Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 281,699 playable programmes from the BBC

Ends 9.00.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Animated antics with Itsy and the spider-hating Charlotte.
(R) (S)

7.20 Casper
More adventures with the friendly, but feared, cartoon ghost.
(R) (S)

7.45 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.10 Big Wolf on Campus
The hairy student reaches level ten of his favourite video game.
(S)

8.35 Rugrats
Angelica tells a tall story to deter the Rugrats from playing in Chuckie's playhouse.
(R) (S)

A highlight from the last series of topical studio debates, with Robert Kilroy-Silk.
(R) (S)
Auidence: for details on how to join, ring [number removed] (national rate)

Followed by News; Weather
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Kilroy-Silk

Clare Balding and Willie Carson kick off BBC2's coverage of Glorious Goodwood with a four-race line-up featuring the 3.20 Peugeot Gordon Stakes, plus the 2.15, 2.45 and 3.50.
(W)

Including at 3.00 News; Regional News (Digital: UK Today) Weather
(S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Clare Balding
Presenter:
Willie Carson
Commentary:
Jim McGrath
Commentary:
Jimmy Lindley
Commentary:
Graham Rock
Commentary:
Jonathan Powell
Commentary:
Angus Loughran

Since 1994 beauty queens from India have won a string of international titles including four Miss Worlds. This film takes a look at a burgeoning industry employing dentists, beauticians and etiquette teachers, to create the next contenders for a beauty queen title.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director/Producer:
Gurdip Singh Bhangoo

In the fourth of a seven-part rerun, chef Rick Stein wades from Morecambe Bay up the west coast of Scotland gorging along the way on a veritable feast of sweet brown shrimps, flounder, salmon, oysters, mussels and scallops.
(R) (S) (W)
BBC Book: Rick Stein's Seafood lovers' Guide, in hardback, price £20

Contributors

Presenter/Chef:
Rick Stein
Director/Producer:
David Pritchard

The fourth instalment of the eight-part culinary series finds Ainsley Harriott on the end of a phone line attempting to help pre-prepared food addict Jason O'Shea surface from a reckless plunge into the deep end of piscine cuisine in a bid to trawl up a gourmet platter of sushi and tempura.
Executive producer Nick Vaughan-Barratt : Series producer Nichola Hegarty
(S) (W) WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/food/friends

Contributors

Unknown:
Ainsley Harriott
Unknown:
Jason O'Shea
Producer:
Nick Vaughan-Barratt
Producer:
Nichola Hegarty

The fourth film in this new eight-part series paints afresh portrait of jazz diva Billie Holiday. By combining rare archive material, including footage of performances unseen for almost 50 years and interviews with close friends, many of whom have never spoken before on television, a new insight is achieved into the well-publicised excesses of her short life - she died of cirrhosis of the liver aged 44 -which questions the received image of her as a stereotypical victim.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
David F Turnbull
Series Editor:
Jenny Abbott

An episode from the fifth series of the wartime comedy.

Mainwaring orders the platoon to help a widowed friend of Godfrey gather in the harvest, with disastrous results.
(R) (S)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
David Croft
Writer:
Jimmy Perry
Capt Mainwaring:
Arthur Lowe
Pte Frazer:
John Laurie
Pte Walker:
James Beck
Pte Godfrey:
Arnold Ridley
Lance Cpl Jones:
Clive Dunn
Sgt Wilson:
John Le Mesurier
Pte Pike:
Ian Lavender
ARP Warden:
Bill Pertwee

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Making the News
(S)
1.00 Regressing to Quality
(S)
1.30 Non-Euclidean Geometry
(S)

Parenting
2.00 The Pocket Guide to Parenting Plus: Part 8
(S)

Languages
4.00 Discovering Portuguese: Parts 5-6
French on a Plate: Brittany

Working in Hospitality
5.00 Business

Open University
6.00 IT Futures
(S)

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More