Maths Methods: Waves

9.50am Quinze Minutes: Al'ecole (e)

10.05am You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. Song: Nellie the Elephant (R) (e)

10.20am Search Out Science: Light Effects
'I'm looking through you, you're not the same'. Like the Beatles in their song, the programme makers have tried to see the world from a different viewpoint. Join Carmen Pryce, Elin Rhys and Paul Viragh for lots of practical ideas about investigating light and colour, and find out why the combination of black and yellow can be deadly. (e)

10.40am Around Scotland: Farming in Scotland: 2: The Modern Farmyard
Modern technology, in the form of new machines and improved methods of animal rearing, has transformed Scottish farming from the labour-intensive industry it once was. (R) (e)

11.00am: Words and Pictures: Butterflies and Moths (e)

11.15am English Time: Tea-Leaf on the Roof: 2
by Jean Ure.
Dramatised by Stephen Wakelam.
'Very well done you kids. If it hadn't been for you....' (R) (e)

11.35am Inset: Television in the Primary Classroom
Primary school teachers talk about the role of television in promoting active learning.

12.10pm Science in Action: Keep It Clean (e)

12.30pm Lifeschool: You and the Law: Beware the Beach
The first of three programmes on the law.
With beaches polluted with sewage and a nature reserve threatened by the Channel Tunnel, is the law doing anything to protect our environment? (R) (e)

12.55pm The Software Show
Carol Vorderman looks at various ways of getting into print with word processing and desk-top publishing. (e)
Magazine: send £1.30 cheque or postal order made payable to BSS to [address removed]

1.20pm Fingermouse: Percussion
The triangle is Fingermouse's favourite percussion instrument. (R)

1.40pm Zig Zag: Viking Sailors (e)

2.00pm News; Weather
followed by
Storytime: Tiddalick
In this adaptation of an aboriginal dreamtime legend, Juliet Alderdice introduces us to Tiddalick, a big frog with an even bigger thirst. Children from an infant school in Edgware act out their own story about Australian animals. (e)

Parents should note that some of 'Daytime on Two' is aimed at teenagers and may be unsuitable for the young.

Paul Coia tells of the Viking sailors who roamed the world, looks at the characteristics of Viking boats and re-tells the saga of the discovery of Vinland (America). Show more

The afternoon session from the Labour Party Conference including major debates on Labour's far-reaching Policy Review encompassing such subjects as the economy, environment and foreign affairs. Presenters: David Dimbleby, Vivian White and Ian Smith.

Including at 3.00pm News and Weather.

Bill Buckley sail-drives to Santander in northern Spain to stay in some very grand surroundings, the Paradores - hotels owned and run by the government.
(R)

Miniature roses are becoming very fashionable. With Geoff Hamilton, Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood.

Gardening: page 103

Buck Rogers In the 25th Century
Shgoratchx Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers Erin Grey as Wilma and Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr Goodfellow.
(Gil Gerard is a guest of 'Wogan' on Friday at 7.00pm on BBC1)

Music Business 'Successful recording industry requires new members. Musical ability unnecessary. Must have own mental equipment. To work on new album How I Got Into the Music Business.' Caroline Hanson and Sheryl Simms have more details. Director GARY HUNTER
Series producer PAUL CAMPBELL A DIVERSE production for BBCtv

Children of the Sun (R)

Sir Robin Day presents news and analysis from the Labour Party Conference including major interviews with leading Labour politicians. The primary focus of the week's events is Labour's Policy Review which aims to boost the party's chances of winning the next election.
Vivian White reports.

Leon Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution and creator of the Red Army. Brilliant and eloquent, and expected to succeed Lenin, he was forced into exile, airbrushed out of Soviet history and murdered in 1940 on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin. Today, as Stalin's terrible heritage is being slowly dismantled, this film, using archive footage and personal memoirs, looks at the life and ideas of the revolutionary who was the dictator's first and greatest enemy. A film by Alain du Grand and Patrick Le Gall.

Hot Lips celebrates her liberation as a divorcee.
(R)

A four-part serial.
Screenplay from his own novel by David Lodge.
January 1986. Industry Year. Rummidge, that lovely, sprawling Midlands city raked by motorways, reluctantly confronts another working week. On our right, Mr Vic Wilcox - dynamic, self-made managing director appointed to 'turn round' a struggling engineering firm. On our left, Dr Robyn Penrose - university lecturer in English Literature and expert on the Victorian industrial novel. They have no notion of each other's existence; the piece of paper that will bring them together lies in a recycled envelope at the bottom of someone's in-tray....

(BBC Pebble Mill)
(Feature: page 17)

Personal reflections on the best of 20th-century architecture in Britain. Stamford Bridge
Architect Nigel Coates delights in Chelsea Football Stadium's East Stand
(Darbourne and Darke, 1972). 'Most people couldn't think of this as architecture,' says
Coates, 'let alone architecture worth celebrating. More than ever before, architecture should be allowed to have a real personality to release a sort of energy, and I think this is a pretty good example.' Researcher RUTH ROSENTHAL Producer CLARE PATERSON Director LESLEY MANNING BBC Elstree

with Jeremy Paxman.

In an exclusive profile filmed in Italy, the best-selling novelist, distinguished professor and controversial journalist Umberto Eco talks about his work. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, sold ten million copies. His latest, Foucault's Pendulum, is published in Britain this month. Original soundtrack music by Luciano Berio. Researcher RACHEL FOSTER Cameraman COLIN CASE Director JAMES RUNCIE

12.00 Preparing for the Exam Revising for Mathematical Models and Methods. Producer PIP SURGEY (R)
12.25am Asian Rickets: The English Disease
In 1981 the Department of Health launched a 'Stop
Rickets' campaign aimed at the Asian community. What were the consequences?
Producer VICTOR LOCKWOOD