With Philippa Forrester and Ratz.
(Stereo)
Tales of a Wise King and the Devil
(Rpt)
Animated drama series.
An Action Time production for BBCtv
Storytime.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Drawing game featuring Bill Tidy and celebrity guests.
Written by Valerie Georgeson, from a story by Margaret Stuart Barry
(Rpt) (Stereo)
A Broadsword production for BBCtv
Episode written by Alan Janes
(Rpt)
Aberdeen children give a video view of their lives.
Featuring the Inspiral Carpets.
American thriller series.
Review of last week's programmes.
Political review for the south east, with Michael Hastings.
Regional Programme
Starring Placido Domingo
Franco Zeffirelli's film of Verdi's opera.
In Italian with English subtitles.
With Katia Ricciarelli and Justino Diaz.
Orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alia Scala (Milan); Music produced and conducted by Lorin Maazel
The men's downhill from Kitzbuhel.
Highlights of yesterday's opening matches in the Five Nations Championship, featuring Wales v Scotland and France v Ireland.
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The second in the five-part series on Polynesia visits the tropical islands of Fiji. Who were the first settlers, and why did they make the long ocean voyage? Narrator Tim Pigott-Smith reveals some dramatic clues.
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The Co-op movement, celebrating its 150th anniversary, was once the mainstay of Britain's poorer families. But in today's market conditions, can it afford its democratic principles? David Lomax reports.
An Independent Image production for BBCtv
Continuing the series of recently rediscovered episodes of the classic comedy starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. This week, Harold splashes out on a sports car but Albert wants a colour TV.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
(Rpt)
Quentin Tarantino, director of the controversial Reservoir Dogs, talks about violence and notoriety. This exclusive interview is followed later this evening at 11.50pm by a special screening of Sorority Girl, a 1957 film by horror specialist Roger Corman, whom Tarantino cites as one of his main influences.
This new season of Moving Pictures features Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, David Puttnam and Robert Mitchum, as well as insider reports on film-making around the world. Presented by writer Howard Schuman, creator of the 70s TV musical Rock Follies.
A Barraclough Carey production for BBCtv
In the second of four pilot comedy programmes, a young cabin boy is pressganged on to a clapped-out old tug in 1793. He looks forward to the voyage of his dreams, until he meets the crazy crew.
Third in the series on Sotheby's. Redundancies have taken place, and Jackie Bing of the carpets department faces a crucial week. Will she survive?
Thriller starring Richard Gere, Andy Garcia
Gere plays a crooked police officer who can launder money, run a scam and even arrange a murder. But a newly promoted internal affairs investigator is on his trail.
With Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, Richard Bradford.
(1990)
(A short season of American police films begins tomorrow with The City That Never Sleeps at 12 midnight)
Drama starring Susan Cabot
Sabra Tanner is a spoilt little rich girl who is only at university so that she can inherit her father's money.
With Dick Miller, June Kenney.
(1957) (B/W)
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