8.00 Preparatory Maths - Algebra
6528201 8.15AQuestionofPalance? Learning at Work 8833794 8.40The Enlightenment: Nathan the Wise
9459862 9.05 Open Mind -a lookatthe brain. 4003404 9.30There'sa Degree in Me Somewhere - OU students discuss theirfirstyearofstudy. 1486572 9.55
Opening Up Technology - a police officer, an economist and a guest-house owner open up - a motorway.
10.00 Chanakya Continuing the historical drama serial. In Hindi with English subtitles.
10.40 Style Byte Style and fashion from
India.
10.50 Network East Asian arts and entertainment series with Sujata Barot and SanjeevBaskar. Stereo ........
11.20 Bollywood or Bust! Mohit Dutta hosts the last preliminary round of the Hindi movie quiz. Stereo ............... COMPETITION: telephone [number removed]. Call costs 39p per minute. Fora copy of rules, send sae to [address removed]
Including reviews of Good Man in Africa, an adaptation of William Boyd 's novel, the animated musical fantasy
A Nightmare before Christmas and Corrina Corrina with Whoopi Goldberg. Shown last Monday on BBC I
Mystery starring
John Hodiak , Frances Gifford
Strugglingto revive her marriage, a woman is drawn to the compelling, disreputable nightclub ownerTony
Arnelo. Herfoolishness traps her in a web of deceit and implication in murder.
DirectorArchOboler(1947) B/W Stereo. ♦ FILM REVIEWS pages 69-76
Bilko plans revenge on three cardsharps who cheated Private Doberman. (b/w)
The Predator
A look at attempts to reintroduce the Partula snail to the Polynesian islands.
Shown last Monday Stereo
Western starring
Joel McCrea , Frances Dee
A rancher reluctantly robs a bank to help his father. Intending to repay the money, he leaves an IOU note, but when a reward is offered, the legendary Marshal Pat Garrett sets out to track him down.
Director Alfred E Green (1948) B/W Stereo.... ♦ FILM REVIEWS pages 69-76
UK Championship from the Guild Hall, Preston. Featuring highlights from this afternoon's openingsession in the second semi-final. Introduced by David Vine.
Stereo...................................................
6.00 TOTP 2 An essential mix of current music and pop nostalgia.
This week's showfeatures Top of the Pops from 1976 with Billy Ocean , Elton John and Chicago, and a 1983 edition with hits from the Smiths, the Thompson Twins and Simple Minds, and a debut performance from Phil Collins with In the Air Tonight.
Producer RicBlaxill Stereo .................
6.45 What the Papers Say
Sarah Baxter of The Sunday Times reviews the week's press........................
With Jennie Bond. Subtitled
Weather John Kettley ...............
The Germ Genie
The genetic engineering revolution makes it possible to create designer germ weapons which could devastate populations by spreading deadly diseases against which there may be no defence.
With exclusive access to top secret military establishments in the US,
Assignment reveals the scale of the threat. BBC defence correspondent David Shukman investigates why international efforts to curb the proliferation of biological weapons are being held up by the powerful biotechnology industry.
Producer David Baillie ; Editor Keith Bowers
The comedy quiz, hosted by Angus Deayton, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop and guests, Conservative MP Sir Teddy Taylor and comedy actress Helen Atkinson-Wood .
(Shown yesterday) (Stereo)
The season of classic dramas continues with John Gielgud in J.B. Priestley's vision of England in 1975. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures.
See today's choices.
The last programme in the current series of discussions by powerful women. GermaineGreerand her regular guests - Janet Street-Porter , Ann Leslie and Suzanne Moore - are joined by some male outriders.
The men, journalist Tony Parsons , former government minister Alan Clark and writer Roy Porter , help debate the subject: what exactly are women for? Producer Janet Lee ; Series editor Janice Hadlow
Drama based on the classic Welsh novel by Caradog Pritchard.
Ghosts of the troubled past haunt a man who returns to the closed, Welsh village where he was raised in poverty. He recalls his mother as a woman whose obsession with spiritual redemption lead to insanity and he remembers his own nightmares.
The film, which translates into English as One Full Moon, was shot entirely on location in Snowdonia and has so far won 14 awards.
In Welsh with English subtitles.
Director EndafEmlyn (199 Stereo .... # FILM REVIEWS pages 69-76
Highlights from recordings made by Video Nation contributors, shown without any editing by the BBC.
Home. This week's episode brings together contrasting lifestyles, exploring the meaningof home. From a teenage traveller's guided tour of her caravan to a Bosnian Muslim refugee's memories of the village he was forced to leave, viewers are left to make up their own minds about this compelling footage.
Producer Mandy Rose ; Executive producer
Bob Long
