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The Cramp Twins
Wayne attracts birds with a whistle.

7.10 Looney Tunes
Cartoons with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, Charlie Dog, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie and Sylvester.

7.35 Rugrats
After travelling forward in time, Chuckie experiences his first crush.

8.05 The Wild Thornberrys
Eliza meets a lone wolf.

8.30 Smile
First in a new interactive series featuring guests, competitions and games, with Fearne Cotton, Reggie Yates and DJ Devstar.
Ms Dynamite sings in the studio, there's the first in a weekly progress report on a cat in the latter stages of her pregnancy, plus animated fun with Rugrats, Even Stevens, The Scooby-Doo Show and The Mummy.
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Contributors

Director ("Smile"):
Ian Trill
Series Producer ("Smile"):
Fiona Robinson

Continuing the series celebrating the great outdoors.
Environmental. Today, Joe Swift visits Ryton organic gardens in Warwickshire to discover ways that gardeners can be more environmentally friendly.
Plus in a repeated episode of Clarissa and the Countryman, a look at the variety of products made from wool, while Garden Hopping sees Daphne Ledward saturate her senses in the gardens of a Cheshire nursery. Producer Emma Richardson ; Series producer Vanessa Jackson

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Swift
Unknown:
Daphne Ledward
Producer:
Emma Richardson
Producer:
Vanessa Jackson

Presented by John Inverdale.
1.00 G Two An interactive look at the week's sporting news and headline-makers, with a preview of the week ahead, plus debate on sporting issues. grandstand@bbc.co.uk
1.30 World SuperUkes Suzi Perry presents coverage from round 11 of the World Superbike championship at Germany's Oschersleben circuit.
Troy Bayliss continues to top the standings, with Colin Edwards pursuing in second place.
3.20 British SuperWkes Action from round ten of the British championship, with Steve Hislop and Sean Emmett leading the pack. With Craig Doyle.
3.55 Equestrianism Clare Balding introduces coverage of the 41st Burghley Horse Trials. Last year New Zealand were first, second and third, Blyth Tait leading the way on his Olympic gold medal-winning horse Ready Teddy.
5.05 Athletics Sally Gunnell is in Hyde Park, London, along with 25,000 fun runners, for this year's 5km Flora Light Challenge. In the elite race, Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan will be up against Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu and Kenya's Tegla Loroupe and Joyce Chepchumba.
Producer James Irving

Contributors

Presented By:
John Inverdale
Unknown:
Suzi Perry
Unknown:
Troy Bayliss
Unknown:
Colin Edwards
Unknown:
Steve Hislop
Unknown:
Sean Emmett
Unknown:
Craig Doyle.
Unknown:
Blyth Tait
Unknown:
Sally Gunnell
Unknown:
Sonia O'Sullivan
Unknown:
Derartu Tulu
Unknown:
Tegla Loroupe
Unknown:
Joyce Chepchumba
Producer:
James Irving

Simon Rattle conducts an international line-up of soloists and choruses, along with the National Youth Orchestra, in a performance of Gustav Mahler's demanding Symphony No 8, the Symphony of a Thousand. This recording is presented from London's Royal Albert Hall by Stephanie Hughes. With in-vision subtitles.
Director Jonathan Haswell

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Rattle
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Unknown:
Stephanie Hughes.
Director:
Jonathan Haswell

The 1992 environment summit in Rio offered some hope that the Amazon forests in Brazil could survive development. Ten years on, reporter Adrian Cowell returns to the rainforest in this investigative film for the Correspondent strand, and discovers that the rate of deforestation has actually increased by a staggering 40 per cent.
Producer Adrian Cowell ; Editor Karen O'Connor

Contributors

Reporter:
Adrian Cowell
Producer:
Adrian Cowell
Editor:
Karen O'Connor

A year after two airliners were deliberately flown into New
York's World Trade Center in a devastating act of terrorism, reporter Gavin Hewitt presents a minute-by-minute account of how US air defence systems responded to the events of 11 September. Interviewees include key decision-makers and personnel, among them pilots who were scrambled to defend possible targets, the transportation secretary who grounded all commercial planes in US airspace, and those entrusted with defending President Bush on Air Force One. Producer Peter Molloy ; Executive producer Fiona Murch

Contributors

Reporter:
Gavin Hewitt
Producer:
Peter Molloy
Producer:
Fiona Murch

The first in a new series, profiling five contemporary black celebrities charts the career of the exuberant decathlete
Daley Thompson , a pioneer among black British Olympians. He won two Olympic golds and was an inspiration to many of today's stars. With contributions from fellow athletes John Regis , Tessa Sanderson , Allan Wells , Steve Cram , Kriss Akabusi and Denise Lewis.
Producer Liz Molyneux ; Series producer Paul Blake

Contributors

Unknown:
Daley Thompson
Unknown:
John Regis
Unknown:
Tessa Sanderson
Unknown:
Allan Wells
Unknown:
Steve Cram
Unknown:
Kriss Akabusi
Unknown:
Denise Lewis.
Producer:
Liz Molyneux
Producer:
Paul Blake

In the pursuit of happiness, comic Dave Gorman embarks upon a six-part controlled experiment in which he follows instructions given by a panel of astrologers. Beginning with Mystic Meg , he is advised to make friends with an Olympic gold medallist and to engage in a spot of manual labour. Written and produced by Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace ; Director
Gareth Carrivick

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Gorman
Unknown:
Mystic Meg
Produced By:
Dave Gorman
Produced By:
Danny Wallace
Director:
Gareth Carrivick

Continuing the rerun of the first series of the offbeat comedy. Love Comes to Royston Vasey. Mike and Cheryl prepare to get married, (5)
11.40 Escape from Royston Vasey. Tubbs and Edward's local shop receives an unexpected visitor.
Written by Mark Gatiss. Steve Pemberton , Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson Director Steve Bendelack ; Producer Sarah Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Royston Vasey.
Unknown:
Royston Vasey.
Written By:
Mark Gatiss.
Written By:
Steve Pemberton
Written By:
Reece Shearsmith
Written By:
Jeremy Dyson
Director:
Steve Bendelack
Producer:
Sarah Smith

Drama starring Jessica Lange and Halle Berry. Baby Isaiah is adopted by a social worker after being abandoned by his crack-addict mother, Khaila. Some years later, the reformed Khaila fights to regain custody of her son. Widescreen. Review page 40.
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal (1995. 15)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Lange
Unknown:
Halle Berry
Director:
Stephen Gyllenhaal

The League of Gentlemen

Series 1

Episode 5: Love Comes to Royston Vasey

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for years

Black comedy series about small-town life. It seems that Mike and Cheryl may have made a mistake in allowing Geoff to be their best man.

Repeats are not indicated.
Wild World 2.00 Wild World: Changing World, featuring The State of the Planet
Languages 4.00 Discovering Portuguese 1-216821 Working In the Media 5.00 The Guide
Open University 6.00 English, English Everywhere
6.30 Deaf-Blind Education in Russia

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