Irish poet Seamus Heaney visits Dove Cottage, the Lake District home of William
Wordsworth.
A look at the life of Mauro
Fiamenghi, a union representative at the Alfa
Romeo car factory near Milan, who, at the weekend, escapes the industrial conflict and tends his vines high up in the Alps.
Note: repeats are not indicated.
From Here to Democracy?
Kirsty Wark presents the first in a new series examining the former Soviet Union since the collapse of Communism. The first programme chronicles the failure of Mikhail Gorbachev 's reforms, the coup and the split-up of the superpower.
A Wark Clements production for BBCtv
Designer Babies. A report on genetic engineering. Will parents one day be able to design their own children?
Series for infants.
Hello! What's it like to feel shy? Story: The Farmyard Cat, by Christopher Anello.
Series for 5- and 6-year-olds. Me and My Family.
Planet Earth. Fascinating aspects about the weather.
Air your views on all aspects of schools television. (Stereo)
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Living the Fishing. A look at the fishing industry in Peterhead.
Sophie Aldred presents the first of 28 new programmes. Today's nautical theme is featured in an "I-Spy" at the seaside, a film about a family boat trip, and Edward Lear 's Owl and the Pussycat. (Stereo)
Writing in Style. Journalists explain and illustrate their work and give advice.
A series of mystery adventures about a group of children and a compassionate ghost, designed to make the printed word exciting to children.
Ghost Story! The first adventure is in five parts.
Spanish for beginners.
Teenagers from Salamanca introduce themselves.
Birth of Europe. The rise in the importance of coal from its first use in medieval times to the Industrial Revolution. (Stereo)
Search Out Science. Ideas and suggestions for teachers.
Animation. The Crows visit the Royal Lancashire Show.
Voices include Bob Peck and Anna Carteret.
A bad time at the funfair.
Life in Anglo-Saxon England. Today, the story of Beowulf.
Followed by You and Me
This afternoon, a debate on animal protection. Then one of the major questions of the week - whither the Liberal
Democrats after the election?
Presented by Donald MacCormick , Vivian White and Ian MacWhirter.
Including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather
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A film about four advertising students from Newcastle upon Tyne who travelled last year to the former Soviet Union.
Producer Mark Scrimshaw
The cult 1960s series, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy
Spock and Tormelon land on Psi 2000 to evacuate a team of scientists only to find them all dead.
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Wayne's World
More excellent fun from the noisiest basement in Aurora,
Illinois. Join Wayne, Garth and a celebrity guest partying on down. 0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
7.00pm Teenage Diaries Programmes made by young people about their own lives. The Daughter Sent from Hell Jennifer is 15 and desperately wants to be "a normal teenage girl", but she lives with her mother who is severely disabled with multiple sclerosis.
Frustrated by having to be a carer instead of care-free like her friends, Jennifer uses her diary to try to come to terms with her dilemma. Producer Tony Steyger
Series producer Bob Long (Rev rpt)
Aly Bain travels north to the island of Yell in tonight's programme from the 1991 Shetland Folk Festival.
Director Mike Alexander
A Pelicula production for BBCtv • STEREO
To Hell with Truth. The dilemma of whether to name names dominates the final part of this Timewatch documentary on the "red scare" in postwar America. Witness Harvey Matusow , an ex-communist, at one stage testified that 126 "reds" were working for the Sunday New York Times when only 96 people worked on the paper. Yet for a time no one questioned his lies. His fame and fortune are contrasted with the experiences of those who refused to co-operate. In destroying some, but trusting others, did America lose faith in its most basic values?
Producers Archie Baron and Anita Lowenstein
Series editor Roy Davies
An outrageous northern comedy film by Martyn Hesford , winner of the Radio Times Drama Award for A Small Mourning.
Starring Kenneth Cranham, Rachel Davies
When 19-year-old Marian Fairley finds a pair of women's knickers in her husband's laundry, she takes the TV, the microwave and the baby, and moves in down the road with her parents. But an even bigger shock awaits her.
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Short graduate films. Supper at Emmaus
An art historian teaches a class of students in front of Caravaggio's masterpiece.
With Raad Rawi , Hannah King and Julia Tarnoki.
Producer Brenda Ennis
Writer/Director Frances Kelly
A National Film and TV School production ● STEREO
Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
Late-night arts magazine. ● STEREO
Social Scientists at Work
