6.15 Information Technology: Contrasts 9844531 6.40 Maths Models and Methods: The Examination
7.05 instruments in Flight 7107668 7.30 British and American History: Warfare and Welfare 7264918 7.55 Los Angeles: City of the Future? 4017260 8.45 The Right Course for YOU?
With Zoe Ball.
With Caitlin Easterby and Simon PaSCOe.
Animation. When the evil Wrath-Amon turns an entire village to stone, the quest begins - a quest which involves mystery, pirates and peril, warriors and wizards 8992m
With music from Danielle Gaha and Jhelisa Anderson of the Shamen. Rpt Stereo ..........
Another chance to see the school drama series from 1982.
Roland's misery gets worse.
Written by Alan Janes Rpt
Terry Nutkins helps in the rescue and release ofyoungtawny owls, and visits the ospreys on perhaps the most famous nest in the world, * See This Week: page 56
Drama series in 13 episodes, set in Australia.
Devil's Lair. With Shayne Vea, Rachel Goodman, Isla Fisher and Christopher
Fare
Music show, featuring Take That's new video "Sure".
Shown last Friday
(Stereo)
It's 24 October 1974 and Sam leaps into the life of boxer Kid Cody to fight for the impoverished nuns of St Mary's Church. With Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell.
A family adventure series from Australia set early this century on a cattle ranch. The Race. The calm of the McGregor household is broken by two new arrivals to Snowy River. Stereo .....................
The first of two films about the rare and spectacular wildlife, and the people, who live in one of the most unusual parts of the great Amazonian rainforest. Narrated by Anthony Hopkins. Rpt Subtitled ....
Final of the Saga International Open from the Guild Hall, Preston. The best of five sets decides the winner, who will pick up not just the new trophy but a cheque for
£ 10,000. Presented by Dougie Donnelly. Stereo.............................................
Highlights of Gloucester Bath. Plus the best action from the rest of the Courage First Division, and Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Presented by John Inverdale.
Robin Page introduces the Irish heat of the sheepdog trials from the lush scenery of Buttermere in the Lake District. Gus Dermody commentates during the trials and explains the actions taken by man and dog. The competitors are: Michael Kelly and Nell, John Chadwick and Nell and Simon Mosse and Scott.
Director Ian Russell ; Producer Joy Corbett
With the Conservative Party lagging so far behind in the polls, British business is turning its attention to the policies it could expect from a Labour government. Peter Wilson-Smith finds out whether the old antipathy between business and Labour survives or whether business would now be happy to live with a Labour government.
Murder in Manhattan. A spectacular combination of performance and rehearsal, which sees Domingo scale what he calls the "Mount Everest" of tenor roles, Otello. New York
Metropolitan Opera boss Joseph Volpe issued an unprecedented invitation to the programme to join his "family" and capture the day-to-day creation of a new production of Verdi's Otello with Russian conductor Valery Gergiev and in which Domingo delivers a performance of astonishing power. Producer Martin Rosenbaum ; Director
Donald Sturrock
Aristotle Onassis : the Golden Greek
Husband of Jacqueline Kennedy , lover of Maria Callas and many others,
Aristotle Onassis knew many beautiful women. But gossip column headlines and paparazzi photographs tell only one part of his remarkable story. A brilliant businessman he foresaw the importance of world oil and was the first to risk building supertankers. But when this bold gamblertried to seize a monopolyforthe shipment of Saudi oil, he found himself in conflict with rivals, who were backed by the CIA and the full might of US power. His tale is one of high drama, black comedy and Greek tragedy. See today's choices.
DirectorWilliamCran; Editor Laurence Rees
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* See This Week: page 10
Continuing the season dealing with racial tensions in America, this crime drama - directed by Dennis Hopper, who is the subject of a profile at 12.25am - stars Sean Penn, Robert Duvall
Los Angeles Police veteran Bob Hodges and eager young recruit Danny McGavin are assigned to the city's gang crime division. Their own methods are perpetually in conflict, yet neither is better than the other at coming to terms with the violence and nihilism of the "Crips" and "Bloods".
(1988) (Stereo )
Film Reviews pages 61-66
A Moving Pictures presentation of a frank documentary profile of Dennis Hopper - actor, director, photographer and wild man of Hollywood. From Rebel without a Cause through Easy Rider and onto Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper has been one of the most charismatic and controversial characters on the American film scene.
Director David Lynch and actor Dean Stockwell are among the contributors to this American portrait.
Showing as part of the occasional
Imagining America series, an adult short film starring Harvey Keitel
A man in search of the life he has lost, sets out on a nocturnal odyssey through contemporary Los Angeles
