With signing and subtitles
Lassie brings together a lonely vet and a dog.
Shown last Friday. (Stereo)
(Shown yesterday at 6.10pm on BBC1)
The art of drawing cartoons, with Bruce Blitz. Today, cartoon animals.
(Rpt)
The first of five daily films chronicling year in the life of shepherd and farm worker Richard Seabrook.
Family drama starring
Donna Corcoran
* A drought forces the MacWade family to sell a treasured horse, but the colt keeps coming nome.
Director AndrewMarton (1954) ♦ See Films: pages 47-52 ***
Kimble has an opportunity to fake his own death.
(First shown on ITV) (B/W)
Business news.
(Stereo)
Cartoon. (Rpt) (Stereo)
At 84, Nina Constantinovna tells her story. Born into a noble Russian family and orphaned, she suffered nine years in Siberia and was banished for 11 years but, despite the privations, managed to look after her children
Nan Hicks's cottage garden at Scarthwaite, Grange in Borrowdale, Cumbria.
IDrama starring
Cathryn Harrison
Although forbidden by herfatherto ride, Jenny Grey is determined to spend her life with horses, especially the spirited filly Blue Fire Lady.
Director Ross Dimseyl (1977) ♦ See Films: pages 47-52 **
Including at 3.00 News Regional News and Weather
Daily quiz, with Martyn Lewis.
(Stereo)
Competition Line: telephone [number removed] (39p per minute cheap rate. 49p per minute at other times). Lines close daily at midnight.
Daily cookery game show.
(Stereo)
Today's topic: secrets. Guests include former double agent Oleg Gordievsky.
A light-hearted look at the day-to-day dramas, joys and tragedies of the village community of Bentley in Hampshire, filmed during more than two years. Showing three times a week.
(Next episode tomorrow at 5.30pm)
(First shown on ITV)
A series in which well known people look back on a significant moment in their lives. Today, Sam West, son of Timothy West and Prunella Scales, describes trying to become a chemistry professor before he became an actor.
A deadly new designer drug hits the city. An alien reports his girlfriend missing, but his motives are devious.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Buck faces danger when his identity is discovered by sinister scientist Kellog.
First of six drama documentaries about courageous individuals fighting for their convictions against a backdrop of colonial power.
A young boy survives the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, in which troops under British command kill hundreds of Indian demonstrators. He vows revenge and for twenty years patiently tracks down those responsible, waiting for a time when they will all be together. In March he gets his chance, in Caxton Hall in London. But can the dapper Udham Singh really pull the trigger?
In 1993 a mysterious fossil was discovered in a Sussex gravel pit. It was the shin bone of a human ancestor, nearly half a million years old. So began a prehistoric detective story to solve the mystery of "Boxgrove Man".
See today's choices.
Britain's 480,000-year-old man: p20
First in a two-part drama starring Beau Bridges, Celine Bonnier
Ontario, 1934: the wife of a poor French-Canadian farmer gives birth to a record five children, and the couple find their lives changed as the media descend. But worse is to come when the Canadian government threatens to take the quins away from their parents.
(Concluded tomorrow at 9.00pm)
With Jeremy Paxman.
A new six-part version of the broadcasting classic which was launched on BBC Radio in 1941 and moved to television in the fifties.
A panel of intellectuals from different fields tackles a variety of viewers' questions on the big issues. Tonight the brains belong to scientist Lewis Wolpert, philosopher Edward de Bono, doctor and director Jonathan Miller and Booker prize-winning novelist Antonia Byatt. Chaired by Mary Ann Sieghart, Assistant Editor of The Times.
Political chat show.
Open University
12.30 Questions of National Identity
(Rpt)
1.30 Business: In Search of Identity
Languages
2.00 French Experience
BBC Focus
4.00 Perspective: Understanding Asthma
4.30 Perspective: Reconstructive Surgery
5.00 Pathways to Care
5.30 RCN Nursing Update
Business and Work
6.00 Working All Hours: Brave New Work
(Rpt)
6.45 This Multimedia Business
