6.20 Plants' Designs for Living
6.45 Brain and Behaviour: Seasonal Affective Disorder
7.10 Ecology: Red Grouse
7.35 A Day in the Life: Blood Sugar Levels
With Signing.
(Subtitled)
More adventures with the world's most famous kangaroo.
Animation.
Captain Cousteau explores the age-old way of life of the Amazon Indians.
(Rpt)
Former political commentator John Cole takes a lakeside walking holiday in the Austrian mountains.
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The first of two programmes in which Nigel Farrell finds out how the great British public really spends the weekend, and meets people who would rather go hot air ballooning or orienteering than mow the lawn or walk the dog.
Brody has the job of supervising Sophie's sleepover.
Spy drama starring Jean Kent, Albert Lieven
When a thief boards the Orient Express with a diary containing vital political information, a cat-and-mouse game begins with the police.
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Film Reviews pages 51-56
A daily look at business news.
Cartoon. (Rpt)
Third in a 12-part series investigating the quality of access and facilities for the disabled tourist. Today, Assia King, a single mother of two and a wheelchair user, explores Blackpool.
Arthur and Irene Brighouse found that arranging their wedding at a time of severe rationing was not easy.
Further live coverage of England v West Indies from Old Trafford.
Continues at 3.55pm, with racing.
(Stereo)
Including at 3.00 News; Regional News; Weather
Continued coverage of the racing from Goodwood, featuring the 4.15 pm race.
Plus more live action from the fourth Test at Old Trafford and, at close of play, news from the World Netball Championships in Birmingham, with Hazel Irvine.
(Stereo)
More and more businesses are using E-Mail, the Internet and people working from laptop computers anywhere in the world. David Lomax reports on how the information revolution is affecting the shape of organisations and the people who work in them. Is this information technology liberating or intrusive?
A series of travel documentaries taking celebrities to their chosen destinations in Africa to explore for themselves. In this second programme, actor
Timothy Spall goes back to Zimbabwe to find the real country - from the solitude of Lake Kariba to the bars of Harare - that he missed six years before when he was filming White Hunter, Black Heart with Clint Eastwood. And Malawian poet and national hero Jack Mapanje returns home aftera decade spent in exile. Director Rizu Hamid ; Series producers Roy Ackerman and Andrew Snell
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A look at the red pandas - smaller, tree-climbing cousins of the black and white variety - which roam the bamboo-covered foothills of China, along with golden cats, golden monkeys and an unruly troop of Tibetan macaques.
See today's choices.
This week, Lucinda Lambton visits Brodsworth House in Yorkshire, a mid- 1 9th century house packed with crumbling Victoriana which has been gradually decaying as years of rot and damp took theirtoll. English Heritage has managed to rescue the house and arrest the decay, but this is no ordinary restoration programme.
Spike Milligan , meanwhile, embarks on a second campaign to save the Elfin Oak, the burned-out trunk of a huge oak tree in London's Kensington
Gardens whose twisted contours were carved into an intricate scene of pixies and goblins at the turn of the century by woodcarver Ivor Innes. In the sixties,
Milligan led a campaign to save the oak from rotting away, but can he save it a second time?
Presenter Kirsty Wark takes the West Highland line sleeper service to Fort William, Britain's most awe-inspiring railway journey and the focus of protests in the face of efforts to close the service.
Series producer Basil Comely; Executive producers Roland Keatingand Sally Angel
Continuing the sardonic blue-collar comedy about one woman's recipe for survival after divorce and single parenthood.
Starring Brett Butler
Grace has a new boss with communication difficulties. She also has financial problems, and it looks as if she'll have to take the children out of daycare. Will the childcare rota work - or will Quentin and Libby have to become latchkey kids?
Followed by African Summer: Video Nation Africa Shorts
With Jeremy Paxman.
Fifth of a new lifestyle magazine series aimed at the lesbian and gay male audience. Presented by Bert Tyler-Moore and Rhona Cameron.
Included in a colourful mix of regular items are news and features on gay and lesbian life worldwide, fitness and holiday tips.
Producer Neil Crombie ; Executive producer
Charlie Parsons
12.00 Open View
A look ahead to next week's Open University programmes.
12.05 Structural Components
How engineers can make sure that a new type of pylon won't fail in service.
