The Enlightenment: Freedom and Plenty
Parliamentary update.
A home in Jersey specially designed to show a remarkable collection of antiques.
Programmes for young people - some may not be suitable for the very young, though the 9.45am and 2.00pm slots are for pre-school infants. Repeats are not separately indicated.
9.00 Play It Safe (Teletext)
9.10 Lernexpress
A multi-media course in German.
9.25 Mathsphere: Polls Apart; Estimated Reading (Stereo)
9.45 Storytime: Brush and Chase
10.00 Square 1: Graphs (Stereo)
10.18 Music Time: Transport (Stereo)
10.40 Topics: Odd One Out (Stereo)
11.00 Zig Zag: Denmark
11.22 Thinkabout Science: Thirsty Work (Stereo)
11.35 Short Circuit: Big Bang (Stereo)
11.55 The Geography Programme: Mining in the Open Air (Stereo)
12.15 History File: Vietnam
12.35 Lifeschool: Difficult People
1.00 Science in Action: Current Affairs
1.20 Jimbo and the Jet Set
1.25 Penny Crayon
1.35 Rupert
1.40 Landmarks: Evacuation
2.00 News and Weather; Storytime
Survival in the insect world.
Followed by Songs of Praise
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How a garden became a business.
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Word game with Paul Coia. • STEREO
Animals with protective shells.
(First shown on BBC1)
New Zealand (England Highlights of the final day.
A critical look at the week's cinema releases.
Barton Fink won an unprecedented three awards at last year's Cannes Film
Festival. Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen , who also directed Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing, have a decidedly quirky style of film making. Fink is a writer, seduced by an attractive
Hollywood film offer, who has to come to terms with writer's block in a most bizarre hotel. It stars John Turturro (who also won the award for best actor at
Cannes) and John Goodman.
For the Boys stars Bette Midler and James Caan , who also recently starred in the Oscar-winning film Misery, as a war-time entertainment act in a comedy drama of survival and sheer nostalgia.
Plus an Australian film,
Death in Brunswick, by the award-winning director
John Ruane. Sam Neill plays the part of a cook in a sleazy Melbourne rock 'n' roll club.
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Introduced by Desmond Lynam. A roundup of the essential action from day three of the XVIth Olympic Winter Games. Key events today included the men's combined downhill and three new
Olympic champions in the men's luge, men's 30km Nordic ski-ing and the women's 500m speed-skating competition.
Plus the latest action from the ice hockey tournament including the United Team - previously known as the Soviet Union - against Norway.
A live transmission from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, of Mozart's opera. Johannes Schaaf 's new production is conducted by Bernard Haitink and given in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen to mark the 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne. Schaaf has previously staged both The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan tutte at Covent Garden.
Tonight's performance is sung in Italian with English subtitles. Royal Opera House General Director Jeremy Isaacs says, "This is a normal, scheduled performance as opposed to a specially staged gala, but it is one that we hope that the Queen will very much enjoy."
With the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus.
Introduced by Jane Glover.
Television director John Michael Phillips Production supported by Fondation Elf and the Jean Sainsbury Royal Opera House Fund
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8.30 9.00 pm*
Long Live the Queen
Between Acts 1 and 2 there is a special interval feature recalling the extraordinary and transitional year which began when the young Princess
Elizabeth succeeded her father and culminated in her coronation.
Producers Bob Portway. Patricia Wheatley
The top news stories of the day. Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
Tracey Macleod presents tonight's edition of the live arts and media magazine. • STEREO
Nitrate in Drinking Water
