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Ends 9.10.

Playdays
Peggy visits a dolls' hospital, while Mr Jolly and Rosie take Why to the farm.
(R)

7.20 Top Cat
Cartoon fun. Top Cat devises a plan to get even with some con men.
(R)

7.45 Trading Places
Return of the life-swap series. This week, ballet students change places with army cadets.
(Shown yesterday on BBC1 at 5.10pm)
(S)

8.10 Funky Phantom
Ghostly cartoon adventures.
(R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
A trio of Busytown tales.
(R)

9.00 Fireman Sam
Animated fire-brigade fun. Norman has a mishap at a disused mineshaft.
(R)

Crime drama starring Ronald Colman as a Broadway actor who becomes increasingly dominated by the characters he portrays on stage. When he agrees to play Othello, madness and murder threaten to destroy him.
(1947, PG) ***
(BW) (S)
Films: pp 64-71

Contributors

Director:
George Cukor
[Actor]:
Ronald Colman

Comedy starring Elliott Gould and Bill Cosby.

Landlord Max Devlin is knocked down by a bus and ends up in Hell. In order to regain his mortality, Max must make a pact with the Devil.
(1981, PG) **
(S)
Films: pp 64-71

Contributors

Director:
Steven Hilliard Stern
[Actor]:
Elliott Gould
[Actor]:
Bill Cosby

Steve Wright plunders the pop-music archives for classic performances from the long-running chart show, including Abba, Big Country, the Stray Cats and the Stranglers.
(Repeated next Saturday)
(S)
(Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Wright
Producer:
Mark Hagen

Steve Rider reports from Augusta, where golf's first Major title of the year, the 64th US Masters, tees off tomorrow. The world's best player, Tiger Woods, has had a winning start to the year and is one of the favourites. Scotland's Colin Montgomerie is desperate to win one of golf's four Majors and is joined by other leading British hopefuls Lee Westwood and 1999 British Open winner Paul Lawrie.
(S)
(A profile of Colin Montgomerie, The Full Monty, is on at 11.20pm)
(Coverage of the Masters starts tomorrow at 9pm on BBC2)

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Producer:
Jo McCusker

A special edition of the programme in which people express their strongly held views on topical issues.

On the eve of a House of Commons debate on fox hunting, pro-hunting novelist Frederick Forsyth and anti-hunting broadcaster Muriel Gray exchange views.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Panellist:
Frederick Forsyth
Panellist:
Muriel Gray
Producer:
Colm Martin
Executive Producer:
Debbie Christie

A repeat showing of the interior-design magazine from 1998. This special edition celebrates the renovation of a derelict 18th-century barn in Norfolk into a stylish family home.
(R) (S)

Contributors

Producer:
Edward Bazalgette
Producer:
Paul Tucker
Series Producer:
Franny Moyle

A look at the sometimes-fiery relationship between three people and their personal trainers. Jonathan is an overweight lawyer desperate to get in shape. Jessica is a 45-year-old mother who believes her husband left her because she "let herself go", and Tracey is a 34-year-old marketing manager who wants to feel fitter and more confident.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Jenny Crowther
Series Editor:
Alex Holmes

The last in a three-part series on errors perpetrated in the name of business theory and management consultancy.

A look at what happened to bosses in the nineties who listened to management gurus preaching a doctrine of "love and understanding". Bob Ayling, who recently moved on as chief of British Airways, thought he could charm his employees into success. However, he was faced with crippling strikes soon after his arrival.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Subject:
Bob Ayling
Series Producer:
Matthew Barrett
Executive Producer:
Robert Thirkell

On the eve of tomorrow's start to the Masters golf, Steve Rider profiles Britain's top golfer, Colin Montgomerie.

Montgomerie is known as "Mr Grumpy" on the golf course, but away from it he is a family man with a busy life setting up academies and becoming a Scottish ambassador.
(S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider
Subject:
Colin Montgomerie
Producer:
Jo McCusker

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 A New Son Is Born: Part 1: The Coup
1.00 Living with Drought
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 D-Mag

Languages
4.00 Get By in Portuguese

Working In Health and Care
5.00 Numeracy and Using IT
Key number and computer skills.

Open University
6.00 Power and Vision - the West and the Rest
6.30 Playing Safe
A look at ways at preventing childhood accidents.
(S)

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