Scilly Isles

Mechanik des Wandels
The world's largest automated assembly hall is at VW in West Germany. Why is this kind of advanced machinery not available in the UK?

Written and presented by Mike Amatt
The Seaside
Mop takes a boat trip.
Animation SIMON AND SARA BOR Director SID WADDELL Producer DAVID BROWN BBC North West (R)

Weather followed by Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon
2: Heaven, Hell and EldoradoColumbus imagined South America's jungles to be a paradise, but later explorers found them more like hell. Yet for many they still hold the promise of wealth.
Jack Pizzey went into the Amazon basin to meet the fortune-hunters and the losers.
Producer GEOFFREY BARNES (R)

Weather followed by The Eldon Street
Revival
Britain's industrial cities are at death's door. The population that gave them life is retreating in search of work and opportunity. Left behind are the elderly, the sick and the unemployed. But in Liverpool, as John Harrison discovers, one dockland community is stubbornly - and successfully - staying put. The
'Eldonians' are raising millions of pounds to build homes and jobs.
Producer ROB ROHRER
(First shown in 'Brass Tacks

A dance-drama based on a poem by John Clare, performed by students of High Storrs School, Sheffield.
BBC North East (R)

Final episode of the classic medical drama series Aftermath
As the successful candidates prepare for a new life they are witness to an astonishing act of self-sacrifice ... (R)
(A new 'Dr Kildare' story begins next Monday)

4: The Black Country and Birmingham
Tony Butler is back on home territory as he continues his journey along the waterways of the Midlands, but he sees his beloved Black Country from a very different angle. This week the narrow boat passes through the last canal tunnel to be built in Britain and on into the heart of Birmingham. En route Tony meets one of the few working boatmen left, hears a strange ghost story and finds out all about fishing.

Corfu Taverna
Anne Gregg finds the quieter and cheaper corners of Corfu by living taverna-style. Director PRUE GEAREY
Producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN (R)

Immortalised in the Guinness Book of Records, a converted cowshed in the wilds of Scotland had, for many years, housed 'The Smallest Theatre in Great Britain'. Husband and wife, Barrie and Marianne Hesketh were the solo directors, designers and cast for every production. Sadly, Marianne died and as a tribute, the tiny theatre was revisited. Producer ALAN YENTOB (R)

with John Tovey and Marjorie Lofthouse
John Wyatt , a National Parks ranger, takes Marjorie for a walk on the fells, under the shadow of Skiddaw with splendid views over Derwentwater.
John prepares a picnic of soup and 'no-knead' bread.

starring
Tom Conway Rita Corday
Some people would kill to possess
Mrs Peabody 's pearls - but when somebody does so, did they get the real necklace? And if everybody has a strong alibi, who committed the crime? The famous 'Falcon', sleuth extraordinary
Tom Lawrence , must outwit the police to find the answers.
Screenplay by PAUL YAwrrz Produced by WILLIAM BERKE Directed by RAY MCCAREY
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[Starring] Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko

Marooned on a lonely Pacific island since 1942, Private Lester Mendlesohn is being rehabilitated at Fort Baxter - and so is his $7,456.38 back pay!
(R)

Ebony's putting on the style with top designer
Joe Casely-Hayford and investigating a new consultancy set up to promote design. Plus advice on skin care for men. Ebony also focuses on D-Max, a group of young photographers who are trying to develop new images of black people, and Homing
In on the Base Commander of RAF Alconbury, a US airbase in Cambridgeshire.
Series producer VASTIANA BELFON Executive producer JOHN WILCOX BBC Pebble Mill

How does the great British public really spend the weekend? In the first of two programmes, Nigel Farrell meets people who aren't content to mow the lawn, walk the dog or potter round the vegetable patch.
Instead they're ballooning, orienteering, exploring sewers or investigating dozens of other activities designed to get the maximum fun out of those precious 48 hours.
Executive producer PETER LOWE Producer NIGEL FARRELL
(Regional programme - for variations see below)

from Birchgrove, Cardiff and Wellesbourne, Warwickshire with Geoff Hamilton and Anne Swithinbank
Two years ago Martin James decided to grow vegetables in an allotment. With no previous knowledge, he contacted the National Vegetable Research Station at Wellesbourne for advice. Geoff Hamilton surveys the results and Anne Swithinbank looks at how the work of the NVRS can help the amateur gardener. Executive producer JOHN KENYON Production assistant CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer MARK KERSHAW BBC Pebble Mill
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Further coverage from tonight's important Grand Prix in Brussels.
The next Grand Prix is the Weltklasse in Cologne which is featured in Sunday Grandstand.

starring
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Debbi Blythe
Kim Clifford , Janice Cramer Alexandra Dane
Robin Driscoll , Nigel Harman Roger Lloyd Pack Linda Lusardi
Peter McCarthy Hugh Paddick
Written by CLIVE ANDERSON
ROBIN DRISCOLL. RORY MCGRATH ROGER PLANNER
GRIFF RHYS JONES. JAMIE RIX TONY SARCHET. MEL SMITH NICK WILTON
Music by PETER BREWIS
Production JOHN KILBY. JAMIE rix (R)
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The Edinburgh Festival's World Theatre Season gets under way with a return visit by the stunning Ninagawa Company of Japan. They present The Tempest, while the Scottish play finds a new home on Incholm Island in the Firth of Forth.
Muriel Gray also reports back from the extremities of the Fringe which this year boasts a mere 322 drama premieres.

Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with the day's top stories and the background on events
11.15 Weatherview t

Lada Classic from Kenilworth Road, Luton With just four weeks to go to the Olympics, Great Britain faces tough opposition in this four-nation tournament.
Holland, Kenya and Spain will all be in Seoul, where the British team are seeded second behind Australia.
BARRY DAVIES introduces highlights of tonight's match between GREAT BRITAIN and KENYA.
Producer ALAN GRIFFITHS

starring Mari Kiss, Tom Wentzel
When Pekka arrives in Budapest with messages for a friend's fiance, he has a wonderful time with Mari and her two girlfriends. Their only common language is phrase-book English but everything goes swimmingly until Agi and Hi explain their ingenious plan to get Mari legally out of the country... This engaging comedy about foiling the immigration laws was made as a Hungarian-Finnish co-production with a sharp eye for the foibles of each country.
(A Hungarian-Finnish film with English subtitles)
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