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Hairy Jeremy
Animated everyday adventures of a hairy Neolithic man called Jeremy. (R)

7.05 Playdays
A visit to the Tent Stop for more learning fun and games.
Poppy expresses a desire to become a newsreader. (R)

7.25 Taz-mania
Cartoon fun with the bad-tempered whirling dervish and his misfit family. (R)

7.45 Smart
The arts-and-crafts show.
Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1
(S)

Then Rewind
1991: Operation Desert Storm. Memories of the US campaign to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Shown yesterday on BBC1 (S)

8.10 Snorks
Cartoon escapades with the underwater clan. (R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
The hectic adventures of the animal inhabitants of Busytown. (R)

10.50 Music Makers (ages 9-11) Infinity Diner: Timbre (S)
11.10 See You, See Me (ages 7-9) Health: Feeling Fine (S)
11.30 English Express (ages 9-11) Ideas and Imagination: Creating Worlds (S) 7500722 11.50
Megamaths (ages 7-9) Division: Divide by Ten (S) 7716426 12.10
Landmarks (ages 9-12) Rivers of the World: the Danube (S)

Bowls Dougie Donnelly introduces this afternoon's action in the Open championship from the Guild Hall in Preston.
The remaining semi-final places will be decided by the matches taking place today, which are played out over the best of five sets. (S) (W)
Racing Coverage of three races from the opening day of Ascot's November meeting, the highlight being the 2.40 Ascot Hurdle
Race, contested over two-and-a-half miles. Worth L26,000, the event, which tends to favour horses that have emerged fresh from the flat season, was won last year by Juyush, ridden by Tim Murphy. The other starts are at 3.10 and 3.40. Introduced by Clare Balding , with commentary by Jim McGrath , Richard Pitman , Peter Scudamore plus betting news from Angus Loughran. Producer (racing) Gerry Morrison
(W) including at 3.50 News
Regional News (S) Weather

Contributors

Introduces:
Dougie Donnelly
Unknown:
Tim Murphy.
Introduced By:
Clare Balding
Commentary By:
Jim McGrath
Commentary By:
Richard Pitman
Commentary By:
Peter Scudamore
Unknown:
Angus Loughran.
Unknown:
Gerry Morrison

Double bill of animated anarchy in the town of Springfield.
6.00 LadyBouvier's Lover. Grandpa Simpson and Mr Burns both fall in love with the same woman. (R) (S)
6.20 Secrets of a Successful Marriage. Homer is "evicted" when Marge discovers an indiscretion. (R) (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Grandpa Simpson
Unknown:
Mr Burns

A special preview of the Rally of Great Britain, a three-day event over 240 miles. The programme reveals what it's like to sit alongside Colin McRae in his Ford Focus and looks at the legacy of Toyota - quitting the championship after a quarter-century of competition. With Steve Rider.
Producer Mark Wilkin

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin McRae
Unknown:
Steve Rider.
Producer:
Mark Wilkin

Continuing the re-edited programmes from the second series about big cats in Kenya's Masai Mara. Jonathan Scott witnesses Shadow the leopard's frustration when successive hunts are foiled by screeching cisticola birds. Producers Ann Marie Goodwin and Stephen Moss ; Executive producer
Robin Hellier (Revised repeat) (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Scott
Producers:
Ann Marie Goodwin
Producers:
Stephen Moss
Producer:
Robin Hellier

Tonight, candidates from the East and South East - Elaine Fraser-Gausden , Shirley Gilbert , Margaret Arnott and Danae Johnston - have their horticultural skills appraised bythejudges in the ongoing search to find the BBC
Gardener of the Year. With Alan Titchmarsh. See Choice.
Director Mark Scott : Producer Vanessa Jackson (S) (W) Alan Titchmarsh on creating a cottage garden: page 47

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Fraser-Gausden
Unknown:
Shirley Gilbert
Unknown:
Margaret Arnott
Unknown:
Danae Johnston
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh.
Director:
Mark Scott
Producer:
Vanessa Jackson
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

The series that celebrates human courage in the perilous world of climbing follows the rehabilitation of Paul Pritchard from a terrible skull injury in Tasmania, and his subsequent return to the scene to exorcise the ghost of the accident.
Series producer/director Richard Else (S) (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Pritchard

Tonight's guests are Gyles Brandreth and Mohamed Al Fayed 's ex-PR man Michael Cole. With host Angus Deayton. Director Paul Wheeler ; Producer Giles Pilbrow Repeated Sunday (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gyles Brandreth
Unknown:
Mohamed Al Fayed
Unknown:
Michael Cole.
Unknown:
Angus Deayton.
Director:
Paul Wheeler
Producer:
Giles Pilbrow

Spike Lee 's portrait of inter-racial love and conflict. Out of sexual curiosity, a married New York architect and an Italian-American office temp begin an affair that sets their communities against them and each other. Ends 2.55am (1991.18) (S) Films: pp 76-82 ***

Contributors

Unknown:
Spike Lee

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