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Interactive game show with guests CBBC presenters Richard McCourt and Kirsten O'Brien.
Hosted by Robin Banks and Jemma James.
Last in the current series
To Take Part: ring [number removed] (calls cost 30p); Ceefax: p521: website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Robin Banks
Presenter:
Jemma James
Guest:
Richard McCourt
Guest:
Kirsten O'Brien

Concluding the comedy drama compiled from a series shown in Fully Booked. The team are hired to promote a new theme park. A new series begins next month.
Written by Paul Brophy (Revised repeat)

Then Rewind 1923: the Divine Call. The story of Mother Teresa. (Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Brophy

Introduced by Steve Rider.
12.35RugbyUnion Highlights from
Welford Road of the Premiership match between Leicester and Wasps, with commentary by Nigel Starmer-Smith .
Sunday Grandstand continues at 1.30pm. Digital widescreen

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Rider.
Commentary By:
Nigel Starmer-Smith

1.35,3.45 Athletics Action from the IAAF World Cross-Country championships in Belfast, beginning with live coverage of the women's 4km race and culminating with the men's 12km event. Commentary is by David Coleman and Brendan Foster.
1.55 Rugby League Bradford Bulls v Leeds Rhinos Live coverage from Huddersfield of the weekend's second Challenge Cup semi-final (kickoff 2pm). Commentary by Jon Champion and Joe Lydon.
4.20 Racing From Dubai, live coverage of races at 4.30 and, at 5.15, the World
Cup. With commentary by Jim McGrath , Willie Carson and Clare Balding.
TV presentation (rugby league) Malcolm Kemp Executive producer Martin Hopkins
Digital widescreen ...........................

Contributors

Unknown:
David Coleman
Unknown:
Brendan Foster.
Commentary By:
Jon Champion
Commentary By:
Joe Lydon.
Commentary By:
Jim McGrath
Commentary By:
Willie Carson
Unknown:
Malcolm Kemp

Chris Packham introduces this week's edition from Jordan, where he charts the course of the annual bird migration between Europe and Africa.
Website: [web address removed]

6.00 Watch Out Spring
Tracking the progress of wildlife in the springtime, from the south to the north of Britain.
Contact details: to ring in with sightings of springtime firsts, call free on: [number removed]; fax: [number removed]; e-mail: [address removed];or write to: Watch Out Spring, [address removed]

6.35 The Natural World: Iran - Secrets of the North
The first of two programmes exploring the wildlife inhabiting this vast country, a natural crossroads that is home to animals from Asia, Europe and Africa. This edition visits the north, a land of seasonal extremes. See today's choices.

Neil Nightingale Videoplus 5.55-7.30 (not PDC). Behind the Iran curtain: page 22

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Packham
Director:
Martyn Suker
Series Editor:
Sara Ford
Presenter:
Nick Baker
Presenter:
Bobbie Fletcher
Series producer:
Mike Beynon
Presenter:
Ali Karbalaei
Narrator:
John Shrapnel
Producer:
Nigel Marven
Editor:
Neil Nightingale

David Dimbleby concludes the story of the 14-year struggle over Britain's colony Rhodesia and the establishment of Zimbabwe.
Surrender. Duringthe course of the fight for independence
30,000 lives were lost, peace talks ended in disagreement and up to the last moment the Rhodesian military plotted to keep Robert Mugabe from taking power. Ian Smith , Lord Carrington, Rhodesian commander General Walls and Andrew Parker-Bowles recall those turbulenttimes.
Producer John Bridcut
Executive producer George Carey
Digital widescreen

Contributors

Unknown:
David Dimbleby
Unknown:
Robert Mugabe
Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Andrew Parker-Bowles
Producer:
John Bridcut

Drama starring
George DelHoyo
Miranda Otto
Alice's childhood dreams of her absent father are twisted into a bundle of letters, returned unopened and stamped: Dead
Letter Office. In a last-ditch effort to find herfather, Alice gets a job at the office, where she meets
Frank, and he is curiously moved by her quest. In English and Spanish with subtitles.
Director John Ruane (1998)
+ See Rims: pages 52-61 ***

Contributors

Unknown:
George Delhoyo
Unknown:
Miranda Otto
Director:
John Ruane
Frank Lopez:
George Delhoyo
Alice:
Miranda Otto
Kevin:
Nicholas Bell
Mary:
Georgina Naidu
Peter:
Syd Brisbane
Gerald Urquhart:
Barry Otto
Carmen:
Vanessa Steele
Lucia:
Gullermina Ulloa
Vicente:
Franko Milostnik
Victor:
Malcolm Singh
Young Alice:
Alicia Banit
Miss Harris:
Mariette Carey
Anne Wilson:
Gemma Browne
Lizzy:
Jillian O'Dowd
Heather:
Jane Hall

Clive Anderson hosts the political panel game, as Graeme Garden is joined by Tony Hawks, Hugh Dennis and Sue Perkins.

Shown last Monday
Digital widescreen
Subtitled

Contributors

Host:
Clive Anderson
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
Hugh Dennis
Panellist:
Sue Perkins
Panellist:
Tony Hawks

Comedy drama, the third film in this weekend's Billy Wilder triple bill, starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau

Chicago 1929: reporter Hildy Johnson is all set to get married and quit his job. But when a condemned man escapes, his scheming editor will stop at nothing to get him to write just one last story. (Widescreen) (1974) + See Films: pages 52-61 ***

Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Wildertriple
Unknown:
Jack Lemmon
Unknown:
Walter Matthau
Reporter:
Hildy Johnson
Hildy Johnson:
Jack Lemmon
Walter Burns:
Walter Matthau
Mollie malloy:
Carol Burnett
Peggy Grant:
Susan Sarandon
Sheriff:
Vincent Gardenia

Repeats are not indicated.

EXAM REVISION
2.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision
English 1: Macbeth

LANGUAGES
4.00 Espana Viva! (parts 1,2)

BUSINESS AND TRAINING
5.00 Getting Started in Business (parts 1-3)

OPEN UNIVERSITY
5.45 An English Accent
6.10 A School for Our Times?
6.35-7.00am How We Study Children - making sense of play.

Contributors

Unknown:
Espana Viva

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