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Playdays
The playbus visits the Playground Stop.
(R)

7.20 Snorks
Cartoon.
(R)

7.45 UKool
Teenage magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.10 Taz-Mania
Taz discovers his dog is a turtle.
(R)

8.30 Moomin
Mama and Papa are given a singing plant.

8.55 Gadget Boy
Gadget Boy travels back to 1922 Egypt.

9.20 Harry and the Hendersons
Brett uses a love mask to help improve his romantic life.
(R) (S)

9.50 Polka Dot Shorts
Educational animated fun.
(R)

10.00 Teletubbies: Colours (Red)
The chums watch children explore shades of red.
(R) (S)

10.30 Tweenies: Summer
Max dreams of the beach.
(R) (S) (W)

10.50 Bob the Builder
Animation. Bob gets the recycling bug.
(R)

Continuing the short series of medical dramas. A nurse cares for an abandoned HIV-infected baby, but the mother tries to take back her child.
(1994, PG) (S)
(Vigil in the Night is tomorrow at 1.05pm)
Films: pp 54-61 ****

Contributors

Director:
John Gray
Susan Lansing:
Sissy Spacek
Linda Morsten:
Mary-Louise Parker
Dorothy Kilgore:
Joan Plowright
Alice Blakely:
S. Epatha Merkerson

Between 1947 and 1967 10,000 children from broken homes were shipped from Britain to Australia to start new lives. They suffered cruel, abusive treatment and were wrongly told that they were orphans. Now the International Association of Former Child Migrants (IAFCM) is demanding an inquiry and the Child Migrants' Trust are busy reuniting families.
(R) (S)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Tony Roe

Continuing the series in which two teams of three people from different professions compete in a test of their survival skills, armed with only the essentials with which to build shelter, find food and light a fire.

In this programme a team of IT consultants and another of builders are marooned on the Azores, the volcanic islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles from anywhere. Judging their efforts are presenter Ed Hall and ex-commando Hugh McManners.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ed Hall
Expert:
Hugh McManners
Director:
Steven Grandison
Series Producer:
Joanna Ball

A new six-part series in which Professor Susan Greenfield, a leading British neuroscientist, explores the human brain.

Tonight Greenfield talks to a woman having brain surgery while awake and relates the story of a stroke victim who cannot recognise tunes but knows whether music is happy or sad.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Dr Mark Porter - Health: page 37

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor Susan Greenfield
Producer:
Andrew Cohen
Series Producer:
Sam Roberts

In the last of this series of films that examine the choices available to elderly people when their independence is threatened, two families decide to accommodate their ailing parents, only to find that coping with three generations under one roof can be difficult.
(Postponed from 1 July)
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Ann Lalic
Series Producer:
Julian Mercer

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Structural Components
How engineers ensure that a new type of pylon will not fail.
(S)
1.00 The Film: Joyride
A behind-the-scenes look at this thriller.
(S)
1.30 Non-Euclidean Geometry
How 18th-and 19th-century mathematicians questioned their subject's foundations.

Teenagers and Families
2.00 Living with Teenagers: 3
Drink, drugs, social exclusion, bullying and young offenders.

Languages
4.00 Spain Inside Out: Part 5
A guide to Spanish culture
Talk Spanish:Parts 1-2
Beginners' course

Working In Hospitality
5.00 Business

Open University
6.00 Ceramics under Stress
(S)
6.30 Spanning Materials
(S)

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