Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 26

''Ss- -Sr" jsl'' ---'vC W-j: tC-iv'vpi'rOY THBBTANDARD WEDMBBDAT APRIL 13 27 Programme guide by GEOFFREY PHILLIPS THE ieij1 if t-iSi-' l-v BBC 1 THAMES LUCY HUGHES -HALLETT LAST VIEW itiMe MIH 145 The Byron Racing ft ona Ascot 855 ZL-PtaB Bcfaocfl Bom Cot Take HrtT 55 New-sround 510 The Story of News at One 1 Thame News 130 Court 20 A Plus Racing from Newmarket Rod Jane and Froady Dangermouee 420 The Sooty Show Roadrunner Mob 515 Mr and Mrs News be Treasure Seekers News west SOUTH-EAST AT SIX 60 table the world of the strip cartoon 8WAXK (Channel 4) written by Paula Milne is 60 THAMES NEWS Help! clearly going to be good' for it is also a lot of fun us but 59c NATIONWIDE Ffrat of four re-tm ports on the state of the National Health Service IN TIIE school bus 13-year-old Amanda Ignores the bovs throwing each other over the bock seat and jeering at the girls while she dreams of her own true love who has the face the motorbike and the leather jacket of her Mg boyfriend Terry and the manners and vocabulary of no human being who yet walked this earth Amanda has got some eye 635 CROSSROADS Kevin Banks has second thoughts about that test tube baby opening shocks coming shocks designed to jolt her into an awareness of 1 some of the signed to jolt her into an areness of 5Q TRIANGLE Continuing the North Sea ferry saga 70 CARRY ON LAUGHING Comic chpa from the many Carry On films set in hospitals JIJ WILDLIFE WRECK ON ONE SHIP Down to Davy Locker for a look at the extraordinary marine life thriving on the wreck of an American liberty ship oil the Cornish coast (repeat) didactic but it preaches or rather teaches with a lot of wit The scene switches from a protest br fifth form feminists to Cathy at work screwing the tops on a conveyor belt full of mascara tubes her tired and fed-up face a testimony to the fool- ishness of little girls who would rather buy cosmetics than work for qualifications Enough said The programme directed by Richard Bramall is smartly St together with freeze-line comic strip fantasies and Prunella Seales in crimped auburn wig and probable pearls appearing in a little sunburst at the top right hand eorner of the screen aa agony auntie-cum-wicked fairy godmother Given all this and an appealingly vacuous performance from Nicola Cowper as Amanda 8WALK looks set for success 7 30 CORONATION STREET Madcap 9WV ir(( DJI as A Mavis Riley has reservations about her proposed camping trip with Victor sexual and political realities from which her prudish mother is so anxious to protect her In the first episode the newt broke that Terry and Cathy are getting married Far from behaving like the beaming mums and dads in the magazines carefully bringing out a lace veil long laid away In mothballs and ordering champagne her -parents react by sending Amanda up to her room while they mutter furiously behind closed doors Oathy aa we grown-ups earlier than Amanda ignaut TALK Is certainly As he leans over Amanda his posture is protective and admiring but his movements are few and oddly jerky When ho speaks his gallant phrases are contained In a balloon ever his head and his Conversation like that of fantasy self is studded with exclamation marks which speak louder than the words' For Amanda an avid reader et True Romance and Photo-Love likes to shut out reality and lock herself away In a world where life Is simple romantic mid totally predfc- 80 THIS IS YOUR LIFE 7 40 OPEN ALL HOURS Yet another TW repeat of the Roy Clarke comedy grasping grocer Arkwright (Ronnie Barker) goes into the manufacturing or at least young Granville (David Jason) does 90 J'-l 'Si Sin DALLAS Poor old Mizz EUie who 1 probably still believes in fairies begins to that Clayton's Interest In Sue Ellen is more than platonic Party Political Broadcast Conservative WIDOWS Will DoHy and Co pull it off? In the last-but-one episode of this grlttily compelling crime thriller in which the speed of the action skips nimbly over the plausibility gaps the four formld-able females are all set for their violent assault on a security van With male opposition of police and gangsters appearing to have a collective IQ lower than that of Selwyn Froggit the ladles surely have little to tear 100 Party Political Broadcast: Conservative NEWS Weather 95 v- 4 VvV-Tjf 1 i t1 SL -H- 7 105 an QED Faster than the Sun Strap 7mv yourself in for an armchair flip across the Atlantic courtesy of a QED film crew on the flight deck of Concorde But is this supersonic beauty merely the fastest white elephant in the world? Engineers ana pilots comment on the future for Concorde NEWS AT TEN plus Thames news headlines 7 vV i 1 V1 It 'Z 1 iS-4 i "--i- SPORT SNIGHT Amateur boxing ABA plus a look 10 35 THAMES SPORTS SPECHL Highlights from The flve-arside soccer tournament at Wembley Arena in which the top players parade their skills Mannix private eye adventure 1230 Close with Brian Blessed tlr uf i 100 I at British challenge for "hie the Americas Cup 110 Chicai Story cops and robbers Weather df i- t- ti 7 ji 'i ITV TVS as London except: 1030 Cartoon 1040 Slnbad JbcuUe Loves CBiachi 10 Gout to Ooast 1 035 Beguiled EARLY TV TOMORROW CLASSIC Geraldine McEwan and Michael Hordern BBC-1 Breakfast Time Un' Open ifniverslty 115 Play School ITV: 61 Daybreak 30-Gopd Morning Britain 530 Sesame Street Science International Datatse ITV ANGLIA as London except: Wattoo 1040 Hands TT5 Paint with Nancy About Anglia 1135-Film Beguiled or the love of Lydia 110 Lost Kingdoms Film Fun 120 Gammon and Spinach 1210 Get Up and Go I 1230 The Sullivans by MILTON SHULMAN CHANNEL 4 BBC 2 ALTHOUGH The Rivals by Richaxti Brinsley Sheridan at the Olivier is a comedy about the feuding between three men over the hand of a 17-year-old girt it Is the women who give this play Its tuneless appeal- There is Lydia Langikah who is besieged by suiton be But if (be Sheridan classic gives women the best roles they are coupled with some beautifully eccentric characters amour the men The choleric Sir Anthony Absolute demanding total obedience from his son is brflbanlUy played by Michael Hordern aa he blusters from one fit of red-faced pique to another Uolvecetty Tt 1130-120 Open Mindful Way IJ Chips Comic 5J0 Countdown The Munsten: Herman nuts the family home to a rook group A -Y'-m a 4 Tl -fL 1 A iyiVr bt" 1 7 -V i 1 I '-'1' 1 540 A copper (ram) cause she Is beautiful and so a1 STAGING AN OPERA The long 9V road to a gala night in Tunbridge Wells atari of a six-part series 655 TEAR THE FRENCH Guaiv dfian of the Repeat of The genial bumpkin Bob Acres who finds himself uncomfortably caught up in London ways is congenially played by a grinning Tun Curry while Patrick Ryecart makes a romantic figure of swooping panache of successful auditor Oamarague Uf e-in-France antes focuses on the young man who looks after a vital nature reserve in a country of trigger-happy hunters News summary Impatient in her efforts to find an elitist kmgieh word where a more humdrum would do she can talk about someone being the pineapple of politeness getting the hydrostatics or referring to aa allegory on the banks of the Nile Mbs Geraldine McEwan uttering her carefully chosen linguistic distortions as If they were being delivered on a stiver salver gets a laugh out of almost every verbal aberration and is one of the best Un Malaprops I have ever seen Also making the men play second fiddle Is Julia Melville whose calm receptivity of the Jealous tantrums of her fiance Fatflfclaud (Edward Pettier-bridge) is graciously interpreted by Fiona Shaw 70 80 which follows the preparations by Kent Opera and their director Jonathan MHler for a production of FUdeho CHANNEL FOUR NEWS 759 Comment weather BROOKSEDE Further crises In the Grant family whose Mersey accents are thick enough to Justify sub-titles demonic Demon is in love Karen refuses to go to Mass 8 30 NORTHERN LIGHTS (1999) Robert Behling Susan Lynch Semt-dommentory about the grain farmers of North Dakota fa with ruin Those who appreciate a rich that she feeds her parrots on small pearls But Lydia (Anne Louise Lambert) is an independent spirit determined to marry for love not money whose romantic Ideals have been In- Sired by the popular novels gets from circulating libraries Mrs Malaprop Is her aunt and one of the most amusing female characters In English drama In her determination to prevent Lydia from throwing herself away on a poor ensign she crucifies the English language in the name of numour Magazine show for 7 an ebony communities of Mack shop black reports on a lack stewards John Gunter's delicious toy-town sets turn Bath into an Intriguing picture of 18th century restful elegance while Peter direction is a model of mannered movement that vindicates this play's reputation as one of the greet comedies in the English language Keej watch Widows Stanley Meadows Thames 9 pm real feeling for the tragedies of daily life wiu be AW '5 How Mitzi makes them jump 10 20 TWENTY TWENTY VISION ten Five men appear openly In front of the camera to tell reporter 80 Jlackle Spreckley Just why they need Mutes The prostitutes The reasons range from RAPHAEL Second In an exquisitely filmed series to mark the 500th -anniversary of the Frinoe of Painters: examines some splendid examples of hds frescoes Hot Water Be Like The Kettle And Sing and some nioely barbed asides: the chosen race why the Israelis send up weapons1 When we axe taken through the history of the Great Trek with slide projection and a blackboard the tempo slackens 90 ONE NIGHT IN LINCOLN with Mike Harding cSnical function to companionship but though one or two questions go a-begging this commendable documentary la a useful slant on the vexed question of vice The treatment la unee perhaps it was the brief mention of spanking that -made the IBA yank the show out of its usual 8 JO Slot and beakers of weak punch By the end with the help of a bit of prodding from a Zulu assagai off the wall she has her chastened flock waving the South African flag and smging patriotic songs Elaine Loudon incarnates this frightful paragon with a devilish glee She has been performing Mitzi for a couple of yean now and has the ferocious schoolmarmlsh manner off so pat that members of the audience Jump to her bidding and slink into back rows when she scolds them for being late alter the MITZI Wildebeest is not the sort of Afrikaner lady I should like to meet In the bushvekl on a dark night Sweeping on to the stage of the Gate at the Latchmere in the Hack mourning gown of her Boer War ancestors die holds forth on the virtues of white South Africa In a manner that suggests she oould eat Mrs Thatcher for breakfast Married to a dentist win "does a bit of work for national security Mitzi is over here on behalf of South African Cultural Soirees to of fellow- 930 SHACKLETON Pint Of I four part drama-documentary on the at explorer and his exploits In Antarctic It boasts some stun-location flkn from the frozen es but the action at times Diode through some dramatic snowdrifts The story begins in 1903 with BhacUeton a member of an expedition led by Scott later to become his great rival 19 Party Political Broadcast Conservative tn rn VISIONS Portrait of Polish direo-I tog- Andrzej Wajda maker of such eloquent fllma as Ashes and Diamonds Kanal and Man of Iron Close The show really hangs on Elaine ability to work on audience and this she does with a quick wit and an infection energy The real Mitzi Wildebeests efragon-queens of a thousand Pretoria coffee mornings would be proud of even If they might turn up their noses ait her recipe Her material Is best when the satirical point is dear: rousing songs such as When Up TO Your Necks In ordering youngish ibute crisps members of the audience to dlstrl Christopher Hudson 1035 NEWSNIGHT H25 Interval lUO-12J5-Open University -3 a VV' vj-i-r-'TJIWi -7 '-7" 7-' I i '-'77:.