Handed Back
The home of explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison built in the style of a Spanish hacienda.
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: Kleider machen Leute
9.25 Mathsphere: A Question of Distribution/The Mathematical Thread of Life (stereo)
9.45 Storytime: The Trouble with Dad
10.00 Square 1: Angle (Stereo)
10.18 Music Time: Birdsong (Stereo)
10.40 Topics: Living with a Handicap/Asian Girl (Stereo)
11.00 Zig Zag: Netherlands
11.22 Thinkabout Science: Up, Up and Away (Stereo)
11.35 The Brunel Experience: The Great Divide
11.55 Geography Programme: There's Golf Course on the Farm (Stereo)
12.15 History File: The Partition of India
12.35 Lifeschool: The Family Today
1.00 Science in Action: What a Gas
1.20 Jimbo and the Jet Set
1.25 Penny Crayon
1.35 Rupert
1.40 Landmarks: The Blitz
2.00 News and Weather
followed by Storytime
How insects outwit their enemies.
A story of skilled craftsmen.
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A look at a construction company.
Word game with Paul Coia. ● STEREO
On the Edge of Paradise. A look at the ecological problems of the Caribbean.
Geoffrey Smith visits Golden Acre Park, Leeds.
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Highlights from day ten of the Olympic Winter Games from
Albertville. Key events include the women's super-giant slalom, the women's 4 x 5km cross-country relay and the women's 5,000m speed-skating. Quarter-final places are at stake in the ice hockey with the final round of matches in Group A. Plus a look ahead to this evening's figure skating highlight - the free dance. With Desmond Lynam.
A series of early sound films.
Rescue: Arctic 1933. The story of how the Russian research ship, Cheluskin was wrecked on an Arctic voyage. When ice ripped into the ship she sank, leaving the crew "homeless and shelterless". After 60 days on the ice the survivors were air-lifted home in an amazing rescue operation that ended in a hero's welcome in Moscow.
Director JPoselsky
Series editor Richard Robinson
The sun rose over Hawaii on 11 July 1991 and disappeared, eclipsed by the Moon's shadow. The dark Path of Totality swept over the huge telescopes of a major observatory as it passed from the Pacific to South America.
Magnetic storms erupting into the Sun's atmosphere cause power failures on Earth, change our weather, and create the beautiful Aurora Borealis.
On Mauna Kea mountain, astronomers had a unique opportunity to study this vast corona which only becomes visible when the Sun itself is blacked out.
Adapted for BBCtv by Jane Callander Series editor Jana Bennett
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0 MAGAZINE: the February issue of World magazine has a feature on the solar eclipse in Hawaii. £2.00 from newsagents.
The alternative TV station presents exclusive live coverage of the big fight. With
Helen Atkinson Wood , Michael Fenton Stevens, Geoffrey Perkins ,
Philip Pope and Angus Deayton. Director John Kilby
Producer Jamie Rix
The first of a new four-part political thriller by Peter Ransley. Starring David Hayman Tom Wilkinson
A successful property developer stands trial for corruption, while his best friend, Minister for Prisons, struggles to keep a rooftop protest from becoming another Strangeways.Just when both men seem destined to win, fate takes a hand and their lives are changed for ever.
David Hayman starred in another "prison drama", A Sense of Freedom; John McArdle is best known for his role in Brookside.
Producer Eileen Quinn
Director Nicholas Renton
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With Jeremy Paxman.
Arts and media magazine. Editor Janice Hadlow
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Patterns in the Dust
