The Observer from London, Greater London, England • 66

4" Here's smut in your eye NOEL COWARD, after seeing a certain actress play Queen Victoria, remarked: 'I never realised before that Albert married beneath Anyone watching BBC1 on Bank Holiday Monday must have wondered how far the Beeb would sink in pursuit of ratings. Nestling amid cartoons, repeats, 'highlights' of That's Life and an old film was the only new programme Old Flames, a 50-minute prime-time game show introduced by that master of smut, Jimmy Tarbuck. The billing only hinted at the awfulness ahead: The show in which couples try to pick out each other's old flames from a panel of likely Jimmy glad-handed exhibitionist couples on to a flashy pink set where they were cheered to the echo by a studio audience. With much winking and nudging he sends one partner behind the screen and three guests revolve into sight. Each claims to have 'had a scene' with the partner, who is by now sitting alone with a camera, ready for reaction shots.

The current partner has to guess which one of the trio is telling the truth. All three relate adventures which sound as though they've been cribbed from the Sun's problem page one did a strip in the street, another went for a tumble in the hay in a horsebox. Two are actors; one is 'real'. The bemused partners blush, giggle and salivate at the antics they are supposed to have got up to. Urged on by Jimmy, the real partner stands up and the 'imposters' spin away.

Our Jim never knowingly lets an innuendo pass without picking its wings off. 'Show us the freckle on your he chirps, and then, 'What were you doing in his (leer, wink, leer). Speaking Volumes is a quite delightful book programme with probably the week's worst slot at Sunday lunchtime. P. D.

James presides and she gives her guests free rein. Indeed, they often end up interviewing each other. Somehow all the guests respond to this freedom. Even the voluble Sheridan Morley, who is quite capable of railroading anybody's show with a string of showbiz anecdotes, retreated before James's charm. Her guests naturally defer to her and she delights in getting the best out of them.

She also has the most interesting things to say about current books. And, finally, farewell Sir Alastair Burnet. His exit on News at Ten (ITV) last Thursday after 30 years was dignified, low-key and to the point. His influence on British television news has been immense. News at Ten was designed to fail, the companies thought viewing figures would crumble and that they could then twist the arm of the ITA to abandon the commitment to broadcast half an hour of news at a fixed point every night.

Instead, it triumphed and for years it outscooped and outshone the BBC, which had always regarded news as its own property. Robin Day noted that on the big occasion Burnet put Richard Dimbleby in the shade. Next month, editor Sir David Nicholas will join Sir Alastair in retirement and ITN will face a crossroads. It has suffered vicious cost-cutting and redundancies in recent months and the effects are already apparent on screen. The men in suits could squander the Burnet-Nicholas legacy before you can say 'Bong'.

This is the BBC's hot answer to ITV's Blind Date the show that according to its boss, Greg Dyke, is so successful because 'the whole audience is wondering did the contestants screw or didn't Alas, despite Mr Tarbuck's feverish goading, our curiosity isn't even aroused on that score. It is probably impossible to embarrass the production team but the Controller of BBC1, Jonathan 'Smiley' Powell, who has ordered a series of this garbage, should award himself a shudder of shame. Suddenly it's Alma Cogan. The girl who belted out songs like 'Sugar in the Morning' and 'Twenty Tiny Fingers' and became British TV's first great singing star in the Fifties has had an unexpected return to the media. It heralded the publication of two books and a TV profile, The Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice (BBC2).

Mike Poole's film seemed to start as hagiography then turned snappy as the witnesses got going. Bill Cotton, a man whose avuncular manner will give Dutch uncles a bad name, opined that Alma's greatest attribute was overconfidence. Walter Ridley, her mentor at HMV, said she had no voice, only a giggle (which he spotted) and that gave her novelty value. He said she cared for no one but herself. Novelist Gordon Burn has strapped a work of fiction to her, mixing Alma's life with that of the Moors murderer Myra cancer.

I have no idea where I was when Kennedy was shot, but I recall exactly where I was when I heard the news of Alma's death on the Home Service. It was a terrible shock. Immediately afterwards some thoughtless clown played 'I'm in Heaven' as a tribute. It is lucky for Alma that there is film of her doing what she was brilliant at singing songs. On film Alma is not mocked.

There she is brimming with life, dazzling the audience, showing off, being larger than life, every shot we saw contradicted the weasel words from those busy picking over her faults and merrily kicking the corpse. Margaret Forster paid tribute to the value of video evidence when she talked about writing her forthcoming biography of Daphne du Maurier in Speaking Volumes (BBC1). We saw the young and beautiful du Maurier playing with her children, gliding across the lawn of her gorgeous house near Fowey; chain-smoking and tortuously explaining her book plots in old age. Forster has been given access to her letters, some of which have not been opened for 50 years. In the letters she used code words, and Margaret Forster described how she was puzzled to find her writing to some friend about Cairo.

It took her several pages to work out this was du Maurier's word for 'sexual intercourse'. In a week of watching TV I've seen rather a lot of Cairo mainly in the films. Russell Twisk Hindley for the sole reason that Hindley and Brady played one of her records as they brutally raped and murdered a child. Burn sees Alma as a media creation: 'When her celebrity was taken away, life seeped out of She was 34 when she died of stomach And finally Sir Alastair Burnet. 'I Mi Stable mates: Mark Greenstreel and Susannah York in Trainer' (8.15pm BBC1).

I IP" I WJ ilVfiliriHitliKi 6.50 Open University. 7.15 Athletics: Live from Tokyo the final day of the IAAF World Athletics Championships. 7.40 Men's 1500m final and men's high jump final. 8.00 Women's javelin final. 8.15 Women's 4 100m final.

8.50 Men's 4 100m final. 9.10 Men's 5000m final. 9.50 Women's 4 400m final. 10.10 Men's-4 400m final. Presented by Desmond Lynam.

10.30 Greenbett: The August Bank Holiday Greenbelt arts festival held at Castle Ashby near Northamptonshire. 11.30 See New series of the magazine for deaf people begins with a look at the Deaf Broadcasting Corporation. 12.00 Some Enchanted Evening: They also serve the lite of an understudy. Jenny Michelmore is in the chorus line in the West End production of South Pacific. She also understudies for Gemma Craven.

12.30 Country File: Presented by John Craven. 1.00 News followed by Speaking Volumes: P.D. James's guests review books by Jackie Collins, William Goldman and Philip Roth. Eric Newby discusses the art of travel writing. I.

45 Cartoons. 2.00 EastEnders: Omnibus. Pauline tries to persuade Mark to take a job at lan's catering firm while Sharon attends the tribunal to fight for her job at the Vic. 3.00 Dallas: When the Wind Blows'. James is amazed to discover that he is bigamist.

3.45 Midnight Lace (film. 1960): Hollywood-shot, London-set thriller with enough tog to have concealed the Normandy landing. Who is menacing rich American Doris Day? Is it Herbert Marshall, Myrna Loy or perhaps sinister British hubby Rex Harrison? Indulgent Sunday afternoon viewers won't complain or slrain themselves too much guessing the answer. 5.30 Cartoons. 5.45 Safari UK The Living Isles (T): 'Under the Plough'.

The changes in agricultural practices since the Middle Ages have forced the wildlife of the British Isles to adapt in order to survive, and the past 40 years have been particularly testing. Tonight's film includes a sequence where two sexton beetles bury the corpse of a bank vole, shave it bare, and feed it to their young. Presented by Julian Pettifer. 8.25 News. 8.40 Songs of Praise (T)s From the 'Seedtime' celebration at the Staffordshire County showground.

7.15 Keeping Up Appearances (T): Return of Roy Clarke's comedy, starring Patricia Routledge as the terrible suburban snob, Hyacinth. 7.45 Bread (T): The Carla Lane slot continues with a new series on the fortunes of the Boswell family. 8.15 Trainer (T): A replacement for Howards' Way equestrian rather than maritime, Barbours and binoculars rather than Jan's designs, unfathomable conversations about bloodstock rather than power boats. Yet the music is almost identical and Nigel Davenport (who died as Sir Edward Frere) has risen again in the same overcoat with a different accent, playing James Brant, wealthy horse owner. Patrick Ryecart plays the bastard in boots who must pay olf his gambling debts and is doing something dodgy with Funtime Boy, who turns out to be a horse.

0.10 News. 9.25 Screen One Hancock (T): There are eerie echoes o( the lad himself in Alfred Molina's formidably good portrayal of Tony Hancock. There are those froggie eyes and the drop of the lower jaw, that weary bark of self-mocking humour. Written by William Humble it's the lairly predictable story of the last eight years of his life. post-Stood Donor when drink took over, and he finally made his last journey to Australia, still promising that my best is yel to come'.

Frances Barber plays his wile Freddie. II. 25 Everyman (T): 'A Life on Trial'. Repeat of the film on Casey Cohen, a Los Angeles private investigator, hired to convince juries not to pass the death sentence on convicted murderers. 12.05 Mahbharab Hindi epic drama.

12.45 Weather. (T) Ccofai subl.Ucs 6.00 TV-am. 6.00 Beanie and Cecil. 6.30 Cartoon Carnival. 7.00 Dappledoivn Farm.

7.25 Michaela! 7.55 Thought for Sunday. 8.00 Even on Sunday including a review of the Sunday papers by Donald Trelford, Editor of 777e Observer, and Carol Thatcher. 9.25 Disney Club. 10.45 Link: On its tenth birthday, Peter White talks to Richard Wood, Director of the British Council' of Organisations of Disabled People. 11.00 Morning Worship: From All Saints' Church in Telford.

12.00 The Human Factor: The Punchin' Preacher'. Peter Williams interviews former world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman. 12.25 Way of the Lakes: Tony Wharbur-ton's view of the Lake District. 12.55 Local News. 1.00 News.

1.10 Breadline Britain: The Bottom Line'. What policies are needed to tackle poverty in Britain? The final programme in the series examines various options training schemes, improved child care facilities, higher benefit levels. I. 40 El Dorado (film, 1967): Howard Hawks's near remake of his far superior Rio Bravo, but still a Western of real distinction with authora-tive performances from John Wayne and Robert Mitchum as ageing lawmen caught up in a Texas range war. 4.00 'The Tale of a Tooth'.

Veteran American TV journalist Walter Cronkite (no fossil himself) begins this series in the company of a little child. Cronkite himself looks like a benign grandfather and this expensive four-parter on the terrible lizards is clearly aimed at the family audience bland, entertaining, educational and visually splendid. The first programme looks at the history of paleontology, at William Buckland who found a giant tooth in 1824 and at Richard Owen who coined the term 'dinosaur' and entertained his colleagues inside a model of an iguanodon at Crystal Palace. 5.00 The London Match: Highlights from a Barclay's League First Division match. 6.O0 Bullseye: New series.

6.30 News. 6.35 Local News. 6.40 Highway T): The Tall Ships'. Sir Harry Secombe at the Cutty Sark Tall Ships race in Belfast where he meets Walter Cronkite. 7.15 You've Been Framed: Jeremy Beadle with a selection of humorous home videos.

7.45 Family of Spies: Two-parter based on a true story starring Powers Boothe as John Walker Jr. In 1967 Walker, a junior communications officer with the United Slates Navy began stealing top-secret documents which he delivered to the Soviet Embassy in Washington in exchange for a monthly salary. Over 20 years he recruited his own family and close friends into a spy ring which, according to defence analysts, provided enough secrets to the Soviets to alter the balance of power between the USSR and the US. 9.45 News. 10.00 Local Weather.

10.05 The Tenth Man (film, 1989): Anthony Hopkins plays a wealthy French lawyer who bribes a fellow POW to take his place before a Nazi firing squad and after his release makes an angst-ridden visit to the dead man's family. Based on a curious, very literary script written in 1944 by Graham Greene for MGM but never used. It was discovered 40 years later in the studio's archives. II. 50 The ITV Chart Show: Rock and pop videos.

Followed by ITN News Headlines. 12.55 New Music. 1.55 Blood of the Vampire (film, 1958): In a feeble, low-budget sub-Hammer horror picture (scripted by prolific horror author Jimmy Sangster) Donald Wolfit hams it up as the director of an asylum who feeds off his hapless inmates. Followed by ITN News Headlines. 3.30 Hodson Confidential: 'Child Abuse'.

Presented by Philip Hodson. 4.00 Police Precinct: 'Charity Begins at Home'. A con man is wrongly arrested for murder. 5.00 Soap: More from the Tate and Campbell households. Ends 5.30am.

(T) Oracle subtitles Radio 1 (FM 97.5-99.8; MW 1053, 1089) 4am Paul McKenna. 7.0 The Bruno and Liz Breakfast Show. 9.30 Dave Lee Travis. 12.30pm Pick of the Pops. 2.30 Phillip Schofield Going Live.

4.30 UK Top 40. 7.0 Anne Nightingale's Request Show. 9.0 Andy Kershaw. 11.0 John Peel. 4am Graham Knight.

7.30 Don Maclean. 9.05 Richard Baker, 11.0 Desmond Car-rington. 2pm Benny Green. 3.0 Alan Dell. 4.0 The Beautiful Ballad Years.

4.30 Sing Something Simple. 5.0 Dennis McCarthy. 7.0 Music in Trust. 8.0 Can-tabile at the Mill. 8.30 Sunday Half Hour from Torquay.

9.0 Alan Keith. 10.0 Glen Campbell: The A to of Country Music. 12.05am Seven Deadly Singsongs. 1.0 Night Ride. Radio 3 (FM 90.2-92.4; MW 1215) 6.55am Weather.

7.0 Morning Concert: Marin Marais's La Sonnerie de Ste Genevieve du Mont a Paris; Ravel's Entre Cloches; Bach arr Grainger's Blithe Bells and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in 7.30 News; 7.35 Faure's Reve d'amour, Op 5 No 2 and Apres un reve and Hymne, Op 7 Nos 1 and Schubert's Rondo in A and Haydn's Symphony No 101 (The Clock). 1 6.35 Open University. 6.35 The View from Moscow. 7.00 Industrial Strife. 7.25 Calculus.

7.50 Cars and Corrosion. 8.15 Everyday Violence. 8.40 Photosynthesis. 9.05 Motion in a Circle. 9.30 The Mariner 9 Code.

9.55 King Cotton's Palace. 10.20 Problems with Ions. 10.45 Maths. 11.10 Open Forum Magazine. 11.35 Frontiers of Geology.

English Romantic Poets in Italy: Shelley and Byron. English Whose English literature and the Empire at the turn of the century. Holiday Outings: Eamonn Holmes on a Hungarian motoring holiday. Care in the Community: Alternatives for the mentally ill. Sunday Grandstand: 1.30 and 5.00 Athletics the IAAF World Championships in Tokyo.

2.30 Motor Sport Round 12 of the British Formula 3. 3.00 Golf The European-Open: This is Your Life: Continuing the 'Lime Grove Story'. One Man and His Dog: BBCtv International Sheepdog Championship. Okavango Jewel of the Kalahari (T): 'The Living Jewel'. Film from the delta of the Okavango river an African jacana carrying his brood in his feathers, the breeding habits of the African pike, cormorants fishing for catfish.

The Last Days of Leningrad: The Return to St Petersburg'. On June 12, 1991 the people of Leningrad voted to demand a return to the original title of St Petersburg. Tonight's film is a record of the public debate leading up to the referendum. The Last Days of Leningrad 600 Seconds of 600 Seconds: 600 Seconds is Leningrad's nightly current affairs programme, presented by Alexander Nevzorov. John Sessions's Tall Tales: The Toy Shop', His monologue is based on events that occurred when working in a St Albans toy shop.

12.00 12.25 12.50 1.00 1.25 6.00 6.30 7.15 8.10 9.00 9.10 Shoppaig around: Sessions. 9.35 GoH. 10.15 Moviedrome Solaris (film, 1972): Andrei Tarkovsky presents a very unofficial Russian answer to Kubrick's 2001, an overlong, complex, richly imaginative SF movie (based on a Polish novel by Stanis-law Lem) that from the perspective of a few thousand miles away in outer space questions a good deal of his country's thinking and feeling. Ends 1.05am. BBC1: Wales Noon Business Matters.

12.30am News, Weather. Anglia As London except 12.30pm Farming. 1.10 Goals Galore. 1.35 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records. 2.0 Triathlon.

3.0 Highway to Heaven. 5.0 Off the Peg. 5.30 Heirloom. 11.50 Yangtze Adventure. Border As London except 12.30pm Gardening.

1.10 Border 30. 1.20 The Borderers. 1.50 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records. 2.15 Film: The Old Man and the Sea. 5.0 Scotsport.

6.0 Love 30. 11.50 Prisoner Cell Blook H. 12.45am Quiz Night. 1.15 Police Precinct. 2.20 Books by my Bedside.

2.50 Film: The Iron Maiden. 4.35 Chart Show. Central As London except 12.30pm Gardening Time. 1.10 Biggin Hill Air Fair. 2.10 Film: Mysterious Island.

5.05 Magnum. 11.50 Prisoner Cell Block H. 12.45am Film: Men of Boys' town. 2.40 Chart Show. 3.40 Andy Sheppard in Concert.

4.40 Jobfinder. Channel As London except 12.30pm Reflections. 12.35 Les Francais Chez-Vous. 12.50 Tele-Journal. 1.10 An Englishman's Home.

1.55 Film: Woman of Straw. 5.0 The A Team. 11.50 Human Factor. 12.30am Coast to Coast People. Grampian As London except 10.45am Interbang.

11.15 Let's Rejoice. 11.45 Link. 12.30pm Jack Thompson. 1.10 Coronation Street. 2.05 The Silk Road.

3.05 McCloud. 5.0 Scotsport. 11.50 Prisoner Cell Block H. 12.45am Quiz Night. 1.15 Police Precinct.

2.20 Books by my Bedside. 2.50 Film: The Iron Maiden. 4.35 Chart Show. Granada As London except 12.25pm Young Up Front. 1.10 The Wonderful World of Disney.

2.0 Film: Black Jack. 5.0 Bullseye. 5.30 Coronation Street. 11.50 Prisoner Cell Block H. 12.45am Quiz Night.

1.15 Police Precinct. 2.20 Books by my Bedside. 2.50 Film: The Iron Maiden. 4.35 Chart Show. HTV Wales As London except 12.30pm Survival.

1.10 Heidi. 2.0 Farming. 2.30 Big City. 5.0 The Big Fish. HTV West As HTV Wales except 2pm Newsweek.

TSW London except 12.30pm Farming. 1.10 The Middle Years. 1.15 Off the Hook. 1.45 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records. 2.15 Film: The Brave Don't Cry.

5.0 Coronation Street. 5.55 Magic Birthdays. 11.50 Prisoner Cell Block H. 12.45am Quiz Night. 1.15 Police Precinct.

2.20 Books by my Bedside. 2.50 Film: The Iron Maiden. 4.35 Chart Show. TVS As London except 12.33pm Jack Thompson Down Under. 1.10 An Englishman's Home.

1.55 Film: Woman of Straw. 5.0 The A Team. 11.50 Human Factor. 12.30am Coast to Coast People. Tyne Tees As London except 12.25pm Reebok National Aerobic Championship.

1.10 Highway to Heaven. 2.10 The Back Page. 2.40 Scarborough Festival Cricket. 5.0 Bullseye. 5.30 Coronation St.

11.50 Prisoner Cell Block H. 12.45am Quiz Night. 1.15 Police Precinct. 2.20 Books by my Bedside. 2.50 Film: The Iron Maiden.

4.35 Chart Show. Yorkshire As London except 12.25pm Goals on Sunday. 1.10 Scarborough Festival Cricket. 5.0 Scarborough Festival Cricket. 11.50 Speedway.

12.50am Munsters Today. 1.20 Chart Show. 2.20 Stephen King's This is Horror. 2.45 The Forum Presents. 3.40 The Chef's Apprentice.

4.10 Love, American Style. 4.30 Jobfinder. S4C As C4 except 9.30am Owl TV. 10.45 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. 11.45 Painted Tales.

12.55pm Three Stooges. 1.20 Ski Birds. 1.30 Europe Express. 2.0 Fragile Earth. 3.0 Hurling.

5.05 The World of the Beaver. 6.30 The Marshall Chronicles. 7.0 Newyddion. 7.05 Saith Ar Sul. 7.20 Vaughan I Fynwy.

8.10 Hel Straeon. 8.40 Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol. 9.10 Troeon. 9.50 Ar Derfyn Dydd. 10.0 American Football.

11.30 She-Play. Sky One 6am Bailey's Bird. 6.30 Castaway. 7.0 Fun Factory. 11.0 Hour of Power.

12.0 That's Incredible. 1pm The New Adventures of Wonder Woman. 2.0 All American Wrestling. 3.0 Those Amazing Animals. 4.0 The Love Boat.

5.0 Hey Dad. 5.30 Hart to Hart. 6.30 The Simpsons. 7.0 21 Jump Street. 8.0 Crossings (Part I of III).

10.0 Falcon Crest. 11.0 Entertainment Tonight. Sky News News on the Hour except 10.30 Those Were the Days. 11.30 Holiday Destinations. 12.30pm The National Gallery.

1.30 Target. 2.30 Roving Report. 3.30 The National Gallery. 4.30 Those Were the Days. 6.30 Roving Report.

7.30 The National Gallery. 8.30 Target. 10.30 Roving Report. 11.30 The National Gallery. 12.30am Target.

1.30 The National Gallery. 2.30 Those Were the Days. 3.30 Holiday Destinations. Sky Sports 7.30am Australian Rules Football. 9.30 US Tennis Open.

11.30 WWF Wrestling Challenge. 1pm Refuge League Cricket. 6.15 US Tennis Open. 8.0 Scottish Premier League Football. 10.0 Italian League Football.

12.0 US Tennis Open. Movie Channel 6.15am Adventures of Gerard. 8.15 The Big Knife. 10.15 The Black Scorpion. 12.15pm Missing Link.

2.15 Lafayette Escadrille. 4.15 Columbo: Murder A Self Portrait. 6.15 The Burbs. 8.15 Steel Magnolias. 10.15 Checking Out.

11.50 Sticky Fingers. 1.20am Sweetheart's Dance. 3.0 The Deceivers. Sky Movies 6am Movie Showcase. 8.0 California Girls.

10.0 Dead Poet's Society. 12.0 Trading Hearts. 2pm Ghosf Chase. 4.0 Jesse. 6.0 The House on Carroll Street.

7.40 Projector. 8.0 Banzai Runner. 10.0 Road-house. 11.55 House II The Horror Show. 1.40am The Blob.

4.0 Running on Empty. Good Cause with Sir Harry Secombe. 9.0 News. 9.10 Sunday Papers. 9.15 Letter from America.

9.30 Morning Service, from Christ Church, Bromley, Kent 10.15 The Archers. 11.15 News Stand. 11.30 Pick of the Week. 12.15pm Desert Island Discs: Architect and musician Maxwell Hutchinson. 1.0'Trle-World This Weekend.

2.0 Gardeners' Question Time. 2.30 Play: Abandoned by Jonathon Smith, stars Freddie Jones. 4.0 Arthur the King. 4.47 Time for Verse: The BBC Radio's Poetry Competition. 5.0 Coastline: Along the coast of North Wales.

5.40 First Person. 6.0 News. 6.15 Feedback. 6.30 Murder Most Foul. 7.0 In Business: Peter Day compares the British and German banking systems.

7.30 A Good Read. 8.0 Punters. 8.40 Reading Aloud: John Gielgud reads from As We Were by E.F. Benson. 9.0 Enquire Within.

9.15 Natural History Programme. 10.0 News. 10.15 Greenham Women, Greenham Men: The march in protest about the siting of Cruise missiles in USAF bases in Britain. 11.0 Antony Hopkins Talking about Music. 11.30 Seeds of Faith.

12.0 News. Radio 5 (MW 693, 909) 6am World Service. 7.30 Sunday Edition World Athletics Chcampionships. 10.30 Water-lines: Watersports. 11.0 Business on the Move.

11.30 Motoring Madness: Caravans and the Austin Seven. 12.0 Open University. 2pm Sport: World Atheletics; European Golf Open at Walton Heath; US Tennis Open and Cricket. 6.0 Sports Report. 7.20 Open University.

9.0 Soundprint: Streetgangs in LA. 9.30 Dragnet. 10.10 Across the Line. World Service (MW 648) News on the hour except 6pm, 7pm. Selected Programmes: Jazz 7.30am.

From Our Own Correspondent 8.30am. Write On 8.50am. Words of Faith 9.09am, 9.25pm. Music with Matthew 9.15am, 11.05pm. World Business Review 10.05am, 8.05pm, 12.05am.

Seeing Stars 10.15am. Sports 10.30am, 10.45am, 11.50pm. Science in Action 11.01am. Play: With Connections 12.30pm. BBC English 4.15pm, 5.15pm.

Slightly Foxed 9.30pm. Letter from America 12.15am. French Programmes 6.30am, 11.30am, 5.30pm, 8.15pm. German Programmes 11.45am, 4.30pm, 6.30pm. 8.30 News.

8.35 Maestro de' concerti: Vivaldi's Sonata in A fatto per II Maestro Pisendel; Bach's Concerto in Vivaldi arr Pisendel's Sinfonia in flat and Corrette's Psalm 148, Laudate Dominum. 9.15 The recordings of violinist Alfredo Campoli: Beethoven's Violin Concerto in and Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, Op 20. 10.15 Prom Talk: Paul Hindmarsh on the music of Frank Bridge. 10.45 A Modest Profession: Conductor Antal Dorati's recording of Dvorak's Overture, In Nature's Realm, Op 91; Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty (Act 3, excerpts) and Haydn's Autumn and Winter (The Seasons). 12.30pm Replay: The Observer's Philip French digs James Stephens on James Joyce out of the BBC Sound Archives.

1.0 News. 1.05 Your Concert Choice: Gliere's Concerto for coloratura soprano; Haydn's String Quartet in Op 76 No Chopin's Variations on La, ci darem la mano, Op Puccini's Vissi d'arte and Menotti's Ballet Suite, Sebastian. 2.30 Wolf's Italian Song Book. 3.50 Poet of the Month: Sorley Maclean. 4.10 BBC PO, conducted by Edward Downes play Gerhard's Violin Concerto and Concerto for orchestra.

5.15 Opera News. 6.0 North German Organ: Graham Barber plays music from the earliest English and German keyboard manuscripts. 6.45 Suk Quart-tet play Hoffstetter, attrib Haydn's Quartet in Op 3 No 3 and Kopelent's Quartet No 5. 7.30 Proms 1991: The Orchestra de' Paris, conducted by Semyon Bychkov with Philippe Bian-coni (piano) play Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 in flat (Emperor) and Shostakovich's Symphony No 10. 9.30 Play: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney stars Stephen Rea.

10.45 De Saram Clarinet Trio play McCabe's Sonata for clarinet, cello and piano; Henze's Capriccio for solo cello and Lutyens's Trio, Op 135. 11.25 Dutch Chamber Music: David Petersen's Sonata No 5 in minor; Schenck's Sonatina No 5 in A and Capriccio No 6 in and de Kon-ink's Suite in G. 12.0 News. Radio 4 (FM 92.4-94.6; LW 198) 6am News. 6.10 Prelude.

6.30 Morning Has Broken. 7.0 News. 7.10 Sunday Papers. 7.15 The Living World. 7.40 Sunday.

8.0 News. 8.10 Sunday Papers. 8.50 Week's 6.00 Early Morning. 6.00 Trans World Sport. 7.00 Eureeka's Castle.

7.30 Alfred J. Kwak. 8.00 Sharky and George. 8.30 Kelly. 8.55 Kid'n'Play.

9.25 The Sword of Tipu Sultan: Haider is appointed governor of Dindigul, a rebellious province. Indian drama series in Hindustani with English subtitles. 10.00 Dispatches: 'Thinking of the Soldier'. 10.45 Dennis: Animated film. 11.00 Owl TV: Environmental series, presented by Michaela Strachan, visits the Emmen Zoo in Holland.

11.30 The Lone Ranger: Trouble in Town'. The Lone Ranger (John Hart) steps in to prevent the ruin of a small bank. 12.00 The WaHons: 'The Threshold'. I. 00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: 'The Factor'.

A top scientist is kidnapped by enemy agents. 2.00 Sweetheart of the Campus (film, 1941): B-feature musical directed by Edward Dmytryk (future master of film noir and jailed as one of the Hollywood Ten) about a band leader (Ozzie Nelson) helping to save a college from financial disaster. It features Ruby Keeler in her last real role and was shown in Britain as Broadway Ahead in the belief that Broadway meant more than campus to British audiences. 3.1 5 Gaelic Games All Ireland Hurling Final: Kilkenny Tipperary live from Croke Park in Dublin. 5.05 News Summary and Weather.

5.10 Family Pride: Asian soap. 5.40 The Three Stooges: 'Hold That Lion'. 6.00 The Absolute Beginner's Guide to American Football. 6.30 The Cosby Show: Cliff la Douce'. 7.00 Equinox: The Falls'.

Niagara Falls 'honeymoon capital' has a mythic quality, something quintessential American. The bad news is that Niagara River is one of the world's most toxic waterways. 8.00 Classic Cars: 'Autojumble'. New series. The term 'classic car' covers anything built from 1930-1970 anything from shining Maseratis to rusting Ford Cortinas.

Of perpetual concern to the owners of classic cars is the acquisition of spare parts, often to be found at events like the Beaulieu Autojumble. 8.30 American Football: Marking a decade of American football on Channel 4 Philadelphia Eagles the Green Bay Packers and the Browns Dallas. 10.00 Speaking Parts (T) (film, 1989): A female screenwriter, a hotel maid and an actor-gigolo are drawn together and kept apart by their obsession with video images in a cool, sophisticated examination of alienation and the consequences of living in a media-dominated world. The best picture to date of the Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan. II.

45 The Street: 'Checkup from the Neck Up'. American cop show. 12.15 Fontamara: Continuing drama series set in an Italian village during the early years of Mussolini's regime. Ends 1.10am. Stephen Rea in 'The Cure at Troy' by Seamus Heaney (9.30pm R3).

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