With signing.
(Stereo)

Lewis T Duck decides it's time to build a road for Merrytwit.
(Repeated at 1.00pm) (Repeat)

Friends in the woods. (Repeat)

Animated fun with the little creatures.

Dave Benson Phillips. (Repeat)

Animated adventures
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Anisha Patel from London visits India. (Repeat) (Subtitled)

Narrated by Victoria Wood. (Repeat)

Friends at the seaside. (Stereo)

The first of today's live reports from the NatWest Trophy semi-final matches.
Lancashire take on Yorkshire at Old Trafford in a repeat of this season's Benson and Hedges semi-final, which Lancashire won in dramatic fashion from the final ball of the last over. In the south of England, interest in the 60-overs-per-side competition will focus on Surrey's game against Essex. With commentary by Jack Bannister, Geoffrey Boycott and David Gower. Introduced by Richie Benaud and Tony Lewis.
(Further coverage is at 1.25pm)

Brian McNerney recalls a bloody episode in the history of Norwich.
(Repeat)

A trip to Andalucia, Spain.
(Repeat)

Animated adventures.
(Shown at 7.30am) (Repeat)

Pathe News headlines from 1956.
(Black and white)

Further live action from today's NatWest Trophy semi-finals.
Coverage continues on BBC1 at 3.50pm.

Including at 3.00 News Regional News and Weather

Regional News and Weather

Animated fun.

The animated adventures of a family of monsters who live in Loch Ness. (Repeat)

Animation about a mischievous mouse who lives on country farm. (Subtitled)

Neri returns from the annual migration. (Stereo)

(Subtitled)

Teenage drama. Gary bowls Laura over. Flora decides to take the law into her own hands.
(For cast see Thursday at 5.10pm)
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Continuing live coverage from today's NatWest Trophy semi-finals with Lancashire taking on traditional rivals Yorkshire and Surrey facing Essex.
Highlights can be seen at 11.15pm.

Continuing the current affairs magazine reflecting the lives and experiences of Britain's black population.

Highly qualified Africans living in Britain are being lured back to their countries of birth to help reverse the continent's brain drain. Eddie Botsio travels to Ghana to ask how returnees' lives have changed and how native Ghanaians respond to their arrival.

The series of documentaries by new programme makers continues with the story of Dr Elizabeth Howe who, four years ago, was murdered at the Open University Summer School at York. Her husband, Jeremy, recounts a personal journey through grief and great loss that eventually brings him to the room where Elizabeth was killed.
See today's choices.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
See Polly Toynbee: page 14

The guide to the countryside focuses this week on decipheringthe secrets of dendrochronology -the science that calculates the age of trees. Expert
Michael Lear shows LindsayCannon how to gauge the height of a tree and the age of a conifer.
Ray Mears gathers nuts and berries to make a campfire fruit bread, and climbing cameraman Jim Curran joins ex-Nottinghamshire and England wicketkeeper Bruce French and his wife Ellen for a spectacular ascent on the cliffs of North Wales.
Producer Kathryn Moore : Series producer
DickColthurst Stereo

The first of a four-part drama series set in the 19th-century American West using the classic framework of a vast cattle drive.
Starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones

In the small, Texan town of Lonesome Dove, two former Texas Rangers - Gus McCrae and Woodrow F Call - quietly run a cattle and livery business. But all this changes when an old friend of theirs, Jake Spoon, arrives just one step ahead of the law, spinning fabulous tales of the vast and uncharted Montana territory.
(Part 2 will be shown tomorrow at 9.00pm)
See today's choices.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Charles Wheeler continues his series of reports from San Diego in America on the Republican Convention. Plus in-depth analysis of the day's national and international news with interviews and comment from politicians, experts and guests. Presented by Peter Snow.

Highlights from both of today's NatWest Trophy semi-finals. Introduced by Richie Benaud and Tony Lewis.

Followed by Weatherview

Open University

12.30 Princes and Peoples: Control in the Community
A look at how 17th-century hospitals, almshouses and churches expressed the identity, the status and the power of patrons and communities.
(Repeat)

1.00 Building by Numbers
How some of the most beautiful buildings in the world rely on mathematics for their proportions.
(Repeat)

1.30 Bajourou: Music of Mali
The stories of a group of Mali's most well-known musicians reveal a rich history of diverse musical traditions.
(Repeat)

Summer Nights

2.00 Music Maestro: Collections: 2: The Score
A classical music magazine, featuring a story about conductor Simon Rattle.

Languages

4.00 Espana Viva: 9-12
An introduction to the Spanish language.
Diez Temas: 5
Spain through the eyes of a group of teenagers in Salamanca.
Spanish Globo: 2
Spanish animation.
Bon Mot: the Rehearsal
Who or what is causing the discordant note?

Open University

6.00 Group Theory
ways in which maths can help to design a machine or turn our mail the correct way round for Sorting purposes.
(Repeat)

6.25 A Question of Balance
All the elements of biology come together in this programme about a single animal, a population and an entire ecosystem.
(Repeat)

6.50 Holidays by the Sea
The story of Blackpool's development from genteel origins to the first and largest working-class resort.
(Repeat)