Equilibrium Rules OK?
York. Gillian Reynolds reports on a weekend break in York. She visits the Castle Museum, National Railway
Museum, Jorvik Centre and Betty's Tea Room.
Englishwoman
Dorothy Brooke founded an animal hospital in Cairo earlier this century which is still caring for overworked beasts of burden.
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9.00 History Man: Naseby
9.05 Teaching Today: Language in the National Curriculum
9.35 Supersense: Sense of Timing (Teletext)
10.05 Micro Mindstretchers: Art and Design
10.10 Save a Life (Teletext)
10.20 Information World
10.40 Mathsworks
11.00 Watch: Conservation
11.15 History File: The World Since 1945: Vietnam
11.35 Tutorial Topics
11.55 Links: Britain and the Developing World
12.20 Scene: Collision Course: 1
12.50 English File: I'm the King of the Castle
1.20 Pie in the Sky
1.40 Moving Out
2.00 News and Weather
followed by Words and Pictures: On the Other Side of the River
How does time appear to animals? Enter unfamiliar time-worlds, see how seasonal lives are organised. How do temporal rhythms control plants, birds and insects
A preview of programmes from the Open University on Saturday and Sunday.
Followed by Weather
Golf
Volvo PGA
Championships from Wentworth.
Executive producer John Shrewsbury
Including at
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather
Starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux
In 1899 a brilliant young inventor creates a time machine and travels through thousands of centuries. He arrives in a paradise that soon turns into a nightmare.
FILMS: pages 31-35
Michael Leapman of the Independent looks back at the week's national press.
A Granada production for BBCtv
Teenage Sex - Facing the Facts of Life
Jenny Cuffe looks at why teenagers are having sex younger than ever before, and examines a radical solution to the problem of teenage pregnancies. Presented by Peter Taylor.
Producer Emily Smyth Editor Nigel Chapman
The Chelsea Flower Show
Amateur gardeners pick up tips from this year's winners. With Geoff Hamilton , Nigel Colborn , Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood.
Executive producer Stephanie Silk Plant details on Ceefax page 617 0 FEATURE: page 24
An examination of alternative treatments.
A Proper Trust. Childbirth can be a wonderful experience - though all too often it is not.
Tonight's film goes beyond the usual home-birth versus hospital controversy. It examines the crucial trust between a mother and her carers that allows the birth to be safe, yet still within her control. NHS midwives in Oxfordshire have introduced a way of developing that trust and the intense experience that seems to go with it.
Narrated by Andrew Sachs. Series producer Stephen Rose
Executive producer David Paterson HEALTH: page 16
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Short films by new directors.
Starring Geraldine James and Liam Neeson
Suspense tale set in the Australian outback during the Second World War, involving a woman, her baby and a venomous spider.
(Stereo)
Drama: page 4
Picture Story: page 76
With Peter Snow.
First showing on network television.
Starring Per Oscarsson A young penniless writer wanders the streets of a bleak city, distracted from his work by increasing starvation. Knut Hamsun 's moving autobiographical novel is brilliantly brought to life in Per Oscarsson's performance which won him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film
Festival. In Danish with English subtitles.
Written and directed by Henning Carisen
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