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Seventh of a nine-part comedy series with music. For all their success, the band still has no bookings.
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Contributors

Writer:
Roy Apps
Jimmy Osman:
James Hurst
Greg Fuggle:
Lee Otter
Bev Osman:
Harriet Thorpe
Miles Smith-Jones:
Tom Lowe
Giles Beamish:
Sam Chapman
Jassy Pinkerton:
Scarlett Strallen
Lucy Shaw:
Keisha Atwell
Colin Crabbe:
Michael Hobbs
Janis:
Gemma McCluskie
Carly:
Jessica Meyer

The series that puts major health stories under the microscope, presented by Alice Beer.
Tonight's edition focuses on meningitis which kills more than 500 people a year in Britain. It features moving case-studies, reveals how little parents know about the signs and symptoms, and dispels common myths. Plus a report on new developments in the battle against the disease. With John Nicolson.

Watchdog Healthcheck Hotline: call free on [number removed]
Meningitis Helpline: call [number removed]
See Dr Mark Porter: page 39

Contributors

Presenter:
Alice Beer
Reporter:
John Nicolson
Producer:
Owen Gay
Series Producer:
Donna Taberer

Continuing the series about the staff and patients at Hampden Veterinary Hospital. This week reporter Shauna Lowry meets farm practice secretary Morwen Ashton and her 80,000 pets - two hives of bees. Plus the koi carp that needs an operation. Presented by Rolf Harris.

Contributors

Presenter:
Rolf Harris
Reporter:
Shauna Lowry
Interviewee:
Morwen Ashton
Producer:
Jane Stimpson
Series Producer:
Sally Dixon

Continuing the comedy series about a mother who demands to be looked after. Starring Stephanie Cole

When Richard gives Peggy a dog, she is determined to look after it all by herself, at least until it starts misbehaving.
See today's choices.

Contributors

Writer:
Geoffrey Atherden
Director:
Sylvie Boden
Producer:
Stephen McCrum
Peggy:
Stephanie Cole
Andrew:
Martin Ball
Richard:
David Haig
Tina:
Meera Syal
Roslyn:
Rosalind Adams
Colin the fireman:
Paul Kynman
Woman:
Matilda Thorpe
Boy:
Adam Welch

The programme that reconstructs real-life rescues, presented by Michael Buerk and Juliet Morris. This week the fight for survival of two young climbers buried in a snowhole, the race to save a scaffolder who fell onto a concrete platform in the middle of the River Severn, and the freak accident that left a Scottish policeman trapped inside a blazing tent.
See today's choices.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Buerk
Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Producer:
Tessa Finch
Editor:
Andrea Wills

A four-part series in which Angus Deayton probes the art of deception.

The first programme delves into the minds of real-life tricksters to find out the truth about lies. They include a man who lived a lie as film director Stanley Kubrick, a compulsive scam merchant who posed as a football club's financial saviour and a con man on the run from the police.
See today's choices.
See John Peel: page 9

Contributors

Presenter:
Angus Deayton
Director:
Jeremy Lovering
Series Producer:
Emma Cahusac

On the day after the Queen's Speech, with the Government setting out its new programme, David Dimbleby invites a studio audience to tackle politicians on a range of important issues.

Audience: to join Question Time for future programmes phone [number removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
David Dimbleby
Executive Producer:
Christopher Capron
Editor:
Daniel Brittain-Catlin

Drama starring Tom Conti, Susan George, Rod Steiger

Andrija, a friendly and simple-minded lifeguard at a remote lake in Yugoslavia during the last summer of the Second World War, is in danger of losing his job because he's never had the chance to save anyone. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he rescues a drowning man and becomes hated by the locals.
(1989, 15)
See Films: pages 52-60 **

Contributors

Director:
Rajko Grlic
Andrija Gavrilovic:
Tom Conti
Ana:
Susan George
Martin:
Rod Steiger
Danny:
Nitzan Sharron
Zemba:
Alun Armstrong
Doctor:
John Gill
Mayor:
John Sharp
Clerk of council:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Majorvon Richter:
Vanya Drach

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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