Genes, Goals and Supergoals

Presented by Magnus Magnusson.

Starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
This famous film portraying Hollywood's idea of a typical English middle-class family in a small village outside London during the Second World War won seven Oscars, including the best actress award for Greer Garson.
Director William Wyler
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The Cottage. A simple Victorian cottage, half-thatched, half-covered with corrugated iron, stands in the hamlet of Walderton in the Sussex Weald. This prime example of a traditional English building tells us more about the lives of ordinary people than large buildings do. Producer Anna Benson Gyles (R)

National Geographic - on Assignment. Taking pictures for the Geographic must be every armchair traveller's dream. This film follows two journalists as they struggle to bring back their stories. Staff photographer Jonathan Blair 's latest job involves five months on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast. And writer Tom Abercrombie 's new brief is to trace the civilisation of the Moors in Spain and North
Africa. Narrated by Robin Ellis. (R)

Animation with the voices of Michael Williams , John Wells and Barbara Leigh-Hunt .
Producer Ivor Wood (R)

A chance to see The Lowdown - Fighting for Breath with sign language and subtitles.

Weather followed by Great Britons
The lives behind legendary names told by their biographers.
Horatio Nelson. In all of Britain's long nautical history there has been no one to compare with Nelson. Yet his private life created a scandal. David Howarth takes a more charitable view of this brilliant but fallible man.
Producer Malcolm Brown
Executive producer Harry Hastings (R) (Tomorrow: Thomas Cook and his son)

Weather followed by Aristocrats
A series of films on the noble families of Europe.
Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein
The tiny country of Liechtenstein is squeezed between Austria and Switzerland and has been ruled by Prince Franz Josef II since 1938.
Robert Lacey finds out how the family has transformed it into
Europe's richest community. (R)

Regional News and Weather

Starring
George Baker Sylvia Syms
England, 1651: known only to his enemies as 'Moonraker', Anthony, Earl of Dawlish, agrees to help the most wanted member of the Royalist movement - Charles, heir to the throne of England.
Director David Macdonald
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Bellingham, Northumberland Isolated amid the border hills,
Bellingham beckons the visitor to enjoy its primitive gravestones, toll bridge and back gardens.
Presented by John Grundy. (R)

A look at carnivorous plants - attractive, easy to grow and much prettier than flypaper. And a scientist compares notes on the compost experiments.
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Starring Tony Randall, Senta Berger, Herbert Lom

Narim Casimir, the most influential man in Marrakesh, awaits the arrival of the latest busload of foreign visitors with interest. For one of them is a courier bringing $2 million in return for certain information - but who?
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A classic American comedy starring Phil Silvers.

Sergeant Bilko stages a seance for gullible Sergeant Ritzik to advise him on how to spend his money. (R)

Last in the series. Black personalities are apparently Britain's favourites. A poll commissioned by the Daily Express showed black stars take all the top spots as idols of Britain's teenagers - in sport, entertainment and politics. Yet there is a popular theory that young blacks have limited ambitions because they lack black role models. Hear-Say discusses this paradoxical state of affairs. Presented by Jacqui Harper and Colin Charles. Producer Colin Prescod
Executive producer Terry Jervte

The last of five programmes by film-makers from around the world.
Mud Matters. Glorious mud! Our estuaries provide hundreds of thousands of birds, many of them visitors to our shores, with rich feeding grounds. Yet these estuaries are under threat from industrial and agricultural development, leisure activities and proposals for tidal barrages.
An RSPB Film and Video Unit production
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A comedy series with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
A recorded studio discussion, shockingly explicit gardening tips and a recorded interview make up a lively half hour of gratuitous politeness.
Producers Roger Ordish and Nick Symons (R)
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Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie revisit some of our favourite sketches in this episode, including the jewellery store where Hugh Laurie becomes rather exasperated.

The last of four programmes tracing the epic rise and fall of science and technology in China, from ancient times to the present. The Colour of the Cat. In 1978
Deng Xiaoping launched economic reforms, believing western technology could thrive in China without changing her political colour. To Deng, as long as the cat caught mice - in this case prosperity - its colour did not matter. Fang Lizhi , a Chinese scientist now forced into exile in Cambridge, believes political change is essential to technological development. Tiananmen Square proved him right.
Producers John Merson and David Roberts
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Last in the series of short dramas.
The Best-Ever Nuclear Fall-Out
Shelter. What was that saying about 'the best-laid plans.... '?
With Mick Ford and Bill Wallis.
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Jeremy Paxman presents the background to the day's events.

Education: Time to Learn