Listings
With signing and subtitles.
A steer faces a bleak future from its brutal owner.
A robot from the future shocks the crowd at a laser demonstration.
Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1.
Parliamentary proceedings.
A storyteller who travels the country recounting ancient tales.
Note: repeats are not indicated.
9.05 Seeing through Science: The Cave That Time Forgot (ages 11-14)
9.30 Lernexpress (ages 13-16)
9.45 Over the Moon with Mr Boom: Living Space (ages 5-7)
Peggy and Mike explore a model town.
10.25 Storytime: The Emperor's Leftovers
(ages 4-5) (Stereo)
10.45 The Experimenter: Changes in Materials
(ages 7-9) (Stereo)
11.05 Space Ark
(ages 7-11) (Stereo)
11.15 Health e: 3: Sex Education
(ages 9-11) (Stereo)
11.35 Landmarks: Portrait of Europe - the Rhine in Germany
(ages 9-12) (Stereo)
12.00 Pathways of Belief: Christianity: Easter
(ages 7-9)
12.15 Clementine
(ages 14-16)
1.00 Lifeschool: M Is for Morals
(ages 14+) (Stereo)
1.25 Technology Starters: Water Power
(ages 9-12)
1.40 Numbertime: Shapes - Triangles
(ages 4-5)
Ruff takes over everybody's edible treats. (Rpt)
Talk show hosted by Andrew Neil.
(For details see Tuesday)
Contributors
Presenter:
Andrew
Neil
Followed by Westminster with Nick Ross
Live coverage of the day's Parliamentary events. (Stereo)
Contributors
Presenter (Westminster with Nick Ross):
Nick
Ross
Cookery game show.
(Stereo)
Today, how women can escape abusive relationships.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Contributors
Presenter:
Oprah
Winfrey
First of a 12-part series taking writer and restaurateur Robert Carrier on a culinary tour around the Caribbean. Jamaica. Featuring jerk chicken and ackee with saltfish
Contributors
Presenter:
Robert
Carrier
Keiko O'Brien's lessons about the wormhole threaten to split the Federation and the Bajorans.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
High above the Namibian plateau, Alex Louw attempts to break the world paragliding distance record.
Contributors
Subject:
Alex
Louw
Producer:
Tony
Rayner
Tom and Diana's relationship is under threat from a fraudulent spiritualist.
Contributors
Writer:
Michael
Aitkens
Director/Producer:
Gareth
Gwenlan
Diana:
Stephanie
Cole
Tom:
Graham
Crowden
Harvey Baines:
Daniel
Hill
Jane:
Janine
Duvitski
Geoffrey:
Andrew
Tourell
Marion:
Sandra
Payne
Basil:
Michael
Bilton
Jenny:
Dawn
Hope
Marjorie:
Gillian
Goodman
The Rev Mr Dennis:
Tim
Preece
Antonio:
Chico
Andrade
Mr Kwok:
Daryl
Kwan
Since the demise of the GLC nearly ten years ago, London has had no elected government. Three prominent Londoners - former chairman of the GLC Tony Banks, journalist and agony aunt Claire Rayner, and powerful City figure Michael Cassidy - tell reporter Shaun Ley what changes they would make if they were the city's mayor.
A phone-in follows immediately after the programme on BBC Radios Berkshire, Kent, Oxford and GLR. If you would like to take part. call [number removed]. Regional Programme: see variations below
Contributors
Reporter:
Shaun
Ley
Interviewee:
Tony
Banks
Interviewee:
Claire
Rayner
Interviewee:
Michael
Cassidy
Producer:
Tony
Chapman
Editor:
Alison
Rooper
Eric Foex is moving from London to a chocolate box cottage in East Sussex. But, as more and more people chase the rural idyll, housing demands are swallowing up the south. Roger Finn examines the pressure for development and the future for village life.
(Stereo)
Contributors
Subject:
Eric
Foex
Reporter:
Roger
Finn
Producer:
Jane
French
Series Producer:
Peter
Pitt
A Manchester accountant with no university education, Terry Maher rose to become the most powerful bookseller in Britain. He bought Dillons in 1977 and embarked upon a massive redevelopment programme. The redesign proved popular and further expansion continued. But what Maher could not foresee was the depth of the recession, and his business successes were suddenly, unexpectedly, derailed.
Contributors
Subject:
Terry
Maher
Producer:
Nick
Mirsky
Executive Producer:
Jonathan
Drori
Jeremy Clarkson talks to grizzled rockers ZZ Top about their passion for Ferraris, tries out a monster pick-up truck, and tangles with a difficult car dealer.
(Top Gear Motorsport is tomorrow at 8.00pm)
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Contributors
Presenter:
Jeremy
Clarkson
Interviewees:
ZZ
Top
Director:
Dennis
Jarvis
Series looking at the role of forensic science in the fight against crime.
Fraud is on the increase. Technology is helping it to flourish; tonight's film shows how forensic scientists try to stay ahead of ever more sophisticated criminals.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Contributors
Producer:
Colleen
Toomey
Executive Producer:
Caroline van den
Brul
A comic yet practical series on plants. Greg Proops searches for the wild ancestor of the swiss cheese plant.
Contributors
Presenter:
Greg
Proops
Producer:
Paul
Simons
Mandy lands a job as a researcher, while Matthew arranges a birthday surprise for Martin.
Followed by Video Nation Shorts
Contributors
Writer:
Bernadette
Davis
Writer:
Andrew
Davies
Director:
John
Stroud
Producer:
Geoffrey
Perkins
Matthew:
Ben
Chaplin
Martin:
Matthew
Cottle
Mandy:
Samantha
Janus
James:
Alan
Cowan
Ron Grimshaw:
Dave
Hill
Chairman:
Knight
Mantell
With Jeremy Paxman.
(Subtitled)
Contributors
Presenter:
Jeremy
Paxman
Host Mark Lawson, poet Tom Paulin, Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore and Spectator editor Frank Johnson discuss the film Heat, starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Contributors
Presenter:
Mark
Lawson
Panellist:
Tom
Paulin
Panellist:
Suzanne
Moore
Panellist:
Frank
Johnson
With Trevor Phillips.
Contributors
Presenter:
Trevor
Phillips
Open University
12.30 Just in Time? Restructuring Corporate America
1.30 Putting Training to Work
FETV Short Cuts
2.00 TV Genres: Health Care
BBC Focus
4.00 Italia 2000
(Rpt)
4.30 Reorganisation News for Council Employees in Hampshire
5.00 Health and Safety at Work
5.30 The Adviser
Business and Work
6.00 Business Matters
6.30 The Business