Yesterday in Parliament.
Thurso is a "mini -Edinburgh" - an old town clustered around an ancient church and an elegant, planned, Georgian new town.
Farce starring
Terry-Thomas Hattie Jacques
The bungling residents of a guest house decide that the easiest way to avert a delicate problem is to steal furs.
Hon Freddy Warrington. .. KENNETH WIWAMS Director Robert Asher
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Drama in the John Ford season of films, starring Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan
It's 40 years since the Civil War, but the Confederate spirit, typified by the amiable, ageing Judge Priest, still rules the town of Fairfield, Kentucky. The Judge is up for re-election - but this time rivalled by the State's attorney, a sharp Yankee politician.
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The discovery of gold in the Yukon in 1897 heralded the maddest stampede in history, the Klondike Gold Rush. The goldrush line is still there today. hauling the tourist up some of the toughest gradients in the world.
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Fun for children.
I A 13-part weekday series about life in the 1940s and 50s, and narrated by Magnus Magnusson.
An Innocent World. Itwasa lovely summer in the Europe of 1939 - surely the world would not be plunged into war again after only 20 years of peace?
(Tomorrow: At the Hands of the Enemy)
Followed by Ted Harrison
Son of a coalminer from County Durham and trained at
Hartlepool College of Art, Ted Harrison is today one of Canada's leading artists.
Rural issues with John Craven.
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Followed by Westminster Live
Live coverage of Parliament and its Select Committees.
and Regional News; Weather
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Word game with Paul Coia. ●STEREO
Linda Agran chairs a discussion of social and personal issues.
A report from the M6, the busiest motorway in the north of England.
Bryan McNerney visits South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall. A Ragged Royalist production for BBCtv
A series of explorations, first shown in 1976, by Professor
W G Hoskins , who died earlier this year. He explores the battle between land and sea on the north Norfolk coastline.
Producer Peter Jones
Starring William Shatner Leonard Nimoy
Kirk and his crew have unearthly experiences on an earth-like planet.
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Rough Guide to the World's Islands New Zealand. Magenta De
Vine and Rajan Datar travel from Auckland in the North
Island, where they investigate Maori culture and Polynesian gangs, to earthquake-threatened Wellington and the new age capital Queenstown, where you can pan for gold, bungyjump or goheli-skiing.
Producer Siobhan Mulholland
Series producer Dave Stewart ● STEREO
Lighthouse Keepers. Tony Elvers is one of the keepers of the Needles Lighthouse off the Isle of Wight which is soon to be automated. The Elder Brethren of Trinity House, responsible for all the lighthouses around the British coast, are nearing the end of a ten-year automation programme, and there are now only three tower rock lights out at sea with keepers living and working on them. In his film,
Tony Elvers laments the passing of a way of life that keeps a human presence in some of our most dangerous waters. Producer Paul Pierrot
Series producer Giles Oakley
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Followed by Advent Calendar
Epic of Pabuji. A look at one of the last great oral epics to survive in the modern world.
A poem, like the Iliador the Odyssey, it is thousands of lines long, and features gods, battles and magic animals, and its hero is a prince called Pabuji who held court in northern India over 600 years ago. Director HO Nazareth
Series editor Nigel Williams
Dear Dad. During a lull in the operating room, Hawkeye takes the opportunity to send a letter home.
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Concluding Guy Hibbert 's dark comedy, starring Paul McGann Idyll. The fighting gets dirty as tensions come to a climax.
Producer Hilary Salmon Director Pedr James
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A series of personal perspectives. Editor Anne Tyerman
Presented by Peter Snow.
Late-night arts magazine. ● STEREO
BBC2's daily talk show.
