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Ends 9.10.

Microscopic Milton
Animation. Repeated at 1.05pm (R)

7.05 Playdays
Poppy, Peggy and Why look for a missing sock. (R)

7.25 Top Cat
Cartoon. TC promotes Dibble's singing career. (R)

7.50 50/50
Game show. Shown Monday on BBC1 at 4.35pm (S)

8.15 Funky Phantom
Animated fun with Mudsey the ghost. (R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Zany animation. (R)

9.00 Fireman Sam
Money raised by the team goes missing. (R)

War drama starring Paul Henreid and Michele Morgan, and featuring Alan Ladd, subject of The True Quiet Man at 1.10pm.

When the five airmen of RAF Squadron 701 bail out over France, they head for Paris in the hope of an escape route to England.
(1942) **
(BW) (S)
Films: pp 64-71

Contributors

Director:
Robert Stevenson
Paul Lavallier:
Paul Henreid
Joan:
Michele Morgan
Father Antoine:
Thomas Mitchell
Herr Funk:
Laird Cregar
Mlle Rosay:
May Robson
Baby:
Alan Ladd

Live coverage from day two of Aintree's Grand National meeting, which features the 2.35 Melling Chase. Plus the 3.10, 3.45 and 4.20.
Introduced by Clare Balding with Richard Dunwoody. Commentary is by Jim McGrath, Tony O'Hehir, John Hanmer, Richard Pitman, Peter Scudamore, Jonathan Powell and Angus Loughran. A preview programme, The Night before the National, is at 7.30pm.

Including at 3.20 News; Regional News (S) Weather

Contributors

Presenter:
Clare Balding
Presenter:
Richard Dunwoody
Commentator:
Jim McGrath
Commentator:
Tony O'Hehir
Commentator:
John Hanmer
Commentator:
Richard Pitman
Commentator:
Peter Scudamore
Commentator:
Jonathan Powell
Commentator:
Angus Loughran

A double-bill of animated satire from Springfield.
Bart Gets an Elephant. Bart enters a radio competition and wins a fully-grown African elephant. (R) (S)
6.20 Lisa on Ice. Lisa finds herself playing against Bart when she joins an ice hockey team in an attempt to improve her gym grades. (R) (S)

Craig Charles and Philippa Forrester introduce the first round of the semi-finals, which features reigning champion Panic Attack defending its title and Chaos 2 trying to live up to its name. With commentary by Jonathan Pearce.
(Rptd 12.40am)
(S)
BBC Magazine: Robot Wars price £1.50 is available monthly from retailers. Issue one, now on sale, comes with a free gift.

Contributors

Presenter:
Craig Charles
Presenter:
Philippa Forrester
Commentator:
Jonathan Pearce
Director:
Paul Kirrage
Producer:
Stephen Carsey

With less than 24 hours to go before the 153rd Grand National, Clare Balding, Jim McGrath and Angus Loughran visit the Aintree course and report on all the latest news and views on the 30-fence, four-and-a-half-mile steeplechase. The race is covered in Grandstand tomorrow.
(S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Clare Balding
Presenter:
Jim McGrath
Presenter:
Angus Loughran
Editor:
Carl Hicks

Another chance to see the six-part series in which Richard Holmes examines how the First World War was fought.

Holmes follows the route taken between August and December 1914 by the 100,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force as they went to fight the Germans in France. At first it was a war of movement, but by Christmas the Great War had become bogged down in the trenches of the Western Front.
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Holmes
Director:
Keith Sheather
Series Producer:
Mark Fielder

Alan Titchmarsh offers advice on edible edging plants, pond maintenance and lawn cure, Gay Search visits a plant-filled haven on a gusty hillside in Bolton Percy, West Yorkshire, and Rachel de Thame cuts back fuschias and hydrangeas, and creates a holding bay in which shrubs can be temporarily kept.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

BBC Books: Gardeners World: Practical Gardening Course by Geoff Hamilton, price £12.99, and Geoff Hamilton: a Man and His Garden by Gay Search and Tony Hamilton, price £7.99, both in paperback and available from retailers.

Alan Titchmarsh on spring flowers: page 39

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Titchmarsh
Presenter:
Gay Search
Presenter:
Rachel de Thame
Series Producer:
Colette Foster
Executive Producer:
Tony Laryea

Live coverage from Augusta, Georgia as the second round of the 64th Masters championship reaches a crucial stage. Last year, the day belonged to Spain's Jose Maria Olazabel, who carded a 66 to finish on eight under par. He ultimately won his second Masters title, having first claimed the famous green jacket in 1994. Tonight's action is introduced by Steve Rider.
(S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Rider

Thriller. Two half brothers meet for the first time at their father's funeral. Wealthy Vincent invites the impoverished Clay home, but his motives are far from friendly.
Widescreen.
Ends 2.55am.
(1993,15) ****
(BW) (S)
Films: pp 64-71

Contributors

Director:
Scott McGehee
Director:
David Siegel
Clay Arlington:
Dennis Haysbert
Dr Renee Descartes:
Mel Harris
Dr Max Shinoda:
Sab Shimono
Alice Jameson:
Dina Merrill
Lieutenant Weismann:
David Graf
Vincent Towers:
Michael Harris

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