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6.15 Pure Maths: Inverse Geometry 6631500

6.40 Mathematical Models: Hunting the Hump 7784448

7.05 Maths: Fibonacci Numbers 7099887

7.30 Developing World: the Cutting Edge of Progress 9760784

7.55 Advertising: Talking to the Tea Folk 6952784

8.20 Bullying: Danger - Children at Play. With subtitles. 7377500

8.45 Children, Science and Common sense

Today's show includes a close encounter with a lion at Colchester Zoo, a sight of a predatory bird, the osprey, out hunting, and a visit to Rathlin Island, Ireland, the remote home to thousands of breeding seabirds. With Michaela Strachan , Howie Watkins , Chris Packham and Janice Acquah. Stereo...............................

Contributors

Unknown:
Michaela Strachan
Unknown:
Howie Watkins
Unknown:
Chris Packham
Unknown:
Janice Acquah.

Third of a a 13-part fantasy drama. Maria realises that only she can resolve the valley's bitterfeud.
Robin NOAH HUNTLEY , Maria CAMILLA POWER,
Peter THOMAS SZEKERES, Miss Heliotrope JEAN
ANDERSON, Father Francis IAIN CUTHBERTSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Noah Huntley
Unknown:
Maria Camilla
Unknown:
Peter Thomas
Unknown:
Miss Heliotrope Jean
Unknown:
Father Francis Iain Cuthbertson

Third of six documentaries from around the world about children caught up in controversy. Today, the friendship that flourishes between two children when youngsters from around the nuclear blackspot of Chernobyl in the Ukraine spend six months in rural Ireland. Stereo......

Introduced by Steve Rider at Silverstone.

12.35 Grand Prix
Live coverage from Silverstone of this afternoon's British Grand Prix. Commentary by Murray Walker, Jonathan Palmer and Tony Jardine.
Highlights tonight at 7.10pm and Monday at 2.10pm. See today's choices. Andrew Duncan interviews Damon Hill: page 16
Radio Times Offers: pages 126,

4.00 Athletics
Places in Britain's team for next month's World Championships are at stake at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium on day two of the AAA Championships. Linford Christie and Steve Backley went on to win gold medals at the European Championships after victory in last year's official trials.

6.20 Show Jumping
Highlights of the Queen Elizabeth II Cup from the Royal International Horse Show at Hickstead.

Racing
During the programme, news of the Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

TV presentation (motor racing) Keith Mackenzie, Jim Reside
(Stereo)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider
Commentary By:
Murray Walker
Commentary By:
Jonathan Palmer
Commentary By:
Tony Jardine.
Unknown:
Andrew Duncan
Unknown:
Damon Hill
Unknown:
Linford Christie
Unknown:
Steve Backley
Unknown:
Keith MacKenzie
Unknown:
Jim Reside

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Labour's victory in the 1945 General Election, former Labour MP and political interviewer Brian Walden delivers an unscripted analysis of leader Clement Attlee.
Winston Churchill derided Attlee, his successor as Prime Minister, as a man of modest talents, a judgment with which history has tended to concur.
Walden presents a revisionist view of the man who established both the National Health Service and the Welfare State. Following Attlee's life from childhood to high office, Walden portrays him as a decisive figure, full of moral conviction, political cunningand a strong sense of social justice.
Producer David Cox

Contributors

Interviewer:
Brian Walden
Leader:
Clement Attlee.
Producer:
David Cox

Steve Rider presents highlights of this afternoon's British Grand Prix at
Silverstone and talks to the drivers after the biggest race of the British motor-racing calendar. Last year's winner, Damon Hill, went one better than his father, Graham, who never succeeded in winning the British Grand Prix despite two world titles. Victory on his home-country circuit for Hill would narrow the gap that separates him from Germany's Michael Schumacher.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Driver:
Damon Hill
Driver:
Michael Schumacher
Race commentator:
Murray Walker
Race commentator:
Jonathan Palmer
Pit commentator:
Tony Jardine
Producer:
Keith MacKenzie
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Executive producer:
Jim Reside

The four-part series, narrated by Robert Lindsay, marking 50 years of the Welfare State concludes with an examination of its success in eradicating mass poverty.
The great promise of the Welfare State was that it would offer cradle-to-grave security, banishing the bleak memories of the hunger of the 1930s. But. through the instructive example of Sheffield and its changing fortunes, the programme shows how different the reality was.
Both inflation and unemployment rocketed as the effects of the oil embargo of the 1970s began to be felt. Political theorists dictated that spiralling prices must be checked, even if it meant paying the cost in jobs. The consequences were disastrous for Sheffield. Once the heartland of the steel industry, it was caught in the poverty trap of the early 1980s, with 40,000 workers put on the dole.
Television dramas acted as social commentaries, and clips featured in the programme from uncompromising plays such as Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff show how they captured the nation's mood.
Series producer Sally Doganis
See Polly Toynbee : page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Lindsay
Unknown:
Alan Bleasdale
Producer:
Sally Doganis
Unknown:
Polly Toynbee

In the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, presidents, politicians and activists from across the continent discuss how they would react to imaginary crises. The debate is accompanied by films made by participants, including footage of the conflict in Rwanda. With Geoffrey Robertson , QC. See today's choices. Producer Ed Hamman

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Robertson
Producer:
Ed Hamman

A channel-surf through African television. Namibian programme maker Hilda Basson presents extracts from stations broadcasting in over 25 countries of the continent, including colourful range of local drama, documentaries, music, entertainment and current affairs. See today's choices.
Producer Katnna Phillips : Executive producers Fenton Bailey , Randy Barbato Subtitled. The next programme in the African Summer season, The Radical Option - Reparations to Africa, is on Wednesday at 7.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilda Basson
Producer:
Katnna Phillips
Producers:
Fenton Bailey
Producers:
Randy Barbato

A weekly review of the week's major developments in the Los Angeles courtroom where former American footballer, film star and national sporting hero O J Simpson is accused of the murder of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Presented by Peter Pringle.

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Pringle.
Producer:
Roy Davies

Continuing the season of late-night westerns.
Starring
Val Kilmer
New Mexico Territory, 1879. After taking revenge on a lawless sheriff,
William H Bonney becomes a wanted man. Living by his own code of right and wrong, the irrepressible youth finds himself at war with the authorities - including old friend Pat Garrett. The day of reckoning between the two approaches as Billy the Kid refuses to grow up.
Director William A Graham (1989)
Subtitled.....
* FILM REVIEWS pages 53-59

Contributors

Unknown:
William H Bonney
Unknown:
Pat Garrett.
Director:
William A Graham
William H Bonney:
Val Kilmer
Pat Garrett:
Duncan Regehr
Celsa:
Julie Carmen
Charlie:
Ned Vaughn
Tom:
Patrick Massett
Governor Lew Wallace:
Wilford Brimley
Drunk:
Rene Auberjonois
Valdez:
Nate Esformes
Peppin:
Billy Joe Patton
Dolan:
John O'Hurley
Rynerson:
Michael Parks
Maxwell:
Albert Salmi
Tunstall:
Andrew Bicknell
Joe Poe:
Tom Everett
Brady:
Jack Dunlap
Minister:
Gore Vidal

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