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Ghost Story (part 5):
Ghostwriter and the team crack the Thabto mystery and look forward to new adventures.
Favourite recipes from ten years of Food and Drink. Today: chicken.
A Bazal production for BBCtv
England (Australia
Highlights of the first day's play at Edgbaston. Introduced by Richie Benaud.
Comedy starring Joan Blondell, Roland Young.
With the aid of a friendly ghost, the urbane banker-turned-sleuth Cosmo Topper sets out to unmask a murderer intent on continuing his dastardly work. (1941)
(Black and white)
See Films pages 31-37
England v Australia
Live coverage of the second day's play at Edgbaston.
Introduced by Tony Lewis , with commentary by Richie Benaud , Ray Illingworth , Geoff Boycott and Jack Bannister.
BBC VIDEO: Cricket's Entertainers. This
120-minute video has highlights of the exploits of 12 of England's finest cricketers, with over 1.000 Test-match caps between them. On sale now, price £7.48, from retailers.
Featuring Bob Godfrey , film animator.
Followed by Jumpcuts
A preview of the weekend's OU programmes.
Animation. At the dog show, Penny decides to enter one of her own drawings of top breeds.
Animated adventures of four small dogs. Narrated by Victoria Wood.
England vaustralia
Live coverage from Edgbaston of the afternoon session of play.
Including at
2.00pm and 3.00pm News and Weather
Subtitled (news)
Subtitled (news)
Regional News; Weather
Cricket: Fifth Test
Further coverage of this afternoon's play between England and Australia.
Swimming
European Swimming
Championships from Ponds Forge Pool, Sheffield.
Today's coverage features five finals: the men's 400m freestyle, women's 100m butterfly, men's 200m breaststroke, women's 100m breaststroke, and the men's 4xl00m freestyle relay. Plus the latest news of the water polo competitions.
4.00-6.00pm
6.00-7.20pm
American comedy series. Gil plans an old-fashioned
Hallowe'en for the family, but Kevin is not happy with his home-made costume.With Ed Begleyjr , Jayne Atkinson and Max Elliott Slade.
Presented by Nigella Lawson of the Evening Standard.
A Granada production for BBCtv
Series investigating issues of particular significance to the black community in Britain. Bullet Business
Black Londoners are now three times more likely to be the victims of murder than are whites. The police are alarmed at the way shootings have become an almost everyday affair in some sections of London's African-Caribbean community. All Black investigates the gun culture to analyse the myths and reality of the Jamaican "yardies". Producer Lucy Pilkington
Series producer Charles Bruce
A Hertfordshire couple who grow all the fruit and vegetables they need in a tiny maisonette backyard share their secrets with Liz Rigbey ; and Superintendent David Hatcher takes a break from Crimewatch to report on the growing problem of theft from private gardens. Presented by Geoff Hamilton.
Series producer Laurence Vulliamy Executive producer Tony Laryea
A Catalyst TV production for BBCtv
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This Emmy Award-winning programme from 1986 includes sketches on bomb experts and advertising executives and, in their head to head, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones debate the benefits of being a millionaire. Producer John Kilby
A series that explores how everyday surroundings furnish a landscape of the mind.
Whether striving towards our highest goals, or descending with terror to the abysmal depths, the staircase is a place of uncertainty. Film clips include Charlie Chaplin's One AM and Derek Jarman's The Tempest. And The Spiral Staircase is screened at 12 midnight.
A Third Eye production for BBCtv
A panel of comedians answer your questions. Jimmy Mulville is in the chair.
Director John F D Northover Producer Dan Patterson
A Hat Trick production for BBCtv
With Sue Cameron.
England v Australia
Highlights of the second day.
To accompany tonight's Architecture of the Imagination documentary, a thriller starring Dorothy McGuire
A murderer stalks a small New England town. His victims are all women with some kind of physical disability.
Director Robert Siodmak (1946)
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