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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

Fans of East 17 and Guns 'N' Roses compete in the quiz testing musical knowledge. Hosted by Toby Anstis and Dannii Minogue.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitted)

Contributors

Presenter:
Toby Anstis
Presenter:
Dannii Minogue

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 .

Contributors

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

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Calley Simone Hyams
Unknown:
Jane Joann Kenny.
Unknown:
Gonch John Holmes
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

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Noah Huntley
Unknown:
Maria Camilla Power.
Unknown:
Peter Thomas Szekeres,
Unknown:
Miss Heliotrope Jean Anderson.
Unknown:
Fr Francis Iain Cuthbertson
Unknown:
Simon Blackheart Richard Elfyn
Unknown:
Sir Benjamin Philip Madoc
Unknown:
Old Elspeth Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Loveday Alannah O'Sullivan,
Unknown:
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...............................................

Contributors

Unknown:
Jamie Johnston

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.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker
Commentary By:
Richie Benaud
Commentary By:
Geoff Boycott
Commentary By:
David Gower
Commentary By:
Tony Lewis
Commentary By:
Colin Croft
Commentary By:
Hazel Irvine

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

Contributors

Producer:
Kim Fuller
Producer:
Geoff Atkinson

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

Contributors

Commentary By:
Murray Walker
Commentary By:
Jonathan Palmerand
Commentary By:
Tony Jardine.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Producer:
Jim Reside.

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

Contributors

Unknown:
William Roentgen
Director:
Paul Yule
Producer:
Fiona McKenzie

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Newman
Unknown:
Dwight Schultz
Unknown:
Bonnie Bedelia
Unknown:
General Leslie R Groves
Unknown:
Robert Oppenheimerto
Director:
Roland Joff
General Leslie R Groves:
Paul Newman
J Robert Oppenheimer:
Dwight Schultz
Kitty Oppenheimer:
Bonnie Bedelia
Michael Merriman:
John Cusack
Kathleen Robinson:
Laura Dern
Peer de Silva:
Ron Frazier
Richard Schoenfield:
John C McGinley
Jean Tatlock:
Natasha Richardson
Jamie:
Latrobe Ronvawter
William Deke Parsons:
Michael Brockman
Dr Kenneth Whiteside:
Del Close
Robert Tuckson:
John Considine
Franz Goethe:
Alan Corduner
Seth Neddermeyer:
Joseph D'Angerio
Johnny Mount:
Jon de Vries
Norbert Harper:
James Eckhouse

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.

Contributors

Producer:
Roy Davies

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