Urban Development
The Cumbria Way passes through some of the most beautiful scenery in the north west. Devised shortly after the county's creation in the mid-70s, it is still one of the lesser-known long-distance footpaths.
Colin Philpott took a week out to walk it, encountering Cumbrian characters and only a little rain on the way. Executive producer STEVE IRELAND (R)
NatWest Bank Trophy Semi-finals
Tony Lewis and Richie Benaud introduce live coverage from both of today's 60-overs-per-side semi-finals. Commentators:
Jack Bannister , Ray Illingworth , Tom Graveney , Alan Knott and David Acfield.
In this film without words some of Ireland's best music guides us on a journey through some of Europe's most beautiful countryside. Producer JENNY CROPPER (R)
Wand
Fingermouse learns to use the conductor's baton.
Designer RICHARD BRACKENBURY Producer MICHAEL COLE (R)
NatWest Bank Trophy Semi-finals
Live coverage to the finish.
1.35 News and coverage from both matches.
1.50 Live coverage from one semi-final. The other is on BBC1.
4.10 Live coverage from both matches. including at
2.00pm and 3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
Ian Adam is joined by Bonnie Langford , Robert Meadmore and Jodie Wilson.
The second programme of the series sees a before-and-after progress check on the three newcomers, Joe Connor , Frieda Reece and Louise Weston.
From lan's star guests we learn how to sing through a cold, how to sing a comic song and why pop and Puccini go together so well. Accompanist and musical associate JANET EDWARDS
Lighting ANDREW COWLEY
Designer PETER CALDWELL Executive producer JOHN GAU Director BOB MARSLAND Producer IAN SQUIRES BBC North West
Live from Zurich
Further live coverage of tonight's important Grand Prix meeting in Zurich, including the men's 200m and 1500m.
by Frank McGuinness.
Starring and
Palmer has been United's scout for many generations of young footballers, sending across the water the best Irish talent regardless of background. As six more hopefuls gather at his isolated cottage for a weekend trial, their dreams of following George Best's path from Belfast are shattered by the violent return of a past graduate.
BBC Northern Ireland (R)
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with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick
Letters in the Rock
Poet Tony Harrison visits
Blackpool, where the annual conference of the Master Masons is meeting.
More than two-thirds of people in the UK are cremated when they die, and the majority have no gravestone. But the need for memorial remains.
Producer PETER SYMES (R)
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12.00 Sam's
Story Sam has multiple disabilities and is without speech. But she successfully attends a normal school.
Producer BOB WALTERS (R)
12.25am X-rays and Energy Levels
X-rays revolutionised medicine, but not so well known is how the discovery helped to revolutionise our understanding of the atom. Producer JOHN STRATFORD (R)
