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Live coverage from Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club of the 125th Open Championship. The famous Lancashire club has staged eight Opens to date. On the last two occasions - in 1979 and 1988 - Spain's Seve Ballesteros has taken the title. More than 150 players will make up this year's field. Hosted by Steve Rider. (Continues at 3.00pm on BBC1)
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Colin Montgomerie's Kind of Day: p
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Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Commentary:
Peter Alliss
Commentary:
Alex Hay
Commentary:
Dave Marr
Commentary:
Peter Thomson
Executive Producer:
John Shrewsbury
Producer:
Jim Reside
Producer:
Alastair Scott
Producer:
Barbara Slater
Producer:
Mark Wilkin

Another chance to see selected programmes in the children's documentary series.
Milestones in children's lives are often important steps into adolescence that can be fraught with embarrassment. Rachel [text removed], from Birmingham, is 11 years old and about to buy her first bra while 13-year-old Nick [text removed], from Bristol, decides to shave for the first time.

Series that uses letters to the editor of The Times from 1913 to 1919 to illuminate a fateful period in history.

As soldiers set off for the battlefields, the letters to The Times revealed a broad range of public attitudes to the war. Steelworkers threatened to down tools if their beer rations were stopped while an ex-serviceman wrote that young, single men unwilling to aid the war effort should be shot.

H.G. Wells expressed anger that he and others also excluded from service were not able to contribute more for their country.

(B/W) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Director:
Andrew Nelson
Producer:
Stephen Hearst
Producer:
Aubrey Singer

Rick Stein ends the series by spending May Day in the Cornish fishing town of Padstow. In keeping with the tradition that calls for locals to drop in on each other for food and drink, he creates a lobster salad in a Thai sauce. Later, he gathers mussels, limpets and samphire for poaching in wine and cream, and joins a fisherman hoping to catch salmon.

Contributors

Presenter/Chef:
Rick Stein
Director/Producer:
David Pritchard

In the wake of the controversy stirred up by the Heritage Lottery Fund's multi-million pound award to purchase the Churchill papers for the nation, Kirsty Wark follows another application for funds: the troubled Llangollen steam railway in North Wales.

Also, two items held over from last week. Elain Harwood visits the Claybury hospital in Middlesex to see a Victorian lunatic asylum that practised an unusually benevolent and enlightened approach. And, following Sunderland FC's promotion to the Premier League and a move to new premises, a farewell to Roker Park, their old ground with a history stretching back almost 100 years.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Reporter:
Elain Harwood
Series Producer:
Basil Comely
Executive Producer:
Roland Keating

Veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his wife Wanda return to Istanbul 40 years after their first visit. They reveal their preferred hotel, show how to get around the Grand Bazaar, negotiate the noisy indoor marketplace - the validehan - and cross the Bosporus to visit Istanbul's largest Islamic cemetery.

Tina Ritchie takes a break from presenting morning traffic news on Radio 1 to discover the best way to travel by motorway. Over the past three years, companies providing motorway services have spent over £200 million freshening up their facilities. Tina compares the many on offer before abandoning the fast lane for nearby pubs, hotels and even a butterfly farm.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Reporter:
Eric Newby
Reporter:
Wanda Newby
Reporter:
Tina Ritchie
Producer:
Anna Beattie
Producer:
Helen Bullough
Editor:
Liz Warner

Cover-up. Choreographer and performer Victoria Marks battles through an alphabet snowstorm. Director Margaret Williams
Echo. A piece inspired by four musical boxes made by sculptor Anish Kapoor. Choreographer Mark Baldwin ; Director Ross MacGibbon
Storm. Ayoungwoman in a restaurant shelters from the rain - is she late for dinner or running away from something? Choreographer Aietta Collins ; Director Tom Cairns
2 Dance continues tomorrow at 9.40pm .
Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Director:
Margaret Williams
Unknown:
Anish Kapoor.
Unknown:
Mark Baldwin
Director:
Ross MacGibbon
Unknown:
Aietta Collins
Director:
Tom Cairns

In 1966, a week after joining a New York-based agency, Welsh photographer Philip Jones Griffiths was assigned to cover the escalating American involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He began his 30-year love affair with Cambodia the following year when he covered Jackie Kennedy's visit. This film follows Jones Griffiths back to Cambodia where he reminisces about his life and career.
(First shown on BBC Wales)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Subject:
Philip Jones Griffiths
Director/Producer:
Richard Trayler-Smith

Open University
12.30 A Tale of Two Capitals: Paris and Rome
(Rpt)
1.30 Picasso's Guernica

Summer Nights
2.00 Fun with Kids: Essentials
holiday ideas for parents and children.

BBC Focus
4.00 So You Want to Work in Social Care: How to Qualify
4.30 So You Want to Work in Social Care: Qualifications for Care
5.00 So You Want to Work in Social Care: Continuing Professional Development in Social Work
(Rpt)
5.30 Health and Safety at Work

Open University
6.00 Developing World: The Cutting Edge of Progress
(Rpt)
6.25 Pieter Brueghel and Popular Culture
(Rpt)
6.50 Ferrara: Planning the Ideal City

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More