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The Adventures of Spot
Animated fun, narrated by Paul Nicholas.
(R)

7.05 Playdays
Peggy Patch and friends visit the wildlife hospital.
(R)

7.25 Snorks
Animation.
(R)

7.45 The Really Wild Show
The wildlife show visits Sri Lanka.
(R) (S)

8.15 The Puppy's Further Adventures
Animation. Petey and pals befriend Glyder, a flying puppy.
(R)

8.35 Moomin
Moomin Mama thinks she has found a missing bat.

Contributors

Narrator (The Adventures of Spot):
Paul Nicholas

Continuing the season of classic crime mysteries.
In a Canadian village, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate murders feared to be the work of a monster.
(1944, PG) (BW) (S)
(Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code is tomorrow at 10.50am)
Films: pp 58-63 ****

Contributors

Director:
Roy William Neill

Drama starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates. In turn-of-the-century Norfolk, 12-year-old Leo unwittingly becomes a go-between for his friend's sister. Director Joseph Losey (1971. PG)
(S) Films: pp 58-63 ****

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Christie
Unknown:
Alan Bates.
Director:
Joseph Losey

Concluding the series in which Jeremy Clarkson propounds his personal views on the best stories from recent automotive history.

One of the greatest challenges in car design, the race to produce the perfect family car has thrown up a multitude of shapes and sizes. The Ford Focus, the original Renault Espace and Fiat's Multipla are among the cars Clarkson tests for key qualities such as price, fuel economy, speed, size, safety and spaciousness.

Clarkson passes comment in his usual uncompromising manner on modern drivers and their machines, offering short shrift to those who own off-roaders before admitting he has one himself. He suggests that of all the bizarre predictions that were made about how life would be in the 21st century, the only one that holds true is that our cars look "completely ridiculous".
(S) (W)
BBC Video: Top Gear - Fast and Furious 2, available at retailers price £12.99

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Clarkson
Director:
Ewan Keil
Series Producer:
Richard Pearson

John Inverdale introduces highlights of the ladies' semi-finals from the All England Club's courts, with a roundup of the latest news from SW19 and reaction to today's play.
(Repeated tomorrow at 9am) (S)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
John Inverdale

This Life

Series 2

Episode 6: Unusual Suspect

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Two England

Drama series about a group of young house-sharing lawyers. Warren faces the indignity of having to be part of an identity parade and make a court appearance. Show more

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Final Frontier
Exploring the new British Gemini North telescope on Hawaii, and science fiction and science fact with Arthur C Clarke.
(W)
12.45 Personal Passions
DJ, author and composer Mike Read on his abiding fascination for Rupert Brooke's life and poetry.
1.00 Earth, Life and Humanity
(S)
1.30 Background Brief: Our Biggest Smallest Threat?
Could a virus with the severity of HIV be transmitted as easily as flu?
1.45 What Have the Nineties Ever Done for Us?
the Mir space station and Biosphere 2.
2.00 Harvesting the Sun
How plants use sunlight to produce food, and the research that earned the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
2.30 Problems with Ions
How radioactive fallout from the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986 was still affecting parts of Britain many years later.
3.00 Plants: Problems with Water
How plants manage to defy the laws of physics by transporting water against the pull of gravity.

Teenagers and Families
3.30 Being a Teenager 5
Continuing the series of programmes to help cope with teenagers.

Languages
4.00 Get By in German

Working in Hospitality
5.00 The Future
What does the future hold for the hospitality sector and its employees?

Open University
6.00 Listening in the Dark
Unravelling the biology of the herring, one of the most commercially important fish.
6.30 Flying in Birds an Experimental Approach
A simulated view of how birds fly.

Ends 7.00am.

Contributors

Guest (Final Frontier):
Arthur C Clarke
Presenter (Personal Passions):
Mike Read

BBC Two England

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