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Playdays
There's fun with pets at the Playground Stop.
(R)

7.20 Top Cat
TC enters a contest to become king for a day.
(R)

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

8.10 Funky Phantom
Animated adventures with Mudsey the ghost and his friends.
(R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
More animated adventures with the inhabitants of Busytown.
(R)

9.00 Fireman Sam
Chicken pox hits Pontypandy.

Drama starring Joan Fontaine.

Bill Cummings, just discharged from the army after the Second World War, waits in the employment office for a job and recalls the hopes and fears of the pre-war Depression years.
(1946) ***
(BW) (S) Films: pp 64-71

Contributors

Director:
John Berry
[Actress]:
Joan Fontaine

Jamie Theakston talks with American teen star Jessica Simpson, Jayne Middlemiss meets R'n'B singer TQ and there's news of this year's dance music festival in Miami.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jamie Theakston
Presenter:
Jayne Middlemiss
Guest:
Jessica Simpson
Guest:
null TQ
Producer:
Jo Pilkington
Executive Producer:
Mark Cooper

Mik Scarlet examines the new government body committed to eliminating disability discrimination, and there's a look at local-enterprise schemes designed to help disabled people fend off the threat of poverty.
(S) (W)
Information Line: call free on [number removed].

Contributors

Reporter:
Mik Scarlet
Producer:
Ian Cook
Series Editor:
Ian Macrae

Presenter Fiona Bruce reports on some bizarre collectables from the Victorian vogue for mourning clothes and accessories. Tim Wonnacott takes a look at the current renovation of Blackwell House on Lake Windermere, and Philip Mould explores the British obsession with watercolour landscapes.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Bruce
Reporter:
Tim Wonnacott
Reporter:
Philip Mould
Series Producer:
Alison Mansfield

Another chance to see an episode from the vintage rag-and-bone men sitcom, starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

Harold finds there's a competitive atmosphere at the local amateur dramatics society.
(R) (S)

Contributors

Writer:
Ray Galton
Writer:
Alan Simpson
Producer:
John Howard Davies
Albert Steptoe:
Wilfrid Brambell
Harold Steptoe:
Harry H Corbett

The documentary series takes an in-depth look at a rare condition that affects children, known as xeroderma pigmentosum. XP makes skin so sensitive that any exposure to ultraviolet light will cause cancer, but the film shows how study of this condition is leading to a new approach to cancer treatment.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Producer:
Zoe Heron
Producer:
Thecla Schreuders
Editor:
Bettina Lemer

Jonathan Freedland chairs a discussion on last night's documentary, in which he watched democracy in action in the United States. His guests - including journalist Boris Johnson - consider how issues raised in the film relate to Britain's democratic future, and how our institutions could best adapt to a changing world.
(S)

Contributors

Chairman:
Jonathan Freedland
Panellist:
Boris Johnson

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Front Desk
(S)
1.00 Asthma and the Bean
(S)
1.30 Free Body Diagrams

Secondary Schools
2.00 Jeunes Francophones

Languages
4.00 Get by in Italian

Working in Health Care
5.00 Communication and Enabling Independence

Open University
6.00 Hidden Power
(S)
6.30 Just Seventeen - the Geometry of Patterns
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