Dennis and Clive get into the spirit of the Commonwealth
Games - Dennis has spent all week rehearsing for the egg and spoon race.
With Wayne Jackman and Ian Tregonning. Director Alan Yardley
Producer Christine Hewitt
Playdays
The Playbus stops today at The Tent Stop.
Where Humphrey and Wobble Clown join Trish Cooke ,
Ricky Diamond, Amerjit Deu and Shelaagh Ferrell with children from Swaffield School in Wandsworth, London to tell the story The Rajah's Ears. A traditional Indian story retold by Michael Rosen. Music Richard Brown (R)
Mark Chatterton tells the story Punishment Book by David Self.
BBC North West
Scrappy's Playhouse
Starring the Chuckle Brothers.
A bumper edition of the show as Paul and Barry set to work on a car.
'Really?' 'Wheelie!'
BBC North West
Spitting Image (R)
8.55 Introduction to
Economics
9.20 The Changing
Experience of Education
10.10 Technology: Facts Are Not Enough!
10.35 Constable: The Leaping Horse
11.00 Managing Schools
11.25 Modern Art: Picasso
11.50 Small Business: The Successful Seven
12.15 Strategic Management: Flying in the Face of Change
12.40 Panel Painting
1.05 Children's Drawings
1.30 The Changing Countryside
5: Rajlakshmi, her mother and sister are thrown out of the house and go to live with her uncle. They are a high-caste Brahmin family - quite rare in this village. The girls are growing up, but will they ever find husbands?
A Network East presentation BBC Pebble Mill (R)
(In Hindi with English subtitles)
Lord Gilbert is away at the Crusades and his wicked brother, Baron de Malherbe, has taken over Locksay Castle. The lord's daughter, Marion, escapes from the castle. Meanwhile, Robin Jr's younger brother is seized when the Baron's men search their village.
Films: pages 18-21
Ceefax subtitles
Starring John Mills, Sylvia Syms and Anthony Quayle.
During the German offensive in Libya in 1942, Captain Anson, commander of a motor ambulance convoy, finds himself cut off from his unit with only an old ambulance to take him back to Alexandria. His companions are two young nurses and his sergeant, Tom Pugh. As the little party sets off on the long journey, they meet Van der Poel, a South African captain, who begs a lift.
John Mills gives one of his most famous performances as the hard-drinking Anson in this suspenseful war drama.
PROFILE ON JOHN MILLS: page 18
Presented by Moira Stuart.
Chris Lowe reviews the week in pictures, with subtitles.
Followed by Weatherview.
A season of classic performances of the work of Samuel Beckett.
Starring Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton.
Winnie is buried up to her waist in the centre of a mound of earth. In Act 2, she has sunk to her neck. In this strange predicament she carries on contentedly with the routine of her ordinary happy days, while husband Willie looks quietly on. This is a recording of the 1979 Royal Court Theatre production directed by Samuel Beckett himself. (R) ("Not I" with Billie Whitelaw Wednesday 10.15pm)
Clive James takes an entertaining look at the world's media.
An eight-part series by Debbie Horsfield.
Free the minds of the workers and up the profits. Modern management techniques hit Lyne Electronics with unexpected consequences for Klepto and Simon.
(First shown on BBC1)
Ceefax subtitles
Starring
Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm and James Fox.
When Lord Clayton and his pregnant wife are shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1886, a legend is born. Their son John, reared in the jungle by apes, is master of all he surveys - until a hunting party strays into his territory, bringing with it the violence of civilisation.
Films: pages 18-21
Ceefax subtitles
