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6.10 Cinema forthe Ears 7577930 6.35 Wayang Golek: Puppeteers of West Java 5002133 7.00 The Developing World: BreakingOut

The local and global forces that fuelled the spectacular urban development of New York and Los Angeles over the last three decades
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Lessons in the Italian language and a celebration of the Italian way of life.
Presenter Anna Mazzotti meets people in and around the Frascati area at grape harvest time. (Repeat)
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Adventures of a little car that lives in a motor museum.
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Animation. Spydra plans to steal an ancient Chinesejacket, the lining of which contains details of the formula for making gold. Repeat..

Crime-solvingdrama series with the 12-year-old detective. The usually stem headmistress is exhibiting some very peculiar behaviour

Cast members from Channel 4's Brookside join Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as this week's guests. Music comes from indie band Puressence, dance trio Baby Bumps and soul divas Truce. Reporter Dermot O'Leary is in Los Angeles, where he joins the set of the new science-fiction blockbuster Lost in Space, which opens in cinemas on Friday. Plus The Real Review, Disc Drive, Dennis the Menace and The End of the Show Show. With Tim Vincent, Gail Porter and Chris Jarvis.

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A questto find the greatest cartoon of all time. Hosted by Paul Burnham. ..

Pop-music magazine, featuring an American day out at Walt Disney World in Florida with the Backstreet Boys priorto their British tour. Repeat

A review of the week's principal political events in the South East
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Introduced by Sue Barker.

Cricket: Fourth Test
Live coverage of the fourth day's play between England and South Africa from Trent Bridge. England have failed to subdue the spirited South Africans since the tourists' readmission to international cricket, drawing and losing in two series over the last four years. With Alec Stewart's side currently trailing 1-0, anything less than a win in Nottingham will prolong that sequence. Commentary comes from the team of Richie Benaud, Geoffrey Boycott, Chris Broad, David Gower, Tony Lewis and Barry Richards.
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Peter Fonda narrates a five-part documentary series that tells the stories often families over three generations who went in search of the American Dream.

Intimate tales of human drama chart the history of the Wall Street Crash, the Great Depression, the Second World War and the resurgence of US industry.
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Sculpture Season continues with a plea from Scot Sandy Stoddart for the revival of commemorative statues. He points to the spontaneous shrines erected by the public after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, as proof of renewed appetite for memorials.
The quest to find out why monuments have become unfashionable takes Stoddart to see Antony Gormley's Angel of the North, David Mach's Train, and to Berlin to see works commissioned by Adolf Hitler.
Producer Tim Robinson; Executive producer Keith Alexander Stone, Wood. Water concludes the Sculpture Season tomorrow at 7.20pm

Tiff Needel pits the Porsche against the Honda NSX, Nissan Skyline and Chevrolet Corvette. Producer Chris Richards : Editor Jon Bentley Subtited............................... The nextepisode is on Thursday at 9.45pm

Black comedy starring
Alan Rickman , Hugh Grant
Naive and impressionable,
Stella takes ajob as assistant stage managerwith a repertory theatre in postwar Liverpool and instantly falls in love with its heartless director, Meredith Potter. But, when dashing PL O'Hara roars into town on his motorcycle, Stella is lured into an adult world of lust and rivalry.
Director Mike Newell (1994, 15)
♦ See Films: pages 50-57 ***

Drama starring Michael Gambon

Conflict has broken out all over Bucharest as the Ceausescu government is toppled in 1989. Undeterred, a group of friends gather at Daniel Pavenic's home for their annual reunion.
(1994, 18)
See Films: pages 50-57 ***

Highlights of today's play, with Richie Benaud

FallingStar. A suicidal singer is confronted by a strange force. With Sheena Easton.
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5.00 Computers Don't Bite
GettingStarted (part 4); Getting Online (part 4) OPEN UNIVERSITY
5.45 Danger: Children at Play 9264379 6.10 An English
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6.35-7.00am Putting Training to
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