Managing Schools:
Pensnett Comprehensive
Parliamentary update.
9.00 France Francais: Repetons
French course.
9.15 Lernexpress: Du Bist Was Ibt
9.30 Ici Paris: Paris jeunesse (Stereo)
9.45 You and Me: Night or Day?
10.00 Over the Moon: Winning and Losing
10.15 Look and Read: Sky Hunter - the Welsh Telegram
10.35 Q and A
A series inviting viewers' reactions to BBC schools programmes.
10.40 Let's See: Go 4, 5
11.00 Watch: Exploring and Adventure
11.15 English Express: Splitting Up
11.35 Science Challenge: Tomorrow's Island (Stereo)
11.55 Into Music: Using the Voice (Stereo)
12.15 Words into Action: People's Views of Jesus (stereo)
12.35 History File: The Romans - Roman Britain
12.55 A Way with Numbers: Pies and Bars
1.20 PC Pinkerton
1.25 Fireman Sam
1.35 Rupert
1.40 Outlook: Spain and Its People - Mountains and Moors
2.00 News; Weather
followed by You and Me
Insects have long drawn out courting rituals to test the mate's willingness and quality. With Professor Erik Holm.
With signing and subtitles.
Followed by Westminster Live
Today in Parliament.
and Regional News; Weather
Hosted by Paul Coia. • STEREO
Life on the mountain ledge, a fight on the cliff face and gorillas in the mist.
Nancy Holroyd became Assistant Governor of Manchester's Styal prison for women at the age of 25. Now head of the board of governors at Rossie Secure School near
Montrose, she talks about her views on criminality.
Geoff Hamilton and Gay Search tackle problems with unruly hedges, dull brick walls and long bare fences.
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 GARDENING: page 14
Action from day four of the XVIth Olympic Winter Games. Today's key event was the conclusion of the men's combined ski-ing competition. Medals were also decided in a new event, the women's 7.5km biathlon. Plus, first runs in the women's luge and the first day of competition in the individual Nordic combined event. And a look ahead to tonight's pairs figure-skating free programme. Introduced by Desmond Lynam.
A series of foreign-affairs reports. The New Holy Roman Empire
The fall of communism and the rise of the EC has given the Pope a new opportunity to spread the word in eastern Europe and strengthen
Catholicism in the west. But the Russian Orthodox feel they are being invaded, while liberal Catholics fear a return to the dark ages. Olenka Frenkiel reports from the Vatican and the Siberian front on what the Pope's new divisions are up to. Producer Dinah Lord
Editor John Morrison
The programme that takes a hard look at the food we eat and those who supply it. This week: the danger of liquids that erupt without warning after being microwaved is further investigated; an airborne tasting of New Zealand wines with an airline that's decided to use them, and a crafty recipe for the classic French onion soup (caramelising the onions is critical). Presented by Paul Heiney , Michael Barry , Jill Goolden and Oz Clarke.
Studio director Linda Nash
Producers Alison Field , Tim Hincks A Bazal production for BBCtv
Details on Ceefax page 626 • STEREO
0 RECIPES: available in BBC Good Food Magazine, L 1.25, from newsagents. 0 FOOD: page 16
Offbeat American sci-fi series in which time waits for no man
... except one.
Starring Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Her Charm. 26 September
1973: Sam's latest leap lands him in the path of a hail of bullets as he becomes an FBI agent assigned to protect a young woman with a rather abrasive personality.
• STEREO
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Cowboys in the South Pacific An adventure story by international Emmyaward-winning film-maker
Nigel Evans. Into the jungles of a small Pacific island
Dr Danforth Artie Bookout leads his team of intrepid Texans to search for an aircraft and the body of Weyland Bennett , "a home-town boy", missing in action 50 years ago. Deep in the bush sits Chief Jean Marc waiting for his Texan pay packet to lumber into view. And two days' walk behind the Texan strides a local explorer who knows the secrets of Dr Dan's past. Editor Caroline Pick
A Nigel Evans production for BBCtv 0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
With Jeremy Paxman.
The arts and media magazine. • STEREO
Elements Organised - the Periodic Table