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Live coverage of the Grand Prix meeting in Stockholm, one of the last chances for the world's top athletes to finalise preparations for the Atlanta Olympics. Stars scheduled to appear include a cluster of world champions: British triple jumper Jonathan Edwards, sprinters Donovan Bailey of Canada and Merlene Ottey of Jamaica, and America's Michael Johnson in the metres.
Introduced by Helen Rollason, with Brendan Foster.

(Highlights are at 12.30am on BBC1)

Contributors

Presenter:
Helen Rollason
Commentary:
David Coleman
Commentary:
Stuart Storey
Commentary:
Paul Dickenson
Analysis:
Brendan Foster
Producer:
Martin Webster
Editor:
Philip Bernie

Is Britain at war with Germany again? Judging from recent newspaper headlines about the football and beef clashes and Britain's role in Europe, people could be forgiven for thinking that hostilities between the two nations had resumed. Journalist Jurgen Kronig of Die Zeit journeys around Britain and, with the help of football fans, farmers, newspaper reporters and politicians, investigates why it has suddenly become fashionable to be anti-German.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jurgen Kronig
Producer:
Sam Collyns
Editor:
Paul Woolwich

A series in which six people relate the events that in 24 hours permanently altered the course of their lives.

In gangster Chris Lambrianou was jailed for life, along with his bosses the Kray twins, for his part in the murder of Jack "the Hat" McVitie. In this programme he describes how, locked alone in his cell, he had a religious experience that changed his life.

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(Colour and B/W) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Subject:
Chris Lambrianou
Producer:
Gabe Solomon
Series Producer:
Debbie Christie

Continuing the repeat episodes from the first series.

Mulder and Scully investigate a UFO sighting in Tennessee.

Gillian Anderson presents BBC1's Future Fantastic on Friday at 7.30pm.
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The X Files 9.00pm BBC2
A notable episode for two reasons: it features a secret from Deep Throat and it introduces the Lone Gunmen.
EBE (the initials stand for extraterrestrial biological entity) has Mulder and Scully investigating a government cover-up over the shooting down of a UFO near the Iraq/Turkey border. Mulder calls on a group of conspiracy theorists (the Lone Gunmen) for help. Their appearance proved so popular that they returned in the second series. Also offering the agent some help is Deep Throat, who reveals he is one of three men to have actually killed an alien. But his misinformation and half-truths leave Mulder confused: "I'm wondering which lie to believe," he says at the end of the episode.

Contributors

Fox Mulder:
David Duchovny
Dana Scully:
Gillian Anderson
Chief Cash:
Allan Lysell
Ranheim:
Peter Lacroix
Byers:
Bruce Harwood
Langly:
Dean Haglund
Frohike:
Tom Braidwood
Deep Throat:
Jerry Hardin

The fifth of six programmes that relive great sporting rivalries.

The rivalry between athletes Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett reached its climax when they battled for middle distance supremacy at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Up to this point they had dominated international middle distance running, but had met only once on the track. Coe, seen as the establishment man, held the world record at 800 metres. Ovett, depicted by the press as a rebel, was favourite to win the 1,500 metres. In Moscow they were to settle the score, but as in many great stories, there was a twist in the tail. Contributors include athletes Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram, Daley Thompson and John Walker.

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Interviewee:
Sebastian Coe
Interviewee:
Steve Cram
Interviewee:
Daley Thompson
Interviewee:
John Walker
Producer:
Adelene Alani
Executive Producer:
Tony Moss

Open University
12.30 The Passion for Distinctiveness
(Rpt)
1.00 Going Through a Phase
(Rpt)
1.30 Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Lessing's play.

Summer Nights
2.00 Perfect Pictures Collections 1: The Photo Show

BBC Focus
4.00 Department of Health Special: Smallpox Eradication
4.30 Department of Health Special: Vaccines for the Future
5.00 Pathways to Care
5.30 RCN Nursing Update

Open University
6.00 The Planet Earth: A Scientific Model
(Rpt)
6.25 Animal Physiology: Walking and Running
(Rpt)
6.50 Organic Chemistry: It's Only Plastic

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