Rural Life: Victorian Farming
Hugh Casson visits north Oxfordshire where Flora
Thompson grew up in the 1880s.
Last in the series.
Natina Manglaviti is 20 and her wedding is just a week away.
Note: repeats are not indicated.
Young people from Rouen show us around their town. Part of Etoiles, the five-part
BBC/Longman multi-media package for learning French.
Teacher's programme. (Stereo)
Children in History. Holidays. (Stereo)
Badger Girl.
Living the Fishing. Life in Peterhead's fishing community.
Wildlife. Music inspired by the otter. (Stereo)
Streetwise. Three programmes looking at the street.
Sam's Duck. A dramatisation of Michael Morpurgo 's short story. 1: A group of London children set off on a school trip to a Devon farm. (Stereo)
Designer Babies. A report on genetic engineering.
Language File. This eight-part series on the English language begins with Bob Hoskins ,
Robbie Coltrane ,
Samantha Meah and pupils from all over the UK talking about their accents and dialects.
That Burning Question. A powerful American "art" movie, made at the New York Film
School and shot in black and white. Three teenagers travel across New York City to track down a man who intends to set himself on fire.
The effects of EC subsidies and quotas on a highland and a lowland farm.
The Tortoise and the Hare. If it hadn't been for the hare's super-fast lawn mower....
Animation. Fiona pays a visit on horseback to the lock cottage and Admirable Karia.
When Alistair feels in the "dog house" he builds his own.
Journalists explain their work.
Followed by Words and Pictures
Preview of OU programmes.
From Newbury. Featuring four races for the Nordoff-Robbins
Music Therapy race day.
2.40 Jock Collier Memorial Stakes (7f)
3.10 Tony Stratton Smith Memorial Stakes (5f)
3.40 Haynes, Hanson and Clark Stakes (lm)
4.10 Alpha Suisse Group Handicap Stakes(lm 1
Producer Barbara Slater * STEREO
Including at
3.00pm News; Weather
and Regional News; Weather
●TELETEXT SUBTITLES (news): page 888
Musical starring Alice Faye
An impresario and his leading lady fall in and out of love.
Director Bruce Humberstone
●FILMS: pages 33-39
Classic 1960s puppet series.
Plant of Doom. Evil Titan tricks Marina into giving Atlanta a poisonous flower.
• TELETEXTSUBTITLES: page 888
Tongue-in-cheek spy drama from the 60s.
Starring Robert Vaughn David McCallum
UNCLE is forced to use an innocent young American girl as a decoy to fool THRUSH into believing that she is smuggling an "electronic thought translator" into America.
With Vincent Price.
(Teletext Subtitles): page 888
With journalist John Pilger. A Granada production for BBCtv
Series on Asian affairs.
Living off "the Game"
A report on the increasing numbers of Asian women in Britain becoming involved in prostitution, many of whom go "on the game" after running away from sheltered and unhappy homes. And a look at how some Asian men are living off the earnings of prostitutes - some using white women because they fear retribution from Asian families.
Producer Denise Seneviratne Series producer Charles Bruce * STEREO
In the last programme in the current series, Geoff Hamilton and Liz Rigbey prepare for autumn activity in the garden as well as recapping on some of the successes of the series.
Series producer Rosemary Forgan Executive producer Tony Laryea
A Catalyst Television production for BBCtv * GARDENING: page 11
Starring Louise Beattie ,
Gregor Fisher , Andy Gray , Helen Lederer , Tony Roper , Elaine C Smith and Jonathan Watson. Director Brian Jobson
Producers Philip Differ , Colin Gilbert 0 STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888
A trilogy about tribal passions in three European nations.
As civil war rages in the Balkans, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo an Albanian farmer faces an agonising dilemma. Should he follow his ancient code of honour and take revenge on a neighbour who killed his son in a dispute over cattle? Or should he forgive the feud for the sake of Albanian unity against the Serbs who rule Kosovo?
(Stereo) (Teletext subtitles: p 888)
Sir Norman Foster reflects on the jumbo jet - "an example to all architects," he says. Director Patrick Uden
Producer Ruth Rosenthal
With Francine Stock.
Jazz trumpet player
Wynton Marsalis shares the studio with saxophonist Courtney Pine. Series producer Kriss Rusmanis
Executive producer Michael Jackson ●STEREO
This powerful film exposes the lusts and corruption of the privileged classes in Spain in 1912. Don
Pedro Luis Jarrapellejos controls the land, people, even the elections. But he cannot force a girl to accept his advances. Spanish film/English subtitles. Director Antonio Gimenez-Rico • FILMS: pages 33-39
