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10.30 Megamaths (ages 7-9) Three
Times Subtitled 4516429 10.50 Look and Read (ages 7-9) Earthwarp-Codename Charley 4529993 11.10 Landmarks (ages 9-11) Time Lines - Travelling Subtitled 2366603 11.30 English File
(ages 14-16) The Poetry of War
12.00 Testament (ages 11-14) Moses

Bob Langley continues his countryside tour at Scotland's famous StAndrews golf course in Fife. Plus a special feature on the region's birds, with Bill Oddie. Series producer Mike Finlason
Executive producer Fiona Pitcher SUPPORT MATERIAL: To obtain the 48-page guide accompanyingthe series, send a cheque for £4.00, made payable to BBC Education, to The Countryside Hour, PO Box 7, London W12 8U D CEEFAX: page

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Langley
Unknown:
Bill Oddie.
Producer:
Mike Finlason
Producer:
Fiona Pitcher

Steve Rider introduces live quarter-final action from the World Match Play championship at the Wentworth golf club in Surrey. Yesterday's four winners meet the top seeds, led by defendingchampion -and USPGA champion -Vijay Singh. Commentary by Peter Alliss , Alex Hay , Mike Hughesdon , Beverly Lewis and Dougie Donnelly deluding at 2.40, 3.25 News; Newsline Subtitled and Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Vijay Singh.
Commentary By:
Peter Alliss
Commentary By:
Alex Hay
Commentary By:
Mike Hughesdon
Commentary By:
Beverly Lewis
Commentary By:
Dougie Donnelly

More news from the world of entertainment, inciudinga report on the Music of Black Origin awards. With Kate Sanderson.
Producer Chris Bellinger Repeated tomorrow during Live and Kicking

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Sanderson.
Producer:
Chris Bellinger

The books programme returns for six new editions, presented by Griff Rhys Jones. This week
Frank McCourt , author of Angela's Ashes, tells of his childhood in Limerick. Historian
Anthony Beevor discusses his book Stalingrad, which tells the story of the battle that changed the course of the Second World
War, and Magnus Mills talks about his black comedy The Restraint of Beasts.
See today's choices.
Series producer Mary Sackville West

Contributors

Presented By:
Griff Rhys Jones.
Unknown:
Frank McCourt
Unknown:
Anthony Beevor
Talks:
Magnus Mills
Producer:
Mary Sackville

Continuing the series that mixes painting with travel.

Dermot Cavanagh continues his journey through Ireland, travelling to Trim in Co Meath to meet painting guest, Jim Reynolds, owner and creator of Buttersteam, one of the finest gardens in the British Isles.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dermot Cavanagh
Guest:
Jim Reynolds
Director:
Jane Kelly
Producer:
John Nicholson

Continuing the tribute series to the popular TV gardener who died in 1996. This week the history of the gardens he created in Barnsdale in Leicestershire, which now receive more than 60,000 visitors each year. Narrated by Richard Briers.
See today's choices. (Subtitled)
Alan Titchmarsh: page 54

Contributors

Narrator:
Richard Briers.
Director:
Ray Hough
Series Producer:
Pam Creed

Continuingthe sitcom set in an Edinburgh advertising agency.
PocyPola. A Scottish comedian with a drink problem is enlisted to advertise a new brand of cola.
Written by Jack Docherty and Moray Hunter Director Andy De Emmony ; Producer
JamieRix

Contributors

Written By:
Jack Docherty
Written By:
Moray Hunter
Director:
Andy de Emmony
Charlie Baxter:
Roger Allam
Ben Gray:
Jack Docherty
Lauren Marshall:
Pippa Guard
Robbie Fraser:
Moray Hunter
Rhona Platt:
Aislin McGuckin
Tanya Gray:
Arabella Weir
Findlay Maclean:
Tom Watson

The second series of the spoof soap about stars who have retired to suburbia, starring John Sessions , Phil Cornwell

Tonight Jack Nicholson copes with a blackout. See today's choices. Written by Phil Cornwell, Peter Richardson and John Sessions: Director Peter Richardson Producer Ben Swaffer
Exiles on fame street: page 7

Contributors

Writer:
Phil Cornwell
Writer/Director:
Peter Richardson
Writer:
John Sessions
Producer:
Ben Swaffer
Performer:
John Sessions
Performer:
Phil Cornwell

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