Animated fun in the Land of Roo. Repeat ....
Another visit to the Tent
Stop for a story. Repeat
Fun with the pink elephant and his pals.
(Repeat)
A kindly magician's greedy nephew steals an ancestral medallion. Repeat
Fleur gets bored.
Shown yesterday 4.10pm BBCl Subtitled.
Then Rewind Shown yesterday BBC1
More planet-protecting adventures. Repeat Subtitled .........
Studio debate. Repeat Subtitled..
Show-jumper Oliver Skeete is given a makeover by style experts. Repeat
The team create a light, airy kitchen for a florist from Worcester. Repeat .....
The makeover squad visit Bath to turn junk into chic homeware. Repeat
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Drama starring Merle Oberon.
Recently orphaned Leslie Calvin is sent to unknown relatives to recover.
Her already fragile nerves are tested by malevolent attempts to drive her crazy.
(1944, U) (Black and white)
See Films: pp 48-54 **
A double bill of vintage comedy.
12.35 Mardi Gras. A society girl refuses to be queen of the motor pool Mardi Gras.
1.00 Centennial. Colonel Hall issues an orderto stop all gambling in the camp. Black and white Repeat
Videoplus code for 12.35-1.00 ............... Code for 1.00-1.25 ............................... Code for 12.35-1.25 (not PDC) ....
Lesley Watson puts bulbs in containers, while Jim McColl plants onion sets for next year. Repeat ....
The teams are in Jersey, where they value vintage cars. Repeat Subtitled .......
and Regional News
King of Kingfishers. A look at some of the most beautiful of the world's 85 types of kingfisher. Repeat
Mike Saunders talks about flowers.
and Regional News
Drag Queens. Esther Rantzen talks to drag queens about why they dress and perform as women, and the sacrifices they have made for their art. Repeat
Highlights of the team final in the European Show Jumping championships from the All-England jumping course at
Hickstead. The British team will be hoping to improve on the bronze medal they won in Germany two years ago. Introduced by Hazel Irving , with commentary by Michael Tucker and Stephen Hadley.
Producer Chris Lewis ............................
6.10 Women's 100m hurdles semi-finals
6.30 Men's 800m semi-finals
6.45 Women's 200m final
7.00 Men's 200m final
7.35 Women's 1500m semi-finals
8.00 Men's 400m hurdles final
8.15 Women's 5,000m final Sue Barker introduces continued coverage from the championships in Seville.
The 200m finals for both sexes dominate tonight's timetable. In the women's race, fleet-footed American star
Marion Jones is regarded as a prohibitive favourite to take the gold medal after a season of uninterrupted success, with Britain's Joice Maduaka hoping to join her on the starting line.
The men's 200m race is a more open affair in which
Frankie Fredericks and Obadele
Thompson will be hoping to capitalise on the absence of defending champion Ato Boldon.
Following her second place in July's European Cup, Britain's Kerri Maddox could feature in the line-up for tonight's first event, the women's 100m hurdles. Plus action from the men's 800m semi-finals, the men's 400m hurdles final and the final of the women's
5,000m.
More sketches and satirical songs from the comedy team of Rowan Atkinson ,
Pamela Stephenson , Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith , featuring material culled from the original four series that were broadcast between 1979 and 1982. Directors Geoff Posner and Bill Wilson Producers Sean Hardie and John Lloyd
Repeat Subtitled ............................
The final compilation of highlights from series two of the acclaimed
Asian comedy show, featuring such favourite sketches as Indian Bridegroom Detective and the team's tribute to
Hollywood's blacked-up men.
Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar ,
Kulvinder Ghir , Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. Meera Syal is the guest on RoomlOl, which follows. Director Nick Wood ; Producer Anil Gupta Digital widescreen
Repeat
Paul Merton 's guest tonight on the show that consigns celebrities' pet hates and bugbears into oblivion is Meera Syal , the writer and actress who also stars in the Asian comedy series Goodness Gracious Me.
Featuring highly on Syal's list of bêtes noires are youth hostels, the skin on rice pudding and custard, Austria, "wannabe ethnics", toilet-roll covers and cockroaches.
See today's choices.
Director Phil Chilvers ; Producer Toby Stevens Repeated next Thursday on BBC1
Digital widescreen * See John Peel: page 7
Another in-depth analysis of the news stories behind the day's headlines, with Kirsty Wark. Including at 11.00 News headlines.
(Subtitled)
Then Video Nation Shorts
After his phenomenally popular television series came to an end last year, Jerry Seinfeld returned to New York's comedy circuit to deliver a stand-up performance that is captured in this hour-long special. The show proved a triumph despite comprising, by Seinfeld's own admission, mostly old material.
Zooming in on life's minutiae, the routine is a collection of observations on such subjects as air travel, New York taxi drivers and skydiving. (Subtitled)
Comedy thriller. Soon after the Reverend Deke O'Malley has persuaded a Harlem crowd to part with $87,000 fora "Back to Africa" campaign, armed men break up the meeting and steal the money. Ace Harlem cops Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are soon on the case.
Director Ossie Davis (1970)
* See Rims: pp 48-54 ****
Followed by Weatherview
Repeats are not indicated. SUMMER BITES
Fashion and Style 1..............
