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6.05 Yes, We Never Say"No"
How do managers of an international hotel chain get their staff to provide a quality service?
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6.35 Art in 14th-century Florence: Orsanmichele
Tracing the development of this church into one of Florence's most important Shrines.
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America at the End of the 20th Century
The first of six programmes, today looking at the confusions, tensions and new forms of social control that characterise the post-modern city of Los Angeles.
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The Sunday morning entertainment show, set in a wacky hotel. This week's guests include Diane-Louise Jordan and Toby Anstis, who will be presenting a new series of Bright Sparks on Wednesday on BBC1, plus Home and Away's Kate Ritchie. There's music from reggae artist Shaggy, the outdoor activity game Buried Treasure with Annabel Croft, and more mayhem with The Smedleys. Presented by Grant Stott and Sarah Vandenbergh.

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Contributors

Presenter:
Grant Stott
Presenter:
Sarah Vandenbergh
Presenter (Buried Treasure):
Annabel Croft
Guest:
Diane-Louise Jordan
Guest:
Toby Anstis
Guest:
Kate Ritchie
Singer:
null Shaggy
Producer:
Diane MacLean
Series Producer:
Martyn Day

Introduced by Desmond Lynam.

1.30, 4.00 Cricket: Third Test
Further coverage of the day's play between England and Australia at Old Trafford. The current Australian team does not pose the same threat as Allan Border's teams, who won Test matches in Manchester in 1989 and 1993. Commentary by Richie Benaud, Geoffrey Boycott, David Gower, Tony Lewis and Ian Chappell.

3.40 Motor Sport
Action from round 14 of the British Touring Cars Championship from Croft in Darlington. Commentary by Murray Walker and Charlie Cox.

6.00-8.00pm Wimbledon 97
Featuring news and reaction to the men's singles final, played live on BBC1, plus coverage of the ladies' doubles final.

(Stereo)
Videoplus code for 1.30-8.00
1.30-4.00 (not PDC)
4.00-8.00 (not PDC)

Contributors

Presenter:
Desmond Lynam
Commentary:
Richie Benaud
Commentary:
Geoffrey Boycott
Commentary:
David Gower
Commentary:
Tony Lewis
Commentary:
Ian Chappell
Commentary:
Murray Walker
Editor:
Dave Gordon

Dishes and Digits. The nineties saw a dramatic acceleration in the pace of change affecting broadcastjournaiism, as deregulation, newtechnoiogy and foreign competition took theirtoii on network news.
American magazine programmes found that sex and violence boosted their ratings, Russian journalists learned that disaster seiis, and British reporters were stifled by the infiexibitity of the verytechnoiogythatwas meant toheipthem. Narrated by Edward Stourton. Last in the series.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Producer:
Peter Cereso

How do you set about designing an alien? As part of A Weekend on Mars, the BBC's Natural History Unit challenges a team of top scientists to conceive and design alien life forms of the kind that might plausibly populate worlds beyond our own. The results, which include flocks of huge flying predators and giant balloon plants, are brought to life using 3-D computer animation.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Monsters from outer space?: page 7

Contributors

Producer:
Peter Brown
Executive Producer:
Mark Jacobs

He is one of the most controversial designers of his generation, the working-class Londoner whose rise to the top of the fashion world has been nothing short of meteoric.
Alexander McQueen left school at the age of 16 with only one O-level to his name: last October, just 27, he became head of design at Givenchy.
This film follows McQueen at the recent London Fashion Week, and records his preparations for Givenchy's pret-a-porter show in Paris.
Stereo Subtitled

Contributors

Subject:
Alexander McQueen
Producer:
Teresa Smith
Series Editor:
Michael Poole

Highlights of the men's singles final. which, weather permitting. will have been played on Centre Court earlier today.
The unseeded Richard Krajicek caused a major upset in 1996 when he won the title. becoming, in the process, the first Dutchman ever to win a Grand Slam event. Will Pete Sampras be crowned champion for the fourth time or will there be a new name on the trophy this year - a British one, even? Introduced by Sue Barker.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue Barker
Producer:
Sharon Lence

Thriller, starring Elliott Gould
As the world watches on TV, Capricorn One, the first manned mission to Mars,lands on the angry red planet. But deep in the Arizona desert, three threatened astronauts plant the American flag on a film set. aware that their aborted mission is now a fake-a top secret cover-up.
Showing in widescreen format.
Director PeterHyams (1978. PG)
subtitled .......................... See Films: pages 52-59 ****

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Robert Caulfield:
Elliott Gould
Charles Brubaker:
James Brolin
Peter Willis:
Sam Waterston
Hay Brubaker:
Brenda Vaccaro
John Walker:
Oj Sampson
Dr James Kelloway:
Hal Holbrook
Judy Drinkwater:
Karen Black
A!ba!n:
Telly Savalas
Hollis Peaker:
David Huddleston

Summer Nights
2.00 Great Outdoors Essentials
Create Gardening .tjmNCUMES
4.00 Hindi Urdu Bol Chaal 3 and 4; Famously Fluent
BUSINESS AND WORK
5.00 The Small Business Programme Merging and Trade Fa<rs Twenty Steps to Better Management-the drama The Wsfon Thing
OPEN UNIVERSITY
6.00 Just Like a Girl
Rpt 72954S4
6.25 Danger-Children at Play Rot 727499.:
6.50-7.15am Children. Science and Common Sense Rpt Stereo 6S
LEARNING ZONE GUIDE: [number removed]

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