Documentary exploring the reality and the myths of the gaucho, Argentina's version of the cowboy. On a cattle ranch in the remote north-eastern province of Corrientes, the gaucho has changed least of all - tough, proud and independent, he retains old customs and skills. By contrast, some 400 miles south near
Buenos Aires, there is a sophisticated, self-conscious gaucho cult.
9.05 Save a Life: A.... for Airway.
Know the ABC of resuscitation (Teletext)
9.15 Supersense: Sixth Sense
The secret sensory world of animals (Teletext)
9.45 You and Me: Model Building
10.00 Sealladh is Seanchas: An t-Artach (The Arctic)
Environmental studies
10.15 Zig Zag: Switzerland
(with subtitles)
10.35 Great Experiments: Energy for Sale
11.00 Watch: Forty Years Ago
Smog, new towns and the coronation
11.15 Sex Education: Growing
11.35 Movable Feasts: The Sales Drive
11.50 Child Slaves: The Slave Legacy
How child labour is used in food production
12.15 Update Europe: Norwegian Oil
12.35 Art Show: In the Frame
Five different artists show how they work.
12.55 Take Nobody's Word For It
1.20 Mr Benn
1.35 King Greenfingers: The Not-Quite-So-Perfect Lawn
(Stereo)
1.40 Landmarks: Treasures of the Landscape - Mountains and Minerals
(with subtitles)
2.00 News and Weather
followed by You and Me: Model Building
Supersense uses a new style to travel into a world filled with senses as remarkable as any human sixth sense. It flies with geese and swims with dolphins.
With signing and subtitles.
The latest news from this afternoon's quarter-finals.
Seeded to appear in this session are: Jimmy White (4) v Gary Wilkinson (5) on table 1, with Stephen Hendry (2) v Steve James (7) on table 2.
Eamonn Holmes introduces live coverage. Commentary by Clive Everton , Jack Karnehm and Ted Lowe.
Including at
3.00pm News; Weather
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather
Western starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum
When a stranger is caught cheating in a poker game, Van Morgan, one of the seven players, tries in vain to stop the others from lynching the man. Soon after, two of the gamblers are found dead and tension mounts as the unknown killer systematically stalks the other members of the lynch party.
Director Henry Hathaway
Films: pages 39-45
Three clay animation shorts from Hungary featuring accident-prone Augusta.
The second of two programmes about an experiment to find out about the craft of teaching, and whether keeping order in class is a natural or learnt skill.
Three teachers at the same school have allowed cameras to observe their lessons with the same form of lively
14-year-olds over the course of a term.
Matthew Longden is fresh from college. After a tough four weeks, he reviews his performance with Rosemary Cairns , an ex-head teacher.
Together they attempt to apply lessons learned.
Director/Producer Oliver Morse A Windfall production for BBCtv
More quarter-finals action, with tonight's matches coming from the sections of the draw involving John Parrott and Steve Davis. Both have reached at least this stage in the last three World Championships, but the competition has never been fiercer.
Dear Mr Pink
When 62-year-old Manchester nurse Graham Pink sat down to write a letter of complaint to his bosses in August 1989 he had no idea how it would change his life. It was an eye-witness account of the night shift on the acute elderly wards at
Stockport's Stepping Hill hospital. Mr Pink believed his patients were being put at risk by low staffing levels.
Many people think he was a hero of the Health Service. His bosses believe he was guilty of gross misconduct.This is the extraordinary story of a most unlikely whistleblower - a nurse who listened to his conscience and put his patients before his job. Producer Peter Dale
Editor Caroline Pick
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With Peter Snow.
David Vine completes the story of the first day of the quarter-finals stage.
The Psychology of Addiction: At Merseyside's drug dependancy clinics, the relationship between body chemistry and social forces isexamined.
