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Horticultural series from Aberdeen. Jim McColl shows howto install a weather station, Carole Baxter advises on the maintenance of summer-flowering house plants, Bill Torrance visits a tiny urban garden packed with unusual plants, and the Hit Squad look at an ambitious school garden project

Contributors

Presenter:
Jim McColl
Presenter:
Carole Baxter
Presenter:
Bill Torrance

Tony Lewis introduces live coverage from Trent Bridge of the final two sessions in the Fourth Test between England and South Africa. The penultimate game of the five-match series is a vital one for Alec Stewart and his England side, who salvaged a draw with a stirring fightback in the Third Test at Old Trafford. A win today is essential to preserve their chances of a series victory.

Including at 3.50 News and Regional News (Subtitled) Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Lewis
Commentary:
Richie Benaud
Commentary:
David Gower
Commentary:
Barry Richards
Commentary:
Geoffrey Boycott
Commentary:
Chris Broad

The last of three short films, concluding BBC2's Sculpture Season, on the work of Andy Goldsworthy, who sculpts by using what he finds in the wild.

In a disused slate quarry, he battles to make his mark on the landscape before the rain washes his work away.

Contributors

Subject/Sculptor:
Andy Goldsworthy
Director:
Ian Leese
Producer:
Keith Alexander

The last in the finance series in which Alvin Hall visits four British investment clubs to advise them.

Hall offers advice to the Thornden Comprehensive School Investment Club in Hampshire. Its 38 members are all teenagers studying economics who hope to bolster their bank balances by investing in the area of leisure activities. They visit a football club, a holiday-village company and a golf business.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alvin Hall
Series Producer:
Sally Dixon
Executive Producer:
Robert Thirkell

The wildlife documentary series continues with an examination of the life of the Bogong moth.
Cameras follow the moths on an extraordinary 800km journey from the valleys of southern Queensland, through the dry plains of south Australia, to the Bogong mountains, where they spend the summer on the walls of caves in the limestone hills.
See This Week: page 6

Contributors

Narrator:
Miranda Richardson
Producer:
Michelle Thompson
Series Producer:
Paul Appleby

Juliet Morris finds the perfect city for a summer break when she visits Tallinn in Estonia, as the pleasant Baltic summer climate allows for comfortable sightseeing. Fi Glover and Simon Calder go to the French island of Corsica, where they enjoy the watersports in an all-inclusive package and travel inland on a single-gauge railway. (Subtitled)
Web Site: [web address removed]

Contributors

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

The first in a new six-part series of short dramatic monologues exploring the African-Caribbean community's 50 years in the UK.
Written by Kolton Lee. Starring George Harris.

Reginald breaks his promise to God that he will stop gambling if his dreams for his adored son, Cuthbert, come true.

Contributors

Writer/Director:
Kolton Lee
Producer:
Paulette Randall
Reginald:
George Harris

The thrice-weekly dinner-party chat show, hosted by Ruby Wax. Tonight's guests are film director Bruce Robinson, actress Joanna Bowen and author Ian Ross.
(Next edition tomorrow at 11.15pm)

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Presenter:
Ruby Wax
Guest:
Bruce Robinson
Guest:
Joanna Bowen
Guest:
Ian Ross
Series Producer:
Claire Powell

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Open University
12.30 Understanding Music
1.00 Born into Two Cultures
1.30 Pieter Bruegel and Popular Culture

The Greats
2.00 Champions of Nature: Part 2

Languages
4.00 The Travel Hour: Spain: The Basque Country/Cantabria

Business and Training
5.00 Computers Don't Bite: Business: Part 4

Open University
5.45 El Escorial: Palace, Monastery and Mausoleum
6.10 The Magic Flute
6.35-7.00am Public Murals in New York

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