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Arthur
Buster competes for a lifetime supply of pizza, then Binky looks after Francine's cat.

7.30 Really Wild Show
Featuring an elephant orphanage and birds of prey.
(Shown yesterday 5pm BBC1)

7.55 Newsround

8.00 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Shredder attempts to steal power from a missile plant.

8.20 Stitch Up!
Anne provides some unwelcome holiday tips. And a rare "pet" is discovered.

8.45 Looney Tunes
With Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

9.00 Rule the School
6/7. Exams start for the adult pupils.

9.30 Rugrats
Susie tries to make the babies grow up, then Chuckie worries about Kim, and Tommy explains life to Dil.

Tweenies
Judy has a surprise gift fo Max.

10.20 Boo!
Explore life in a coral reef and look out for Boo.

Followed by CBeebies Birthdays

10.35 Balamory
Josie tries to find a way to cheer up a crying baby.
Writer Brian Jameson
For cast see BBC1 today at 3.25pm (AD)

10.55 Beebie's Tails
Prunella Scales reads Kiss Goodnight, Sam.

Contributors

Writer ("Balamory"):
Brian Jameson
Storyteller ("Beebie's Tails"):
Prunella Scales

Comedy starring
Bob Monkhouse and Kenneth Connor. When two newly qualified dentists involved in promoting a toothpaste find their jobs under threat, they develop a product of their own. Review page 54.
Director CM Pennington-Richards
(1961, PG) (BW)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Monkhouse
Unknown:
Kenneth Connor.

To mark the 40th birthday of BBC2 next week, a chance to see the first-ever episode of the classic sitcom, from 1964.

Returning from a holiday on the continent, Bob and Terry reminisce about the girls they met there - one of whom turns out to have followed them back to England. (BW)

BBC Product: The Very Best of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, DVD £12.99 available from [web address removed]

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Dick Clement
Writer:
Ian La Frenais
Terry:
James Bolam
Bob:
Rodney Bewes
Cloughy:
Bartlett Mullins
Jack:
Donald McKillop
Mrs Collier:
Olive Milboume
Audrey:
Sheila Fearn
Colette:
Bettine Le Beau
Louise:
Christine Collins

2/3. Drawing inspiration from the 1965 film The Heroes of Telemark, the survival expert provides further insights into the Second World War mission to sabotage destroy a key part of Hitler's atomic bomb project in Norway. Mears visits Scotland, and the scene of the operation, to find out how elite commandos were trained to survive the extreme conditions they encountered.
Producer Martin Pailthorpe ; Executive producer Dick Colthurst

Contributors

Producer:
Martin Pailthorpe
Producer:
Dick Colthurst

A thalidomide-affected man falls for a woman of 4ft 1in in this drama about prejudice, disability and love against the odds. When teacher Chris gets involved with hairdresser Nicky, their relationship proves both liberating and painful. Neither sees their disability as an impediment, but will their perceptions change now they are together? And how does the world at large view them?
(AD) [web address removed]
Alison Graham on celebrating our differences: page 63 Lindsey Coulson, Face of the Week: page 63

Contributors

Writer:
Lizzie Mickery
Producer:
Ewan Marshall
Director:
Alrick Riley
Nicky:
Lisa Hammond
Chris:
Mat Fraser
Kath:
Lindsey Coulson
Roger:
John Woodvine
Michelle:
Lorraine Pilkington
Steve:
Stuart Laing
Jen:
Georgina Ackerman
Ann:
Jan Carey
Leo:
Ian Redford
Mrs Berry:
Adjoa Andoh
Phil:
Jud Charlton
Gemma:
Jo Osmond
DJ:
Jason Yates
Doctor:
Paul Sharma
Female client:
Sue Elliott
Traffic warden:
Simon Startin
Male client:
Scott Mean
Receptionist:
Dorothy Atkinson
Man in pub:
Howard Coggins
Tall lad:
Robert Araujo

Political comedy drama starring Sam Neill. Joan is a fanatical Australian communist whose devotion to the party is rewarded when she is invited to meet her hero, Stalin. A brief affair produces "Little Joe", who, in his later life, develops serious political ambitions of his own. Review page 54.
Director Peter Duncan (1996)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Neill.
Director:
Peter Duncan
Joan Fraser:
Judy Davis
Nine:
Sam Neill
Joe:
Richard Roxburgh
Anna:
Rachel Griffiths
Stalin F:
Murray Abraham
Barry:
Russell Kiefel
DrWilfWilke:
John Gaden
Zachary Welch:
Geoffrey Rush

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(Repeats are not indicated)

2.00 Key Stage 3 Bitesize Revision: Science 2
Changing materials, chemical reactions, electricity and magnetism, energy resources, and energy transfer.

4.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision: Science: Chemistry
Classifying material, changing materials, and patterns of chemical behaviour.

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