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The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
The luckless youngster attempts to get his kite airborne.
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6.55 Taz-Mania
Hugh and Taz declare war on the bush rats.
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7.15 Looney Tunes
Bugs faces a dim-witted lion, then takes on the West's stupidest cowboy.
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7.30 Smile
Alex Parks and Blazin' Squad are in the studio; with the Squad performing their new single Here 4 One. Including Bandit Bites and Nev's Socks, the chance to play the brand new level of Nev It Up live, and all the regular features.
Plus The Scooby-Doo Show, Jackie Chan Adventures, Cavegirl, Arthur, Even Stevens and The Fairly Odd Parents.
Hosted by Reggie Yates, DJ Devstar and Fearne Cotton.
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BBCi: digital viewers can access interactive games via the red button on their handset

Contributors

Presenter (Smile):
Reggie Yates
Presenter (Smile):
DJ Devstar
Presenter (Smile):
Fearne Cotton
Guest (Smile):
Alex Parks
Singers (Smile):
Blazin' Squad
Director (Smile):
Ian Trill
Series Producer (Smile):
Fiona Robinson

With excerpts from Real Rooms, Housecall, Big Strong Boys and Home Front. Laurence Llewelyn -Bowen explains how to calm a home down with pastel shades.
At 11.40, in Trading Up in the Sun, Lome Spicer and Gordon Whistance are using pastels too - to give an Art Deco feel to a home in Mijas on the Costa del Sol. And at 12-10, in Small Town
Gardens, Andy Sturgeon creates a stunning ivory garden for a family in East Sheen, London. Director Kate Dillon ; Series producer
Vanessa Jackson

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Llewelyn
Unknown:
Lome Spicer
Unknown:
Gordon Whistance
Unknown:
Andy Sturgeon
Director:
Kate Dillon
Producer:
Vanessa Jackson

Presented by Craig Doyle.

1.10 Sport Plus
Magazine show, with news and high-profile guests.

1.30 Sir Steve Redgrave: the Big Interview
A series of interviews featuring some of sport's biggest names begins with the five-times Olympic gold medallist.

2.00 World Indoor Bowls
Live coverage from Great Yarmouth of the final of the world indoor championship. Will today's result prove as emphatic as last year's, when Scot Alex Marshall achieved a straight-sets victory over Wales's John Price?

3.50 Windsurfing
A report on the indoor championship in London's Docklands.

4.00 Nell Hodgson Feature
In a item postponed from 21 December, Britain's World Superbike champion recalls last year's season and looks ahead to his debut in the Moto GP class.

4.45 Dakar Rally
The finale of the gruelling 11.000km transcontinental event.

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Contributors

Presenter:
Craig Doyle
Unknown:
Sir Steve Redgrave
Unknown:
Alex Marshall
Unknown:
John Price
Producer:
Lakviar Singh
Editor:
Lawrence Duffy

Over the last century, the demise of Britain's red squirrel has been rapid, in stark contrast to the rise of American invader the grey squirrel. Formby on Merseyside is one of the natives' last remaining strongholds. Bill Oddie investigates why.
Producer Roger Webb ; Executive editor Fiona Pitcher

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Producer:
Roger Webb
Editor:
Fiona Pitcher

At Kapama Reserve in South Africa, the elephants are being trained to use their sense of smell to avoid poachers. To test the idea, the elephants become hunters, tracking Saba Douglas-Hamilton and ex-poacher Magic.
Producer Clare Brook : Series producer Wendy Darke

Contributors

Unknown:
Saba Douglas-Hamilton
Producer:
Clare Brook
Producer:
Wendy Darke

Made in the style of a retrospective documentary, featuring hindsight interviews with the "key players" and mock archive footage, this drama examines the fictional catastrophe that results from the over-burdening of national transport systems.

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Simon Finch
Writer/Director:
Gabriel Range
Nicola Evans:
Joanna Griffiths
Tom Walker:
Eric Carte
Julian Galt:
Steve North
Jane Newell:
Nancy McClean
Clive Turner:
Andy Shield
Tony Foster:
Jonathan Linsley

An assessment of Bentley's Continental GT, advice on how to escape from a submerged car and a tribute to 40 years of the Lamborghini. And the test track hosts an unusual race - between a Sea Harrier and a Saab Hot Aero. Producer Peter McCann ; Editor Andy Wilman (Revised repeat)
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Contributors

Producer:
Peter McCann
Editor:
Andy Wilman

As South Africa celebrates a decade of democracy, this film follows the fortunes of two of the country's promising young footballers. Both possess their share of talent but Seth is white, and from a wealthy background, while Thuso is black and sleeps on his granny's kitchen floor. What has a free South Africa come to mean for the two young sportsmen?

Today's Choices: Documentary: Football and Freedom: This World 9.00pm BBC2
Before you assume that this is another football documentary and look for something else to watch, hold your horses. What we have here is a well-observed and at times heart-rending portrait of life in South Africa. The story happens to be told via the experiences of two talented young footballers, one white and one black, but in truth the film's no more about sport than The Great Escape is a film about gymnastics.

Our heroes are Seth, a white, middle-class teenager with a pushy dad and a gift for goalscoring; and midfielder Thuso, who lives in Soweto, sleeping on his grandmother's kitchen floor, a space he shares with his mother and two sisters.
We first meet the boys in 1999, aged 13, as they struggle to be picked out by scouts from dozens of similar hopefuls. Dutch club Ajax spot Seth, while Thuso comes to the attention of Leeds United. But both their lives are dominated by the gun crime that is a fact of daily life: 'Thuso's dad has been murdered by car-jackers before the film starts; then in the course of the film his mother and Seth's father are both nearly killed by armed criminals.

In the face of all this, Thuso and his mother Susan's stoic cheerfulness brings a lump to your throat, particularly when, as they face eviction from their tiny home, Thuso tells her not to worry. By contrast, the conversation between Seth and his dad about who will took after Seth's money when he goes professional is painfully loveless, and the sneering way Seth talks about his black team-mates is depressing. The scene where they respond by singing apartheid-era anti-white songs says a great deal about the "new" South Africa. (David Butcher)

Contributors

Director:
Dominic Ozanne
Editor:
Karen O'Connor

Having lost the care of three children, Anne-Marie and John [text removed] are hoping that with their baby [text removed] has finally come their chance to bring up a child. The couple are among the UK's 250,000 parents with learning disabilities and receive support from a variety of agencies, aimed at enabling them to live as a family. But is the help they receive, and the love they have to give, enough?

Contributors

Director:
Fran Landsman
Executive Producer:
Lynn Alleway

The first of two films showing in tribute to the late Alan Bates , who stars alongside Glenda
Jackson and Oliver Reed in Ken Russell 's adaptation of DH Lawrence's classic novel. 1920s England: the Brangwen sisters find suitors in a wealthy industrialist and his teacher friend. For one couple it will mean love and marriage, for the other tragedy. Review page 44. (1969, 18) Alan Bates stars in Whistle down the Wind tomorrow at 1.50pm Film Trivia: page 55

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bates
Unknown:
Oliver Reed
Unknown:
Ken Russell
Unknown:
Alan Bates

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