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With Simon Parkin, Philippa Forrester and Esther McVey.

7.25 Crystal Tipps and Alistair - cartoon

7.30 Hallo Spencer

7.55 Playdays - Why Bird Stop

8.15 Two by Two

8.30 Telling Tales - ancient stories with a modem message: The Jackal and the Lion (Stereo)

8.45 Babar - cartoon

9.10 Blood and Honey - stories from the Old Testament told by Tony Robinson: Saul bumps into a Witch (Stereo)

9.30 Defenders of the Earth - cartoon (Rpt. Teletext)

9.50 The Best of Blue Peter (Rpt. Teletext)

10.15 Thundercats - cartoon (Rpt. Stereo)

10.40 Strangers - drama mystery (Rpt. stereo)

11.05 Boxpops - new series of the music programme

11.45 The O Zone - chart news and views (Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter ("But First This on 2"):
Simon Parkin
Presenter ("But First This on 2"):
Philippa Forrester
Presenter ("But First This on 2"):
Esther McVey
("Blood and Honey") Told By:
Tony Robinson

NEW To open BBC 2's Opera
Season, America's operatic provocateur, producer Peter Sellars , turns from controversially updating Mozart (Don Giovanni in Harlem,
Figaro in Manhattan, Cosifan tutte in a Cape Cod diner, seen on BBC2 last year) to setting Handel's Julius Caesar in the Middle East of today.
The power politics unravel at the poolside of an international hotel partially destroyed in a terrorist bomb attack. Sellars describes the work as "four hours of gradually deepening comedy, romance and intrigue" and the production includes three previously unheard arias, two of them discovered in London.
Music by George Frideric
Handel, libretto by Nicola Haym.
Dresden State Orchestra, conductor Craig Smith ● STEREO

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Sellars
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
Julius Caesar
Music By:
George Frideric
Unknown:
Nicola Haym.
Conductor:
Craig Smith
Julius Caesar:
Jeffrey Hall
Curio:
Herman Hildebrand
Cornelia:
Mary Westbrook-Geha
Sextus:
Lorraine Hunt
Achillas:
James Maddalena
Cleopatra:
Susan Larson
Nirenus:
Cheryl Cobb
Ptolemy:
Drew Minter

Featuring
Harlequins v Bath
Champions Bath travel to
London for the top Courage
League Division One match of the week. Introduced by Chris Rea , with commentary by Nigel Starmer-Smith .
Executive producer Johnnie Watherston

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Rea
Commentary By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith
Producer:
Johnnie Watherston

A special programme featuring the non-alpine ski-ing disciplines represented in next month's winter Olympics: Nordic biathlon, ski-jumping and the new
Olympic discipline of moguls, together with demonstration events of freestyle ski-ing - ballet and aerials. Introduced by Anna Walker and Julian Tutt. Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anna Walker
Introduced By:
Julian Tutt.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Producer:
Jim Reside

The newly enlarged Earls
Court becomes the country's most exclusive marina as Anna Walker
and Rob Curling explore the largest ever London Boat
Show. A mock-up of Guernsey's Castle Cornet forms the centre piece around which will be moored everything from sailboards to the very latest super-yachts.
Producer David Pickthall

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Walker
Unknown:
Rob Curling
Producer:
David Pickthall

First showing on network television for the biographical drama, directed by Clint Eastwood , about legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, starring Forest Whitaker
The story of a self-destructive genius whose off-stage demons led him into a life of infidelity, alcoholism, drug addiction - and a musical style that set jazz free. Parker's original solos were used on the soundtrack but the original accompaniments were stripped away and replaced with the work of modern musicians. Forest Whitaker recently starred in the cinema release A Rage in Harlem.
0 FILMS: pages 25-29

Contributors

Directed By:
Clint Eastwood
Charlie Parker:
Forest Whitaker
Chan Richardson:
Diane Venora
Red Rodney:
Michael Zelniker
Dizzy Gillespie:
Samuele Wright
Buster Franklin:
Keith David
Brewster:
Michael McGuire
Esteves:
James Handy

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