To what extent do portraits of royalty reveal character? With Sir Roy Strong.
It is a big day for the Channel
Islands' Alderney Cricket Club when the Australian Aborigine cricket team come to play.
9.00 Snap! - People and Places (Teletext)
9.10 Standard Grade English - Telling a Story
9.30 Let's See: Animal Rights - Skin Deep
9.45 You and Me - A Silly Day
10.00 Mathscope - Shops and Supermarkets
10.15 Over the Moon - Hallowe'en
10.30 The Global Environment - Power for the People
10.50 Mathsphere - The Same Again?
11.10 Landmarks: Victorian Children - A Victorian Day
11.30 Soviet Union - And After: Moscow
11.50 Job Bank - Dental Surgery Assistant
12.10 Sports Science - Fully Fit
12.30 Science in Action - Space Ship Earth
12.50 Teaching Today - Language in the National Curriculum: Talk
1.20 The Adventures of Spot
1.25 What's Inside?
1.35 Jimbo and the Jet Set
1.40 Music Time - Voices (Stereo)
2.00 News and Weather
followed by You and Me - A Silly Day
A Song for Every Season. Bob
Copper in the Sussex Downs.
Live coverage of the beginning of the Commons debate on the Queen's Speech. Opposition criticism of the legislative programme is led by the Rt Hon Neil Kinnock , MP, while the Government's plans are defended by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon John Major , MP.
Liberal Democrat leader, the Rt Hon Paddy Ashdown , MP, will then give his party's response. Commentary by Brian Curtois. Editor James Leaton Gray
Including at
3.00pm* News; Weather
Contestants battle for unusual prizes. With Rory McGrath.
● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Starring
Doug McClure
Sci-fi adventure set in the First
World War and based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. For the first time on British television, and as part of Deaf Awareness Week, this film will be subtitled and interpreted in British Sign Language.
Director Kevin Connor
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 • FILMS: pages 45-52
First of eight programmes.
The treasures of a bygone age are re-created when
Harry Dodson prepares a Victorian tropical house, rose house and herbaceous border to receive the beautiful flowers and plants grown by the Victorians. Producer Keith Sheather • STEREO
• FEATURE: page 34
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
News from the Motorcycle
Show at the NEC; a road test on the new Ginetta G33 V8 two-seater sports car; and the risks lone women drivers may run when they break down. Producer Ken Pollock
Executive producer Dennis Adams • COMPETITI0N:page 18
More anarchic comedy with Alexei Sayle , Owen Brenman , Angus Deayton , Tony Millan and Jan Ravens.
Director/Producer Marcus Mortimer * STEREO
Jeremy Irons , winner of this year's Oscar for best actor, performs a new poem by Heathcote Williams , author of the bestselling Whale Nation. The poem gives ironic voice to our deathly love affair with the car, cause of "the third world war that nobody bothered to declare". The screen is filled with apocalyptic images of the civilised man's joy ride to destruction.
Director John Hay Editoi Cat oline Pick
• STEREO
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Six journeys through colour.
3: Red is... blood, passion, sex and Father Christmas.
Producer Peter Simpson
Series producer Andy Batten-Foster
With Peter Snow.
Arts and media magazine. • STEREO
