5.30 IRSF - the Merger Inquiry
Reports on the union merger plans of lRSF and NUCPS
5.45-6.00 TUTV - Trade Union Television
News, views and features for union workers
6.20 Reflections on Assessing Clinical Chances
6.45 Industrial Change: from Public to Private
7.35 Alaska: the Last Frontier?
With Signing.
(Subtitled)
From Monday to Thursday, a chance to tackle politicians on current issues. Presented today by Sarah Baxter.
Tel: [number removed] (calls charged at local rates; lines open Mon-Thurs, 7.15-9.00am). Fax: [number removed]. E-mail: [email address removed]
(Stereo)
Note: repeats are not indicated.
9.00 Le Club: Jours de Fete
(ages 9-12) (Stereo)
9.15 Teaching Today: Planning, Planning - Libraries
9.45 Numbertime
(ages 4-5) (Stereo)
10.25 Cats' Eyes: Forces
(ages 5-7)
10.40 Look and Read Special
(ages 7-9)
11.00 Zig Zag: Wildlife Safari
(ages 8-10)
11.20 Techno: Making It
(ages 11-14)
11.40 Job Bank: Finding a Job
(ages 14+) (Stereo)
12.00 Shakespeare: the Animated Tales: The Taming of the Shrew
(ages 9-13) (Stereo)
A daily look at business news.
1.00 History File: The Making of the United Kingdom: 1500-1750 (ages 14-16)
(Stereo)
1.25 Landmarks: Exploration and Encounters (ages 9-12)
(Subtitled)
1.45 Words and Pictures (ages 5-7)
(Rpt) (Stereo)
Drama starring Stacy Keach, Teri Garr
Vietnam, 1975: a doctor and his wife are separated in the confusion of the American evacuation of Saigon. She is designated "Missing in Action", but 12 years later she reappears, shocked, bruised and with a small Asian boy in tow. (1986)
(Stereo)
(Film Reviews pages 49-54)
Including at 3.00 News Regional News; Weather
Daily quiz, with Martyn Lewis.
Quizcall: [number removed]. Calls cost 39p per minute cheap rate. 49p per minute at all other times.
Daily cookery challenge.
(Stereo)
Programme Recipes: available on Ceefax page 613.
In the first of this week's shows, Esther Rantzen meets people who believe their own quirky taste to be the epitome of style, including a woman with a colony of garden gnomes.
(Stereo)
Word game, with Paul Coia.
Buck finds danger lurking in his past when he recognises his girlfriend from the 20th century in 25th-century New Chicago.
Classic fun from Tex Avery
David Gower presents the first of a new monthly series, featuring cricket's best action, greatest characters and liveliest stories. This evening's programme includes highlights of the West Indies' recent series with Australia; a Video Diary by Jimmy Adams , the batsman ranked number one in the world, with an insight into the West Indians' preparationsfortheir England tour; captain Mike Atherton and Playerofthe Year Darren Gough discuss England's prospects of beating the West Indies this summer; and former Neighbours star Mark Little begins his series of off-beat looks at
English cricket, with a spectator's view of the County Championship. Plus a look at the current controversy surrounding Pakistani cricket;
Allan Donald coachingyoungsters on the art of fast bowling; six promising cricketers to follow this summer; and a roundup of the season so far.
Series producer Philip Bernie Subtitled....
J illy- Goolden and Oz Clarke report from New Zealand and Australia on the wines of the new world that are conquering the old world.
Director Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones ; Executive producer Peter Bazalgette Rpt. ....
The return of the magazine series about computers and the digital world. Tonight, a report on a bitter legal dispute in the United States between the Church of Scientology and one of its former ministers; Benjamin Wolley builds a web page; and bizarre ideas for wearable computers. In the regular Hotlist spot, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree offers a guide to the best music available on the Internet.
See today's choices.
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See Carol Vorderman : page 10
Another chance to see the series about vehicles which defied extinction, and the people who designed them, bought them, and love them today.
Named after its inventor Harry Ferguson, this tractor revolutionised farming after the Second World War. Some 40 years after production ceased, designers, farmers and demonstrators explain why it is still used today.
Sci-fi thriller series.
A young child disappears from a closed bedroom. His sister, deeply traumatised, is unable to say what she witnessed, so Dr Jon Holland is called in. As the children's estranged parents come under suspicion, the doctor begins to suspect the case may be linked with other abductions. What evil force is at work?
The first of six programmes which tell the human stories behind the multinational face of the pop music business.
Musicians, managers and people in the industry talk about the deals which can make, and break, musicians. See today's choices.
See This Week: page 11
The Music Biz 9.40pm BBC2
The Rolling Stones got $45 million. Madonna got $60 million. Prince got $100 million. With sums like this flying around, why are so many rock stars dissatisfied with their record companies? This new series dissects the complex relationships between artists, managers and labels, with help from Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Michael Hutchence and a host of hopefuls.
Tonight's programme looks at the difficulties of getting a recording deal, as struggling band Some Have Fins try to impress industry bigwigs at a gig in north London. If you ever thought This Is Spinal Tap was too silly to be true, tune in.
Read more on page 11.
With Peter Snow.
(Subtitled)
A Late Show special which goes on location in Spain, where director Ken Loach is shooting Land and Freedom, set during the Spanish Civil War. Screenwriter Jim Allen and historical adviser Andy Durgan are among colleagues who discuss the themes of the film and Loach's working methods.
(Stereo)
12.00 Women's Studies: the Body Social
Is it true that the most important thing about a woman is the way she looks?
12.25 Design Principles and Practice: Design for Manufacture
OU downloaded video.
Today in Parliament. With Michael Fairbairn.
