6.45 Physiology: Swimming Fish 2159956 7.10 History of Maths:
Non-Euclidean Geometry
7.35 Beyond Famine
First of a daily mystery series featuring a group of urban children and a compassionate ghost who communicates through reading and writing. Made by the Children's
Television Workshop of New York, the series is designed to promote literacy.
This week: Ghost Story.
1: Jamal's computer starts to answer back.
Artists' techniques.
First of a double bill starring Tom Conway
When a taxi driver picks up a man found wandering the streets, she becomes involved in a murder inquiry.
Director Anthony Mann (1945)
SEE FILMS pages 31-37 and at 10.05am
Criminal Court
I Trouble looms for a young lawyer when his girlfriend is offered work by his arch enemy.
Director Robert Wise (1946) B/W
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Beginning a series of comic adventures with the famous duo.
Another Fine Mess
Stan and Ollie are on the run from the police. (1930)
And at 11.35am The Chimp
Stan and Ollie inherit a chimpanzee (1932)
Director James Parrott
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Who is to blame when there are problems with a flight? Airport or airline? After nearly a century of civil aviation, legislators still haven't succeeded in unifying the European skies.
Patrick Nuttgens looks at
Landseer's The Monarch of the Glen.
Shrubs to encourage bees and butterflies.
Animation.
Animation.
Patagonia. Searching for wildlife along the coast of the region.
Subtitled (news)
Followed by Reservoirs of Strength Looking at burns with people who have suffered and recovered from them.
Subtitled (news)
Followed by Summer Praise
Today, from the Firth of Clyde.
Pathe News this week in 1953. A Griffin production for BBCtv B/W
Subtitled (news)
Regional News; Weather
The 21st European swimming championships from Ponds Forge pool, Sheffield.
Featuring the solo final of the synchronised swimming, and highlights of the men's 3m springboard final. Plus news of the men's and women's water polo events. Introduced by Helen Rollason.
FILM Adventure starring
John Wayne
Katharine Ross Jim Hutton
Oil-fire troubleshooters
Chance Buckman and Greg Parker have as much drama in their private lives as they do in their hazardous work, particularly when Buckman's daughter marries Parker. The story is loosely based on that of the celebrated real-life firefighter "Red" Adair.
Director Andrew V McLaglen (1969)
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Series of films on British culture and identity, viewed from a black perspective. Crossing the Tracks
Youth culture is in the racial melting pot. There are white disc jockeys like Cheshire Cat who sound black, a black heavy rock band called His Imperial Majesty and an Asian rapper, Apache Indian, in the pop charts. In such areas as music, fashion and language, black styles are setting the trends among the young. Fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford says: "All the major Paris designers are drawing greatly from black culture at the moment." Dub poet
Benjamin Zephaniah assesses the current impact of black culture in such areas of youth activity. With contributions from Apache Indian, Bally Sagoo,
Fun-da-Mental, Cheshire Cat and many more. Director Celina Smith
A Reel Life production for BBCtv
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True-life story of endurance and survival starring
Robert Conrad
Matthew Leblanc
Divorced Eddie Barton is sailing home with his three children when a violent storm strands them on an uninhabited Alaskan island. A family which already has its own existing tensions has to face a new and terrifying ordeal.
Director Za Dalen (1990)
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Comedy series set in a satellite TV station, written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. Joining them in their efforts to raise something for charity are Michael Fenton Stevens , Helen Atkinson Wood and Philip Pope. Director John Kilby ; Producer Jamie Rix
Presented by Sue Cameron.
A compelling and imaginative film from Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss that records a startling series of chain reactions in an improbable sequence of constructions involving fire, water, gravity and chemistry.
A short animated film taking a sideways glance at the diverse lifestyles of the population of inner cities USA.
