6.45 Modern Art: Picasso's Guernica
5210681 7.10 Engineering and Science: Given Enough Rope 6395827 7.35 Database Developments

With Signing. Subtitled ...................9200989

Gepetto is arrested and sent to Devil's Island. (Rpt)

Alexander dreams of winning the soap box grand prix. (Rpt)

Note: repeats are not indicated.

9.00 Standard Grade Modern Studies: LA Mix
Young people in Los Angeles talk about their lives and beliefs. (ages 14-16)

9.25 Around Scotland: Townscapes - Beginnings
The geographical features around which Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kirkwall, Perth and Glenrothes began.

9.45 You and Me
Cosmo finds out that different creatures have different needs. (ages 3-5)

10.00-10.25 Children's BBC
with Josie D'Arby. (Stereo)
10.00 Playdays: Playground Stop
Including a visit to Bristol Zoo. (Stereo)

10.25 English Express: Language Skills
Light-hearted investigation into the English language. This programme goes back in time to medieval England and the kitchen of Mr and Mrs Everyman. (ages 9-11)

10.45 The Experimenter: People.
XP finds out why people have skeletons. (ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: People
One of the Space Ark crew is swallowed by a human. (ages 7-11)

11.15 Music Makers: Finding Sounds.
Listen out to the sounds all around you. (ages 7-9+)

11.35 Seeing through Science: Lost in Space
With astronaut Helen Sharman and a report on a 4,560 million year old meteorite that fell into an English garden. (ages 11-14)

The series for deaf and hard of hearing people looks at the Royal Family. With signing and subtitles

With Adrian Chiles.

1.00 Teaching Today: Classification - Does it Bite?
Supporting the development of science in primary schools.

1.30 Q and A
Highlighting new primary programmes for autumn.

1.40Thunderbirds in French: The Man from M15 (part 1)

1.45Numbertime
Maths for 4-and 5-year-olds.

Admirable Karia is determined to win the award for the best-kept lock on the canal. (Stereo)

Coverage continues with a debate on Northern Ireland, 25 years after the start of the present Troubles
Including at
3.00 News and Weather subtitled (news)
3.50 News and Weather subtitled (news) Regional News; Weather

Highlights of Sunday's annual half-marathon from Newcastle to South Shields. Twenty-five thousand runners were expected on the starting line, making the event one of the biggest of its kind in the world. Last year's winner of the men's race,
Kenyan Moses Tanui, was bidding to break his own world half-marathon record. Commentary by David Coleman, Brendan Foster and Paul Dickenson.

Western starring
Rock Hudson
When hisfiancee is kidnapped by outlaw Frank Slayton , rancher
Ben Warren and Slayton's embittered ex-partner set out on theirtrail.
Director Raoul Walsh (1953) ............... * FILM REVIEWS pages 59-62

Millions are spent each yearteaching science but how much of it sinks into the minds of those beingtaught?
New evidence from Harvard University in America and from Leeds indicates that the way science is taught may guarantee misunderstanding.
Many people leave school, and even university, with little grasp of basic concepts - despite passingtheir science exams.
This programme points to flaws in the testing system and demonstrates that teachers often hold the same misconceptions as their pupils. Video footage reveals that children may often have a clearer picture of how the world works before they enterthe classroom than afterwards. Simple Minds asks why science isn't getting across, and what the implications are for society. Producer Simon Dickson
Subtitled

The five babies are now 7 months old and beginning to take an interest in toys. But why do babies play and what sort of toys should they be bought?
The programme also looks at why boys and girls behave differently. Many parents claim they treat their sons and daughters in the same way, but Baby
Monthly puts three mothers to the test and discovers that a lot of their behaviourtowards boys and girls is subconscious and deep-rooted.
With three of the mothers back at work, the programme looks at the difficulties they have had in getting childcare. It asks the question all working mothers want answered - will leaving a baby with someone else affect its development?
Series producer Emma Read ; Executive producers
Jeremy Gibson. Edward Goldwyn Subtitied.,3469

A rich mixture of recipes spiced with the science of food and cookery, presented by top chef Raymond Blanc. This first programme looks at controlling the flavouroffood, and includes recipes for coq au vin and fondant au chocolat. With Martin Jarvis as 18th-century philosopher Brillat-Savarin. See today's choices.
Director Martin Gorst ; Producer George Auckland
Stereo Subtitled ...................................5204 BBC BOOK: Blanc Mange, featuring recipes from this series, price 118.99 from booksellers.
* Creative cookery from Raymond Blanc on page 42

Romantic comedy starring Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker

Bunny Brown may look like she has everything she desires, but what she really wants is to get away from her cheating husband and her self-centred children. Bunny's wish comes true when she is "kidnapped" by Walter Sharphorn, a charming but inept bank robber, who introduces her to the delights of life on the run.
The husband-and-wife team from LA Law star as the unlikely couple who discover they have more in common than they thought.
(1990) Stereo .......1469
Film Reviews pages 59-62

Then Video Nation Shorts Subtitled

With Peter Snow.

As programmes from the new autumn schedules begin on all four channels, Mark Lawson chairs a discussion on the future of drama on British television. Is the much talked-about decline in standards really happening?

There is also an interview with best-selling writer John Grisham, known for his legal thrillers like The Firm and The Pelican Brief, who has recently sold film rights to his latest book The Chamber for a record-breaking $6 million.

The uses of ultrasound