Programme Index

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7.00 Teletubbies: Long Horns
A young boy and his mother play some horns.
(Shown last Friday)

7.25 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
Prehistoric animated adventures.

7.50 50/50
Inter-schools game show.
(Shown last Monday on BBC1)
(Subtitled)

8.15 Tom and Jerry Kids
Cat-and-mouse cartoon fun.
(Repeat)

8.35 Teddy Trucks
Animation about teddy bear truck drivers.
(Repeat)

Fantasy drama, set in the Old
West, starringTony Randall
The amazing Dr Lao rides into a desert town astride a yellow mule. He has come to announce the opening of his circus.
Director George Pal (1963) Subtitled. * See Films: pages 42-48 ***

Contributors

Director:
George Pal

Romantic comedy thriller starring
Judge Reinhold , Carol Kane
After a badly bungled assassination attempt, vengeful Mafia widow Mana and hertoddler attempt to escape in the taxi of peace-loving and fastidious Ernie. Director Francis ASchaeffer (1993, PG)
* See Films: pages 42-48 **

Contributors

Unknown:
Judge Reinhold
Unknown:
Carol Kane
Director:
Francis Aschaeffer

Highlights from the motoring show. Jeremy Clarkson test-drives the latest VW Beetle, while Andy Wilman visits the annual Beetle Bash car show.
(Postponed from Monday 13 July)
(The next episode is on Thursday at 9.45pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Presenter:
Andy Wilman
Producer:
Chris Richards
Editor:
Jon Bentley

User-friendly finance series in which Alvin Hall visits four British investment clubs to help them make the most of their savings.

Hall offers advice to the Millennium Millionaires Investment Club. Its 20 members hope to become rich by the year 2000 by investing money in the world of food. They investigate companies that manufacture potato products, supermarkets that sell the humble spud and restaurants serving profitable mountains of fish and chips. (Subtitled)
Alvin Hall's Kind of Day: page

Contributors

Presenter:
Alvin Hall
Producer:
Gail Taylor
Executive Producer:
Robert Thirkell

Juliet Morris visits the south Devonshire coast, where she goes on an underwater journey at the newly opened National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Jim White travels to the north of Norway to experience the beauty of the fjords and explore the city of Bergen. Fi Glover and Simon Calder spend 24 hours in Las Vegas, entertainment capital of the USA. Plus an affordable long weekend break in Galway.
(Subtitled)
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Juliet Morris
Reporter:
Jim White
Reporter:
Fi Glover
Reporter:
Simon Calder
Series Producer:
Liz Molyneux

Paul Merton, Ian Hislop and their two celebrity guests poke fun at current affairs in the topical news quiz. Hosted by Angus Deayton.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Angus Deayton
Team captain:
Paul Merton
Team captain:
Ian Hislop
Director:
Paul Wheeler
Producer:
Richard Wilson

Documentary updating the turbulent events at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden since the filming of BBC2's series The House in 1996. Funding for this cherished yet much-criticised institution has become a hotly debated issue. Marketing manager
Keith Cooper, who lost his job there earlier this year, returns to meet the people who have shaped recent events, and reveals how the Royal Opera House has been brought to the edge of extinction.

Contributors

Reporter:
Keith Cooper
Director:
Colin Spector
Producer:
Andrew Bethell

The second of three short films, showing as part of BBC2's Sculpture Season, on the work of sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.

Goldsworthy uses the mud of the field to create a new sculpture at the foot of an ancient oak tree.

Followed by Conversation Piece
Kevin Atherton's bronze cast A Body of Work.

Contributors

Subject:
Andy Goldsworthy
Sculptor (Conversation Piece):
Kevin Atherton

The thrice-weekly dinner-party chat show, hosted by Ruby Wax. Tonight's guests are journalist John Diamond, actress Carrie Fisher and singer Julian Lennon.
(Next edition tomorrow at 11.15pm)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Presenter:
Ruby Wax
Guest:
John Diamond
Guest:
Carrie Fisher
Guest:
Julian Lennon
Series Producer:
Claire Powell

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Authentick and Ironicall Historie of Henry V
1.30 The Baptistery, Padua

The Greats
2.00 Artists: Part 2

World Cup French
4.00 The French Experience 1: Parts 5-8
with English subtitles.

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite: Business: Part 3

Open University
5.45 Pieter Bruegel and Popular Culture
6.10 Nathan the Wise
6.35-7.00am The Museum of Modern Art

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