Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,066 playable programmes from the BBC

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9.00 Mosaic. Careers Guidance: Fair Guidance Stereo 69841 9.300verthe Moon with Mr Boom (ages 5-7). Where I Live - In the Country.
9.45 Words and Pictures (ages 5-7). deluding today's story: Peter's Chair.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Boom

10.25 Look and Read (ages 7-9+): Skyhunter 2: The Welsh Telegram

10.45 Science Zone: It's in the Blood
Theory is put to good use after a first aid course.
(Stereo)

11.05 Firework Safety
Advice on their use.

11.15 See You, See Me - Scottish Themes (ages 7-9): See the Romans - Trade
(Stereo)

11.30 English File (ages 14-17): Hard Times
Last in a four-part dramatization.

12.00 TV6 (ages 16+): On the Road: Sex Education

Snooker
Grand Prix from the Assembly Rooms, Derby. Featuring the start of the first semi-final. Peter Ebdon is defending his title in a section which includes John Parrott and Ronnie O'Sullivan. Commentary by Clive Everton, Ray Edmonds, Dennis Taylor, John Virgo and John Spencer.

Tennis
The Brighton International from the Brighton Centre, with action from the quarter-final. Steffi Graf will be aiming for her seventh title. Commentary by David Mercer and Virginia Wade.

Racing
From Newbury, featuring races at 2.40,3.10 (The Glynwed International Chase) and 3.40. With Julian Wilson, Peter O'Sullevan, Richard Pitman and Peter Scudamore.

Including at 3.00 News and Weather subtitled (news); 3.50 News and Weather subtitled (news) Regional News; Weather

Contributors

Commentary (Snooker):
Clive Everton
Commentary (Snooker):
Ray Edmonds
Commentary (Snooker):
Dennis Taylor
Commentary (Snooker):
John Virgo
Commentary (Snooker):
John Spencer
Commentary (Tennis):
David Mercer
Commentary (Tennis):
Virginia Wade
Commentary (Racing):
Julian Wilson
Commentary (Racing):
Peter O'Sullevan
Commentary (Racing):
Richard Pitman
Commentary (Racing):
Peter Scudamore
Producer:
Paul McNamara
Editor:
Peter Allden

The cult detective series about a private investigator and his ghostly partner.
After the death of a wealthy woman, Marty tricks Jeff into investigating and lands him in a case of stolen identity.
First shown on ITV.

Contributors

Director:
Jeremy Summers
Jeff Randall:
Mike Pratt
Marty Hopkirk:
Kenneth Cope
Jeannie Hopkirk:
Annette Andre
Seaton:
Alex Scott
Cynthia:
Hilary Tindall
Donald Seaton:
Gary Watson

A series of vintage rock, pop and soul performances from the BBC archives. Comin' Home to You. With performances from the Eagles, Hall and Oates, Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton , and Dire Straits. Producer Harriet Bakewell ; Series producer
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Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Frampton
Producer:
Harriet Bakewell

Private security workers now outnumberthe uniformed police force. John McGhie investigates allegations of violence, intimidation and covert surveillance and asks why the government refuses calls for regulation of the private security industry. See today's choices. Producer Kevin Sutcliffe ; Editor Mark Wakefield

Contributors

Unknown:
John McGhie
Producer:
Kevin Sutcliffe
Editor:
Mark Wakefield

Six new films about the vehicles that defied extinction and the people that designed them, bought them and love them.
The Ford Transit. The Transit transformed the image of the van when it hit the road in October 1965. Driven by everyone from pop stars and the police to bank robbers and shop keepers, the new streamlined vehicle attracted a wide and devoted following. See today's choices. Series producer Emma Willis

Contributors

Producer:
Emma Willis

Trapped aboard a disintegrating ship, Rimmer abandons his crewmates, taking the only remaining escape pod. As he accelerates, he discovers the pod has no steering controls.

Contributors

Writer:
Rob Grant
Writer:
Doug Naylor
Director:
Andy de Emmony
Producer:
Justin Judd
Rimmer:
Chris Barrie
Lister:
Craig Charles
Cat:
Danny John-Jules
Kryten:
Robert Llewellyn
Rogue Simulant:
Liz Hickling

A four-part series in which celebrities from the movies pick their favourite films.
The acclaimed director of "Raging Bull" and "The Age of Innocence", talks about his life and how films like "The Tales of Hoffman" and "El Paso" influenced his own works.
"Duel in the Sun" is at 12.15am tonight. See today's choices.
Stereo Subtitled ...19334

Contributors

Speaker:
Martin Scorsese
Director:
Bill Couturie

Alec Baldwin, star of Malice, is a guest on tonight's comedy show. Larry (Garry Shandling) finds out that his former wife Francine has slept with Baldwin. Later he discovers that another guest, Ed Begley Jr, has also dated Francine, but his decision to ask her for a list of ex-boyfriends backfires when she asks him for a similar list.

Contributors

Larry Sanders:
Garry Shandling
Francine:
Kathryn Harrold
Himself:
Alec Baldwin
Himself:
Ed Begley Jr.

To accompany Martin Scorsese's Favourite Films.
"The most impressive memory I have of a feature film," is how director
Scorsese describes this western.
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez is torn between two very different men. With Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish and Walter Huston.
Director King Vidor (1946)
Stereo Subtitled 85378193
FILM REVIEWS pages 69-76

Contributors

Unknown:
Pearl Chavez
Unknown:
Jennifer Jones
Unknown:
Gregory Peck
Unknown:
Joseph Cotten
Unknown:
Lionel Barrymore
Unknown:
Lillian Gish
Unknown:
Walter Huston

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