6.20 Photosynthesis: Harvesting the Sun
6.45 Geology: Deserts
7.10 Ecology: a Tropical Rain Forest
7.35 DNA: the Spice of Life
With Signing.
(Subtitled)
Fourth in a 12-part drama series. (Rpt)
Animation.
The residents of Kalapana in Hawaii tell the story of the volcanic eruption which destroyed their community.
(Rpt)
A look at the Victorian lock-up for drunkards at Braintree in Essex.
Nigel Farrell finds out how people spend the weekend. This week: bird watching and flying home-built aircraft.
(Rpt)
Brody and Danielle's first kiss causes havoc.
Comedy starring Lana Turner
A waitress goes to New York claiming to be the daughter of an industrialist, but a man back home is blamed for her disappearance.
(1943) (B/W)
Film Reviews pages 45-50
A daily look at business news
Cartoon.
Western drama starring Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest
Told to learn "the new ways", a rebellious Indian youth escapes the reservation with an old rodeo rider. (1972)
Film Reviews pages 45-50
Followed by:
Man on the Rim: The Powerhouse
Dr Alan Thorne explores the inventiveness which has made China one of Asia's powerhouses.
(Rpt)
Crime drama starring George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo
Clementi Sabourin is found dead in a Park Avenue mansion. A man with many enemies, his rise from penniless refugee to powerful financier was always at the expense of others.
(1956) (B/W)
Film Reviews pages 45-50
Spy spoof starring Robert Vaughn, David McCallum
The disappearance of an UNCLE agent and the abduction of five prominent scientists lead Napoleon and Illya to the Himalayan HQ of a man intent on taking over the world.
(1968) (Subtitled)
Film Reviews pages 45-50
David Mellor MP looks at the increasing use of "bugs" by companies to monitor their employees. The programme talks to those who have been bugged and companies which use or sell the equipment, and asks if this is an acceptable application of sophisticated technology, or an invasion of privacy. Plus, a look at the spy shop in London's Mayfair which sells James Bond-style miniature cameras and bugs hidden in pens, calculators and briefcases.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
A series of travel documentaries taking celebrities to their chosen destinations in Africa to explore the hidden faces of the continent.
In this third programme, MP and barrister Paul Boateng takes his ten-year-old son Ben to his childhood homeland of Ghana for the first time.
They visit Accra, where the family lived nearly 40 years ago until a coup forced them to escape to London, and then head north to be reunited with Boateng's father, a former Minister of Information and political prisoner.
Plus, Ghanaian stand-up comic Fritz Baffour tours the bars and marketplaces of Accra, his home town, in search of the best in African joke-telling.
Film cameras follow John Young into the tropical Australian forest canopy and record some of the most extraordinary events to be seen in the natural world - the courtship displays of birds of paradise.
See today's choices.
Food writer Jennifer Paterson visits the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire to investigate a feud between three rival makers of a celebrated tart, the historic Bakewell pudding; the programme goes in search of Italian-style water cascades, a fashionable but expensive accessory in 17th-century mansion house gardens; and Kirsty Wark reveals the threat hanging over a brilliant neo-classical temple, the Countess of Bridgewater's Chapel of Ease at Dodington in Shropshire. Series producer Basil Comely; Executive producers Roland Keatingand Sally Angel
Comedy about one woman's recipe for survival in the face of divorce, financial problems and single parenthood.
In a spirit of reckless liberation, Grace calls up an attractive baseball player and asks him for a date.
Nigerian writer and Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka argues that, despite Africa's history of blood-letting, ethnic differences do not always have to result in conflict
With Jeremy Paxman.
Last programme in the lifestyle magazine series aimed at the lesbian and gay male audience. Presenters Rhona Cameron and Bert Tyler-Moore introduce guest
Boy George and the usual mix of features, from travel and fitness tips to the Camp Countdown and Torch Songfinale. Producer Neil Crombie ; Executive producer
Charlie Parsons
12.00 Open View
A look at next week's OU programmes.
(Stereo)
12.05 The Resourceful Manager
A look at the changing experiences of middle managers.
