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David Gower presents th is month's s programme from Lord's, where he takes a touraround the home of cricket in the week of England's match against India. Geoffrey Boycott provides his views in a look ahead to the Second
Test, and there's a report on the First Test. Plus in the video diary feature, an unusual angle on another county.
Producer Alan Griffiths ; Series producer Philip Bemie

Contributors

Unknown:
David Gower
Producer:
Alan Griffiths
Producer:
Philip Bemie

In the fifth of a six-part series that looks at ancestry, biologist and writer Steve Jones asks if people belong to a nation because of their genes. His search takes him to the world's largest casino where four hopefuls want to prove their links to the Pequot Indians - and reap the benefits of a special gambling law. He also visits a field near Frankfurt where 2,000 Germans are re-writing their inheritance.

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Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Jones
Producer:
Tessa Livingstone
Executive Producer:
Robin Brightwell

Continuing the repeat episodes from the first series.

Mulder is forced to face his deepest fears when people start catching fire for no apparent reason.

(Gillian Anderson presents Future Fantastic on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)
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Contributors

Fox Mulder:
David Duchovny
Dana Scully:
Gillian Anderson
Phoebe Green:
Amanda Pays
Bob the caretaker:
Mark Sheppard
Sir Malcolm:
Dan Lett
Lady Marsden:
Laurie Paton
Beatty:
Duncan Fraser
Michael:
Keegan MacIntosh
Woman in bar:
Lynda Boyd
Jimmie:
Christopher Gray

The second of a new series of six programmes that relive great sporting rivalries.

Tonight's programme recalls the battle between hero of the tennis establishment Bjorn Borg and the mercurial John McEnroe at Wimbledon in 1980.
(Stereo)

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Producer:
Adelene Alani
Executive Producer:
Tony Moss

In the fifties Glasgow-born writer and rebel Alexander Trocchi was lauded by William Burroughs, Leonard Cohen and Samuel Beckett. But sadly, as this portrait reveals, his addiction to heroin stood in the way of him achieving the literary heights expected.
(PDC 11.15-12.00)

Contributors

Director:
Tim Niel
Producer:
Allan Campbell

Open University
12.30 Design for an Alien World
the plans for a mission to Titan.
(Subtitled)
1.00 Psychology: Child's Play
(Rpt) (Subtitled)
1.30 Dialogue in the Dark

Night School
2.00 Teaching Today Plus

BBC Focus
4.00 Royal Institution Discourse
5.00 Wise Up: Women into Science
(Rpt)
5.15 Department of Health Special: Changing Childbirth
5.30 RCN Nursing Update

Open University
6.00 General Relativity: An Isolated Fact
(Rpt)
6.25 Seal Secrets
(Rpt) (Subtitled)
6.50 The Eurovision Song Contest - Counting the Cost

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