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6.00 Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands
6.30 MakingtheNews-howBBCl's
Six o'Clock News reaches the air.
7.00 Errors Aren't For Ever - how software can eliminate noise from CDs.

Followingtwo members of the House of Representatives through a hectic week in Washington DC........................... CEEFAX: page

Lessons in the language and culture of Italy. Anna Mazzotti travels to the Ligurian Riviera to discover how Italians spend their leisure time. (Repeat)
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The little car goes out on avery windyday. Repeat

Animated crime adventures. The sleuthing toddler tries to thwart a robbery. Repeat

The 12-year-old detective helps to solve a rather strange kidnapping..........

Gail Porter , Tim Vincent and Chris Jarvis introduce another hectic morning at the hotel, with music from Boyzone, Hinda H icks and Juice. Steven Houghton from
Bugs and the cast of Mr Wymi will be dropping in for a chat, and the Buried
Treasure team go wild in the Highlands with Cordelia Bugeja and Miles Petitfrom Channel 5's FamilyAffairs. Plus gossip from the sci-fi blockbuster Lost in Space, and the usual cartoons and competitions. Director John Smith ; Series producer Ed GrayADDRESS: Fully Booked, PO Box 1212. Glasgow G12 8DB; Ceefax: p530; E-mail: fully.booked@bbc.co.uk Web site: www.bbc.co.uk/fullybooked
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Introduced by Sue Barker.
12.00 Athletics The final day of the IMF World Junior championshipsfromAnnecy in France, where Britain's best young prospects will be hoping to make their mark at world level. With commentary from Stuart Storey and Paul Dickenson.
12.25,3.40 Motorsport Live coverage from Thruxton of rounds 17 and 18 in the British TouringCar championship. Rule changes this year have seen a number of drivers triumph in both the sprint and feature races, resulting in one of the most open championships ever. Commentary by Charlie Cox and John Watson.
1.05 Rallying H ighlights from the Ral of New Zealand, round nine of the world championship, which is currently led by Scotland's Colin McRae aftertriumphing recently in Greece. Tiff Needell and Mark James provide the commentary.
1.35,4.30 Cricket Worcestershire play hostto Yorkshire in live coverage of the Sunday League game from New Road. Worcestershire have won the league three times, although it is ten years since their last victory, while Yorkshire have not lifted a trophy since 1987. Commentary from Jonathan Agnew , Jack Bannister , Chris Broad and Simon Hughes. Television presentation (Touring Cars) Malcolm Kemp and Mark Wilkin
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Second in a five-part documentary series, narrated by Peter Fonda, that tells the stories often US families over three generations.

America emerged from the Second World War as the most powerful economy in the world. Cars and televisions were commonplace consumer goods. But, for many, such prosperity remained out of reach.

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Last in the series bringing together professionals to answer hypothetical questions. Trip Up Abroad
Helena Kennedy QC asks if cover-ups and deception serve British interests betterthan occupyingthe moral high ground when it comes to foreign policy.
A panel of ex-ministers, Foreign
Office advisers and diplomats is quizzed on the controversial topic of the British government breaking an arms embargo to help the "right side" to win in a fictional country. What is their attitude to the collusion of civil servants in a subsequent cover-up? The panel must decide what price an ethical foreign policy whenjobs are at stake.
Producer Annie Fienburgh Subtitled.

Period drama, based on the novel by Edith Wharton , starring Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen

In the snowbound farmhouses of turn-of-the-century New England, many lead lives of quiet desperation. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Ethan Frome finds himself attracted, with tragic consequences, to his wife's beautiful cousin Mattie.
(1993)
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Emotional drama, starring Chen Hsiao Hsuan
Harrison Liu , Chen Darning
Lan Lan, a youngflautist from
China, arrives in London to study music on the condition that she marries her sponsor's son.
Alone in a strange city, she befriends a married Chinese engineer and his flatmate, and soon finds that she has to make a difficult choice. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Written/Directed by ZhangZeming; Producers Jane Caldwell and Ma Fung Kwok

Highlights from two festivals - Pori Jazz in Finland and Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain - introduced by Geoffrey Smith. Topping the bill in Helsinki is BB King with his Blues Band, plus the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald , while Spain offers two contrasting acts: a fusion of flamenco and jazz from Carles Benavent, Jorge Pardo, Juan Manuel Canizares, and pianist McCoyTyner with his Latin All Stars

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4.00 Suenos World Spanish (parts l-4)-withEnglishsubtitles. BUSINESS AND TRAINING
5.00 Computers Don'tBite
Getting Started (part 5); Getting Online (part 5) OPEN UNIVERSITY
5.45 Learning about Leadership 3634067 6.00 Putting Training to Work 3984116 6.35-7.00am
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