This week’s retro block features continuity, news and other ephemera (mainly) from the mid nineties. We’ll be warming up with some Pages From Ceefax at 4, then at 5pm there will be a compilation of interviews and musical performances from the BBC’s perennial magazine programme Pebble Mill, including such luminaries as Ant and Dec, Paul Shane and Ted Chippington. This week’s schools/CBBC block features the second episode of Geordie Racer.

We continue with our usual shows at 7pm. At 9pm we have an episode of Eastenders, preceding tonight’s main feature, which serves to warm us up for tomorrow night’s showing of Kes. The Price of Coal (a Play for Today written by Barry Hines and directed by Ken Loach) starts at 9.30pm. This week in part one, Meet the People, we are introduced to the workers and management of a coal mine on the outskirts of Barnsley, who are busy making preparations for an upcoming visit from Prince Charles. The concluding part, Back to Reality, will be shown next week.

To cap the night off, there will be a late news bulletin, an instalment of Mastermind, then a bit of Open University programming to take us into the early hours.

4.00 Pages From Ceefax
5.20 BBC Pebble Mill compilation
6.00 Mr. Motivator – A Touch of Motivation
6.10 BBC Schools: Geordie Racer – Episode 2
6.30 BBC Schools: You and Me – Ice
6.40 BBC News
7.00 Neighbours – Episode 11
7.25 The Fresh Prince of Bel Air – S01E12 Talking Turkey
7.50 Star Trek: The Next Generation – S01E15 Too Short a Season
8.35 3rd Rock From the Sun – S01E07 Lonely Dick
9.00 Eastenders
9.30 Play for Today – The Price of Coal Part 1: Meet the People
11.15 BBC Late Evening News
11.30 Mastermind
12.00 The Open University