6.20 Biology: Enzymes
6.45 Maths: Classifying Cubics
7.10 Drifting Continents
7.35 Engineering: Linkage Mechanisms
With signing.
9.00 The German Collection
(Stereo)
9.25 Revised Higher Modern Studies
9.45 Numbertime
(Stereo)
10.00 Thunderbirds in Hindi
10.05 Great Experiments
10.30 The Making of "Middlemarch"
(Stereo)
11.00 Q and A
11.10 Landmarks
11.30 Diez Temas
11.45 History File
12.05 The Geography Programme
12.25 Lifeschool
12.50 Hidden Assets
(Stereo)
1.20-1.40 Children's BBC
with Chris Jarvis
(Stereo)
1.20 Fiddley Foodle Bird
(Stereo)
1.30 Johnson and Friends
1.40 Music Time
(Stereo)
2.00 News
(Subtitled) and Weather
followed by Numbertime
(Note: repeats are not indicated)
Comedy drama about Matthew who has performed poorly in his GCSE mocks so his older brother Lester comes back from teacher training to oversee his revision.
A programme about the trauma of miscarriage.
Citizens' advice programme. Today: benefit rights.
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Subtitled (news)
Westminster Live
Live coverage of Prime Minister's questions.
Regional News; Weather
Daily quiz.
Bennett reaches a decision. In Welsh with English subtitles.
Drama based on the hit song, starring Kenny Rogers
A preacher's nephew faces hostility when he resists the pressure to enlist in the army during the Second World War. With Fredric Lehne , Largo Woodruff, Mariclare Costello.
Drrector Dick Lowry (198 1)
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From the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo, featuring the ice dance, the rhythm of the rhumba, and the final phase of the men's free programmes. Introduced by Sue Barker , commentary by Alan Weeks.
Tonight's programme explores how the Conservatives are faring in their home-county heartland. With the local elections and Euro-elections looming, will the government reverse their mid-term blues or has the Tory Party suffered an irreversible decline?
Geoff Mulgan reports.
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On the Road. Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah travels further afield to find something still standing to work on - one week deep in the Yorkshire Dales, the next above the spires of Cambridge. A Don Haworth production for BBCtv
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Including new models at the Geneva Motor Show, a look at Pacific Racing, a new British team planning to enter
Formula 1 racing when the 1994 Grand Prix season starts in Brazil this weekend, and the demise of the Ford XR3i. Plus advice on buying a second-hand Mercedes 190.
Producer Ken Pollock
Executive producer Dennis Adams
"Rugby can help lead the way to the new South Africa," insists wealthy citrus farmer and rugby club president Espie Ferreira. "If we can get blacks and whites together on the rugby field, the rest will follow automatically."
The second of Christopher Terrill's documentaries about a country on the eve of democracy is entitled Black Men Bite and follows Ferreira's attempts to organise a season of rugby matches between black and white teams.
After years of apartheid, the white players anticipated the worst: some believed that the black players bite in the scrum; others decided to arm their referee and linesman with sidearms. However, despite a history of hatred, the first mixed match to be held in a township finally happened on an uneven field surrounded by barbed wire.
But Ferreira's dream of a brotherhood of rugby was short-lived. Two months into the season Chris Hani, ANC stalwart and negotiator in the forthcoming elections, was assassinated by a white right wing fanatic and the country was once again in a state of anarchy and rebellion.
Executive producer Paul Hamann
With Sue Cameron.
The Tomorrow People. Can the public get involved in science and make real choices for the future? Colin Blakemore ,
Claire Rayner , David Edgerton and others explore the costs and benefits of science in this last discussion in a series marking British Science Week and chaired by Roy Porter.
The weekend's OU programmes.
A look at telescopes.
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