Yesterday's proceedings in Parliament.
Presented by Peter Mayne.
Parents should note that some of Daytime on Two is aimed at teenagers and may be unsuitable for the young.
To check the movement of the massive SS Great Eastern when it was launched sideways into the Thames, Brunel relied on inclined planes, hydraulic jacks and winches. How do today's young technologists solve a similar problem on a much smaller scale?
Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie and one of the original capitals of industrial America, is struggling with the problems of decline as investment for new industry seeks out more profitable locations in the south and west of the USA. (R)
Make a List followed by Make a Graph
The joys and pitfalls of starting your own business.
From Fantastic Plastic (disco), Flanagan (cartoons), Jest'us (clowns), Valley Landscapes (gardening co-op) and Brum Unlimited (events, merchandising and magazines). (R)
Designed to help science departments discuss and implement their own ideas about the varied demands of secondary science including GCSE and balanced science in schools. (R)
Percussion
Music by RICHARD BROWN Puppet by JOANNE COLE Graphics CLARE BEATON
Producer MICHAEL COLE (R)
Tony Neilson and Susanna Dawson return to the 1950s.
In this, the first of five programmes, they remember smog, new towns and the Coronation. (R)
Embassy World Indoor Bowls
Championship 1990
David Icke introduces this afternoon's coverage from the Preston Guild Hall where the singles competition continues with two more quarter-finals. Commentators: David Rhys Jones and Jimmy Davidson. Summarisers: John Bell Mal Hughes and David McGill.
Live coverage of today's business in Parliament including Prime Minister's Question Time.
Presented by Vivian White.
Commentator: Brian Curtois.
Regional News and Weather
World Indoor
Bowls Championship 1990 Further coverage of this afternoon's two quarter-final matches in the singles.
Presented by David Icke , from the Preston Guild Hall.
How to lose weight without that four-letter word - DIET.
With June Whitfield,
Dr Adrianne Hardman and Dr Stuart Biddle. Producers PETER RAMSDEN and ALAN RUSSELL
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From Earth to Miranda
In the outer solar system, five planets and their moons orbit in perpetual twilight. NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to explore this spectacular region.
Producer JUDITH BUNTING
Series editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL (Postponed from I February)
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Starring Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood.
In this superlative Ealing comedy, a humble laboratory dishwasher, Sidney Stratton, produces a miraculous invention â a fabric that cannot get dirty and never wears out. Being politically naive, Sidney is amazed that no one wants his invention; but being also an idealist, he is determined that the world shall have it.
Barry Norman: pages 13-14
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Mindscape
Directed by JACQUES DROUIN
A National Film Board of Canada production (R)
It's 1990. By now we were all supposed to be working less, with the microchip making boring jobs obsolete. Yet there are more jobs than ever, people work longer hours and the pressure is on. 9 II 5 5 returns to keep you abreast of the changing world of work. Susan Rae goes to Sheffield, once the great steel heartland of the north, but now bidding to become a post-industrial city in which music will provide more jobs than metal bashing. Geoff Small reports from Southampton on workaholic mania. John Withington asks what the changing pattern of work means for Britain.
By Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. Open Government
Starring Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne.
Music RONNIE HAZLEHURST Design JIM CLAY
Produced by STUART ALLEN (R)
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In January, a BBC team accompanying a relief convoy to Romania came across a castle in Transylvania where handicapped children were being kept in appalling conditions. When the pictures were shown in Britain, they sparked a nationwide appeal. A month later, reporter Jenny Craddock returned with a second convoy to see what could be done to help. Cameraman RIK CAULDER Producer JIM MCDOUGALL BBC West
Spaghetti Hoops
Aldo Vini is chairman of Banco Ambiguani - as well as being a freemason and a crook. After Vini steals
$200 million, his friend Bertoli shops him to the police. Vini does a bunk ...
Written by PETER RICHARDSON and PETE RICHENS
Produced by LOLLI KIMPTON
Directed by PETER RICHARDSON
A Comic Strip production for BBCtv
A Safe Sex for a Safe Seat
In Buxton, Jill and Mary have a goal. They are looking for a candidate for High Peak.
For the first time, cameras are allowed behind the doors of a selection committee. Will a woman get through the first round? If so, how will she answer the question: 'Is there anything in your past which could damage or embarrass the Conservative Party?' Producer RUTH JACKSON Editor CAROLINE PICK
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The Condom
Casanova's was made of animal skin. During the war they tried nylon. For most of its life it's been famous for being rubber. Today we are told to carry our condoms with pride but for years even the word itself was cause for embarrassment.
Series producer KIM FLITCROFT Producer MICK CONEFREY BBC Bristol
With Jeremy Paxman.
What's on, who's here and what's up in the arts and media.
Producer JANEY WALKER
Previews of programmes from the Open University. Producer KEVIN NEWPORT
The small town of Swadlincote, in south Derbyshire, is unique in Britain in that it is the only place where mentally handicapped children go to school with other local children. (R)
Embassy World Indoor
Bowls Championship 1990
The concluding quarter-final i in the Pairs Championship.
David lcke introduces highlights from the Preston Guild Hall.
