With signing and subtitles. Stereo.
Cartoon. The Smurfs put on a stage play.
The functions of the body are the focus for highlights from Johnny Ball's science series of the seventies and eighties. Shown yesterday at 4.30pm.
Animation.
Parliamentary proceedings. Stereo.
Last of a seven-part history of the United States during the troubled thirties.
Arsenal of Democracy. By the end of the decade the national dream of prosperity and security seemed attainable once again. President Roosevelt declared that projects forthe people enjoyed priority over government spending on the military. As events unfolded, though, it was the defence industry that was to provide the jobs that put an end to the Great
Depression. Rpt Stereo Subtitled ..
Poppy, Peggy and Whybird all get caught up in the magic of the theatre.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
Open University preview. Stereo..
Live coverage from the Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club of the second round of the 125th Open Championship. With its 190 bunkers, the course poses a demanding test for the top-quality international field, especially over the closing holes of the back nine. Today's round determines which 75 players will qualify for the final 36 holes. Introduced by Steve Rider. Continues on BBC 1.
Including at 3.00 News Regional News and Weather
Regional News and Weather
Animated fun.
Action quiz, with games and competitions, hosted by the Chuckle Brothers, Paul and Barry. This week's guest is Blue Peter presenter Stuart Miles.
American teenage comedy. Sam comes to live with the Darling family for a week. Last in the series. (Rpt) (Stereo) (Subtitled)
Unusual world records from around the globe.
Kriss Akabusi reports from Australia on a tree-felling challenge in Tasmania, Cheryl Baker visits St Louis in Missouri, USA, to find out if the town's new $4-million fountain is a record breaker, and Mark Curry travels back in time to see if two men can eclipse the record of shooting 18 long-bow arrows in one minute. Plus, an interview with Scottish rugby hero Gavin Hastings.
Continued coverage from Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club. Commentary by Beverly Lewis , Mike Hughesdon and Dougie Donnelly. Highlights are at
11.15 pm
The BBC Proms season opens at the Royal Albert Hall with a live transmission in simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3 of Haydn's The Creation, the first of ten concerts screened this summer.
Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with German soloists Juliane Banse (soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) and Wolfgang Schone (baritone).
In the interval, host James Naughtie examines how Haydn chose his particular theme, while Professor David Broomhead, Heather Couper, Dr Richard Dawkins, and Archbishop Richard Harries look at modern religious and scientific attitudes.
See today's choices.
(Stereo)
(Proms Guide: page 61; Reader Offer - take a music cruise with Richard Baker: page )
(As the Proms is live, subsequent programmes may run late)
Boy. A boy is alone on a deserted beach. But is there someone else?
Choreographer Rosemary Lee ; Director Peter Anderson
T-Dance. Elderly members of a tea dance meet up at a shabby church hall. Choreographer Terry John Bates ; Director
JohnDavies
Producer Gale Ann Hurd chooses her favourite movie moment - a sequence from James Cameron 's The Abyss.
ProducerNickFreandJones
With Jeremy Vine.
Host Steve Rider reports on the players to have qualified forthe final two rounds and those who did not succeed in makingthecut. Stereo...............
Followed byWeatherview
Drama starring -
Sam Shepard , Julie Delpy
Walter Faber is a self-contained man of the world whose greatest fear is "uncontrolled coincidence". His survival in an aircrash leads him into just such a chain of circumstance.
Director Volker Schlöndorff (1991, 15)
♦ See Films: pages 42-48 ***
