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Coverage of day three of the Paralympic Games in Atlanta, with finals in cycling, judo and fencing, athletics and swimming. The men's and women's teams from Great Britain also continue their attempts to qualify for the final stages of the volleyball and basketball. Presented by Helen Rollason, with commentary from Hamilton Bland and Paul Dickenson.

Contributors

Presenter:
Helen Rollason
Commentary:
Hamilton Bland
Commentary:
Paul Dickenson

First in a series of short programmes celebrating the 30th anniversary of television's most famous sci-fi series.
Tonight, actor Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale in EastEnders, reveals what he likes about Q, his favourite character from The Next Generation.
Emma Freud describes her love of Captain Kirk and talks about the Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles.
(The next Star Trekkers is tomorrow at 6.20pm)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Adam Woodyatt
Interviewee:
Emma Freud
Producer:
Nick Freand Jones

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek, a showing of the original pilot made by Gene Roddenberry in 1964. Captain Christopher Pike of the USS Enterprise is captured by an alien race, the Talosians, who are masters of illusion. They intend the captain, a perfect human specimen, to marry Vina, the only survivor of a starship crash in the year 2236.
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Another Star Trek episode, The Man Trap, can be seen tomorrow at 6.30pm
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Star Trek 6.25pm BBC2
As BBCtv prepares for full-blown Star Trek mania in celebration of the show's 30th birthday, here's a chance to see the pilot episode that started it all. This was creator Gene Roddenberry's original concept for Star Trek - a rather more cerebral entertainment than it became in later years, with Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike and Majel Barrett (then Roddenberry's girlfriend, later his wife) as the chief officer.
In The Cage, Pike is lured down to the surface of Talos IV where he is trapped by the survivors of a crashed spacecraft, eager that he should father a new race with the amorous slave girl Vina. But all is not as it seems...
Another classic episode, The Man Trap, can be seen tomorrow, and the first episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation goes out on Wednesday. Radio Times celebrates Star Trek's birthday next week with a special supplement.

Contributors

Series created by/Writer/Producer:
Gene Roddenberry
Captain Pike:
Jeffrey Hunter
Mr Spock:
Leonard Nimoy
Number One:
Majel Barrett
Vina:
Susan Oliver

David Gower presents the cricket magazine from Worcester, where England have been taking on New
Zealand in the second Under-19 Test.
Tonight's programme includes a preview of the third and final Test Match against Pakistan while
Geoffrey Boycott gives his views on the series so far. The "Cricketing Butchers", brothers Mark of Surrey and Gary of Glamorgan, are profiled, and there's a look at what can be done to reduce the spate of finger injuries suffered by top batsmen. Plus a report on the final of the Under-15s World Challenge and a roundup of news and action as the County
Championship enters its closing stage. Producer Phil Bigwood ; Series producer Philip Bernie

Contributors

Unknown:
David Gower
Unknown:
Geoffrey Boycott
Producer:
Phil Bigwood
Producer:
Philip Bernie

Live action and recorded highlights from Gateshead International Stadium, where Olympic silver medallists Roger Black, Jonathan Edwards and Steve Backley are due to appear for Great Britain. The new Olympic 100 metres champion and world record holder, Canada's Donovan Bailey, is scheduled to run for the select team in this challenge match, which takes place just 15 days after the conclusion of the centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. Introduced by Hazel Irvine, with commentary by David Coleman, Stuart Storey and Brendan Foster.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Hazel Irvine
Commentary:
David Coleman
Commentary:
Stuart Storey
Commentary:
Brendan Foster
Producer:
Martin Webster
Editor:
Andrew Clement

The great temple at Karnak in Egypt, founded 1,500 years before the birth of Christ, was the largest, most magnificent religious shrine of the ancient world. Most of what happened behind Karnak's walls was kept hidden but now Egyptologists believe they have gone a long way towards solving its puzzles.
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Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Producer:
Michael Stewart
Editor:
Laurence Rees

Open University
12.30 News Stories
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1.00 Linking into the Future
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1.30 Introduction to Psychology: Autism
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Summer Nights
2.00 Book Lover Collections 1

Languages
4.00 When in Italy; Diez Temas

BBC Focus
5.30 RCN Nursing Update
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Open University
6.00 Light in Search of a Model
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6.25 Listening in the Dark
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6.50 Organic Chemistry Environmental Solutions?
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