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The Family Ness
More animated highland adventures.
(R)

7.05 Playdays
Peggy Patch explores rock pools on the Isle of Wight.
(R)

7.25 Taz-mania
Antipodean antics with the Tasmanian devil.
(R)

7.50 Blue Peter
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1) (S) (W)

8.15 Biskitts
Double bill of animated puppy fun.
(R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Further adventures with the residents of Busytown.
(R)

Steve Rider hosts live coverage from Valderrama in Spain of the event that forms the final leg of the first world championship.
The American Express tournament is a stroke-play competition played over 72 holes with no cut and the top prize of $1 million.

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Editor:
Dave Gordon

Lowri Turner's guests include Enid Blyton's daughter Gillian Baverstock in a discussion of whether classic children's books should be updated.
(S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Lowri Turner
Guest:
Gillian Baverstock

The arrival in Sunnydale of old flame Billy Fordham forces Buffy to confront her feelings for Angel.
(Repeated next Sunday) (S)

Contributors

Buffy:
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Giles:
Anthony Stewart Head
Xander:
Nicholas Brendon
Willow:
Alyson Hannigan
Cordelia:
Charisma Carpenter
Angel:
David Boreanaz
Billy 'Ford' Fordham:
Jason Behr
Spike:
James Marsters

Many women find they lose interest in sex after having a baby, or following the menopause. It's a problem more widespread than male impotence, but only now are drug companies developing treatments for women.
(Postponed from 7 October) (S)
(Regional Programme: see panel on left for variations)

Contributors

Producer:
Yasmin Hai
Executive Producer:
John Samson

Survival expert Ray Mears travels to half a dozen of the world's most inhospitable places to show how, given the correct instruction, people can confront and overcome the most extreme conditions. His first assignment sees him facing the heat, snakes, spiders and mosquitos of the jungles of south-west Costa Rica.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Surviving when hope runs dry: page 25

Contributors

Presenter:
Ray Mears
Producer:
Andrew Graham Brown
Series Producer:
Dick Colthurst

Vicki Butler-Henderson tests BMW's new off-roader, the X5, and Tiff Needell finds out how Singapore's rush hour lives up to its name. With Kate Humble and Quentin Willson.
(S) (W)
Magazine: £3.20 from newsagents
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Kate Humble
Presenter:
Quentin Willson
Reporter:
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Reporter:
Tiff Needell
Producer:
John Wilcox
Series Producer:
Julie Clive

Life on the shop floor for another company boss.

Roger Cato, the managing director of Heathrow airport, learns about life on the front line in customer service - where he has to cope with everything from irate passengers to a possible bomb.
See Choice.
(S)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Subject:
Roger Cato
Producer:
Daniel Barry
Series Editor:
Robert Thirkell

The second of two programmes analysing the arguments for and against the existence of a single, mysterious source that gave birth to all civilisation. Author and TV presenter Graham Hancock believes he has found proof of such a theory - but will his claims withstand the rigours of scientific testing?
(S) (W)

Contributors

Subject:
Graham Hancock
Producer:
Chris Hale
Series Editor:
Bettina Lerner

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Final Frontier
12.45 What Have the Sixties Ever Done for Us?
1.00 Quantum Leaps: Hidden Visions
1.30 Why Me? Why Now?
(S)
2.00 Deadly Quarrels
(S)
2.30 It's Only Plastic
3.00 Organelles and Origins
(S)

Key Skills
3.30 Information Technology
(S)

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo (17-20)

Working in...
Webwise
5.00 Get Webwise: Searching the Web
5.30 Computers Still Don't Bite

Open University
6.00 Swedish Science in the 18th Century
6.30 Frederick the Great and Sans Souci
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(S)

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