The Earth's Physical
Resources: Introduction
A roundup of business from the Lords and Commons.
Some Daytime on Two programmes are aimed at teenagers and may be unsuitable for the very young.
Teacher's programme. Find out all about the science drama series Thinkabout
Science, for 5- to 6-year-olds. See how children can learn about technology from bikes and science from ponds. (R)
Shops and Supermarkets The bigger the pack, the better the value?
A science series for 5- to 6-year-olds.
When Dan and Spud are involved in a recycling project they learn that magnets attract some metals and not others. With Patsy Byrne.
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A series for 4- to 5-year-olds. A Day Out (R)
Inside Moves. Liquidisers, piston engines, swimming pool and sieve - the analogies that explain how our bodies work, and the machines that see inside us. (R)
Out and About. Plant Hunters
Michael Scott visits the Glasgow Garden Festival. (R)
A List. A list is a very useful thing - until you lose it, as Frog and Toad find out in today's story. Presented by Vicky Ireland. (R)
If You Were Me. The first of five specially written short plays to encourage discussion in the classroom. (R)
Health Education.
Healthy Choices. Personal, social and health education are best taught where there is no contradiction between classroom teaching and school ethos.
What a Gas? Gases and the atmosphere. (R)
First of a three-part drama set in Northern Ireland about living in a divided society.
The Tribe. Everything seems normal about the friendship between Tracey and Michael except that they live in Belfast.
Producer Henry Laverty (R;
Your Number's Up. In the programme that provides practical help with day-to-day maths, Carol Vorderman is joined by special guest Paul Daniels. He explains how numbers got him off to a magical start. (R)
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An adventure for under-5s. The Pieman, Piewife and Piepilot have a day of disasters and rescues.
Piewife. CHLOE ASHCROFT Pieman DAVID HARGREAVES
Piepilot................................BEN THOMAS (R)
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Weather followed by You and Me A Day Out (R)
The people who live in Britain's national parks complain that their needs are ignored.
Introduced by John Craven.
Weather followed by Westminster Live
Today's parliamentary highlights including Question Time.
Regional News and Weather
Quiz hosted by Paul Coia.
Margaret Vaughan responds to Mother Nature's unpredictable bounty with recipes for bread wine, her delicious 'shrub' and orange wine marmalade, (R) 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Norway. Kathy Tayler reports on a two-night car ferry crossing from Harwich to Oslo, then a drive to the Telemark region to stay in a self-catering log cabin. Director Bruce Thompson
Series producer Patricia Houlihan
California Dreaming California has tough new plans to clean up car pollution. 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
The adventures of the new
USS Enterprise and its crew. Starring Patrick Stewart Symbiosis. The Enterprise is caught in the middle when two alien races wage a battle. * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Reportage
Aminatta Forna presents the latest reports from the Reportage team, with the sharpest angles on issues in Britain and around the world.
Producer Charlotte Metcalf
Series editor Sebastian Scott
7.40pm Rapldo
The Special Beat - ska in the States; Sonic Youth, That Petrol Emotion and James.
The music show presented by Antoine de Caunes.
Executive producers Alex Berger and Tim Newman
An NBdC production for BBCtv
The Man Who Made the Supergun
The assassination a year ago of Dr Gerald Bull prevented Saddam Hussein from acquiring a 'supergun'. It also ended the career of one of the world's most brilliant artillery designers. Before he died, Bull designed the world's best howitzers, many bought by Iraq, but the supergun remained his lifelong ambition. David Taylor chronicles how the Canadian scientist who plundered the lost secrets of Nazi terror weapons became the victim of his own obsession.
Director/Producer William Cran Series editor Roy Davies
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An American comedy about show business.
Starring Jon Cryer
A Case of Murder. Can Teddy (Jon Cryer ) get Hollywood's most temperamental actor to co-star with a chimp?
A four-part serial, adapted from his own bestselling novel by David Lodge , winner of the Silver Nymph (Screenplay) Award at the 1989 Monte Carlo Festival.
Starring
Warren Clarke
Haydn Gwynne
2: Vic drives Robyn from Rummidge up north on a confidential business investigation. And their weekly appointments grow in significance.
Producer Chns Parr
Director Christopher Menaul (R) 0 PICTURE STORY: page 65
New perspectives on a current debate, from a personal standpoint.
Jeremy Paxman with the background to the day's top stories.
Features, films and discussion on the arts and media from the nightly magazine programme.
12.00 A Suitable Place to
Have a Baby?
Home or hospital? Three couples discuss the factors that influenced their choices.
12.25 The Challenge of Judgment
The first of 11 programmes exploring medical judgment a and decision-making. Discrepancies between doctors diagnoses and pathologists' findings show all is not well.
