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Playdays
Peggy, Nick and their friends have fun with the piglets.
(R)

7.20 Taz-mania
Animation. The bottle-cap collectors use a nuclear rocket pack to catch Kee Wee.
(R)

7.45 Tom and Jerry Kids
Highspeed antics with the cat and mouse.
(R)

8.10 The Really Wild Show
Encounters with rare animals including a three-legged hedgehog, baby snow leopards and red pandas.
(R) (S)

8.35 Bruno the Kid
Animated capers with the computer prodigy.
(R)

Thriller starring John Mills and Hayley Mills. A Polish sailor on leave in Cardiff murders his unfaithful girlfriend. A lonely girl is a witness, and a strange friendship grows between them as the net around them tightens.
(1959, PG) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 60-68 ***
Growing pains: page 54

Contributors

Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Superintendent Graham:
John Mills
Korchinsky:
Horst Buchholz
Gillie:
Hayley Mills
Anya:
Yvonne Mitchell
Mrs Phillips:
Megs Jenkins

Live coverage on day three of the equestrian event of the races at
2.15,2.45,3.50, and of the
3.20 centrepiece, the Goodwood Cup, which carries L80,000 in prize money.
Introduced by Clare Balding with Willie Carson , while Jeff Banks casts an eye over the fashion scene. (W) Including at 3.00 News
Regional News (S) Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Clare Balding
Unknown:
Willie Carson
Unknown:
Jeff Banks

Julian Tutt takes a look at Hercules, the transport workhorse of the RAF, while Helen Young reports on the home-assembly Europa aircraft kit. Meanwhile, on a flight to Shanghai, Robert Elms looks into the political chicanery involved in securing an airline route and the demands of such long-haul flights. Presented by Alain de Cadenet.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alain de Cadenet
Reporter:
Julian Tutt
Reporter:
Helen Young
Reporter:
Robert Elms
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

Spouses Anna Chong and Eric Kelly's company Engineered Demolition is one of America's most renowned blasting organisations. Their biggest challenge to date is to reduce to rubble a four-block council estate in Newark, New Jersey, in front of a VIP audience. But their meticulous preparations founder at the 11th hour when a loose connection is discovered among miles of wiring that links thousands of charges to the central detonator.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Subject:
Anna Chong
Subject:
Eric Kelly
Director:
Mike Rossiter
Series Producer:
Bill Grist

Mark Lamarr presents another controversial view of a topical issue. Faye Tozer from pop band Steps and musician-turned-actor Martin Kemp of EastEnders fame are his guests as he vents his spleen on the concept of celebrity.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lamarr
Guest:
Faye Tozer
Guest:
Martin Kemp
Director:
John L Spencer
Series Producer:
Richard Wilson

Mutiny, cannibalism and disease ensue when the team are relocated to a desert island on a survival holiday. Featuring guest appearances from Donna Air of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast and BBC controller Paul Jackson.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Writer/Producer/Director:
Dominic Anciano
Writer/Producer:
Hugo Blick
Writer/Producer/Director:
Ray Burdis
Det Insp Beach:
David Gillespie
Det Supt Ash:
Ray Burdis
Bones:
Perry Benson
Mark Kemp:
Mark Burdis
Strings:
John Beckett
Sgt Dominic de Sade:
Dominic Anciano
Bill Zeebub:
William Scully
Herself:
Donna Air
Himself:
Paul Jackson

John Eliot Gardner's personal quest to bring Johann Sebastian Bach's music to the modern public entailed performing all of the composer's cantatas in a single year. This documentary follows the top conductor as he tries to pull off his most ambitious coup to date.
(S) (W)

Followed by Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues
Andrei Gavrilov plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue No 7.
(W)

Contributors

Subject:
John Eliot Gardner
Director:
Manfred Waffender
Producer:
Fiona Morris
Pianist (Forty Eight Preludes and Fugues):
Andrei Gavrilov

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Final Frontier
12.45 Personal Passions - Patsy Byrne
(W)
1.00 The Secret of Sporting Success
(S)
1.30 Background Brief
1.45 What Have the Sixties Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Lifelines
2.30 Test Tube Miracle?
3.00 Horses for Courses: an Evolutionary Radiation

Teenagers and Families
3.30 Today's Family: 5

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo: Parts 17-20)

Working In Sport and Leisure
5.00 The Future

Open University
6.00 Jets and Black Holes
(S)
6.30 Cosmology on Trial
(S)

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Contributors

Presenter (Personal Passions):
Patsy Byrne

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