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7.00 Teletubbies: Making Salad
The Teletubbies watch a little girl and her brother go shopping for salad.
Shown yesterday at 10am

7.25 Spot
Today, Spot is in the garden.
Narrated by Paul Nicholas. Repeat

7.30 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
The dinosaur battles to survive in a hostile world in a prehistoric double bill..

7.55 Cartoon Critters
Continuing the series that tells the real stories of the animals depicted in cartoons. Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1

8.20 Tom and Jerry Kids
Animated antics of the cat-and-mouse duo during their salad days. Repeat

8.45 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animated triple bill based on the adventures of Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Hilda Hippo and Sergeant Murphy, who all live in Busytown. Repeat

9.10 Peter Pan and the Pirates
Cartoon adventures of the boy who never grew up, based on the story by JM Barrie .
Repeat Subtitled

9.35 Sweet Valley High
Teenage life in a lively California town, seen through the eyes of twin sisters Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield. Repeat

10.00 Teletubbies: Making Lanterns
Where has Laa-Laa's Tubby Toast gone? Repeat Repeated next Monday

10.25 Noddy
Animated adventures set in Toyland. Today, Noddy decides to buy a parasol. Repeat

Jim McColl checks on the progress of his cheap herbaceous collection, while Carolyn Spray advises on choosing climbers for the low-maintenance garden and Bill Torrance visits agardenerwho created her own version of paradise on the remote west coast of Scotland.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim McColl
Unknown:
Bill Torrance

Live coverage from Trent Bridge of this afternoon's play between England and South Africa. A captain's innings of from Alec Stewart at Old Trafford in the Third Test has given his side a chance of salvaging something from the five-match series, in which they currently trail the South African tourists 1-0.......
Including at 3.50 News; Regional News Subtitled Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec Stewart

In the first of 12 new offbeat countryside guides, Pete McCarthy ponders a Neolithic puzzle and Shauna Lowry goes in search of fox cubs. Survival expert Andy Lane sets a special challenge for viewers and Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales steps across from BBClto share her childhood memories as a wartime evacuee in North
Devon. See today's choices. Series producer Sarah Rowlands
# See This Week: page 7
Followed by Conversation Piece Comedian Jo Brand comments on Stephen Gregory 's Fish on a Bicycle.

Contributors

Unknown:
Pete McCarthy
Unknown:
Shauna Lowry
Unknown:
Andy Lane
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands
Unknown:
Jo Brand
Unknown:
Stephen Gregory

Alan Titchmarsh explains the mysteries of pruning and how to keep gardens looking good this summer. Pippa Greenwood helps celebrate the diamond jubilee of the British Fuchsia Society at Borde Hill Gardens Fuchsia Festival. And Stephen Lacey meets Jean Hill, whose spectacular Cornish garden is perched on the edge of a cliff.

(See Alan Titchmarsh: page 29)
(BBC Magazine: Gardeners' World is available from newsagents, price £2.20 BBC Book: Gardeners' World Garden
Lover's Guide to Great Britain is available from bookshops, price £12.99)
(Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Titchmarsh
Presenter:
Pippa Greenwood
Presenter:
Stephen Lacey
Gardener:
Jean Hill
Executive Producer:
Tony Laryea
Series Producer:
Colette Foster

Comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey

Lowly stockbroker Tommy gets a shock when he is befriended by the brash, American-educated son of the Duke of Bournemouth - Tommy is none other than the rightful heir to the Duke's title.
(1993, 15)
(Subtitled)
See Films: pages 42-48 **

Then Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Director:
Robert Young
Tommy:
Eric Idle
Henry:
Rick Moranis
Duchess Lucinda:
Barbara Hershey
Kitty:
Catherine Zeta Jones
Shadgrind:
John Cleese
Angela:
Sadie Frost
Butler:
Stratford Johns
Mrs Bullock:
Brenda Bruce
Andrews:
William Franklyn
Mrs Patel:
Charubala Chokshi
14th Duke:
Jeremy Clyde
Jobson the doorman:
Eric Sykes

Offbeat First World War drama starring Alan Bates
Genevieve Bujold
Retreating Germans booby-trap a smalltown in northern France.
All the inhabitants are evacuated - except the occupants of the zoo and the lunatic asylum. Then a soldier, sent in to locate the explosives, is hailed as the king of hearts. Showing in widescreen format. Includes French and German dialogue with English subtitles.
Director Philippe de Broca
(1966) ♦ See Films: pages 42-48 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bates
Unknown:
Genevieve Bujold
Private Charles Plumpick:
Alan Bates
Coquelicot:
Genevieve Bujold
Duke of Clubs:
Jean-Claude Brialy
Duchess:
Francoise Christophe
Monseigneur Marguerite:
Julien Guiomar
General Geranium:
Pierre Brasseur
Crazy barber:
Michel Serrault
Madame Eglantine:
Micheline Presle
Col MacBibenbrook:
Adolfo Celi

Last in the US sci-fi series.

Just as the Earth-forces offensive against the Chigs is about to be launched, a lone enemy space fighter sends a message offering peace terms. But is it a genuine gesture?
(Repeat) (Subtitled)

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

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