6.20 San Marco: A Dominican
Priory 9253800 6.45 US in the 20th Century: Representingthe People 6409274 7.35
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With signing.

Parliamentary news.

Remembering 5 May 1980, when the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London to bring a siege to an end.

Short films about people motivated by passion rather than profit. Today: an engine driver's story.

9.05 Landmarks Special: On the Canals

9.25 Zig Zag Special: Cathedrals

9.45 Storytime: The Bear's Water Picnic
(Stereo)

10.00 The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 1993: The Cosmic Onion - Beyond the Rainbow

11.00 Words and Pictures: The Great Green Forest

11.15 Job Bank: Leisure Centre Attendant; Accountant

11.35 Teaching Today: P.E. in the Primary School
(Stereo)

12.05 Unforgettable: Changing Faces
(Subtitled)

12.15 Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Disappearance

12.25 The Developing World: Lessons from Kerala

12.50 Teaching Today: Effective Questioning in the Primary School
(Stereo)

1.20-1.40 Children's BBC
with Zoe Ball.
(Stereo)
1.20 Henry's Cat
1.25 Gordon T Gopher
1.35 King Rollo

1.40 Zig Zag: Tales from Europe - Belgium
(Stereo)

2.00 News (Subtitled) and Weather

followed by Storytime

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

Finnish writer Goran Schildt and his wife sailed into the Mediterranean 25 years ago. They fell in love with the Greek island of Leros and stayed.

Subtitled (news)
Westminster Live
Coverage of Parliament.

Regional News; Weather

A drama of family strife, starring Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire

1920s Oklahoma: Is robust Rubin Flood suffering from a 17-year itch? His unhappy wife Cora fears so in this adaptation of the William Inge play.
With Eve Arden and Angela Lansbury.
(1960)
FILM REVIEWS pages 57-63

Future Imperfect. Riker finds himself in the future.

Every spring since
1913 the grounds of the Royal Hospital,
Chelsea, have been the venue for the top gardening event of the year. The central marquee contains four acres of the country's best plants - from old favourites to new strains - and is flanked by 25 gardens from the traditional to the exotic.
The exact content of this first of two programmes is not decided until the last moment, but reports will include
Wisborough Green Horticultural Society's efforts to turn a tiny plot into a courtyard display. Producer Mark Kershaw promises "the very best of the best of Chelsea".
GEOFF HAMILTON page 26

Where the Pigeons Go to Die Attempting to alleviate housing shortage on a national level, the Empty Homes Agency has housed 2,000 people since its launch. But the number of empty properties is increasing and ex-housing officer Bob Lawrence feels the public has a right to know about this colossal waste.
Director Liz Jackson
Executive producer Giles Oakley
FACTSHEET: send sae marked "Empty
Homes" to [address removed]

A mini-history of the sandwich ProducerAnn Hawker
Series producer Mark Harrison

The appeal of the hay meadows of Worcestershire;
Loyd Grossman on heritage that's gone to rack and ruin;
John Walters walks in the Dales; and Mr Crabtree fishes for bream.
Producer Kathryn Moore
Series producer Colette Foster

An extraordinary performance from Douglas Hodge , recently seen in Middlemarch as Dr Lydgate, is at the centre of Rona Munro 's dissection of four men struggling to understand their friends, family and lovers.
Hodge plays Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches
Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, Bad and Beautiful.
As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling off ice block - each of them with an interest in the women within. Producer Caroline Oulton : Director Jean Stewart
SEETHIS WEEK page 7

German film-maker Veit Helmer explores life in high places. Within Grasp
Anton embarks on a courtship with a girl in an attic.
The Window Cleaner
The fairytale romance of a humiliated waitress.
Then Video Nation

By the Labour Party.

With Kirsty Wark.

Includes a report on the growth of tabloid TV in America. With
Joanna Coles.

A South African play.

Recovery rates.