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6.10 Evaluating Pre-School Education Stereo 32091906.35 Child's Play Subtitled 1297393 7.00 A Formidable Foe Stereo 94225 7.30 Passing
Judgements Stereo

News plus a preview of weekend sport from BBC News 24. With Sarah Montague and Maxine Mawhinney.

Evolution Rules OK! Howard Stableford examines the theoryof evolution, and deciphers the meaning of "survival of the fittest" and "natural selection".
Series producer Andrew Law Stereo... WEB SITE: www.open.ac.uk/saturday
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Evolution Weekend: Life on Earth is at 2.10pm

Tim Grundy presents the last in the series of the magazine targeted towards men.

10.45 Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson attempts to prove that fast cars are the safest.
Shown last Thursday (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Followed by Menzone
Tim Grundy talks to mother-and-son adventurers Jan Meek and Daniel Byles.

11.20 The Old Grey Whistle Test
Music from the seventies, with Linda Ronstadt and Joan Armatrading. (Repeat)

Followed by Menzone
More from Tim Grundy.
Menzone producer Mike Finlason
(Stereo)

Crews battle to find the best route through the Doldrums as they head towards Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Presented by Steve Rider , with Richard Simmonds and Fenella George.

A special interview with Steven Spielberg.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Western, in the Saturday Matinee season, starring Rock Hudson

Anxious to escape from the poverty of his father's Texas home, John Wesley
Hardin sets out to make enough money to begin a new life. But the killing of cardsharp puts him on a different trail.
(1952)
See Films: pages 51-60 ***

David Attenborough goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum in London to introduce a special trilogy from his acclaimed "Life on Earth" series.
2.10 "Life on Earth" An exploration of life's origins, from the evolution of single-celled organisms to the development of plants and the advent of insects
3.00 "Life on Earth" Through frogs, tortoises, snakes and crocodiles, Attenborough relives the battle of land-dwelling animals to overcome alien, dry conditions.
3.50-4.40 "Life on Earth" The trilogy concludes by tracing the rise of mammals and how they conquered the earth. Series producer Christopher Parsons
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"The Fossil Roadshow" is at 6.55pm

Hits from the Top of the Pops archive.
Last in the series
(Stereo)
(Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)

With Moira Stuart.
Weather Suzanne Charlton
EVOLUTION WEEKEND

Experts deliververdicts on finds brought in to London's Natural
HistoryMuseum byfossil hunters from all over Britain. With Peter
Snow and Michaela Strachan.
Producer Jack Weber ; Executive producer John Lynch Darwin: the Life is at 8.05pm
Followed by Natural Selections Writer Douglas Adams explains why he loves the Madagascan aye-aye lemur. Stereo
WATER WEEK

Julian Pettifer is in Peru, where last year he predicted that El Nino would bring disaster. On his return, he discovers that cholera has followed in the wake of serious flooding.
From India, Suntia Thakur profiles Medha Patkur, a woman who has spent 13 years fighting against government plans for a dam on the Narmada river, while Angus Robertson reports from the Alps on why Austrians are hoping water can do for them what oil did for the Texans.
(Water Week concludes with The Money Programme tomorrow at 7.45pm)

Then Evolution Weekend: Natural Selections
Jane Goodall, conservationist, talks about the chimpanzees she has studied for 38 years.
(Stereo)

This documentary examines the paradox of Charles Darwin, a private and conventional man who developed one of the most revolutionary ideas in science. See today's choices. Producer Viv Simson; Executive producer John Lynch
Followed by Natural Selections Alan Titchmarsh anticipates the day when a rose will have no thorns. Stereo

Actor Richard Wilson and comedy writer Andy Hamilton join the political comedy quiz hosted by Clive Anderson , with Graeme Garden , Jeremy Hardy. Shown yesterday Stereo Subtitled.
Then EVOLUTION WEEKEND
Natural Selections Swimmer
Sharron Davies explains her love Of dolphins. Stereo

Melvyn Bragg chairs a debate on the significance of the evolution theory on human society.
Taking part are biologist Steve Jones; Professor Stephen Pinker, cognitive psychologist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; neurologist and opera director Dr Jonathan Miller and Meredith Small, Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University, New York.
Producer Sam Roberts, Executive producer John Lynch.
Evolution Weekend: "The Fossil Roadshow" is tomorrow at 4.25pm

Followed by: Natural Selections: Scientist Richard Dawkins talks about the Australian bower bird.
Stereo

Crime drama starring
Nick Nolte , Timothy Hutton
Al Reilly , a young assistant district attorney, sets about investigating the shooting of a Puerto Rican by a veteran plain clothes policeman - and comes up against a rogue cop.
Director Sidney Lumet (1990, 18)
♦ See Films: pages 51-60
Followed by Weatherview

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