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10.30 The Geography Programme: Oases in the Desert: Part 2
(ages 11-16) (Stereo)

10.50 Look and Read Special: Captain Crimson
Last in the series.
(ages 7-9) (Stereo)

11.10 Zig Zag: Art: Texture and Pattern
(ages 7-9)

11.30 Marsalis on Music
(ages 12+)

Contributors

Writer (Look and Read Special):
Elly Brewer

Drama starring Richard Attenborough

When he refuses to join an unofficial strike, factory worker Tom Curtis is ostracised by his workmates, and finds enormous strain placed on his family.
(1960, PG) (Black and white) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 50-56 ***

Including at 3.00 News Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Director:
Guy Green
Tom:
Richard Attenborough
Anna:
Pier Angeli
Joe Wallace:
Michael Craig
Bert Connolly:
Bernard Lee
Travers:
Alfred Burke
Davis:
Geoffrey Keen

The alien lifeform continues to evade capture. Brogan is injected with a deadly serum to enforce his co-operation in the race to find it.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Arthur Sellers
Director:
Piers Haggard
Lt Patrick Brogan:
Ted Shackelford
Officer Jack Haldane:
Rob Youngblood
Officer Jane Castle:
Simone Bendix
Sally Brogan:
Nancy Paul
Matt:
Nic Klein
Liz:
Megan Olive
Podly:
Jerome Willis
Romek:
Lou Hirsch

This week Top Gear's Quentin Willson takes on the British Army rally team, the former using navigation software and a laptop, the latter traditional maps and guidebooks. Each aims to be the first to reach a secret destination -who will be the winner? Presented by Carol Vorderman and Adrian Chiles.

Contributors

Presenter:
Carol Vorderman
Presenter:
Adrian Chiles
Reporter:
Quentin Willson
Producer:
Gaby Koppel
Series Producer:
Geraldine McClelland

A documentary film capturing the distinctive sights and sounds of species that inhabit estuaries in winter, where the behavioural patterns of wildlife are dictated by the tides.
Footage features seals bracing themselves for bad weather, dense swarms of tiny waders and the flight of barnacle geese across stormy skies.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Contributors

Narrator:
Tom Conti
Producer:
Alastair Fothergill

An episode from the first series of the comedy, written by Richard Curtis and Kit Hesketh-Harvey.

The long-running religious programme plans to feature Dibley and its new female vicar - unfortunately, the village hasn't got a choir.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Curtis
Director:
Dewi Humphreys
Producer:
Jon Plowman
Geraldine Granger:
Dawn French
David Horton:
Gary Waldhorn
Hugo Horton:
James Fleet
Alice Tinker:
Emma Chambers
Letitia Cropley:
Liz Smith
Frank Pickle:
John Bluthal
Jim Trott:
Trevor Peacock
Owen Newitt:
Roger Lloyd Pack
Cecil:
Simon McBurney
Tristan Campbell:
Peter Capaldi

Open University
12.30am Scientific Community in 17th-century England
(Rpt)
1.00 Santo Spirito - a Renaissance Church
1.30 Matisse and the Problem of Expression

Nightschool TV
2.00 Teaching Today

BBC Focus
4.00 Italia 2000
(Rpt)
4.30 Royal Institution Discourse
5.30 RCN Nursing Update: Unit 71

Open University
6.00 Seville The Edge of Empire
(Rpt) (Subtitled)
6.25 Citizens of the World
6.50-7.15am The Great Exhibition

Learning Zone Guide: [number removed]

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