Social Problems and Social
Welfare: Why Care?

Last Friday's proceedings in Parliament.
Presented by Peter Mayne.

Programmes for schools. Some may be unsuitable for the young.
Sports which use natural forces for propulsion. (R)

Opportunities in hairdressing, beauty therapy and sales. (R)

4: Moses returns to Egypt: the Pharaohs' tombs. (R)

Young people from Rouen tell about themselves.

First days at work aren't always easy. A play by Bill Lyons. (R)

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. (R)

Mechanical sounds. The children paint pictures of mechanical birds and compose songs for them. Presented by Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs. With Vocem and children from Roxeth Manor Middle School.

A day in the life of Rouen schoolboy Franck.

6: The Channel Tunnel's supporters and opponents have equally passionate views. Sheelagh Gilbey finds out what all the fuss is about. (R)

2: Vicki's story. (R)

A series of problems for 10- to 12-year-olds. (R)

A series making creative use of the computer in the classroom. (R)

Someone choking can die within minutes. Could you save that life? (R) 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Science for 5- to 7- year-olds. (R) (Details tomorrow at 10.00am)

6: Using graphs.
(Details on Thursday at 9.25am)

7: Today's programme looks at spelling rules. (R) 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

1: In this access programme, children report on glass-making in Rotherham, the history of the Crystal Palace in London, and mysterious Bronze Age carvings on a Yorkshire moor. (R)

Green Claws gets a musical present. With Nick Mercer and Stella Goodier. Director Adrian Mills
Producer Christine Hewitt (R)

The more than 16,000 items recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose provide rich evidence of what life was like on board a Tudor warship. (R)

Weather followed by Words and Pictures
In If I Were a Crocodile, Sadie fantasises about being a crocodile and the mayhem she could cause. Presenter: Stuart Bradley. Puppeteer: Mary Edwards. Series producer Caroline Godley

England v New Zealand
Further coverage of the fourth day's play from Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
Including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

UB40
Labour of Love. The boys from
Birmingham perform a selection from their latest album of cover versions. (R)

The number of Asian parents prepared to adopt or foster is not keeping up with the number of children facing years in care. East examines why Asian parents are not coming forward and asks what the future holds for Asian children cut off from their culture. Plus a report on communal strife in Sind, the home province of Pakistan's prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.
Presented by Shyama Perera and Krishnan Guru-Murthy . Series producer Charles Bruce Editor Narendhra Morar

For a great many country wine-makers, autumn in the Highlands means rowan berries, wild raspberries and blaeberries. Margaret Vaughan celebrates the wines of these fruits as she continues to share the delights of the hedgerow hypermarket.
Closer to home, she discovers that, at long last, the yield of a most spectacular mulberry tree is ready for harvest.
Producer Andy Kemp
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Signs of Life. If you landed on another planet to search for life, what would you look for? Would it be the familiar, warm, throbbing, biological stuff of the life on earth? A new breed of scientist says no.
What's more, they claim to be able to make life themselves. It feeds, multiplies and evolves on its own - inside computers. Like computer viruses, these new signs of life are powerful, but also startling and beautiful.
Producer John Wyver Editor Robin Brightwell
An Illuminations production for BBCtv
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The season of chillers directed by Roger Corman and based on works of Edgar Allan Poe continues with Tales of Terror
Starring Vincent Price Peter Lorre
Three short stories mixing terror from beyond the grave in Morella, horrific special effects in The Case of M Valdemar and dark humour in The Black Cat.
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Francine Stock with the background to the day's top stories.

The nightly magazine of the arts and media.

The Great Exhibition
In this second programme.about the Great Exhibition of 1851, Colin Cunningham finds out how taste could come to be treated as a moral issue. (R)