cooking a sausage. The special guest is Frank Bough, who tells of the skill of being a television anchor man.
Here they go again, with Dick Dastardly as the notorious commander of the Vulture Squadron.
(R)
Death of a Star
The most important event in any astronomer's lifetime. Narrator Paul Vaughan
Written and produced for WGBH Boston by ROBIN BATES
Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
France v England, plus the Digital International Ireland v Scotland
Nigel Starmer-Smith introduces highlights of yesterday's internationals.
England started their season with the hardest possible task against France, on their own ground.
Scotland, after good performances in the World Cup, hoped to continue that form against Ireland.
Comment and analysis and news of the week.
Commentators in Paris
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH and BILL BEAUMONT
Commentator in Dublin
BILL MCLAREN
Television presentation Paris, A2F France: Dublin, RTE
Series producer HUW JONES
from Prague
Highlights from this week's medal moments.
BARRY DAVIES describes this year's routines as the contenders for honours at the XV Winter Games in Calgary next month reveal their form. Television presentation: CST, Czechoslovakia Producers
JIM RESIDE and ALASTAIR SCOTT
Embassy World Professional Darts Championship from the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green Can five-times World
Champion ERIC BRISTOW be there for his sixth attempt on the title?
Whoever is taking part will provide an exciting final. Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business programme. Including this week: Power from the Bogs
Paul Burden reports on plans in Northern Ireland to build a power station fuelled by recently-discovered deposits of peat-based lignite. Can it provide cheaper electricity, and should the power station be built and run by commercial companies? Studio director SUE TURBETT Editor JONATHAN CRANE
The story of America's civil rights years, 1954-65, in six parts: told by the men and women who fought the second American revolution. 2: Fighting Back 1957-62 The declaration by the Supreme Court in 1954 that segregation in schools was unconstitutional met solid resistance in the South. In 1957 Governor Faubus of Arkansas called out the National Guard to ensure that only white students were admitted to Little Rock Central High School: a clear case of state troops preventing the enforcement of Federal law.
While the President hesitated, black students had to face an unruly mob. Someone suggested that if the mob was allowed to hang one kid, the others could escape. Produced and directed by JUDITH VECCHIONE
A BLACKSIDE INC production
featuring
The Men's Downhill and Men's Slalom from Kitzbuhel
The Hahnenkamm ... the most feared mountain in ski racing. Switzerland's PIRMIN
ZURBRIGGEN, second in the opening two downhills of this season, will be looking to go one better here - and why not? He's won three of the previous four races on the 'Streif. David Vine is looking on from the comfort of the commentary box.
Television presentation ORF. AUSTRIA Producer GRAHAM FRY
Bernard Davey reports on current ski-ing conditions in the major resorts, and considers next week's prospects.
Producer JOHN TEATHER
Ludovic Kennedy is joined by Brian Wenham Roy Hattersley and Melanie McFadden for a review of The Vision (BBC2)
Closing Ranks (ITV)
Winning in View (Channel 4) Tom McGurk investigates the role of television in uncovering miscarriages of justice.
Film director ALISON MILLYARD Studio director KATHY MYERS Producer NICHOLAS BARKER
Coca-Cola started out as a syrup into which you squirted carbonated water. The bottle designed to contain the resulting fizzy drink became one of the most famous pieces of packaging in the world. It was designed in 1916 as a result of a competition.
Despite changes of flavour, the introduction of cans and relentless global competition from rivals, the heavy glass bottle with the archaic-looking trademark still symbolises the American dream.
Accordingly it inspires approval or hostility - depending on taste.
Narrated by Jancis Robinson
"Like the bottle, this film was a winner." (Daily Mail)
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)
By Barbara Rennie from the novel "Lake of Darkness" by Ruth Rendell.
With Nicholas Farrell, Philip Davis, Harriet Bagnall and William Gaminara.
What could be luckier than a pools win? But Martin's good fortune brings deadly results.
(Feature: page 84 and Films: page 15)
(Ceefax Subtitles)
Embassy World Professional Darts Championship
Highlights of the final played earlier this evening.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA from the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN
