7.30 Last in the puppet series.
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The Why Bird Stop.
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Transforming household junk.
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Bill Wallis reads
Raymond Briggs 's FatherChristmas Goes on Holiday. Last in the series.
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Cartoon adventures.
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More animated
SpiderantiCS. Repeat
Futuristic games.
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Last in the cartoon
Series. Repeat Stereo
The series from 1988.
The lads are fed up with Mauler McCaul.
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Tim Vincent, Stuart Miles, Katy Hill and Romana D'Annunzio look back over their year.
Shown on Friday 27 December at 5.05pm on BBC1
Blue Peter - Magic Moments is on New Year's Day at 10.15am on BBC1
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Action drama about the adventures of four friends in Western
Australia. Repeat .............................
The History in Our Bones
2: The Fossils Come Alive. Professor
Simon Conway Morris reveals how inert records such as fossil bacteria, gut contents and footprints can bring ancient timestolife. Stereo Subtitled .............
Marge auditions for a part in the local theatre's musical.
Shown yesterday at 5.45pm on BBC1.
Science-fiction adventure, starring Stephen Boyd
Raquel Welch , Donald Pleasence
When a Czech scientist suffers a brain injury, vital information he is carrying is put at risk. General Carter shrinks a submarine and medical crew so that they can be injected into the scientist's bloodstream. Showing in widescreen format.
Grant STEPHEN BOYD. Cora Peterson RAQUEL WELCH , Dr Michaels DONALD PLEASENCE , General Carter EDMOND O'BRIEN
. Colonel Donald Reid ARTHUR O'CONNELL Director Richard Fleischer (1966, U)
* See Films: pages 50-72
Animated antics, stereo .................
Bilko reveals his gambling tips.
(Black and white) (Repeat)
Three-part documentary, showing over three days, tracing 100 years of the Olympics.
Featuring the "Chariots of Fire" games of 1924, the Nazi event of 1936, the London games of 1948 and the emergence of Cassius Clay in 1960. Introduced by Desmond Lynam.
(Revised repeat) (Stereo)
Six choirs battle it out in the final of the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition. Howard Goodall and Wasfi Kani report from Buxton Opera House. (Stereo)
John Inverdale rounds off a momentous year in the history of the sport with highlights of the top-of-the-table clash between Leicester and Harlequins. There's a preview of next week's European Rugby Cup semi-finals, which see Leicester meeting Toulouse and Brive taking on Cardiff, plus a light-hearted look at the season so far.
Neelix's greatest enemy, the Haakonian scientist Jetrel who devised the deadly cascade weapon, arrives on Voyager with distressing news. He asserts that Neelix is a victim of the long-term effects of the cascade. Neelix is convinced that Jetrel has a hidden reason for his sudden humanitarian concern.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is on Thursday 2 January at 6pm
The Dunblane class picture, a floating wing fragment from TWA flight 800, Gerry Adams at the gates of Stormont, Gazza drunk in Hong Kong - these are among the sometimes harrowing images that defined the news in 1996. Talking to the photographers who took them, the picture editors who used them and the agencies that bought and sold them, Decisive Moments tells the stories behind the photographs and the controversies they generated. See today's choices.
Drama about the Vietnam war and its aftermath, starring
Tommy Lee Jones , Joan Chen
In 1963, the peaceful life of the rice-farming village of Ky La is disrupted by the arrival of the Viet Cong, warning of the threat from the South Vietnamese government and its
American allies. For 12-year-old Le Ly, sixth-born child of the Phung family, it is the beginning of a harrowing voyage of discovery that will take her many miles from her native land. Showing in widescreen format.
Director Oliver Stone (1993, 15)
* See Films: pages 50-72 ****
Documentary following
Robert Altman and his crew during the making of Short Cuts, his acclaimed film based on the stories of Raymond Carver. With contributions from, among others, Anne Archer , Jennifer Jason Leigh ,
Jack Lemmon , Andie MacDowell , Matthew Modine , Tim Robbins ,
Madeleine Stowe , LilyTomlin and Carver's widow, the poet Tess Gallagher. Shortcuts is on New Year's Day at 10.05pm.
Directors Mike Kaplan , John Dorr (1994, 15)
+ See Films: pages 50-72 ***
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