Discovering Chemistry
(Programmes for schools. Some may be unsuitable for the young.)
Coping with words which are not spelt the way they are pronounced.
(Ceefax subtitles)
A look behind the scenes of the BBCtv newsroom. (R)
Derby cathedral and the people who work there. (R)
Science for 5- to 7-year-olds. (R)
The Aborigines of Australia, their religious beliefs and their relationship to their environment. (R)
The economic boom in the US south has reached Greenville,
Mississippi but has left numerous question marks. (R)
Cage birds.
(Details on Thursday at 2. 00pm)
How will Vicky and Beth cope with home-sickness on holiday. (R)
1: Dilly Bellingham and Mat Irvine challenge you to design a room of your own. (R)
How a farming community in south-west France is coping with the effects of the European Community. (R)
Four artists show how they bring their imagination to bear on the world about them. (R)
The first episode of a two-part play about two young teenagers going through their first serious relationship. This week, the story from Timmy's point of view.
The first of three special reports on how to crack the European market. This week, the culture gap, fact or fiction? John Humphrys meets
British business people working in France who see the British export drive from the French point of view.
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Canine cartoon narrated by Paul Nicholas. (R)
With Floella Benjamin. Story: Lost in Town by Peter Bonnici (R)
Regression. (R)
(Details on Thursday at 10.20am)
Weather followed by You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. (R)
The monthly magazine programme with sign language and subtitles.
There's still time to plant up tubs and window boxes for summer colour. Dennis Cornish also has some unusual ideas for containers. Producer David Spires
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Weather followed by Westminster Live
Including Prime Minister's Question Time.
Presenter Vivian White.
Commentator Peter Mayne.
Regional News and Weather
Class in Crime. Hutch goes back to school to trap a brilliant professor who specialises in murder.
Director Paul Michael Glaser (R)
Heroes and Villains. Was there more truth in Minder and Serious Money than in the Nine 0' Clock News? Could a generation of writers brought up in the liberal post-war years get it right rather than left? Malcolm Bradbury considers the fictions of the 1980s with Martin Amis , David Hare , Richard Eyre ,
Margaret Drabble , David Lodge and Professor Norman Stone. Producer Andrew Gosling
Series producer Sam Organ (R)
There is already a serious risk of water shortages this summer. The programme explores ways to ensure that plants don't suffer.
With Geoff Hamilton , Nigel Colborn and Pippa Greenwood.
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In a rare screening of one of his early solo efforts, Stan stars as a tramp led into temptation.
Starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as themselves.
Fulfilling a promise to their army buddy, Stan and Ollie attempt to restore his daughter to her grandparents.
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Matilda and Her Spare Head is a lighthearted Czech creation.
Classic US comedy series. Starring Phil Silvers.
Love at first sight strikes Bilko. (R)
Britain - a Model of Democracy? Following the year of revolution,
1989, all the newly free countries of Eastern Europe turned to western-style democracy, but not one of them chose to adopt the British first past the post' voting system. This film, made by the Electoral Reform Society, examines the mounting pressures for change and ask what lessons there are to be learned from the proportional system chosen for Czechoslovakia's first free election for 40 years. Producer Giles Oakley
Community programme unit editor Tony Laryea
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To coincide with BBC2's season of programmes about Czechoslovakia, Paul Martin reports on the effects of the revolution on the education system. It was the students who organised the strikes and demonstrations which swept the Communists from power.
Now the same students have returned to their classes, eager to bring about a revolution in education. Overthrowing the regime took only a few days; the process of re-education will take longer. Producer Tim Lambert
A comedy series set in a community centre. Everyone at
Tygo Road thought that Lionel was just a right-wing old tramp until he left the centre E5,000 in his will. He also left some conditions before the money could be accepted.
Written by Richard Cottan and Christopher Douglas. Director Bob Spiers
Producer Andre Ptaszynski
A Pola Jones Film production for BBCtv
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Ten films that intimately observe the fortunes of those most affected by a changing Britain.
A Teacher's Lot. Once upon a time teachers were kingpins of the community, respected, all-knowing and always there. Now they are leaving or striking. Their staffroom is a battle HO, not a restroom. Talk is of market forces, survival, school against school, cash and PR; enthusiasm and books seem lacking. This programme reports from Spurley Hey, Manchester, a typical state school of today. Producer Marilyn Gaunt
Executive producer Paul Watson
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Donald MacCormick with the day's top stories and the background on events making the news at home and abroad.
The topical arts magazine includes some one-minute films commissioned by the Arts Council and the BBC.
Acropolis Now: the Public Face of the State. Was the Parthenon a form of imperial propaganda or a holy site?
