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Wiggly Park
It's Shelly's birthday.
(Repeated at 1pm)
(R)

7.05 Playdays
Peggy Patch discovers amazing creatures living under the sea.
(R)

7.25 Inch-High Private Eye
Animated adventures.
(R)

7.50 The Really Wild Show
Today: a rescue service for persecuted Namibian cheetahs.
(R) (S)

8.15 Tom and Jerry Kids
High-speed cat-and-mouse chases.

8.35 Polka Dot Shorts
Adventures from the Land of Roo.
(R)

8.45 Postman Pat
It's been raining so hard in Greendale that even the letters are wet.
(R)

9.00 Noddy in Toyland
Kate and DJ lose Noah's lucky compass and learn the importance of putting things away.
(R)

9.30 Little Bear
A triple bill of fun for pre-school children.
(R)

9.55 The Adventures of Spot
Spot follows his nose.
(Repeated at 1.05pm)

10.00 Teletubbies: Good Morning
Dipsy wants to dance.
(R) (S)

10.30 Tweenies: Bella's Big Surprise
Bella surprises everyone with her secret.
(R) (S) (W)

10.50 Pingu
Pingu helps his mother.
(R)

Crime drama starring Robert Young and Susan Hayward. On trial for his life,
Larry Ballentine is given the chance to explain his own story- one of greed, lust and revenge. Director Irving Pichel (1947)
(BW) (S) Films: pp 50-55 ***

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Young
Unknown:
Susan Hayward.
Unknown:
Larry Ballentine
Director:
Irving Pichel

Western starring and directed by Ray Milland.

When gunman Wes Steele comes across the aftermath of a stagecoach hold-up, he is forced to kill a lawman in self-defence. On the run, he sets about discovering who was responsible for the original robbery and murder.
(1955, U) (S)
Films: pp 50-55 ***

Contributors

Director:
Ray Milland
Wes Steele:
Ray Milland
Nadine Corrigan:
Mary Murphy
Gil Corrigan:
Ward Bond
Clantin:
Lee Van Cleef

The pilot episode of a new US teen drama series set in Roswell, New Mexico - a city made famous by reports of an alien spacecraft crash in 1947.

1999: a high-school student is fatally wounded in a shooting at the Crashdown Cafe. But a fellow student's "healing hand" changes their lives forever.
(S)
Quentin Cooper's webwatch: page 35

Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, a Royal Navy submarine sank, killing the 99 crew on board. Tonight's documentary investigates the causes of the accident and explains how errors on the surface prevented a successful rescue operation.
(First shown on BBC North West)
(S)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Craven

This week, Alain de Cadenet explores first-class travel, Julian Tutt joins the Army Air Corps as they fly at 50ft with night-vision goggles, and Vicky Kimm finds out how she can use her British private pilot's licence Down Under.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Alain de Cadenet
Reporter:
Julian Tutt
Reporter:
Vicky Kimm
Executive Producer:
Peter Hylton Cleaver

The motoring show returns, with new presenter Jason Barlow joining the team. Tonight, there's a road-test of the new Audi A2, a look at 17 cars set to re-define the market, and Tiff Needell goes head-to-head with Formula One's Jenson Button in the new BMW 330.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jason Barlow
Presenter:
Tiff Needell
Guest:
Jenson Button
Producer:
John Wilcox
Series producer:
Richard Pearson

First in a new four-part series exploring the organisation on which Ian Fleming based his James Bond novels - the Special Operations Executive - a secret army of young men and women established by Winston Churchill in 1940 to "set Europe ablaze".
See Choice.
(S) (W)
John Peel: page 15

Contributors

Director:
Jonathan Hacker
Series Producer:
David Darlow

Black male athletes are dominating international track events. In a Black Britain Olympic special, top competitors, scientists and commentators are asked whether black people really are part of a faster race.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Geoff Small
Executive Producer:
Clive Edwards

Open Science
12.30 The Next Big Thing: Is There Anyone Out There?
1.00 Managing for Biodiversity: Forests in Trinidad
(S)
1.30 Final Frontier
(W)
1.45 What Have the Eighties Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Relative Risk: The Human Genome Project
(S)
3.00 Venus Unveiled
(S)

Teenagers and Families
3.30 Living with Teenagers: 5

Languages
4.00 Japanese Language and People: Parts 1-2

Work Essentials
5.00 Media and Press

Open University
6.00 Design for an Alien World
(S)
6.30 Mapping the Milky Way
(S)
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