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10.30 Words and Pictures
(ages 5-7)

10.45 Cats' Eyes
(ages 5-7)

11.00 Look and Read: Captain Crimson: It'll All Come out in the Wash
(ages 7-9)

11.20 Zig Zag
(ages 7-9)

11.40 Landmarks
(ages 9-12)

12.00 Shakespeare: the Animated Tales
(ages 9-13)

Contributors

Writer (Look and Read):
Elly Brewer

The British Rally championship moves to the Kielder Forest in Northumberland for a two-day event. With Mark James and Tony Mason. Paul Musselle tracks the start of the Eurocar season, with 16 V8s hurtling around Brands Hatch.
(Stereo)

2.40 News
Regional News and Weather

Contributors

Reporter (British Rally championship):
Mark James
Reporter (British Rally championship):
Tony Mason
Reporter (Eurocar season):
Paul Musselle

Esther Rantzen talks to mums who are passionate about causes, including one woman who sold her house contents to Oxfam, and to their children, who are less enthusiastic.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Esther Rantzen

Continuing Gerry Anderson's live action science-fiction series.

A spacecraft that carries members of a dying race crash-lands on Moonbase Alpha.
(First shown on ITV)

Contributors

Writer:
Anthony Terpiloff
Producer:
Gerry Anderson
Director:
Charles Crichton
John Koenig:
Martin Landau
Dr Helena Russell:
Barbara Bain
Professor Bergman:
Barry Morse
Captain Zantor:
Christopher Lee
Commissioner Simmonds:
Roy Dotrice

Comedian Bobby Davro uses a computer film-editing package on the consumer guide to technology, hoping to turn his holiday videos into an action-packed short film. Ex-athlete Kriss Akabusi logs on with the Scouts, while Toyah Willcox reports on how voice-recognition technology is helping dyslexic students. Presented by Carol Vorderman and Adrian Chiles.
(Stereo)
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Carol Vorderman
Presenter:
Adrian Chiles
Reporter:
Bobby Davro
Reporter:
Kriss Akabusi
Reporter:
Toyah Willcox
Series Producer:
Gaby Koppel
Series Editor:
Owen Gay

Against-the-clock gardening challenges, with the team of Alan Titchmarsh , Charlie Dimmock Wickham and Tommy Walsh. West, Kent. The experts have two days to create a low-maintenance gravel garden filled with eastern promise. Director John Thornicroft ; Producer
Carol Haslam Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Unknown:
Charlie Dimmock Wickham
Unknown:
Tommy Walsh.
Director:
John Thornicroft
Producer:
Carol Haslam

Continuing the biographical series.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was the first man to reveal the undersea world to a mass audience. But his rise was punctuated by controversy, as revealed by the first biographical account of Cousteau since his death last year.
See today's choices.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Narrator:
John Nettles
Producer:
John Farren
Series Editor:
Janice Hadlow

The thrice-weekly series about the city of Manchester.

Marie Donohoe aspires to supermodel status, Tim Cox longs to be the next Richard Branson, and Neil Howarth wants to be famous.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Subject:
Marie Donohoe
Subject:
Tim Cox
Subject:
Neil Howarth
Executive Producer:
Clare Paterson
Series Producer:
Christopher Salt

Satirical comedy series featuring celebrities, impersonated by John Sessions and Phil Cornwell, who have retired to a quiet street.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Comedian/Writer:
John Sessions
Comedian/Writer:
Phil Cornwell
Writer/Director:
Peter Richardson
Producer:
Ben Swaffer

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Arena Chapel
(Subtitled)
1.30 The Island: A Historic Piece

Schools
2.00 Special Needs
With signing for deaf children.

Languages
4.00 Discovering Portuguese 1-2; French on a Plate

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite: Getting Started, 2; Getting Online, 2

Open University
5.45 Rome under the Popes
6.10 Frederick the Great and Sans Souci
6.35-7.00am On Pictures and Paintings

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