A programme for trade union members with news, views, features.
6.20 The Changing Face of Poverty
6.45 The Traditions and the Environment
7.35 Schools: Managing in the Marketplace
With Signing.
(Subtitled)
Animated adventures of the knight of the Round Table. (Rpt) (Stereo)
American comedy. Ernie tries to get Harry elected mascot of his junior high school. (Subtitled)
Documentary about Antarctica in its role as an indicator of environmental change.
(Rpt)
Romantic drama. Concert pianist Karen Duncan enters a luxurious sanatorium. She finds the routine tiresome until she meets the charming Doctor Stanton.
(1947) (B/W)
Film Reviews pages 53-58
First in a series of daily lectures by humorist Robert Benchley. Today, he offers advice on how to behave. (B/W)
Irreverent spy drama from the sixties.
Solo, Illya and Mr Waverly are led on a chase through the desert.
(Rpt) (Subtitled)
A daily look at business news
Puppet animation.
Drama. Kitty Marlowe and Millie Drake are childhood friends who evolve as intense personal and professional rivals.
(1943) (B/W)
Film Reviews pages 53-58
There were 5,000 replies when four jobs were advertised seeking people who wanted to become the first Canadian astronauts in space. This film follows the progress of the 18 finalists
(Subtitled)
Regional News and Weather
Nostalgia quiz show.
(Stereo)
As a prelude to coverage of the European Masters, which begins this evening at 11.15pm, highlights of the 1995 World Championship final, with Richie Burnett facing Raymond Barneveld.
Another adventure with the American astronaut transported to the 25th century. Starring Gil Gerard.
Buck, Hawk and Wilma return from a survey of a bizarre planet and find the starship Searcher and its human crew strangely altered.
(Rpt)
Comedian Robbie Gee and The Clothes Show's Brenda Emmanus join in the fun at the Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest and loudest street party in Europe. This year's extravaganza celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Carnival in London.
(Stereo)
Drawings by children from Dundee and an Aboriginal community in Australia's Northern Territory raise questions about theories of child development.
(Stereo)
Followed by Opening Up Technology
Three people look at different aspects of a motorway.
In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and too late. Over the subsequent six years, a million Irish people died of starvation and a more than a million others fled abroad in order to escape the ravages of hunger and disease.
In the first of two programmes marking the 150th anniversary of the start of the famine, Dublin-born writer Ian Gibson tells the story of the tragedy and explores its background, from the Georgian splendours of Dublin and Strokestown Park to the wild landscapes of western Ireland. Concluding part next Monday.
In the first often pocket-sized editions, Gordon Kennedy goes on an unusual tour of Rome and and decides there is only one mode of transport suitable for exploring this Italian city.
(First shown as part of The Travel Show)
The crew of a freighter encounter something nasty in their sewage tanks. Mulder is sent to investigate a body found in a sewer. And Scully, doing the post mortem, finds a living organism creeping out of the corpse's flesh.
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Another eclectic mix of weird and wonderful stories from America and many other parts of the world.
Tonight, TV Nation correspondent
Karen Duffy investigates the Argentinian government's reported attempt to persuade Falkland
Islanders to give up their right to British sovereignty. This is believed to have taken the form of a substantial
"financial incentive" offered to each islander. Findingthatthe Falklanders aren't interested in the money, Karen travels to the UK to seek out a British town that might take up such an offer.
And there's a look at an unusual
American military school, and at a map drawn up by an American baptist church that claims to predict which American towns contain the largest percentage of residents bound for hell. Producers Michael Moore and David Mortimer
Followed by Video Nation Shorts
The topical news analysis programme, presented by Peter Snow.
The European Darts Masters tournament begins this evening, in the first of seven days of action from the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey where 24 players will be competing for a place in next Sunday's final. Dougie Donnelly introduces coverage of this evening's preliminary round matches, played over the best of three sets. (Stereo)
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