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Breakfast Ends 9.00.
There are potatoes and carrots in the playground. (R)
7.20 Snorks Animated double bill of aquatic antics. (R)
7.45 Blue Peter Children's magazine.
Shown yesterday 5.10pm (S) (W)
8.10 Dastardly and Muttley Cartoon antics. Dick Dastardly and his canine companion Muttley try to apprehend that pesky pigeon. (R)
8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry Zany adventures with Lowiy Worm ,
Huckle Cat , Hilda Hippo and the rest of the Busytown folk. (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Dastardly
Unknown:
Lowiy Worm
Unknown:
Huckle Cat
Unknown:
Hilda Hippo

Repeats are not indicated.
9.00 Hands Up! (ages 3-7) Clothes 6902503 9.15 Hands Up!: Storytime (ages 4-5) Ella and the Rabbit- with sign language. 61697069.25 Hotch Potch House (ages 3-5) Houses - Shelley is fed up with his shell.
6905690 9.45 Pathways of Belief (ages 7-9) Judaism: Torah - a Way of Life - a look at Jewish beliefs, seen through the eyes of young children in the faith. (S)

10.50 Numbertime (ages 4-6) More or Less: Two Less - Noah starts his collection of animals. (S)
11.05 Le Club (ages 9-12) II Fait Chaud - Toby Anstis reports on environmental issues with children from Boulogne. 6054042 11.20 Zig Zag (ages 7-9) Ancient Greece:
Theseus and the Minotaur- presenter Chrissa Venetti investigates the famous story. (S) 6139787 11.40 Look and Read (ages 7-9) Captain Crimson: Take the Bull by the Horns - written by Elly Brewer. (S)
12.00 Shakespeare: the Animated Tales (ages 9-13) Hamlet- an abridged version. (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Toby Anstis
Presenter:
Chrissa Venetti
Written By:
Elly Brewer.

Coverage from the grass courts at Queen's Club in west London of the second day's play.
In the opening round last year,
Lleyton Hewitt defeated
Diego Nargiso of Italy as the Australian sensation started a winning run that took him to the semi-finals.
Britons Martin Lee and Chris Wilkinson also negotiated their first-round matches.
Presented by Sue Barker , with match commentary coming from John Barrett , David Mercer , Pat Cash , Mark Cox , Peter Fleming and Chris Bailey. (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lleyton Hewitt
Unknown:
Diego Nargiso
Unknown:
Martin Lee
Unknown:
Chris Wilkinson
Presented By:
Sue Barker
Unknown:
John Barrett
Unknown:
David Mercer
Unknown:
Pat Cash
Unknown:
Mark Cox
Unknown:
Peter Fleming
Unknown:
Chris Bailey.

Further coverage of today's play from Queen's Club in west London. Greats of the game
John McEnroe and Boris Becker are both four-time winners of this prestigious grass-court title. Hosted by Sue Barker. (W)

Contributors

Unknown:
John McEnroe
Unknown:
Boris Becker
Unknown:
Sue Barker.

Dying to Get There. Accidents on the leafy lanes of rural
Lincolnshire last year claimed more than 100 lives, giving the county one of Britain's highest incidences of road deaths. This programme looks at the local police response -the country's first "reform school", a radical alternative to traditional fines and penalty points in which speeding drivers are lectured by bereaved relatives. Producer Ian Cundall First shown in BBC North (S)
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/homeground
HISTORY

Contributors

Producer:
Ian Cundall

Adam Hart-Davis sets his sights further afield with a trip to Italy, wheVe he ascends the Leaning Tower of Pisa in a bid to reproduce Galileo's groundbreaking demonstration of gravity, visits Padua to celebrate some of the anatomical breakthroughs made by Vesalius and looks at the man who invented the rules of perspective, Filippo Brunelleschi. Producer Paul Bader ; Executive producers Paul Bader. Mike Greenwood (S)
INFORMATION: History 2000 line: [number removed]. Charged at national rate. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/history
BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE: available monthly, priced 2.95 from newsagents.

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Hart-Davis
Unknown:
Filippo Brunelleschi.
Producer:
Paul Bader
Producers:
Paul Bader.
Producers:
Mike Greenwood

An episode from the seventies of the successful sitcom about two Liverpudlian girls sharing a flat, starring Nerys Hughes and Polly James and featuring Mollie Sugden.
Written by Carla Lane (R) (S)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nerys Hughes
Unknown:
Polly James
Unknown:
Mollie Sugden.
Written By:
Carla Lane

The embodiment of sixties sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Janis Joplin seized fame by the throat. But her time at the top was to be cut tragically short - by 27 she was dead. The last in the current series offers an intimate portrait of the star, with recollections from, among others, Tom Jones.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Alison Graham's TV review: page 48

Contributors

Interviewee:
Tom Jones.
Producer:
Christopher Morris
Series Editor:
Jenny Abbott

Series that examines the choices available to elderly people when their independence is threatened.
Doris Baker has lived with her daughter's family for the last five years, but she is becoming increasingly difficult to look after as, aged 91, she enters the final stages of dementia, a condition that affects 20 per cent of those over 80. Narrated by Sue Johnston. See Choice.
Director Robert Letts : Series producer Julian Mercer (S) (W) FURTHER INFORMATION: call free on [number removed]. Ceefax: page 617. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/health

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Baker
Unknown:
Sue Johnston.
Director:
Robert Letts
Producer:
Julian Mercer

Repeats are not indicated.
Open University 12.30 Software Surgery (S) 98646 1.00 Hotel Hilbert (S) 90795 1.30 Finding a Balance (S)
Secondary Schools 2.00 Religious Education Belief File - Islam -an insight into Muslim life. (S)
Languages 4.00 Italianissimo (parts 9-12)
Working In Retail 5.00 Communication and Teamwork Skills Open University 6.00 Evaluating Pre-school Education
6.30 Teletel Ends 7.00am. (S)

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