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The series in which people behind bright business ideas chat with presenter Peter Curran in the world's first internet cafe.
This week's guests are Karren Brady , managing director of Birmingham City Football Club, and business adviser SumantraGhoshal, whose business thinking has been influenced by his travels in India and France..........
INTERNET: http://www.bbc.co.uk/businesscafe/

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Curran
Unknown:
Karren Brady

The series about home computing, with Charles Golding. Today, Tricia Rose reveals how she learned typingskills with a teach-yourself-to-type programme and now spends her leisure time doing research on her home computer.
Repeat Stereo ...............................

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Golding.
Unknown:
Tricia Rose

This week's guests include Lisa Potts , the nursery nurse who saved the children in her care from a machete attack. There's music from boy band OTT and Moragthe talking cow meets an exotic plant - a Venus Fly Trap. In the Fun, Fun, Fun slot actor Tristan Bancks has a try at American baseball. Plus cartoon fun with The Mask, Dennis the Menace and Pingu. Presented by Sarah Vandenbergh and Grant Stott. Producer Justine Adams ; Series producer
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Contributors

Unknown:
Lisa Potts
Unknown:
Tristan Bancks
Presented By:
Sarah Vandenbergh
Presented By:
Grant Stott.
Producer:
Justine Adams

Introduced by Steve Rider , Sue Barker.
12.35 Touring Cars Rounds five and six of the British Touring Car championship fromThruxton. With commentary by Barry Nutley and Charlie Cox.
1.35 Basketball Action from the finals of the League playoffs from Wembley Arena. Stuart Storey provides the commentary.
2.00,3.05,3.55 Racing From
Longchamp, including the French 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, plusthe Prix Lupin. The commentators are PeterO'Sullevan, Julian Wilson , Willie Carson , Jim McGrath.
2.20,4.05 Golf Coverage of the final round of the International Open from the Oxfordshire, the first British event of this season's European Tour. Commentary by Peter Alliss , Alex Hay , Dave Marr , Mike Hughesdon and Beverley Lewis.
2.55,3.25 Three-Day Eventing Action from the showjumping phase of the Badminton Horse Trials, atop event in the equestrian calendar. Michael Tucker , Lorna Clarke , Lucinda Green and Clare Balding provide the commentary.
6.15 Roundup Including news of the final matches in the Premiership.
Videoplus code for 12.30-6.30...........12.30-3.25 ................................. 3.25-6.30

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider
Introduced By:
Sue Barker.
Introduced By:
Charlie Cox.
Unknown:
Wembley Arena.
Unknown:
Stuart Storey
Unknown:
Julian Wilson
Unknown:
Willie Carson
Unknown:
Jim McGrath.
Commentary By:
Peter Alliss
Commentary By:
Alex Hay
Commentary By:
Dave Marr
Commentary By:
Mike Hughesdon
Commentary By:
Beverley Lewis.
Unknown:
Michael Tucker
Unknown:
Lorna Clarke
Unknown:
Lucinda Green

Continuing the series about the natural history of North America. Today more than two million people live in the hottest, driest part of North America, the Sonoran desert. Unlike the plants and animals, which have evolved spectacular ways of coping with these arid lands, those seeking the hot sunshine of Phoenix are only now beginning to face the harsh realities of living on the edge of existence. Narrated by Alan Ereira.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Contributors

Narrator:
Alan Ereira.
Producer:
Paul Reddish
Series Producer:
Peter Crawford

When a deactivated humanoid robot is found floating in space, B'Elanna decides to repair the artificial lifeform.

(Star Trek: the Next Generation is on Wednesday at 6pm)

Contributors

Janeway:
Kate Mulgrew
Chakotay:
Robert Beltran
B'Elanna:
Roxann Biggs-Dawson
Kes:
Jennifer Lien
Paris:
Robert Duncan McNeill
The Doctor:
Robert Picardo
Neelix:
Ethan Phillips
Tuvok:
Tim Russ
3947:
Rick Worthy

The first in a new
11-part series of arts documentaries.
A Death in Venice. On 29
January 1996 La Fenice, the world-famous opera house situated in the Italian city of Venice, burntto the ground.
The Works uncovers the tale of arson and intrigue behind this event. See today's choices. Producer CliveSyddall; Series editor
MichaelPoole Stereo

Plans to build an underground nuclear waste repository at Sellafield, Cumbria, were shelved recently because of scientific concerns about the site, but the problem of finding safe storage for the country's nuclear waste has not gone away. As the search begins for another site, The Money Programme discovers that the resulting cost overruns could mean a big bill for taxpayers. With Donald MacCormick.

NOTE: as The Money Programme is topical and likely to react to events in the news, its subject matter may change.

Contributors

Presenter:
Donald MacCormick
Editor:
Diarmuid Jeffreys

Mystery thriller, continuing the season of films starring Sean Connery
Also starring Mark Hannon Meg Ryan
When a cop is murdered on army property, ex-military policeman Jay Austin is assigned to work with his former commanding officer and sworn enemy Lt Col Caldwell. As the investigation continues and the animosity increases, the pair uncover a violent conspiracy that goes to the heart of the San Francisco military base called the Presidio. Showing in widescreen format.
Director Peter Hyams (1988, 15)
♦ See films: pages 52-60 *** ♦ Barry Norman on Sean Connery : page 48

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Mark Hannon
Unknown:
Meg Ryan
Unknown:
Jay Austin
Director:
Peter Hyams
Unknown:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
Sean Connery
Lt Col Alan Caldwell:
Sean Connery
Jay Austin:
Mark Harmon
Donna Caldwell:
Meg Ryan
Sgt Major Ross Maclure:
Jack Warden
Arthur Peale:
Mark Blum
Col Paul Lawrence:
Dana Gladstone
Patti Jean Lynch:
Jenette Goldstein
MPZeke:
Marvin JmcIntyre
Howard Buckely:
Dan Calfa
Detective Marvin Powell:
John Disanti

Drama, continuing the season of films starring
Sean Connery
Also starring Richard Harris
Pennsylvania in the 1870s. The Molly Maguires, a secret union led by Jack Kehoe, fight a violent battle against the exploitation of labour in the mining industry. The mine owners bring in James McParlan, a cunning and ambitious detective, to infiltrate and smash the union forgood. Showing in widescreen format.
Director Martin Ritt (1970)
See films: pages 52-60 **
Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Richard Harris
Unknown:
Molly Maguires
Unknown:
Jack Kehoe
Unknown:
James McParlan
Director:
Martin Ritt
James McParlan/McKenna:
Richard Harris
Jack Kehoe:
Sean Connery
Mary Raines:
Samantha Eggar
Captain Davies:
Frank Finlay
Dougherty:
Anthony Zerbe
Mrs Kehoe:
Bethel Leslie
Frazier:
Art Lund
Frank McAndrew:
Anthony Costello
FatherO'Connor:
Philip Bourneuf
Mr Raines:
Brendan Dillon

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