6.15 Pure Maths
6.40 Maths Models
7.05 Developing World
7.30 Biology Form and Function
7.55 Christopher Plantin, Polyglot Printer of Antwerp
8.20 Animal Behaviour
8.45 Making Readers for Life
9.10 Jackanory
TV presenter Floella Benjamin reads the self-penned Coming to England, about her early life after arriving from Trinidad.
(Stereo)
Animation set in a contaminated future,
Cartoon misadventures with the sailor.
An awards ceremony that pays tribute to the useless ideas of young inventors.
Science minister Ian Taylor, astronomer Patrick Moore and Derek Robinson of London's Science Museum help select a winner from a shortlist of six. Hosted by Sally Gray, Jez Nelson and Angela Lamont.
(Repeated next Sunday) (Stereo)
School drama. Ziggy has a mad idea for revenge on Imelda.
Written by Margaret Simpson The current Grange Hill is Tuesday at 5.10pm. BBC Rpt Subtitled.
With guests DJ/TV host Pat Sharp and illusionist Russ Stevens.
A survey on the millions of pounds children have secreted away in their bedrooms.
A drifting spaceship bearing a race of genetically superior humans threatens the Enterprise's safety.
(Star Trek: the Next Generation. Wednesday at 6.00pm)
Rendezvous at Big Gulch. Drebin opens a locksmith's shop in an attempt to trap a band of ruthless racketeers. Rpt.
American dating game show
John Pitman is in Switzerland.
(Rpt)
Followed by The Family Album
The series ends with six generations of a closely knit Liverpudlian family.
Oscar-winning drama starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
In 1948, four German judges are tried for crimes against humanity during the
Second World War.
(In widescreen format)
(1961, PG) (B/W) ****
See Films: pages 57-62
The best of the action from this weekend's final round of matches in the 1996 Five Nations Championship. England pursue the Triple Crown when they take on Ireland at Twickenham, while Wales face France in Cardiff.
Presented by John Inverdale.
The announcement of the Best in Show dominates live coverage from the NEC in Birmingham as the annual dog show reaches its climax. Other categories to be decided are the Working, Terrier and Hound groups. With Peter Purves , Jessica Holm and Mike Stockman.
Clive Anderson's introduction to Beirut comes via a Muslim taxi driver whose mixed marriage has brought him death threats. Fifteen different ethnic and religious groups inhabit the city and they have in the past all engaged in bitter struggles for power and territory. In the third of his four-part tour of the world's blackspots, he explores the war-scarred city with British journalist Giles Trendle, visiting the gutted buildings now under reconstruction.
In contrast, he finds the rich seemingly untouched by the devastation.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Blue Sky or Black Hole - Would We Have Funded Faraday?
Relations between science and industry have never been easy, but have the government's efforts to make scientific research more relevant to the working world made matters worse? Showing for National Science Week.
Model Wars
Modelling agencies are battling for supremacy. Will an organisation such as IMG succeed with its revolutionary approach to the business? Or will the more traditional agencies such as Elite win the day? Report by Janet Bush.
A two-part Horizon special focusing on the contradictions in the work and private life of Albert Einstein. Archival material is combined with Andrew Sachs's portrayal of the scientist. Aged 53, he reflects on a life of youthful rebellion and discoveries that changed perceptions of the universe.
Part two is tomorrow at 8.00pm.
See today's choices.
(Stereo)
Transcript: send a cheque for £4.00, payable to BSS, to Horizon Einstein, [address removed]. Allow 28 days for delivery.
The secret life of Einstein: page 31
The tournament to find one-day cricket's sixth world champions concludes with highlights from Lahore, Pakistan, of the final. Pakistan are the defending champions, while England have twice reached the final
Thriller starring Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis
George Moran has settled for the quiet life, running a hotel on Miami Beach. But his past comes back to haunt him following a chance encounter with the wife of the merciless former head of the secret police in the Dominican Republic.
(1989, 18)
See Films: pages 57-62 **
Followed by Weatherview
Crime drama starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan
A crippled Second World War veteran seeks revenge on the man who betrayed him and his PoW comrades during a prison break-out.
(1949) (B/W)
See Films: pages 57-62
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FETV Collectables
2.00 Who Cares Now?
Languages
4.00 Spain Means Business
Business and Work
5.00 Business Matters: Learning from Experience
(Rpt)
5.30 Business Matters: To Be the Best
Open University
6.00 East Meets West: Asian Families, Western Culture
6.25 New York and Los Angeles
