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10.25 Watch (ages 6-7): Where We Live: By the Sea - Wales

10.40 Around Scotland (ages 10-12) Bruce's Scotland: Saints and Scholars
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11.00 Cats' Eyes: Types Of Material
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11.15 Ghostwriter (ages 10-12): A Crime of Two Cities: Episode 4
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11.45 The Science Collection (ages 16+): A Long Chain.

12.10 The Geography Programme (ages 11-16): Why Industry Comes and Goes: Part 2

Starring Patrick Stewart
Half a Life. When Troi's vivacious mother is aboard the Enterprise, she falls in love with a shy scientist. But her actions bring the ship to the brink of war.

Contributors

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Patrick Stewart
Commander William Riker:
Jonathan Frakes
Lt Commander Data:
Brent Spiner
Dr Beverly Crushe:
Gates McFadden
Lt Commander Geordi LaForge:
LeVar Burton
Counsellor Deanna Troi:
Marina Sirtis
Lt Worf:
Michael Dorn
Lwaxana Troi:
Majel Barrett
Timicin:
David Ogden Stiers

The second of seven torturous experiences of everyday life.

Footballer Chris Waddle, singer Neneh Cherry and comedians Vic Reeves and Jo Brand tell Mark Lamarr about their job nightmares.

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lamarr
Guest:
Chris Waddle
Guest:
Neneh Cherry
Guest:
Vic Reeves
Guest:
Jo Brand
Director:
Luke Campbell
Producer:
Spencer Campbell

Young people, from very different walks of life, agree to trade places for a week. Tonight, a Radio 4 Woman's Hour reporter tries life at The Sunday Sport and a girl embarrassed by her family's Bohemian lifestyle swaps places with a girl with more traditional parents. Presented by Lily Savage.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Lily Savage
Producer:
Ian Tonge
Series Producer:
Neil Crombie

This bright and comic tale is famed as the only play written by Shakespeare in which he is known to have appeared himself - playing Adam, the old retainer to the hero Orlando. The sunniest of his comedies, the play tells of a group of courtiers escaping to the Forest of Arden where they meet, philosophise and fall in love.

Adapted by the acclaimed Shakespearean scholar and children's author Leon Garfield, it is a unique animation made by using oil paints and pastel crayons.
Director Alexei Karaev ; Series editors Martin Lamb and Penelope Middelboe

Contributors

Unknown:
Leon Garfield
Director:
Alexei Karaev
Director:
Penelope Middelboe
Rosalind:
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Orlando:
John McAndrew
Celia/Audrey:
Maria Miles
Jaques/Oliver:
Nathaniel Parker
Duke Senior/Adam:
Garard Green
Narrator:
David Burke
Amiens/Lord:
Stefan Bednarczyk
Touchstone/Messenger:
Peter Gunn
Duke Frederick/Conn:
Christopher Benjamin
Silvius/Hymen:
David Holt
Phebe:
Eiry Thomas

Documentaries by film-makers from around the world.

Have you ever wondered what a housefly is really doing when it lands on your jam sandwich? And why it's virtually impossible to creep up on a fly without being seen? Take a journey of discovery into a miniature monstrous world. Narrated by Hugh Laurie. See today's choices.
Superfly, page 36

Wildlife Showcase 8.00pm BBC2
In a single day, more houseflies are born than there are human beings on the planet. This distasteful statistic underpins Kurt Mundl's close-up portrait of man's most constant, if unwanted, companion. The Fly, an Everyday Monster zooms in on the fly's huge compound eyes, its munching mouth parts and a body designed to make it the perfect flying, eating and breeding machine.
Mundl also traces man's efforts (largely failed) to rid himself of the housefly, from fly paper to chemical warfare. The Fly, an Everyday Monster is showing as the first of six acclaimed natural-history films from around the world, many of them finalists in October's Wildscreen festival. There's a close up of the fly on page 36.

Contributors

Narrator:
Hugh Laurie
Producer:
Kurt Miindl

Another round in the student quiz, with teams from Birkbeck College, London, and Queen's University, Belfast. Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
Director Jenny Dodd ; Producer Kieran Roberts

Contributors

Presented By:
Jeremy Paxman.
Director:
Jenny Dodd
Producer:
Kieran Roberts

American comedy series about one woman's recipe for survival.

Romance takes a back seat on St Valentine's Day when Grace holds a disastrous dinner for Ryan and Russell hurts Faith's feelings.

Contributors

Grace:
Brett Butler
Russell:
Dave Thomas
Nadine:
Julie White
Wade:
Casey Sander
Faith:
Valri Bromfield
Ryan:
William Fichtner

The first of six travel documentaries featuring leading writers and performers.

In a boat her late father told her David Livingstone himself once used, comedian Sandi Toksvig sets out to canoe down the Zambezi, where she encounters an Africa wilder and tougher than her pleasant childhood memories of the continent.
See today's choices.
On holiday with Sandi Toksvig, page 41

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Factual: Great Journeys 9.25pm BBC2
"These films are a far cry from the days of middle-class Englishmen effortlessly striding the globe dispensing their wisdom and expertise. I deliberately avoided the usual seasoned travel writers as presenters because I wanted the rawness and rashness of authentic travel to come through." So says Alan Bookbinder, producer of a six-film series in which familiar personalities face some of the world's toughest journeys. Sandi Toksvig writes about her canoe trip down the Zambezi on page 41, discovering slaughtered elephants and stunning waterfalls. Tony Robinson, Juliet Stevenson and Evelyn Glennie feature in future weeks.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandi Toksvig
Producer:
Russell England
Series Producer:
Alan Bookbinder

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