6.20 Plants: Designs for Living
6.45 Maths: Modelling Turkeys
7.10 Energy: A Day in the Life
7.35 Engineering: Structural Components
With signing.
Comedy. A poor
- young New Yorker meets an unhappy middle-aged millionaire. With Ginger Rogers ,
Walter ConnoUy and Verree Teasdale. Director Gregory La Cava (1939)
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A double bill featuring the crime-fighting Falcon.
When a brilliant scientist disappears, the police turn to the Falcon for help. With
George Sanders and Wendy Barrie Director lrang Reis (1941) B/W
The Falcon takes on blackmailers and a fortune-telling racket in an adventure based on Raymond Chandler 's Farewell, My
Lovely. With George Sanders , Lynn Bari and Allen Jenkins
DirectorIrving Reis (1942) B/W (The Falcon returns tomorrowat 10.25am)
Marine life around the Channel Islands.
With Chris Jarvis.
Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-Grams
Musical series.
Written by Simon Davies.
Peter Alliss demonstrates golf swings.
Subtitled (news) China Run
A 2,125-mile friendship run across China.
Subtitled (news)
Howard Hughes
The story of the eccentric billionaire.
Regional News; Weather
The4.15race.
A documentary on the country music star.
A programme about the increasing use of video surveillance in towns and cities across the north of England.
Producer Beverley Thompson
Western starring Richard Egan
Dorothy Malone
Wes Tancred is unjustly accused of murder when he kills in self-defence. Set free he travels to another town where he discovers a gang terrorising the local people. DirectorCharles Marquis Warren (1956)
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In this evening's live concert from the Royal Albert Hall Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a typically eclectic programme.
It features a new work,
Drowned Out, by Mark-Anthony Turnage. "Takingthis piece for its London premiere feels as though we're bringing a member of the family with us," says
Rattle. "He's produced some wonderful things for us and this marks the end of his four years as composer in residence."
The concert opens with Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola, in the second half Maria Ewing sings Messiaen' s Poemes pour Mi, and the orchestra ends with LaMer by Debussy.
"After the granite sounds of Turnage and Sibelius in the first half, the highly erotic voice of Messiaen and the immense sophistication of Debussy's seascape (completed in Eastbourne!) should ensure a pleasing contrast," says Rattle.
The programme is introduced by James Naughtie. In the interval, there's a look at the life of a CBSO musician.
Director Barrie Gavin
SerieseditorPeterManiura SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST (concert only): with Radio 3
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Subsequent programmes may run late.
Series on the role of zoos.
Noah's Ark 2150. Zoos are claiming a role as modern day Noah's Arks, saving species whose natural habitats have been destroyed. This programme fast-forwards to the zoo of the future, where animate are kept in the wild, the audience in a virtual-reality simulator and breeding stock in a test tube. State of the Ark Debate is at 11.15pm. Producer Vivianne Howard
Executive producer Grant Mansfield Stereo
BOOKLET: send cheque for £2.00. payable to BBC Education, to [address removed].
Then Video Nation Shorts
With Kirsty Wark.
"Good zoos, and there aren't many, can serve a useful conservation purpose in breeding endangered species, lalsothinkit's important that the rising urban population maintains some contact with the natural world.
Unless they do, they won't be bothered to look after it."
So says Sir David Attenborough , one of the participants in this debate - which includes the results of the Radio Times survey - on the role and future of our zoos. However, Will Travers , director of the Born Free
Foundation, disagrees. He says the zoo industry's meagre commitment to conservation is not enough to justify its existence. To conclude the series, Michael Buerk chairs the debate between zoo professionals and their critics on the subject. Producer Julian Mercer
Radio Times zoo survey results
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Open University preview.
(Repeated tomorrow at 2.00pm)
A look at the cereal.
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