With Simon Parkin, Philippa Forrester and Esther McVey.

7.25 Tales of a Wise King and the Devil
Animation

7.30 Two by Two

7.45 Playdays
The Tent Stop

8.05 Bitsa

8.20 Telling Tales
Ancient stories with a modem message (Stereo)

8.35 Babar
Animation

9.00 Blood and Honey
Stories from the Old Testament (Stereo)

9.20 Defenders of the Earth
Cartoon (Repeat) (Subtitles)

9.40 Blue Peter Omnibus

10.30 Dark Season (Repeat) (Stereo)

11.00 Strangers

11.25 Mozart from Scratch
(Repeat) (Stereo)

11.50 The O Zone
Chart news and views (Stereo)

Last of the children's science fiction adventure series.This time the world can end, this time the madness has a face in Behemoth!

The weekly political review for the region. With Laurie Mayer. • REGIONAL PROGRAMME

Three years ago,
Klaus Tennstedt returned from illness to conduct the London
Philharmonic in this symphony at the Royal Festival Hall.
Introduced by film director and Mahler fan Ken Russell.
Director Kriss Rusmanis Producer Donald Sturrock ● STEREO

Featuring the Modern Alarms Christmas Puissance, plus
Olympia favourites - Shetlands, Dog Agility, and Pantomime. ● STEREO

Starring John Wayne Lee Marvin
The war in the Pacific over, three US sailors settle down on an idyllic South Sea island.
Director John Ford
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The Arlberg-Kandahar race, from St Anton , Austria.
Introduced by David Vine.

Top action from the Courage League's First Division. Commentary by Nigel Starmer-Smith . With Chris Rea.

Comedy starring Peter O'Toole New York City, 1954: A young scriptwriter is assigned to look after a former movie idol with a drink problem who is to be the star of a popular TV show.
Director Richard Benjamin
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 ● FILMS: pages 41-67

Sounds of Islands. From the storm-tossed north Atlantic, the Sound of Harris provides the only navigable seaway through the island barrier of the Outer Hebrides. With racing currents and dangerous reefs, the Sound is a sailor's nightmare, but its many windswept islands captivate all who relish wild places. In the past, these islands supported large communities which made a virtue of a self-sufficient existence at the sea's edge. Now they are mostly uninhabited and echo only to the sounds of seals and seabirds. Narrated by Isla Blair. Produced and filmed by Alan McGregor Series editor Mike Salisbury ● STEREO

For ten months film crews in Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Liberia and Kurdistan followed the French emergency organisation, Medecins sans Frontieres, the world's largest medical charity. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, MSF was founded by doctors who had taken part in the Paris student riots of the late 60s and kept their idealism. It is famous for putting its people into the world's most dangerous places - behind battle lines, at the heart of famines - where they help anyone who is sick or injured, taking no sides.
"Conditions are hard but one doesn't complain; then suddenly we are attacked, killed, raped - that is not part of the plan."
Narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis .

Interscoop/Mosaic production for BBCtv

First showing on network television for this film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey

Georgia, 1909: Celie, a teenage mother parted from her children, is married off to a brutal widower, Albert Johnson. So begins a life of servitude and maltreatment, but Celie's indomitable will sees her through to a brighter future.

Steven Spielberg's sumptuous Oscar-nominated interpretation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer prize-winning novel features remarkable performances from Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, who is probably better known for hosting her own television chat show.

(Teletext subtitles: page 888)
Films: pages 41-67

First showing on network television for this film set in San Francisco and Los Angeles. During his 1987 tour, Tom Waits - one of America's most original musical talents - finds himself in a surreal narrative framing performances of songs from his critically acclaimed albums Swordfish Trombones, Rain Dogs and Frank's Wild Years.
(Stereo)
Films: pages 41-67