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7.30 Secret Life of Toys
Puppets.
(Repeated at 1pm)
(Repeat)

7.45 The Raccoons
Animation.
(Repeat)

8.00 The Wacky Races
A double bill of cartoon fun.

8.20 Young People's Specials
A young boy fights to save his pet duck.
(Repeat)

9.05 Activ8
A look at netball, catamaran sailing, Irish dancing, and football injuries. (Repeat) (Stereo)

9.35 Sweet Valley High
Californian teenage drama.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

10.00 Funnybones
More creepy fun with the skeletons.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

10.10 Teletubbies: Our Pig Winnie
The Teletubbies watch a film about a little boy and his special friend - a pig called Winnie. With the voices of Mark Heenahan, Toyah Willcox, Eric Sykes and Tim Whitnall
(Stereo)

10.35 Babar
Cartoon fun.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Voice (Teletubbies):
Mark Heenahan
Voice (Teletubbies):
Toyah Willcox
Voice (Teletubbies):
Eric Sykes
Voice (Teletubbies):
Tim Whitnall
Teletubby (Teletubbies):
Pui Fan Lee
Teletubby (Teletubbies):
John Simmit
Teletubby (Teletubbies):
Nikky Smedley
Teletubby (Teletubbies):
Dave Thompson

Adventure starring Victor Mature

A flamboyant circus owner is forced to take out a substantial bank loan to save his show, but he is also plagued by bad weather and a dangerous saboteur.
(1959, U)
See Films: pages 57-72 ***

Contributors

Director:
Joseph Newman
Hank Whirling:
Victor Mature
Randy Sherman:
Red Buttons
Helen Harrison:
Rhonda Fleming
Jeannie Whirling:
Kathryn Grant
Hans Hagenfeld:
Vincent Price
Tommy Gordon:
David Nelson
Zach Colino:
Gilbert Round
Skeeter:
Peter Lorre

The fifth of a six-part magazine series made by and about disabled people. Tonight viewers speak about the portrayal of disabled people on television. They raise the issues of cliched triumph-over-tragedy news reports, dramatic roles in which characters only ever talk about their disability, and the coverage of the paralympics. Other items include a report from Hong Kong, blind performance poet Damon Rose and an unusual dance company called Nocandoco.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Write to: From the Edge, [address removed]

Contributors

Poet/Performer:
Damon Rose
Dancers:
null Nocandoco
Series Editor:
Ian Macrae

Presenter Juliet Morris and experts David Austin, Mac Dowdy and Judith Miller descend on houses to unlock their wealth of historical secrets.

This week the team investigates the local legends behind the facades of two Essex houses.
See today's choices.
BBC Book: Be Your Own House Detective, is available from retailers priced £16.99
John Peel: page 9

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Expert:
David Austin
Expert:
Mac Dowdy
Expert:
Judith Miller
Director:
Tim Dunn
Series Producer:
Sally Angel

Tonight a profile of two of Britain's most promising young chefs, Toby Hill , awarded a Michelin star, and Tom Aikens , recipient of two stars. Michael Barry cooks spanakopita, a Greek pie offilo pastry filled with spinach and feta, and Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke taste and recommend NewZealand wine priced at under£7.50 a bottle. With Chris Kelly.
ProducerMoyra Rose; Series producer
TimHincks Stereo
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Contributors

Unknown:
Toby Hill
Unknown:
Tom Aikens
Unknown:
Michael Barry
Unknown:
Jilly Goolden
Unknown:
Oz Clarke
Unknown:
Chris Kelly.

Tonight's guests on the satirical quiz hosted by Angus Deayton are comedian Alan Davies and TV cook Jennifer Paterson, one of the Two Fat Ladies, from a programme originally shown last autumn.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Angus Deayton
Panellist:
Alan Davies
Panellist:
Jennifer Paterson
Director:
Paul Wheeler
Producer:
Richard Wilson

When war broke out in South East Asia in 1941, one tribe from the hills of Burma - the Christian, English-speaking Karen - distinguished itself in the fight against Japan. Karen fighters played a major part in halting the Japanese at the Indian-Burmese border. They taught British Army regulars to fight in the jungle, and worked with Force 136, the British sabotage unit immortalised in fiction in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. Fifty years later they are still fighting, but this time it is for their independence. Using newly unearthed archive material and documents, Timewatch tells why the Karen feel abandoned by the British and how, to this day, they are involved in a brutal civil war with the Burmese.
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Elston
Editor:
Laurence Rees

First in a five-part black comedy from Denmark set in a high-tech hospital called "the Kingdom".

Mrs Drusse, a hypochondriac and spiritualist, hears a ghost crying in a lift shaft. But she falls foul of neurosurgeon Stig Helmer - a man who has no sympathy for malingerers or even his own patients.
In Danish with English subtitles.
(Next episode tomorrow at 11.30pm)

Followed by Weatherview

Open University
12.30am Made without Flaw?
(Repeat) (Stereo)
1.00 Communications and the Future of Money
(Repeat)

Language Season
2.00 Discovering Portuguese 1 and 2; Bon Mot Collection 5; Japanese Language and People 4 and 9

BBC Focus
4.00 Teaching and Learning with IT
4.30 Film Education: A Day in the Life of Golden Eye
(Repeat)
5.00 Inside Europe
5.30 Film Education

Open University
6.00 Miles of Aisles
(Repeat)
6.25 The Birth of Calculus
(Repeat)
6.50-7.15am Flight Simulators and Robots
(Repeat)

Learning Zone Guide: [number removed]

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