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Animated comedy.
The first Animal Olympics are to be held at Pawprint Stadium, and ZOO TV has secured the rights to broadcast the games in the animal kingdom. Featuring the voices of Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer.
(1979, U)
See Films: pages 44-49

Contributors

Director:
Steven Lisberger
Voices:
Gilda Radner
Voices:
Billy Crystal
Voices:
Harry Shearer
Voices:
Michael Fremer

Drama starring Gina Lollobrigida

Returning home from the army, Nick Stratton falls in love with beautiful Giulietta Cameron and, unaware of her past, embarks on an ill-fated affair.
(1961)
See Films: pages 44-49 **

Contributors

Director:
Ranald MacDougall
Giulietta Cameron:
Gina Lollobrigida
Nick Stratton:
Anthony Franciosa
Pete Stratton:
Ernest Borgnine
Yvonne Stratton:
Luana Patten
Argus Diavolos:
Will Kuluva
Josh Kebner:
Philip Ober
Cobby:
John Kellogg
Mary Stratton:
Nancy R Pollock

David Booth and Helen Madden show how to perform a variety of do-it-yourself tasks, which today include replacing an old lavatory, providing ventilation for a tumble dryer, and a way to lay mock flag stones on a kitchen floor.
(The series continues on Thursday at 12.10pm) (Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Booth
Presenter:
Helen Madden

Daily 20-part series in which Caroline Righton presents travel and cookery highlights from the BBC archives. Today's programme-the first of ten focusing on France - explores the culture of Provence, and includes another chance to see an episode from the series A Cook's Tour of France, with Mireille Johnston.

Action Pack: send a cheque for £3, made payable to BBC Education, to [address removed] (or telephone [number removed])
Buried Treasure: page 7

Contributors

Presenter:
Caroline Righton
Presenter/Cook (A Cook's Tour of France):
Mireille Johnston
Series Producer:
David Wilson
Executive Producer:
Fiona Pitcher

Action from yesterday's best-of-five-sets first-round matches at the Lakeside Country Club, Surrey. Commentary is provided by Tony Green. Introduced by Dougie Donnelly

Including at 2.40 and 3.25 News Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Dougie Donnelly
Commentator:
Tony Green

In the first of an eight-part series taking a look at some of the world's most eccentric and dangerous sports, sky-surfers Andy Ford and Mike Frost film their own aerial acrobatics as they hurtle towards the ground in freefall. Plus a report from Milton Keynes on in-line skating, a sport that originated on the streets of Los Angeles.

Contributors

Sky-surfer:
Andy Ford
Sky-surfer:
Mike Frost
Narrator:
Bruce Roberts
Director:
Lyndon Griffiths
Director:
Ed Taylor

Dr Ngaire Woods, a fellow in politics at University College, Oxford, takes an in-depth look over eight programmes at some major issues of concern.

Young people starting work today can no longer rely on the state pension to look after them during their retirement.
In tonight's programme, Dr Woods examines the Government's plans to relieve pressure on the state scheme by introducing individual stakeholder pensions linked to stocks and shares. But will these radical proposals secure a comfortable old age or prove to be just another form of taxation?

Contributors

Series Producer:
Richard Klein
Executive Producer:
Mark Wakefield

Five drama-documentaries reconstructing events at the heart of recent disasters.

On 18 November 1996, 34 people travelling on the Eurotunnel shuttle from Calais became trapped in smoke-filled darkness after fire broke out on the train deep beneath the seabed. As 450 firefighters struggled to deal with the blaze, a catalogue of technical and communication failures held up rescue attempts and left some victims so traumatised they have been unable to return to work. The programme, narrated by John Nettles, highlights the problems of implementing safety recommendations.
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Narrator:
John Nettles
Series Producer:
Bryn Higgins
Executive Producer:
Peter Goodchild

Six-part series in which chef Ken Hom travels round the Pacific rim in search of innovative dishes that blend eastern flavours with the best of western cookery. He begins his tour in Sydney, Australia, where he discovers tasty ways of spicing up chicken, fish, noodles and that British favourite, tomato soup.
See today's choices.
Book: Ken Hom Travels with a Hot Wok, price £17.99 from bookshops
Lifestyle new season: page 26
Food: page 30

Contributors

Presenter/Chef:
Ken Hom
Director/Producer:
Kate Kinninmont

Comedy starring Steve Martin

Navin Johnson, the white sheep in a poor black family of Mississippi sharecroppers, leaves home to seek his fortune in the big city. Navin's struggle for fame, his invention of the miraculous opti-grab device and the earth-shattering discovery of his "special purpose" are just part of the Johnson legend.
(1979, 15)
See Films: pages 44-49 ****

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Director:
Carl Reiner
Navin Johnson:
Steve Martin
Marie Kimball:
Bernadette Peters
Patty Bernstein:
Catlin Adams
Mother:
Mabel King
Father:
Richard Ward
Taj:
Dick Anthony Williams
Stan:
Bill Macy
Madman:
M. Emmet Walsh
Himself:
Carl Reiner

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