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Playdays
Trisha has got something very big to wash.
(R)

7.20 Snorks
Animated fun.
(R)

7.45 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animated stories with the inhabitants of Busytown.
(R)

8.10 The Puppy's Further Adventures
Animated canine tales.
(R)

8.35 Moomin
Animation. Moomin Papa reminisces about Mama.

Beginning a series of animated adventures. A unicorn searches for her brothers and sisters who are suffering at the hands of an evil king.
With the voices of: [see below]
(1980, U) (S)
The season continues tomorrow with Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland at 11am
Films: pp 46-51 **

Contributors

Director:
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Director:
Jules Bass
Schmendrick the Magician:
Alan Arkin
Prince Lir:
Jeff Bridges
Unicorn/Lady Amalthea:
Mia Farrow
Molly Grue:
Tammy Grimes
The Butterfly:
Robert Klein
Mommy Fortuna:
Angela Lansbury
King Haggard:
Christopher Lee

Drama starring John Wayne.
Railroad engineer Johnny Munroe risks lives to tunnel through an Andes mountain. But his romance with his boss's daughter is equally perilous.
(1947, U) (S)
Films: pp 46-51

Contributors

Director:
Richard Wallace
Johnny Munro:
John Wayne
Maura Alexander:
Laraine Day
Frederick Alexander:
Cedric Hardwicke
Ricky:
Anthony Quinn

Liverpool teenager Barry Hale compares his life and opportunities to those of Prince William as they both reach 18, and makes a direct personal appeal to the royal heir asking him to give up the throne.
See Choice.
(S)

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Hale
Producer:
Colm Martin
Executive Producer:
Debbie Christie

Weekly natural-history zone.
Ends 9.30.
Website: [web address removed]

8.00 Jungle Nights
Nature's nightlife in the rainforest of Belize is not for the faint-hearted-with jaguars, snakes and blood-thirsty bats. But tracking the jungle's undesirables is simply all in a night's work for two American scientists. (S) (W)

Contributors

Series Producer (Wild):
Paul Appleby
Editor (Wild):
Fiona Pitcher
Producer (Jungle Nights):
Carol Foster
Producer (Jungle Nights):
Richard Foster

Young film-maker Charlie Hamilton-James has become an expert on documenting the lives of otters. This film follows him at work on Midsummer's Day, getting into close contact with the otters at Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland as they swim among the tankers.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Film-maker:
Charlie Hamilton-James
Series Producer:
Paul Appleby

Another chance to see this three-part special that unlocks the secrets of ancient frozen bodies.

The first programme looks at the young, tattooed body of a woman discovered in a magnificent tomb preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian mountains. She had been buried with six sacrificed horses and is estimated to have lived in 500 BC. The woman provides vital clues to a mysterious people who once roamed the Russian Steppes.
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Producer:
Andrew Thompson
Series Editor:
Bettina Lerner

First of five programmes offering a guided tour through madness and out the other side in the company of eight people who've been there. Tonight, early warning signs are the topic, including encounters with Jesus, rotting flesh and seeing the dead in your bedroom.
(S)

Contributors

Producer:
Alexandra Scott
Executive Producer:
Ian Macrae

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Baptistery, Padua
(S)
1.00 The Gentle Sex?
1.30 Open Advice

Teenagers and Families
2.00 Living with Teenagers: 2

Languages
4.00 France Inside Out: Parts 3-4

Working in Hospitality
5.00 Careers

Open University
6.00 The Magic Flute
The finale of Act 1.
6.30 La Bonne Formule
Science in France.

Ends 7.00am.

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