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9.00 Hands Up!: Animals
(ages 3-7)
with sign language.

9.15 Hands Up!: Storytime: I Want My Dinner
(ages 4-5)
with sign language.

9.25 Hotch Potch House: Underwater
(ages 3-5)

9.45 Pathways of Belief: Christianity: the Church
(ages 7-9+)

Comedy, starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor
The calm, ordered life of Stanley Banks is shattered when his beloved daughter announces her engagement.
(1950, U) (BW)
(See Elizabeth Taylor - England's Other Elizabeth, tomorrow at 9.30pm on BBC1)
Films: pp 62-68 ****

Contributors

Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Stanley T. Banks:
Spencer Tracy
Ellie Banks:
Joan Bennett
Kay Banks:
Elizabeth Taylor
Buckley Dunstan:
Don Taylor
Mr Massoula:
Leo G. Carroll

Tonight a flight over Florida in a P51 Mustang and a meeting with the first pilot to break the sound barrier. Plus a test of the Royal Navy's Merlin helicopter, more on the trainee BA pilots and a new angle on London City airport.

Contributors

Series Producer:
Basil Akpabio
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

To close the series, the team choose their favourite luxury vehicles. With Vicki Butler-Henderson, Kate Humble, Tiff Needell and Quentin Willson.
Top Gear returns in September.
Magazine: £3.30 from newsagents
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

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

Deep below the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, an elite group of 200 men and women are on alert - ready and willing to launch up to ten of America's 550 nuclear missiles. In this second Under the Sun film, the cameras follow recruit Rene Hernandez as he trains to be a "missileer".
See Choice.

Contributors

Subject:
Rene Hernandez
Director:
Leslie Woodhead
Series Editor:
David Pearson

Two horn players - Angela Barnes and Christopher Parkes - compete with euphonium player David Childs, trombonist Edward Jones and trumpeter Matthew Sadler. Judges for this stage are Richard Watkins, Sue Addison and Paul Beniston.
The woodwind final is tomorrow at 11.20pm. Radio 3's Morning Performance, tomorrow at 11.30am, features music from the woodwind finalists.

Contributors

Horn player:
Angela Barnes
Horn player:
Christopher Parkes
Euphoniumist:
David Childs
Trombonist:
Edward Jones
Trumpeter:
Matthew Sadler
Judge:
Richard Watkins
Judge:
Sue Addison
Judge:
Paul Beniston
Director:
David Stevens

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Open Science
12.30 Galapagos Research in the Field
1.00 Sickle Cell: a Lethal Advantage
1.30 Background Brief
1.45 What Have the Seventies Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Uncertain Principles
2.30 First Steps to Autonomy
3.00 Accumulating Years and Wisdom

Curriculum Development
3.30 Computers Don't Bite: Teachers Meeting Targets in the Primary School

Languages
4.00 Learning Languages

Count Me In
5.00 Talking of Number

Open University
6.00 Walking and Running
6.30 Swimming in Fish: An Experimental Approach
Ends 7.00am.

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