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Playdays
Today, the children make some puppets out of paper.
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7.20 Moomin
More adventures in Moomin Valley with the gentle family and their friends.
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7.45 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.10 Monster Rancher
Genki and his friends must help to save a beautiful village from the evil Haras.
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8.35 Animorphs
The quintet discover a secret weapon to use against the Yeerks - maple-flavoured oatmeal.
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A highlight from the last series of topical studio debates, with Robert Kilroy-Silk.
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Audience: for details on how to join, ring [number removed] (national rate)

Followed by News; Weather
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Presenter:
Robert Kilroy-Silk

The season of films starring James Mason continues with a romantic drama about a beautiful but loveless socialite who, intrigued by a yacht in the bay one night, swims out and introduces herself to the owner.
Review page 53.
(1951) ****
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(Odd Man Out is tomorrow at 1.25pm)

Contributors

Director:
Albert Lewin
Hendrick van der Zee:
James Mason
Pandora Reynolds:
Ava Gardner
Stephen Cameron:
Nigel Patrick
Janet Fielding:
Sheila Sim
Geoffrey Fielding:
Harold Warrender

Live coverage from Canada continues with the second day of the men's decathlon. At 4.05 there's the sprint hurdles and at 5.00 the discus. Meanwhile, the men's 200m gets under way with coverage of the first round at 4.45 and 5.45.
Plus highlights from last night's final of the men's triple jump, with Jonathan Edwards going for gold, and the women's 100m.
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Every year a large number of British Asian women are lured to Pakistan and forced into marriage. Last year the Foreign Office dealt with 79 such cases. This film tells the dramatic escape story of three young Asian sisters from Bolton whose parents coerced them into going to a remote region of Pakistan to be wed.
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Director/Producer:
Bish Mehay

In the fifth of a seven-part rerun, chef and seafood enthusiast Rick Stein is in Northern Ireland, which is renowned for its silver eels, edible seaweed, scrumptious langoustines and a remarkable land-locked herring called a pollan.
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BBC Book: Rick Stein's Seafood Lovers' Guide, in hardback, price £20

Contributors

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

The fifth instalment of the eight-part culinary series finds fish king Rick Stein advising male model Simon Spalding , who lives by the sea at Brighton in the creation of a tricky menu of lobster with a pastis and olive oil dressing, followed by gurnard with a potato, garlic and saffron broth. Executive producer Nick Vaughan-Barratt ; Series producer Nichola Hegarty
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Unknown:
Rick Stein
Unknown:
Simon Spalding
Producer:
Nick Vaughan-Barratt
Producer:
Nichola Hegarty

The fifth film in this eight-part series presents a profile of the controversial leader of the Moonies, the Rev Myung Moon. While claiming to be the new Messiah, he is accused of heading a ruthless cult that abducts and brainwashes teenagers. He runs an empire worth billions and to his friends he is a hero, a man of profound spirituality who strives to vanquish evil. To his detractors, however, he is a megalomaniac, a fraud who plans to dominate the world.
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Contributors

Director:
Christopher Olgiati
Series Editor:
Jenny Abbott

An episode from the fifth series of the wartime comedy.

While taking part in a military exercise the platoon ends up in a barn which is intended to be the target for artillery practice.
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Contributors

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

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Open University
12.30 The Spiral of Silence
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1.00 Open Advice: The Three Degrees
1.30 A New Sun Is Born: Part 1: The Coup
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Inside Islam
2.00 Living Islam: Part 2
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Languages
4.00 France Inside Out: Parts 2-3

Working In Hospitality
5.00 Customer Care and Teamwork

Open University
6.00 Paper
Recycling and efficient use of resources
6.30 Work and Energy
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