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Taz-Mania
Featuring gorillas and a glimpse of the past.

7.50 Blue Peter on the Road
(Repeated with sign language) (Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)

8.15 The Cramp Twins
Wayne takes up playing the harp.

8.30 The Story of Tracy Beaker
Tracy teams up with her enemy, Justine.

9.00 The Scooby-Doo Show
The gang go hang-gliding.

9.20 XChange Xtra
Claire Sweeney tries her hand as special effects make-up artist.

9.40 Evolution
The Genus escapes into the Paris Metro.

10.05 Ocean Odyssey
UBRI take up smuggling to obtain another piece of the syncronium.

Contributors

Guest (XChange Xtra):
Claire Sweeney

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Clifford the Big Red Dog
Emily plans a party.

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10.50 The Shiny Show
Today's theme is having fun at a party.

11.10 Tweenies
Doodles takes all of Jake's bananas.

Romantic comedy starring Roger Moore, Talia Shire and Colleen Dewhurst.
A con man seeks sanctuary in a New England seaside community, where his charm works wonders on a landlady and her family.
Review page 46. (1992, 15)

Contributors

Director:
Robert Ellis Miller
[Actor]:
Roger Moore
[Actress]:
Talia Shire
[Actress]:
Colleen Dewhurst

The Trumpet Man. Clarence Adoo was a gifted musician with the Northern Sinfonia orchestra - until a road accident in 1995 left him paralysed from the neck down. Cameras follow Adoo to America for a controversial therapy that may offer him the hope of regaining some movement. Producer Jacqui Hodgson First shown on BBC North East www.bbc.co.uk/homeground

Contributors

Unknown:
Clarence Adoo
Producer:
Jacqui Hodgson

Men Do Lawns, Women Do Borders. A battle of the sexes is in store as Rachel de Thame and Joe Swift investigate horticultural preconceptions in another of the special seasonal editions. Do men just tend lawns while women grow flowers? And is there such a thing as a masculine or feminine garden? The results provide a few surprises.
Producer Carrie Tooth ; Series producer Colette Foster BBC MAGAZINES: Gardeners' World, £2.60. Gardens Illustrated. £3.50. New issue on sale 20 August. BBC BOOK: Grow Your Own Cut Flowers, £18.99
BBC BOOK AND VIDEO SET: Alan Titchmarsh 's How to Be a Gardener, £26.99 The great gardening divide?: page 30

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Swift
Producer:
Carrie Tooth
Producer:
Colette Foster
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

Fight for Life. The deadly battle between predator and prey is examined in the first of a three-part look at what makes animals tick. Wildlife action and 3-D animation reveal the hidden mechanisms that make the difference between life and death, from the tiger as it pursues a much lighter, quicksilver quarry to the Burmese python that can spring back into life after shutting down its metabolism for two years. Narrated by Robert Lindsay.
Producer Gavin Maxwell ; Series producer Sarah Pitt BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE: £2.90. New issue on sale 20 August

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Lindsay.
Producer:
Gavin Maxwell
Producer:
Sarah Pitt

Personal experiences of family relationships are tackled from the grandparents' viewpoint in a new three-part series. John and Jocelyn thought they had the perfect retirement planned - until their daughter was jailed in Morocco for smuggling cannabis. They stepped into help care for their two granddaughters. Now, four-and-a-half years later, their daughter is about to be released. Narrated by Ian Lavender. Directors Steve Poole , Inge Samuels ; Series producer Lynn Barlow

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Lavender.
Directors:
Steve Poole
Directors:
Inge Samuels
Producer:
Lynn Barlow

Repeats are not indicated.
Open Science 12.30 Rough Science 9443622 1.05
Background Brief 3639351 1.20 What Have the 1960s Ever Done for Us? 9647142 1.30 The Next Big Thing 91968 2.00 Watering the Desert 28887 3.00 Energy at the Crossroads
Wild World 3.30 Changing World, featuring Wildlife on One Languages 4.00 Italian Journey (parti)
Working in Sport and Leisure 5.00 The Future
Open University 6.00 Cosmology on Trial 62351 6.30 Pyramids, Plato and Football

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