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A look at facilities for disabled visitors at Britain's tourist attractions.

Tonight Hilda Bone, a pensioner with arthritis and chest complaints, visits the Coronation Street set on her tour of Granada Studios. She decides to give up her crutches and enjoy the services of the house wheelchair.

Contributors

Reporter:
Hilda Bone

Adventure, based on a true story, starring Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn

A Catholic priest acts as guide to a Spanish expedition searching for the legendary seven cities of gold in America.
Showing in widescreen format.
(1955)
See Films: pages 42-48 **

Contributors

Director:
Robert D Webb
Jose:
Richard Egan
Captain Portola:
Anthony Quinn
Father Junipero Serra:
Michael Rennie
Matuwir:
Jeffrey Hunter
Ula:
Rita Moreno
Sergeant:
Eduardo Noriega

Choreographer Yolande Snaith takes A Lover's Discourse by the French writer Roland Barthes as the starting point for this dance. The piece is set in a tilted world dominated by a giant pendulum, whose swing seems to be driven by the passions, anger and disappointments of four lovers. The lovers are danced by Lynne Bristow, Ted Stoffer, Desiree Kongeroed and Simon Hughes. The words are spoken on stage by Hassani Shapi and Barthes's text is adapted by Craig Raine. Director/Producer Ross MacGibbon
(2 Dance continues on Wednesday at 9.40pm) (Stereo)

Contributors

Unknown:
Yolande Snaith
Unknown:
Roland Barthes
Unknown:
Lynne Bristow
Unknown:
Ted Stoffer
Unknown:
Desiree Kongeroed
Unknown:
Simon Hughes.
Unknown:
Hassani Shapi
Adapted By:
Craig Raine.

A series in which people relate the events that over 24 hours permanently altered the course of their lives.

Piano tuner Michael Gerwat, who was already blind, lost his hearing in 1991. He describes how he coped with his loss and how he is learning to communicate again. See today's choices.
(Colour and B/W) (Stereo)

Contributors

Subject:
Michael Gerwat
Producer:
Lucy Jago
Series Producer:
Debbie Christie

Continuing the repeat episodes from the first series.

A ferocious wolf-like beast is shot dead when it attacks a man and his son. But when they examine the body, it is that of a local man.

Contributors

Fox Mulder:
David Duchovny
Dana Scully:
Gillian Anderson
Lyle Parker:
Ty Miller
Charlie Tskany:
Michael Horse
Jim Parker:
Donnelly Rhodes
Ish:
Jimmy Herman
Gwen Goodensnake:
Renae Morriseau
David Gates:
Dwight McFee
Dr Josephs:
Paul McLean

The last of six programmes that relive great sporting rivalries from the past.

The 1988 FA Cup final between Liverpool and Wimbledon was predicted to be an easy win for the Merseysiders. They had won the double of league and cup the previous season, while underdogs Wimbledon had languished in non-league status just ten years previously. Vinny Jones and John Fashanu, key members of a team that revelled in a robust style of play, reveal how the London team set out to intimidate Liverpool.
Alan Hansen, then a Liverpool defender, recalls the opposition's behaviour in the players' tunnel before the match.
(Stereo)

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Interviewee:
Vinny Jones
Interviewee:
John Fashanu
Interviewee:
Alan Hansen
Producer:
Danny Fenton
Executive Producer:
Tony Moss

The first of two programmes paying tribute to the singer who died last month at the age of 78. Ella Fitzgerald Sings, made in 1965, features her performing Manhattan, Body and Soul, The Lady Is a Tramp and Misty, backed by the Johnny Spence
Orchestra and the Tommy Flanagan Trio.
(Part two, Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's, is tomorrow at 11.15pm)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Singer:
Ella Fitzgerald
Musicians:
The Johnny Spence Orchestra
Musicians:
The Tommy Flanagan Trio
Producer:
Terry Henebery

Open University
12.30 Images of the Cosmos: Mapping the Milky Way
(Rpt) (Stereo)
1.00 Powers of the President: Other Players
(Rpt)

Summer Nights
2.00 Fun with Kids: Collections 1

BBC Focus
4.00 Department of Health Special
4.30 Department of Health Special
(Rpt)
5.00 Pathways to Care
(Rpt)
5.30 RCN Nursing Update

Open University
6.00 General Relativity: At the Frontier
(Rpt)
6.25 Oceanography
6.50 Deserts

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