6.20 The Founding of the Royal Society
6.45 The Island: an Historical Production?
7.10 Ancient Athens: Acropolis Now
7.35 Santo Spirito: a Renaissance Church
With signing.
Ascot. Looking at high society fashions between
1928 and 1934.
From a book bound in a murderer's skin to the paper that might have killed
Napoleon, Lucinda Lambton combs museums for curiosities.
Reporting on Rhodes.
9.05 Landmarks Special 8713156
9.25 English Time: Writing in Style - Poetry 2 8793392
9.45 Storytime: Bear Shadow Stereo 7174595
10.00 The Royal Institute Christmas Lecture: The Cosmic Onion - Invaders from Outer Space
11.00 Words and Pictures: the Princess and the Pea
11.15 Job Bank: Painter and Decorator/Telephone Canvasser 9420885
11.35 TV6: the Birth of Europe - Coal, Blood and Iron (part 2)
12.05 Landmarks Special: Children at War
12.25 Unforgettable 3259311
12.35 Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Censorship Stereo Subtitled 81164953
12.50 Teaching Today: Management of Pupil Behaviour
1.20-1.40 Children's BBC with Chris Jarvis Stereo
1.20 Pingu 75699427
1.25 Forget-Me-Not Farm 97415779
1.40 Zig Zag: Tales from Europe - Finland Stereo 24596330
2.00 News Subtitled and Weather: followed by Storytime
Note: repeats are not indicated.
Live coverage of the Stella Artois Championships from Queen's Club, London. The world's top three players - Pete Sampras, Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg - head a star-studded line-up in this famous pre-Wimbledon tournament. Commentary by John Barrett, Mark Cox, David Mercer. Julian Tutt and Paul Hutchins.
Introduced by Sue Barker.
Producers Jim Reside and Johnnie
Watherston
Including at 3.00 News and Weather Subtitled (news) and at 3.50 News and Weather Subtitled (news) Regional News; Weather
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The Loss. The crew loses control of the Enterprise.
Classic cartoons.
Let's Kill Nanny
The Welfare State is a monstrous nanny, strangling the economy and crushing self-reliance - that is the argument in tonight's film from David Marsland , one of the authors of a recent report from the Adam Smith Institute - an influential think-tank - called
The End of the Welfare State. Director Norma Howe
Producer Gavin Dutton
The Light at the End of the Tunnel. Inthelastofthe series, the volunteers are back home as the Channel Tunnel opens. Deciding what they want out of Europe, they make a film illustrating their conclusions.
Including reports on whether the microchips of the future will bring immortality; turning the camcorder enthusiast into a Fellini; whether computers are inherently boys' toys; and the American military's use of computer simulations. With Rajan Datar , Benjamin Wolley and Susan Rae.
Series producer Stephen Arkell Series editor John Wyver
An Illuminations production for BBCtv
This week, Richard Mabey explores the floral glories in the limestone landscape of the Burren in Ireland's Co Clare; Rachael Polkinghorne visits some of man's oldest stone dwellings and poet John Hegley walks along Hadrian's Wall. Producer Kathryn Moore
Series producer Colette Foster
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Michael Frayn 's adaptation of his own novel ends a five-year absence from television since the Emmy-award winning First and Last.
By special request of the Prime Minister, civil servant Stephen Summerchild and philosopher Elizabeth Serafin are given the unusual brief of finding the true meaning of happiness. Twenty years after Summerchild's mysterious death, a Cabinet officer investigates, and uncovers a secret world high in a Whitehall attic and a curious romance that disturbed Summerchild's superiors.
The secrecy of the civil service intrigues Frayn. "Some of my most intelligent friends at university went into the civil service," he says, "and although they are close friends I know very little about what they do."
Producer David Snodin ; Director Nicholas Renton NOTE: Screen Two: Sin Bin on 18 May was written by Catherine Johnson : we apologise for omitting her name from our listing.
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By the Labour Party. With subtitles.
With Kirsty Wark.
Tonight, holiday reading, including the new wave of erotica by women writers.
There's also Patrick O'Brien 's sea-faring fiction, and literary agent Albert Zuckerman on guaranteeing success. With
TraceyMacLeod.
How poetry sheds light on British and Indian cultures.
