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The Wild Bush Budgie. The budgie is a popular bird, but few people know that it originated from the Australian outback. This documentary reveals how wild budgies gathertogether in spectacular flocks, hunting for scarce food and water and dodging countless enemies in the harsh environment of the Australian desert. Narrated by David Attenborough.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Bush Budgie.
Unknown:
David Attenborough.

Live coverage of this morning's play in the Loch Lomond World Invitational as the back markers set out first, hoping to pull their way up through the field.
Introduced by Steve Rider , with commentary from Peter Alliss, Alex Hay, Mike Hughesdon, Beverly Lewis and Dougie Donnelly

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Commentary:
Peter Alliss
Commentary:
Alex Hay
Commentary:
Mike Hughesdon
Commentary:
Beverly Lewis
Commentary:
Dougie Donnelly

From the period setting of Llancaiach
Fawr Manor in Mid Glamorgan, Roy Noble looks at the life and work of the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes , famous for stating: "I think, therefore I am"

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Noble
Unknown:
Rene Descartes

Autumn Glory. Anglers Chris Yates and Bob James explore the Hampshire Avon, a riverfamousfor its fishing, with the intention of catching perch. They are accompanied by Bernard Venables , but roach and barbel become the trio's quarry. Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Yates
Unknown:
Bob James
Accompanied By:
Bernard Venables
Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins.

Steve Rider introduces further coverage from the Loch Lomond World Invitational with the leaders going out last today, hoping to stay in contention forthe final day's play tomorrow
Including at 2.40 and 3.25 News and Regional News Subtitled Weather

Concluding the series on great scientific quests of the century. Hard Solutions. Chemists and physicists have spent a century tryingto explain the existence of liquid crystals. This programme tellsthe story of theirdiscovery and acceptance as the fourth state of matter, documenting the breakthrough that led to the creation of an industry based on liquid-crystal technology. Series producerPaul Manners
Postponed from 19 June

Alan Titchmarsh is working hard to keep his garden at Barleywood colourful throughout the summer; Ray Lancaster goes to a rare-plant fair in Pershore,
Hereford and Worcester; Gay Search meets Sri Lankan
Selvam Webster in her English cottage garden in Staffordshire; and Pippa Greenwood looks at watering systems to suit every gardener's pocket.
Executive producerTony Laryea: Series producer Colette Foster Subtitled.
BBC MAGAZINE: Gardeners World is available from newsagents
* See Alan Titchmarsh : page 36 Reader offer: Home and Garden special, page

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh
Unknown:
Ray Lancaster
Unknown:
Selvam Webster
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

Concluding the chilling true-life drama.
As the police investigation continues, so the media interest in Diane's plight increases. Can this seemingly devoted mother really be the cold-blooded and obsessive killerthat district attorney Frank Joziak is convinced she is?
For cast see yesterday
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Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Joziak

Continuing the comedy drama about a family's trip to the World Cup in France. Carol and Gran continue to suffer as Terry's football frenzy reaches fever pitch, while Craig's scams create more havoc. Will Owen and Ruthie finally cementtheir growing friendship? For cast see Sunday

Drama, the second part of Alain Resnais's double feature based on Alan Ayckbourn's eight short farces, Intimate Exchanges.
Starring Sabine Azema, Pierre Arditi

As Celia, wife of headmaster Toby, chooses not to light up her cigarette, she sets off a chain reaction of emotional complications.
(In French with English subtitles) (Widescreen) (1993. PG)
(For cast see Saturday)
See Films: pages 48-53 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Alain Resnais
Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn
Unknown:
Sabine Azema
Unknown:
Pierre Arditi

Sugar Dirt. The 58th launch an attack on, and easily manage to capture, a Chigairstrip. But then enemyforces launch a devastating counter-attack.
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Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Nathan West:
Morgan Weisser
Shane Vansen:
Kristen Cloke
Cooper Hawkes:
Rodney Rowland
Vanessa Damphousse:
Lanei Chapman
Paul Wang:
Joel de la Fuente
Colonel McQueen:
James Morrison
General Weirick:
Granville van Dusen
Lt Price:
Jennifer Balgobin
Admiral Broden:
David St James
General Alcott:
David Jean Thomas
Chaplain:
Edmund L Shaff
General Ming:
James Kiriyama-Lem
Admiral Vetter:
Nancy Linehan Charles
General Siraj:
Iqbal Theba
Comm Pressing:
Bill Kalmenson
Commodore Ross:
Tucker Smallwood

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