An update on the latest parliamentary debates and issues.
9.00 It Doesn't Have to Hurt
In today's computerised world, for many people, the time spent at work is the most inactive of their day. (Teletext)
9.10 Questions: What is Believing?
The story of Jackie and her secret box, told by Timmy Mallett and Anjuu Misra.
9.30 Diez Temas: Deportes
Spanish for beginners.
9.45 You and Me: Say What You Feel
10.00 Thinkabout Science: Water Power
10.15 Search Out Science: Communication: Sounding Out
10.35 Q and A
Viewers' reactions to schools' programmes.
10.40 Around Scotland: Clearances: New Ideas
Is there room for both sheep and crofters?
11.00 Words and Pictures: Each Peach, Pear, Plum
11.15 English Time: For and Against: Fast Food
Teenagers discuss the effects of the booming fast food industry on the environment and the nation's diet.
11.35 Teaching Today: Language in the National Curriculum: Language in Society/Talk
12.05 TV6: Out of the Doll's House: Breaking Free
The long, hard political battle for equality of the sexes.
12.30 Lifeschool: Careers: Pastimes that Pay
12.55 Espana Viva
Spanish for beginners.
1.20 Postman Pat: The Sheep in the Clover Field
1.30 Crystal Tipps and Alistair - Musical Instruments
1.40 Zig Zag: Technology: Showbiz Technology
2.00 News and Weather
followed by You and Me: Say What You Feel
Live coverage of the opening matches in round six of the Grand Prix at the Hexagon, Reading. According to form, the draw on table one should be
Steve James , whose spectacular if slightly inconsistent potting has taken him to seventh in the world, against Terry Griffiths , in his 14th professional season. On table two, it looks like
James Wattana or Doug Mountjoy will be playing the formidable world No 5, Gary Wilkinson.
Introduced by David Vine. (Further coverage in Sportsnight at 10. 20pm on BBC1)
Including at
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The adventures of the new USS
Enterprise and its crew.
Starring Patrick Stewart The Survivors. The crew travels to a remote colony where only two of its 11,000 inhabitants have survived a devastating attack.
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Rough Guide to the World's Journeys Egypt. Magenta de Vine and Sankha Guha go down the Nile, and find out why shabbi, Egypt's top pop music, is banned. Also, belly dancers, snake catchers, people who live with the dead, brides for sale, and a man who would literally sell his Mummy. Producer Dele Oniya Editor Rachel Purnell
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7.40pm Gimme
In the last programme of the series that channel-zaps around the world, Lisa I'Anson introduces a US sitcom called
Guys Next Door.
Producer Mari Beynon Owen
Angus Wilson - Skating on Thin Ice
A comic and affectionate portrait of Sir Angus Wilson , the controversial and acerbic novelist and short storywriter who died in May and is considered by many to have been the "forgotten" great man of English literature.
Nigel Williams assesses his life and work with the help of Margaret Drabble (Wilson's biographer) and Malcolm Bradbury , who worked with him in the 60s.
An ITV dramatisation of his powerful novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, adapted by Andrew Davies (A Very Peculiar
Practice, House of Cards), is scheduled for transmission in the spring and will star Richard Johnson and Dorothy Tutin. Producer Nadia Haggar Editor Nigel Williams
The Birthday Girls. Hot Lips has a date with a general in Tokyo. Hawkeye takes his scalpel to a pregnant cow.
The last of a five-part serial telling a spiky tale of sex, marriage and betrayal during the Thatcher years, dramatised by Laura Lamson.
Starring Harriet Walter Bill Nighy
Kate Hardie
December, 1989: Mark has lived with Charity for four years, and now he wants to marry her. Without such a commitment he knows he'll stray again - probably towards Tessa, the attractive daughter of one of his colleagues.
Adapted from the novel by Ann Oakley Producer David Snodin Director Antonia Bird
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A personal perspective on a subject of current interest. Editor Anne Tyerman
With Jeremy Paxman.
News, comment and discussion from the arts and media world.
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