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More showcase screenings of films taken from the children's camcorder series. Tonight's films are about squabbles between siblings: Bedroom Wars made by 11-year-old Vicky [text removed], and Twins by 11-year-old Luke and Matthew [text removed].
(Revised repeat)

Contributors

Producer:
Christopher Morris
Executive Producer:
Eric Rowan

The series documenting the First World War through the words of those who lived through the conflict.

As the war began, many experts thought technical advances in weaponry would bring a quick victory. The reality was different as armies resorted to trench warfare on the Western Front.

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Contributors

Narrator:
Judi Dench

Concluding the two-part investigation into science's response to BSE. Throughout the eighties British consumers ate BSE-infected food. This year news emerged that the first victims had died of a new form of the brain disease CJD. Government advisers admitted the most likely cause was BSE passed on to humans through food. Tonight's film asks how BSE is transmitted, how many humans are at risk and what the chances are of a cure.

Third in a four-part adaptation of Iain Banks's darkly-humorous novel.
Starring Joseph McFadden, Bill Paterson, Peter Capaldi

The fatal jinx on Prentice's family goes from bad to worse.

(Rptd next Sunday on BBC2)

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Author:
Iain Banks
Adapted by:
Bryan Elsley
Producer:
Bradley Adams
Director:
Gavin Millar
Prentice McHoan:
Joseph McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Fergus Urvill:
David Robb
Lewis McHoan:
Dougray Scott
Janice:
Patricia Kerrigan
Hamish McHoan:
Paul Young
Lachlan Watt:
Alex Norton
Mary McHoan:
Elizabeth Sinclair
Verity:
Simone Bendix
Aunt Antonia:
Claire Nielson
Young Prentice (aged 10):
Edward Casey
Young Kenneth:
Kyle Calderwood
Young Rory:
Craig Steele
Young Fergus:
Paul Young
Young Lachlan:
Graeme Hill
Helen Urvill:
Jenny Ryan
Diana Urvill:
Sarah Gudgeon
Mrs McSpadden:
Irene Sunters
Dean Watt:
Stephen McCole
Droid:
Ian Bustard
Lizzie:
Julie Austin
Blawke:
Robert James
Paxton-Marr:
John Harding
Mrs Urvill:
Monica Brady
Mrs Watt:
Anne Myatt
Young Lewis:
Mark Johnson
Young Diana:
Jody Robertson
Young Helen:
Deborah McLaren

Continuing the 12-part series capturing a slice of real life in London's Soho.

Male stripper Troy Passion tours France while, back in Soho, Michele celebrates Bastille Day and the 125th anniversary of her patisserie.

(More Soho Stories tomorrow at 11.15pm on BBC2)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Subject:
Troy Passion
Director:
Christopher Terrill
Executive Producer:
Jeremy Mills

Open University
12.30 Build a Better Business
1.00 The Dynamics of Teams
1.30 International Enterprise: The Survival Guide

Nightschool TV
2.00 Religious Education

BBC Focus
4.00 Italia 2000
(Repeat)
4.30 Defeating Disease: Purely and Simply Water
(Repeat) (Stereo)
5.00 Pathways to Care
(Repeat)
5.30 RCN Nursing Update
(Repeat)

Open University
6.00 Computers in Conversation
(Subtitled)
6.25 Communications and the Future of Money

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