Programme Index

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7.55 Secret Life of Toys
The adventures of toys that come to life.
(Repeated at 1pm) (Repeat) (Stereo)

8.10 The Wacky Races
More animated automobile antics. (Repeat)

8.35 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1)

9.00 Activ8
Featuring six-a-side football for girls and street hockey.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

9.30 Sweet Valley High
Live action drama about 16-year-old twin sisters.
(Repeat)

9.55 Oakie Doke
Animation.
(Repeat)

10.10 Playdays
Today the bus stops in Scotland.

10.30 Babar
Arthur and Zephir think they have seen a UFO.
(Repeat)

The first of two programmes in which Lady Olga Maitland and seven fellow MPs sign up for the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, which offers them a taste of military life.

This week Lady Olga learns to fire a rifle while her colleagues fly in RAF jets, plug a hole in the Navy's HMS Excellent with wooden wedges and join recruits in the Royal Marines on a two-mile endurance course. In the concluding part next Thursday, the MPs visit the Army in Bosnia.

Contributors

Subject:
Lady Olga Maitland
Producer:
Charles Miller
Editor:
Anne Tyerman

Jeremy Clarkson asks whether the new A6 will be another overnight success for Audi. Will the combination of cutting edge design and class-leading performance eclipse their greatest rival, BMW? Plus six cars that fall into Quentin Willson's no-hoper category.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Presenter:
Quentin Willson
Producer:
John Wilcox
Series Producer:
Jon Bentley

For centuries smallpox terrified humanity, but in 1978, after a heroic medical effort, it was totally eradicated from the world. The disease has since hit the headlines again. The last samples of the lethal smallpox virus are now held in two top security labs and are fated to be destroyed. But a fierce debate has erupted over whether the virus should be saved, because of the recent discovery that it contains crucial information about many diseases - and possibly how to cure them.

Contributors

Producer:
Bettina Lerner
Series Editor:
John Lynch

A revealing look at the life of fictional dancer, portrayed by acclaimed choreographer and performer Wendy Houstoun, best known for her work with dance group DV8. The film directed by David Hinton and shot on a camcorder in the streets, houses and studios of London in the summer of 1996, is an attempt to understand the dancer through her own observations and experiences.

Followed by Skiing Forecast

Contributors

Dancer:
Wendy Houstoun
Director:
David Hinton
Series Editor:
John Wyver

In a world populated by tin cans, the design on the label can be a matter of life or death.
This animated film, an Eastern European political satire written and directed by Zlatin Radev, was an Oscar nominee in 1992.

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Zlatin Radev

Open University
12.30 East Meets West
(Repeat)
1.00 Global Firms in the Industrialising East
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
1.25 The Survival Guide
(Repeat)

Language Season
2.00 Quinze Minutes; Ici Paris; Lernexpress; Diez Temas; Isabel; Jeunes Francophones; Hallo aus Berlin

Business and Work
5.00 The Small Business Programme
(Repeat)
20 Steps to Better Management - the Drama
(Repeat)
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Open University
6.00 Psychology
(Repeat)
6.25 A New Role for Men
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
6.50 Modelling in the Motor Industry
(Repeat)

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