Programme Index

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9.10 Spanish Globo
Spanish for beginners
(ages 11-12)

9.15 Clementine: Une Famille Musicale
(ages 14-16) (Stereo)

9.30 Writing and Pictures: It's Magic
Magician Fay Presto holds a Competition
(ages 6-7) (Stereo)

9.45 Storytime: I Love Animals and Little Chicken Chicken
Two stories about farm animals
(ages 4-5)

10.30 Words and Pictures: The Golden Goose
Michael arrives at a goose farm on a go-kart.
(ages 5-7)

10.45 Cats' Eyes: People: Senses
Exploring the five senses of humans and animals.
(ages 5-7)

11.00 Look and Read: Spywatch: Trouble for Mary
Suspicion about Grainger increases.
(ages 7-9) (Stereo)

11.20 Zig Zag: Geography UK - Living in Northern Ireland
(ages 7-9) (Stereo)

11.40 Landmarks: Victorian Britain - School Life
(ages 9-12) (Stereo)

12.00 Heading South: Wetlands
How diminishing wetland areas are endangering migratory birds.
(ages 9-12) (Stereo)

12.20 Showcase - Special Needs

Daily series aimed at expanding viewers' knowledge of the British countryside. Today Bob Langley visits Snowdonia in north Wales, home to many rare wildlife species. With Chris Packham.

Contributors

Presenter:
Bob Langley
Presenter:
Chris Packham
Series Producer:
Mike Finlason

Action from the Open championship at Preston Guild Hall. Players competing in first-round matches today include world champion Hugh Duff, who is defending the Open title he won last year, three-times world titleholder Richard Corsie and Mervyn King, currently ranked number three in the world. With Dougie Donnelly. (Stereo)

Including at 2.40, 3.25 News Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Dougie Donnelly
Editor:
Gerard Lane

The animated comedy returns.

Bart takes the Simpsons' disruptive pet dog to a canine college.
Featuring the voice of Tracey Ullman.
The next episode is on Friday at 6pm.
See today's choices.
Bringing it all back, Homer page 7

Sofa so good? Things are never quite ship-shape for television's favourite family, The Simpsons.
The Simpsons 6.00pm BBC2
A man's best friend is his dog, so long as that dog isn't Santa's Little Helper and the man isn't Homer Simpson. The ugly, dumb one (the dog, of course) rips up Homer's newspaper, scoffs his breakfast, and then - horror of horrors - savages his $125 sneakers (shop salesman: "Sorry, our warranty doesn't cover acts of dog.") So what can you do with a canine catastrophe? Send him to obedience school run by a sadistic Englishwoman with a voice uncannily like Tracey Ullman's. Unfortunately all the vicious tugs on the choke chain in the world cannot teach Santa to sit.
So begins a new chunk of Simpson family life, the first of two this week. In Friday's episode (6pm BBC2), Homer loses the love of his daughter Lisa and tries to buy it back. As Marge would disapprovingly say: "Hmmm".

Contributors

Voice:
Tracey Ullman

Landscape artist John Virtue regards the brush as the most powerful tool in picture-making. While taking the same walk in Devon he has made each day for ten years, he works on his 313th painting of the changing view. Last in the series.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter/Artist:
John Virtue
Producer:
Henry Chancellor
Series Producer:
Ian Duncan

Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright visit Llandudno in north Wales where they prepare a lavish picnic for the Colywn Male Voice Choir.
See today's choices.
See Food: page 40
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Two Fat Ladies 8.30pm BBC2
Lawks, a picnic - what fun! At least it is when Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright are doing the catering. Their brief is to provide a suitable spread for the Colwyn Male Voice Choir, a task they tackle with their customary relish. "We must take a pie," booms Dickson Wright, who apparently is an experienced picnicker with glamorous tales of alfresco dining in Sicily, Benghazi and China. "As it's 'be nice to vegetarians week' I'm going to make a tartine from Provence," chortles Paterson, before muttering that it does include anchovies and that she's heard some vegetarians won't even eat those. In between they give a gutsy rendition of On the Road to Mandalay which may give their choral guests heartburn.
The Ladies prepare a chilled soup on page 40.

Contributors

Presenter/Cook:
Jennifer Paterson
Presenter/Cook:
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Director/Producer:
Patricia Llewellyn
Executive Producer:
Peter Gillbe

As a result of contracting meningitis as a toddler, Nick Stephens is now paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair.
But in 1996 he won a place at New College, Oxford University, to study law. With the help of camera attached to his wheelchair, Nick tells the story of his first term at Oxford.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Subject:
Nick Stephens
Director:
Marion Milne
Series Editor:
Peter Symes

The pop trivia quiz hosted by Mark Lamarr. This week, team captains Sean Hughes and Phill Jupitus are joined by ex-Take That singer Mark Owen, Radio 1 DJ Lisa I'Anson, M People's Shovell and Right Said Fred frontman Richard Fairbrass.
(Stereo)

Then Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lamarr
Team captain:
Sean Hughes
Team captain:
Phill Jupitus
Panellist:
Mark Owen
Panellist:
Lisa I'Anson
Panellist:
null Shovell
Panellist:
Richard Fairbrass
Director:
Steve Bendelack
Producer:
Jim Pullin

In a special programme to mark his 80th birthday, one of British broadcasting's most influential figures, Sir Denis Forman, discusses his life with Jeremy Isaacs. He also talks about changes in the television industry and some of the personalities he met in his 40-year career.
(Stereo)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Interviewee:
Sir Denis Forman
Interviewer:
Jeremy Isaacs
Producer:
David Herman

12.30 The Making of...: Kate Adie
The TV journalist talks about her career and offers tips to budding reporters

Environment
12.45 Valued Environments, Environmental Values
1.35 Going with the Flow - Nature and engineering

Schools
2.00 Signed Landmarks: Portrait of Britain

Languages
4.00 Everybody Here Spoke Sign Language

Business and Training
5.00 Skills for Work

Arts
6.00 The Great Exhibition: An Exercise in Industry
6.30-7.00am The Thrie Estaitis
Drama about corruption

Learning Zone Guide: [number removed]

Contributors

Speaker (The Making of...):
Kate Adie

BBC Two England

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