6.30 Harvesting the Sun 6.55 Maths: Modelling Stock Control

Animated cartoon.

Cartoon.

The Why Bird Stop.
A Felgate production for BBCtv

Introduced by Steve Rider. Including at

Action from the first rounds of the men's 110m hurdles and the women's 400m hurdles.
In the high hurdles,
Colin Jackson , the 1988 Olympic silver medallist, and Tony Jarrett , world bronze medallist, represent Britain, and in the 400m hurdles, Sally Gunnell , the women's team captain, just inches away from the world championship last year. Plus the second day of the heptathlon, and the women's discus.
Rowing
The last seven finals from
Banyoles, including the men's and women's eights. Britain were fourth in the men's eight in Seoul, and took bronze at last year's world championships.
Martin Cross, gold medallist in the coxed fours eight years ago, leads the crew which includes
20-year-old Ben Hunt-Davies ,
Britain's youngest Olympic rower. Britain have not been outside the top five in the last four
Games. Plus women's single sculls and quadruple sculls, and the men's coxed pairs, coxless fours and quadruple sculls.
Canoeing
White-water slalom action from the men's Kl and C2 finals on the artificial course in the Pare
del Segre mountains. Britain's Richard Fox aims to add a gold medal to his four world titles in the kayak singles.
Badminton
Quarter-final action in both the singles and doubles.

Today: the dilemma of animal transport, plus the latest countryside stories with John Craven. Including at 12.55 the weather for the week ahead.

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A recent BBCtv programme with sign language and subtitles. Play for Tomorrow
How recent scientific research into early brain development might profoundly influence the choices we make for our children.

An animated geological tour.

Omnibus edition.
Sharon plans a surprise for Michelle.
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The sponsored walk: Bunny gets sore feet, while Marcus still stalks Pilar.
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Agatha Christie's murder mystery. Starring Albert Finney
An exotic array of characters boards the famed Orient Express in Istanbul, including punctilious detective Hercule Poirot. However, even his presence cannot prevent a fellow passenger's murder.
Director Sidney Lumet
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Last in the series.
Mystery of a Million Seals
One million northern fur seals have disappeared off the coast of Alaska. Telling the story from the viewpoint of a single female fur seal, biologist Roger Gentry travels to the remote and gale-swept Pribilof Islands to find out why. His discoveries could have far-reaching effects on the oceans of the world.
Producer Bernard Walton
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Cilia Black appeals on behalf of the charity Pod, which works to brighten the lives of sick children by taking professional entertainers on to hospital wards. Plus Cliff Michelmore and Joanna Kaye with a report on the latest charity news.
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With Chris Lowe.
Weather Bernard Davey

The open-air summer season begins with tonight's programme from Fraserburgh, in north east Scotland, which is celebrating its 400th anniversary.
Fishermen and their families join together for the annual harbourside service of the blessing of the fleet.

Hymns include "Come Ye Thankful People Come", "The Lord's My Shepherd", "Steer for Home" and "Take the Lifeboat".
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Athletics
7.30 Men's 800m semi-finals
8.00 Women's 3,000m final
Scotland's European 3,000m champion Yvonne Murray won bronze at the last Olympics but finished disappointingly out of the medals in the world championships. She will be hoping to make amends tonight. The last two women's Olympic 3,000m have both had their dramas - in 1984, a tearful Mary Decker claimed Zola Budd had tripped her up in the final, and in 1988, a sobbing Lim Chun-ae, the South Korean record holder and final bearer of the Olympic torch, came last in her qualifying heat. It emerged later that her coach used to beat her, once breaking her eardrum, for not training well enough.
Also tonight, Tom McKean runs for a place in the 800m final, and the men's high jump comes to a close. Britain's Dalton Grant finished seventh in Seoul behind gold medallist Gennady Avdeyenko.

Comedy thriller which became one of the biggest box-office successes, starring
Eddie Murphy
Axel Foley is a Detroit cop who lives by his own rules and razor sharp wit, something which causes his increasingly irate superiors consternation.
When an ex-convict friend is murdered, Foley disobeys orders and travels to Beverly Hills to find the killer. But California isn't ready for his different approach to justice.
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With Michael Buerk.
Weather Michael Fish
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Desmond Lynam presents the sporting highlights of a day which held much promise for Britain. On the track, 3,000m runner Yvonne Murray was aiming to become Britain's first female gold medallist in a distance event. On the water, Richard Fox was among the slalom canoeing favourites, and Barrie Edgington and Penny
Way held high hopes of victory in the closing races of the men's and women's boardsailing. Britain's Karen Briggs was fighting for an Olympic gold to add to her already large collection of world judo titles: France's world champion Cecile Nowak is her chief rival in the extra-lightweight division. Plus the main medal news, an update on the yachting, and action from the men's gymnastics apparatus finals.

An ecological horror movie from Australia, starring John Hargreaves, Briony Behets
In an attempt to save their failing marriage, Peter and Marcia decide to spend a weekend in a deserted beach area. Their only companions are the wildlife, and the vegetation on which they impose their "civilised" lifestyle. Gradually the forces of nature seem to fight back and the weekend turns into a nightmare fight for survival.
(Tomorrow's midnight movie is "Chato's Land")
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