6.15 Pure Maths: Perspectives
6.40 Engineering Mechanics: Vibrations 7286856 7.05 Maths: Modelling Stock Control 7591295 7.30 Breaking Out: Women in Zimbabwe 9335092 7.55
Poetry and Landscape in the 18th Century 6527092 8.20 Errors Aren't Forever
Subtitled 7959108 8.45 Rover's Return:
Modern CarManagement
Animationabout a genial ghost....................
Fans of East 17 and Guns 'N' Roses compete in the quiz testing musical knowledge. Hosted by Toby Anstis and Dannii Minogue.
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Today, Michaela Strachan and Howie Watkins go roaming around Belfast Zoo with ring-tailed lemurs; Welsh gulls give Chris Packham a warm welcome to the island of Skomer; Janice Acquah watches slow-worms racing; plus the whereabouts of the world's largest moth. stereo .
The school series from 1985. Jane's plotting misfires.
Calley SIMONE HYAMS , Jane JOANN KENNY. Gonch JOHN HOLMES , Hollo BRADLEYSHEPPARD
Written by David Angus Rpt
Fifth of a six-part fantasy drama series. While Lady '
Blackheart continues to vow revenge, Sir Benjamin sets off to find Loveday.
Robin NOAH HUNTLEY , Maria CAMILLA POWER.
Peter THOMAS SZEKERES, Miss Heliotrope JEAN ANDERSON.
Fr Francis IAIN CUTHBERTSON , Simon Blackheart RICHARD ELFYN
Sir Benjamin PHILIP MADOC , Old Elspeth MIRIAM MARGOLYES , Loveday ALANNAH O'SULLIVAN, Lady Blackheart POLONA VETRIH
Fifth of six documentaries from around the world about children caught up in controversy. The Curfew. Today, Jamie [text removed] , a 1 2-year-old from Manchester, uses a camcorderto record his feelings during a six-month curfew imposed by his mother, who is determined to reform him after several serious encounters with the police. Stereo...............................................
This week, Let Loose talk to Zoe Ball in Prague, where they are filmingthe video to accompany their single, Best in Me.
Introduced by Sue Barker.
12.00, 1.40 Cricket: Fourth Test
Continuing coverage from Old Trafford of the fourth day's play between England and the West Indies. It is now more than 25 years since England last beat the tourists. Presently 2-1 down in the series, England have only two more Tests after this one to overturn the deficit. Highlights can be seen at 12.50am.
Commentary by Richie Benaud, Geoff Boycott, David Gower, Tony Lewis and Colin Croft.
1.00 Netball
The World Championship final, from the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. Defending champions Australia start as favourites in a competition that has seen the return of the South Africans after a gap of 28 years. Commentary by Hazel Irvine.
Grand Prix
During the programme, news of the German Grand Prix, covered live at 12.30pm on BBC 1. Highlights on BBC2 tonight at 7.40pm and tomorrow at 10.15am.
First in a new six-part series of the off-beat comedy.
The Minister's Affair. The Falcon is a suave English detective on the trail of the infamous Fish Man. But dogging his footsteps is Ferdinand de Bargos, who wants him to narrate some more of his fantastic tales. Meanwhile, an ambitious MP enlists the services of Dr McFaddyan to perform a hazardous sex-change operation, with the Machiavellian intention of seducing a married government minister, creating a scandal and forcing his resignation. Producers Kim Fuller, Geoff Atkinson
The President of Ghana,
Jerry Rawlings , argues passionately that, given time and patience, Africa can solve its problems of war, famine and economic deprivation The next African Political Broadcast is tomorrow at 10.25pm
Highlights of this afternoon's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. Race commentary by Murray Walker ,
Jonathan Palmerand Tony Jardine. Producer Mark Wilkin ; Executive producer
Jim Reside. Rptd tomorrow at 10. 1 5am ...
THE BOMB
Tales from the Radiation Age
A history of the 20th century, and a look into the future, through the phenomenon of radiation and its pervasive effects on people and the planet. This programme launches the season showingto mark the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombingof Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the centenary of William Roentgen 's discovery of the X-ray. See today's choices.
Director Paul Yule ; Producer Fiona McKenzie
The film Shadow Makers follows at 10.00pm
Drama, recounting a turning point in human history, starring
Paul Newman
Dwight Schultz
Bonnie Bedelia
1942: America secretly sets out to build the world's first atomic bomb.
General Leslie R Groves is assigned to get the job done and selects physicist J Robert Oppenheimerto oversee the project. The finest minds known to science assemble in a New Mexico laboratory to build the weapons, which become known as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". For each person, the mission begins as a race against time - and becomes an obsession.
Director Roland Joff é (1989)
The next programme in The Bomb season. Lucky People, is tomorrow at 8.50pm
# FILM REVIEWS pages 45-50
Film star and former sporting hero O J Simpson stands accused in Los Angeles of the murder of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were found dead outside her home last summer. Peter Pringle presents all the week's courtroom developments.
Highlights from Old Trafford, Manchester, of England's progress on the fourth day of the crucial fourth Test against the West Indies. Hosted by Richie Benaud.