Volunteer Recruitment, States of Mind and Make a Difference, plus Charity Commission News and a video from Greenpeace
6.20 Chemistry: Samples for Analysis
Chemical detectives who identify rare diseases and develop more selective insecticides.
6.45 Geology: Interpreting Sediments
By studying gravel and sand beds geologists can determine the conditions in which the rocks were laid down.
7.10 Engineering: Structural Components
Testing a new pylon to ensure it won't fail when in service.
7.35 Science: Fires of Life
Examining the process of converting inorganic carbon to organic carbon.
With Signing.
Today's presenter is Andrew Neil.
(For details see Monday) (Stereo)
Today: barbequed eggplant. Rpt.
The last programme in the series on the conflicts between Native Americans and settlers focuses on the Lakotas and Northern Cheyenne. The tribes' resistance to being forced on to reservations led to the battle of Wounded Knee.
Joe Parker has worked with tractors all his life. Now retired, he spends his time restoring and exhibiting them
Celebrating the benefits of an active lifestyle, at any age
The 124th Open Golf Championship from St Andrews starts today with icuoune world's best players competing for the 25th time on the famous course.
Introduced by Steve Rider.
See today's choices.
A daily look at business news.
Animated adventures of Harry and the thundercloud.
Further live coverage from St Andrews.
(Stereo)
Animals inhabiting the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea.
The development of computers.
Followed by Westminster
Live from Parliament, with Jon Sopel.
Continued coverage from St Andrews.
The curtain is raised on the business empire of Andrew Lloyd Webber in the first programme of the new series. He is Britain's most successful composer of musicals and one of its richest men.
The Really Useful Group is a multi-million pound company, operating around the globe and "mass-producing" shows like Cats, Phantom of the Opera and his latest spectacular, Sunset Boulevard. But like any other business it has problems and secrets.
Director Helen Richards ; Producer
Tracey Gardiner
AFRICAN SUMMER
A new series of travel documentaries taking celebrities to theirchosen destinations in Africa to explore the hidden faces of the continent.
In this first programme, actor and novelist Antony Shervisits Morocco to discover why Tangier has been a magnet for artists, writers and gays. And supermodel Anna Getaneh goes back to her childhood home, Ethiopia. See today's choices.
Director Rizu Hamid ; Series producers Roy Ackerman. Andrew Snell
Living high amongst the rocks and boulders of the mountains of New Zealand the "clown of the Alps" is not only a comic, hooligan and petty thief, but can be a killer. The bold and intelligent kea has developed a taste for mutton.
Night vision equipment catches the killer parrot in the act.
See today's choices.
(Stereo)
The programme uncovering Britain's heritage. Presenter Kirsty Wark asks just how did King Henry VIII go to the lavatory? At Hampton Court Palace
Simon Thurley reveals an underground network of tunnels dealing with Tudor waste and sewage, and lifts the lid on an ancient royal convenience. The programme recreates the lost Great
House of Easement - Hampton Court's 28-seater communal lavatory. Liz Dawn , Coronation Street's
Vera Duckworth , time travels to Temple
Newsam House, just outside Leeds, for an 18th century-style "make-over". Plus there's an exploration of that surreal form of gardening, the art of hedge-cutting ortopiary.
Series producer Basil Comely; Executive producers Roland Keating , Sally Angel
Continuing the sardonic blue-collar comedy about one woman's recipe for survival after divorce and single parenthood.
Starring Brett Butler
Grace Kelly, divorced mother of three, working hard in a man's world, finds her life dominated by her neighbours' fertility problems and an unexpected case of sexual harassment at work.
Followed by African Summer: Video Nation Africa Shorts
The topical news analysis programme. With Jeremy Paxman.
Fourth of a new lifestyle magazine series aimed at the lesbian and gay male audience.
Featuring a colourful mix of regular items, from a guest reporter looking into the gay holiday scene to a celebrity opening his home to scrutiny in Homes and Gardens.
Presented by Bert Tyler-Moore and Rhona Cameron.
Producer Neil Crombie
Executive producer Charlie Parsons
12.00 Open View
A look ahead to next week's Open University programmes.
12.05 Images of the Cosmos: Mapping the Milky Way
What does our galaxy look like from intergalactic space?
The debates in Parliament today. With Susan Hulme.
