Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,923 playable programmes from the BBC

(Note: schools' half-term repeats)

9.00 Mosaic
Careers Guidance
For careers advice, call the free information line on [number removed] or to get a free booklet, send a large SAE with a 36p stamp to [address removed].
(Stereo)

9.30 Over the Moon with Mr Boom: Where I Live - In the Town
(ages 5-7) (Stereo)

9.45 Words and Pictures
Including today's story: Peter's Chair.
(ages 5-7)

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

10.45 Science Zone: It's in the Blood
(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

Introduced by Helen Rollason.
Golf Live coverage of the second round of the Volvo Masters from Valderamma, Spain. Commentary by Peter Alliss and Alex Hay , with Sue Barker.
Editor Peter AMen
Includingat

Contributors

Introduced By:
Helen Rollason.
Commentary By:
Peter Alliss
Commentary By:
Alex Hay
Unknown:
Sue Barker.

Top chefs are challenged to create exciting new recipes. Introduced by Fern Britton with Brian Turner , Kevin Woodford , Steven Saunders , Richard Cawley and Patrick Anthony

Contributors

Introduced By:
Fern Britton
Unknown:
Brian Turner
Unknown:
Kevin Woodford
Unknown:
Steven Saunders
Unknown:
Richard Cawley
Unknown:
Patrick Anthony

Written by Tony Williamson.
The cult detective series about a private investigator and his ghostly partner.
Jeff takes on what begins as a routine divorce case, but he soon ends up being the fall-guy in a murder case.
First shown on ITV.

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Williamson
Director:
Cyril Frankel
Jeff Randall:
Mike Pratt
Marty Hopkirk:
Kenneth Cope
Jeannie Hopkirk:
Annette Andre
Alan Corder:
Paul Maxwell
Susan Lang:
Denise Buckley
Paul Lang:
Edward Brayshaw
Harry:
Robert Russell
Brin:
Nik Zaran
Mrs Halloway:
Gwen Nelson

This week, Zoe Ball interviews Sean Maguire about his second single Take This Time and the programme travels to Phoenix, Arizona in the US to meet the heavy metal band Megadeath.
Repeated next Sunday

Contributors

Presenter:
Zoe Ball
Guest:
Sean Maguire
Guests:
null Megadeath
Producer:
Paul Smith

A series of vintage rock, pop and soul performances from the BBC archives. Smash It Up. With performances from the Clash, the Buzzcocks, the Damned, the Stranglers, the Jam, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Undertones, and Joy Division.
Producer Jeannie Clark ; Series producer
David Jeffcock Revisedrpt

Contributors

Producer:
Jeannie Clark
Producer:
David Jeffcock Revisedrpt

Invisible Killer
Defective gas heating is the biggest cause of death by poison in the home. The lethal gas carbon monoxide is odourless, silent, and invisible. Victims often don't know they are being poisoned until it is too late. Fiona Bruce asks if new government measures will help save lives.
Producer Caroline Pare ; Editor Mark Wakefield

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Bruce
Producer:
Caroline Pare
Editor:
Mark Wakefield

Second of six films about the vehicles that defied extinction and the people that designed them, bought them and love them.
The Airstream Caravan. Known as the "Silver Bullet" and made entirely of aluminium, the Airstream Caravan is still in production after 60 years. See today's choices.
Producer Richard Pawelko ; Series producer
Emma Willis

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Pawelko
Producer:
Emma Willis

The second of a four-part series in which celebrities from the movies pick their favourite films.

The Oscar-winning actor and producer talks about his favourite movies including Peter Pan, and the Russian love story Ballad of a Soldier. He also recalls how his father Kirk's performance in Lust for Life motivated him into becoming an actor.
Ballad of a Soldier is at 12.10am tonight.

Contributors

Speaker:
Michael Douglas
Director:
Bill Couturie

More irreverent humour in a return of the topical comedy quiz. Hosted by Angus Deayton with Paul Merton and fan Hislop.
This week's guests are actor Martin Clunes and Judge James Pickles. See today's choices. Producer Colin Swash
Repeated tomorrow evening ♦ Ian Hislop 's Kind of Day. See page 154.
Followed by Bard on the Box Readings from Shakespeare's greatest hits.

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Martin Clunes
Unknown:
Judge James Pickles.
Unknown:
Ian Hislop

One of Michael Douglas 's
Favourite Films , this drama tells the universal storyofayoungconscriptatwar.
Instead of accepting a medal for heroism in battle, 19-year-old Alyosha asks for a four-day pass to go home and fix his mother's leaking roof. His journey becomes an odyssey, full of new experiences - and his first love. In Russian with English subtitles. With Vladimir Ivashov ,
Shanna Prokhorenko and Antonina Maximova.
Director Grigori Chukhrai (1959) B/W ... 88988 13 * FILM REVIEWS pages 75-79

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Douglas
Unknown:
Vladimir Ivashov
Unknown:
Shanna Prokhorenko
Unknown:
Antonina Maximova.
Director:
Grigori Chukhrai

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