Listings
5.15 DOH Special - Doing No Harm
Department of Health guidance on the safe use of medical devices by clinical staff
5.30-6.00 RCN Nursing Update: Unit 55: Here, now and later
hormone replacement therapy.
6.20 Maths: Calculus
6.45 San Marco: a Dominican Priory
7.10 Schools: Aspects of Effectiveness
7.35 TV - the Global Impact
With Signing.
(Subtitled)
Presented by Bernard Ingham.
(For details see Monday) (Stereo)
Contributors
Presenter:
Bernard
Ingham
Note: repeats are not indicated.
9.00 Christianity in Today's World: Christianity in a Media World
(ages 11-16) (Stereo)
9.25 Landmarks Extra: Pakistan and Its People: in Urdu
(ages 9-12) (Stereo)
9.45 You and Me: Cosmo's Granny
(ages 3-5)
10.25 Le Club: Fait Chaud
(ages 9-12) (Stereo)
10.45 The Experimenter: Living
(ages 7-9)
11.05 Space Ark: Living
(ages 7-11) (Stereo)
11.15 Movable Feasts: Upwardly Mobile - Islam
(ages 7-11)
11.30 Shakespeare: the Animated Tales: Hamlet
(ages 9-13)
Signed and subtitled.
(Shown Sunday, 10.00am on BBC1) (Stereo)
Business and consumer news.
1.00 Teaching Today: European Awareness in Primary Schools
1.30 Q and A: Dance and Music
1.45 Numbertime: Shapes
(ages 4-5)
From Farnborough.
(Shown on Sunday at 6.25pm on BBC1)
A self-help series for back-pain sufferers. Today, a look at the Alexander Technique. With Donna Dawson
Booklet: for a booklet to accompany this series, send a cheque or postal order for £2.00, payable to BSS, to: [address removed]
Contributors
Presenter:
Donna
Dawson
Followed by Westminster with Nick Ross
Live coverage from Parliament.
3.55 News; Regional News; Weather
Contributors
Presenter (Westminster with Nick Ross):
Nick
Ross
From Goodwood, featuring coverage of the 4.10 race.
(Stereo)
Cookery challenge. With Fern Britton.
Contributors
Presenter:
Fern
Britton
Esther Rantzen today meets people who believe in reincarnation, and sceptics who offer other explanations.
Contributors
Presenter:
Esther
Rantzen
Last in the series of the word game presented by Paul Coia.
Contributors
Presenter:
Paul
Coia
The wedding is looming and Will, feeling nervous about his financial situation, presents his uncle Phil with an investment plan.
Drama series set in a Sydney high school. Rivers develops a crush on Sam, who tries to discourage him. Steve finally gets a chance to meet his natural mother.
(Stereo)
The animated series featuring Ren, the chihuahua, and gullible cat Stimpy.
Tonight, Ren and Stimpy become kilted yaksmen on a hazardous mission in the jungle, desert and snow of Canada.
Documentary series about issues of concern to the Asian community.
Faced with cases of what they term "inexcusable and indefensible political correctness", the Government looks set to rewrite guidelines on same-race adoption outlined in the 1989 Children Act. Against a background of growing numbers of Asian children in care, East reveals how new proposals will make it easier for white couples to adopt Asian and black children, and talks to social workers concerned about the relaxation of the 1989 guidelines.
(Stereo)
Contributors
Producer:
Lucy
Pilkington
Series Producer:
Mike
Finlason
The Cancer War
Story Lynda McGilvray is one of thousands of women with breast cancer who felt that they had received a death sentence. Five years ago, a report by a group of senior scientists claimed that women like Lynda had doubled their risk of dying by following alternative treatments pioneered at the Bristol
Cancer Help Centre. But the report was wrong. John Ware reveals the full story of the controversy surroundingthe report on the Bristol Centre and how its patients were caught in the middle.
Producer John Farren
Contributors
Unknown:
Story Lynda
McGilvray
Unknown:
John
Ware
Producer:
John
Farren
In tonight's edition of the guide to the countryside, Ray Mears builds a woodland shelter complete with beds fora comfortable night out;
David Stafford explores natural ways to tell the time; shepherd John Barrington shares his love of walking the hills above Loch Lomond ; and MrCrabtree goes fishingfor roach in a canal. Producer Kathryn Moore ; Series producer
DickColthurst Stereo ....
Contributors
Unknown:
Ray
Mears
Unknown:
David
Stafford
Unknown:
John
Barrington
Unknown:
Loch
Lomond
Producer:
Kathryn
Moore
Another episode of the classic comedy starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Albert has never been a fully paid-up member of the welfare state. But that doesn't stop him from claiming what is his.
With Colin Gordon, Edwin Apps, Peter Madden and Carole Roberts.
See today's choices.
Contributors
Writer:
Ray
Galton
Writer:
Alan
Simpson
Producer:
John Howard
Davies
Albert Steptoe:
Wilfrid
Brambell
Harold Steptoe:
Harry H
Corbett
[Actor]:
Colin
Gordon
[Actor]:
Edwin
Apps
[Actor]:
Peter
Madden
[Actress]:
Carole
Roberts
In the last of the series, Derek Cooper investigates the meat of the future.
Chickens with fewer feathers, pigs with chicken genes to make them grow bigger, sheep with plant genes to make them pest resistant - is genetic engineering the next wave in meat production? While scientists believe these processes will result in cheaper, tastier and healthier meat, their work is still shrouded in secrecy. This programme, which contains explicit sequences demonstrating artificial insemination techniques, reveals what the farmyard of the future could look like, and talks to people on both sides of the fence. (Stereo) (Subtitled)
See Polly Toynbee: page 16
Contributors
Presenter:
Derek
Cooper
Producer:
Sarah
Johnson
Executive Producer:
Grant
Mansfield
Last in the series on modern car classics.
Back in 1955 when it was launched, few vehicles could command the absolute authority of the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Each car weighed two tons and took three months to build. With an interior like a stateroom and a bonnet like a croquet pitch, it was the closest you could get to a car in the style of a country house. But the Silver Cloud was never the sole preserve of the aristocracy. Quentin Willson meets some of its famous owners, including Barbara Cartland and Jimmy Savile.
Followed by Video Nation Shorts
Contributors
Presenter:
Quentin
Willson
Interviewee:
Barbara
Cartland
Interviewee:
Jimmy
Savile
Director:
Brian
Morgan
Series Producer:
Jon
Bentley
With Peter Snow.
Contributors
Presenter:
Peter
Snow
David Letterman's guests tonight include Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Elvis Costello, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Pierce Brosnan.
Contributors
Presenter:
David
Letterman
Guest:
Joanna
Lumley
Guest:
Jennifer
Saunders
Guest:
Elvis
Costello
Guest:
Chuck
Berry
Guest:
Little
Richard
Guest:
Pierce
Brosnan
12.00 Modern Art: On Pictures and Paintings
How can we make sense of modern art?
(Stereo)
12.25 Computer-aided Design
OU downloaded video.
The day's events in Parliament, with Robert Orchard.
Contributors
Presenter:
Robert
Orchard