Meanings of Madness: the Medicine Man

The Guide Dogs for the Blind
Association arranged for a group of 12 blind men and women to leave their dogs at home and spend
12 days at the Ullswater Outward
Bound Centre in Cumbria. Reporter Bob Whittaker followed the group as they covered a course designed to tax even the fittest sighted person. Executive producer Steve Ireland (R)

From Blackpool. The TUC considers the extraordinary developments within eastern
Europe and southern Africa. The unions are also concerned to prepare themselves for a single market in the European Community. Presented by Vivian White , Nick Jones and Ian Smith.

First of six programmes about the revolution in publishing.
The Power of the Pixel. It's never been easier to get into print. The technology that revolutionised Fleet Street has given birth to a new breed of entrepreneur: the desktop publisher. Presented by Michael Bywater.
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Cartoon narrated by Ray Brooks. (R)

Perspective and Painting with a Knife. John FitzMaurice Mills invites you to start painting. Producer Dick Foster (R)

Weather followed by Golf
Live coverage of the Panasonic
European Open from Sunningdale. Andrew Murray won this title in storybook fashion last year, and defends it against some of the top names on the European circuit.
Commentary by Peter Alliss , Bruce Critchley , Alex Hay , Clive Clark and Mike Hughesdon. Producer Alastair Scott
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3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Fed up with his life as an international celebrity, gastronaut Keith Floyd decides to settle down and buy a pub. Luckily, just along the riverbank, there's one for sale. Six weeks, five redundancies and several tantrums later, the pub is his, giving Floyd a chance to put down roots, meet new friends and demonstrate his unique style of man-management.
Narrated by David Davis.
Producers David Pritchard and Simon Willis (R)

Starring Rory Calhoun Gilbert Roland
Shelley Winters Mexico, 1915: the revolution is in full spate. American adventurer Tom Bryan and guerrilla leader Colonel Castro attack a federal train and seize a fortune in gold.
Pursued by government troops, just as all chances of escape disappear, Bryan plays his trump card.
Director George Sherman
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The first of two special reports on eastern Europe by John Humphrys.
Counter Revolutions. From
Americans selling cosmetics in Hungary to Italians selling Jacuzzis in Warsaw, western retailers are marching into the new eastern
Europe. But as food subsidies are removed, the new consumers face, for the first time, the twin ogres of inflation and unemployment. So is there real spending power in these fledgling market economies? Producer David Dawson

A comedy series from America starring Dabney Coleman Shirley Jones
Slap tries his hand at domesticity.

First Report. The first of three programmes from the world's most important aerospace exhibition of the year, focusing on the action, news and business of aviation.
Presented by Noel Edmonds with Rob Curling , John Hutchinson and Julian Tutt.
Producer Peter Hylton Cleaver
(Next report next Sunday on BBC

Her award-winning American comedy series, with Julie Kavner , Sam McMurray and special guest film director Steven Spielberg.
When Ullman arrives at the security gate of Spielberg's luxurious Hollywood home she is just answering an open invitation to drop by - well, kinda.

'I tell you something, this place will go off, and when this place does go off, the roof will go.' A prophetic quote from an inmate who featured in Rex Bloomstein's definitive prison series, Strangeways, ten years ago. Last April, the prison did explode in one of the worst riots in British penal history. Tonight. following the screening of the award-winning edition, Christmas, Peter Taylor asks a distinguished panel and an audience of prison officers and inmates from
Strangeways whether anything has been learned in the intervening ten years. Is it time to listen more closely to prisoners and their grievances, to acknowledge their rights and develop prison regimes which might provide a more humane system and greater protection for society?
Camera (Christmas) Derek Banks
Discussion producer Ritchie Cogan

With Jeremy Paxman.

Live from New York, Edward Said , the distinguished Palestinian writer and critic talks to Michael Ignatieff.

A preview of this weekend's Open University programmes.

Urban Development: Gainers and Losers