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Teletubbies
Pre-school fun, fantasy and education. (S)

6.40 Binka
Binka finds that everything looks very different while exploring at night.

6.45 Clifford the Big Red Dog
To avoid baths Cleo runs away from home.

Ends 12.00.

Metalheads
The kids face a Pygmalion challenge.

7.10 Super Duper Sumos
Bad Inc creates a monstrous teddy bear that terrorises the city.

7.35 Arthur
Double bill. Buster returns from holiday, and soon realises things have changed.

8.00 The Fairly Odd Parents
Timmy is given a rule-free wish but Crocker uses it to capture a fairy.

8.30 The Saturday Show
Guests are Dani Harmer and dance DJs Rip & Fill, while there's the second heat of Busted Karaoke. Plus games and cartoon fun. With Angellica Bell, Simon Grant and Jake Humphrey.

10.00 The Mysti Show
Kirsten Dunst, star of Spider-Man 2, is today's star guest. Fearne Cotton takes the winner of the fashion competition on a shopping spree, and the boys get a cooking lesson from chef Aldo Zilli. Also on CBBC channel.
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11.00 Top of the Pops Saturday
Busted, Pop, the Cheeky Girls and Ana Johnsson perform, along with V who answer tricky questions from fans. Presented by Fearne Cotton.
Rptd 6pm CBBC channel

Contributors

Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Angellica Bell
Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Simon Grant
Presenter (The Saturday Show):
Jake Humphrey
Guest (The Saturday Show):
Dani Harmer
Director (The Saturday Show):
Grigor Stirling
Executive Producer (The Saturday Show):
Colin Nobbs
Guest (The Mysti Show):
Kirsten Dunst
Guest (The Mysti Show):
Aldo Zilli
Guest (The Mysti Show):
Fearne Cotton
Director (The Mysti Show):
Alii Jeronimus
Director (The Mysti Show):
Stephen Woolfenden
Producer (The Mysti Show):
Michael Connock
Presenter (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Fearne Cotton
Guest (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Ana Johnsson
Director (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Nick Harris
Producer (Top of the Pops Saturday):
Christina Brown

Western, the first of a double bill starring Robert Taylor.
Billy Bonney joins an outlaw gang in a Southwest town where his childhood friend Jim Sherwood has been appointed marshal. Review page 49.
Director David Miller (1941)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Taylor.
Unknown:
Billy Bonney
Unknown:
Jim Sherwood
Director:
David Miller

Medieval adventure starring Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner. Determined to bring peace to England, Arthur of Pendragon, supported by the gallant Sir Lancelot, defeats his rivals in battle and is crowned king. But his enemies begin plotting against him. Review page 49.
Director Richard Thorpe (1953. PG)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Taylor
Unknown:
Ava Gardner
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Sir Lancelot:
Robert Taylor
Queen Guinevere:
Ava Gardner
King Arthur:
Mel Ferrer
Sir Modred:
Stanley Baker
Morgan Le Fay:
Anne Crawford

2/4. Sumit Bose catches up with the winner of the Restoration campaign in the South East and finds out how they plan to keep up their profile in a bid to win August's final. The Restoration series continues tomorrow at 9pm on BBC2. Executive producer Dippy Chaudhary REGIONAL PROGRAMME: digital viewers will receive Restoration Nation for the South and West. Switch to analogue for the Greater London/South East edition

Contributors

Unknown:
Sumit Bose

A letter from a dead friend sends Miss Marple on a journey around England in this 1987 dramatisation of the Agatha Christie thriller with Joan Hickson as the elderly sleuth.
Dramatised by TR Bowen ; Producer George Gallaccio
Director David Tucker

Contributors

Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Unknown:
Joan Hickson
Dramatised By:
Tr Bowen
Producer:
George Gallaccio
Director:
David Tucker
Miss Marple:
Joan Hickson
Lionel Peel:
Peter Tilbury
Professor Wanstead:
John Horsley
Miss Temple:
Helen Cherry
Madge:
Joanna Hole
Miss Cooke:
Jane Booker
Miss Barrow:
Alison Skilbeck
Clothilde Bradbury-Scott:
Margaret Tyzack
Lavinia Glynne:
Valerie Lush
Anthea Bradbury-Scott:
Anna Cropper
Mr Carter:
Jonathan Adams
Florence:
Jackie Downey
Mr Broadribb:
Roger Hammond
Mr Schuster:
Patrick Godfrey
Miss Wimpole:
Ann Queensberry
Michael Rafiel:
Bruce Payne
Jason Rafiel:
Frank Gatliff
Miss Kumowitz:
Barbara Franceschi
Mrs Brent:
Liz Fraser
Archdeacon Brabazon:
Peter Copley
Mrs Trollope:
Marlene Sidaway
MrPelham:
Roger Boothe
MrHallowes:
Reginald Stewart

He was a blind orphan brought up in the American South of the Depression, who went on to become a giant of 20th-century popular music. Widely credited with inventing the soul genre, Ray Charles, who died last month, was a notorious perfectionist, who ruled his band with a rod of iron and sought comfort in the bottle and the needle. With tributes from Paul McCartney, Elton John, Bobby Womack, Willie Nelson and Jamie Cullum. Introduced by Jools Holland.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jools Holland.
Interviewee:
Paul McCartney
Interviewee:
Elton John
Interviewee:
Bobby Womack
Interviewee:
Willie Nelson
Interviewee:
Jamie Cullum
Producer:
Jeff Simpson
Executive Producer:
Mark Hagen

First of two films tonight starring John Travolta.
In Mike Nichols's political comedy drama he is aspiring Democratic presidential candidate Jack Stanton. As the race for the nomination hots up, rumours of Jack's womanising past threaten to scupper his campaign.
Review page 49.
(1998,15) (AD)
The Designated Mourner, featuring Mike Nichols's acting debut, is on Tuesday at 12.20am

Contributors

Director:
Mike Nichols
Gov Jack Stanton:
John Travolta
Susan Stanton:
Emma Thompson
Richard Jemmons:
Billy Bob Thornton
Henry Burton:
Adrian Lester
Daisy:
Maura Tierney
Howard Ferguson:
Paul Guilfoyle
Gov Fred Picker:
Larry Hagman
Libby Holden:
Kathy Bates
Mamma Stanton:
Diane Ladd
Izzy Rosenblatt:
Rob Reiner

Fantasy drama starring John Travolta and Harry Belafonte. In an alternative America where whites are the oppressed minority, family man Louis Pinnock is driven to take desperate action against his black former employer, Thaddeus Thomas. Review page 49.
Director Desmond Nakano (1995.15)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Travolta
Unknown:
Harry Belafonte.
Unknown:
Louis Pinnock
Unknown:
Thaddeus Thomas.
Director:
Desmond Nakano
Louis Pinnock:
John Travolta
Thaddeus Thomas:
Harry Belafonte
Marsha Pinnock:
Kelly Lynch
Megan Thomas:
Margaret Avery
Stanley:
Tom Bower
Josine:
Carrie Snodgress

www.bbc.co.uk/leamingzone
Open University/General Interest Repeats not indicated.
2.00 Building by Numbers How some of the most beautiful buildings rely on maths for their proportions. 47090 2.30
Daisyworld Exploring James Lovelock 's controversial theory on how the planet resists life-threatening changes. 66125 3.00 Hubbard Brook : the Chemistry of a Forest How an American forest is providing a unique record of how local and environmental changes affect a complete ecosystem. 53019 3.30 Norfolk Broads: Conservation v Commercialism Maintaining a balance between competing interests. 57477 4.00 Apples, Risks and Recriminations 9807748 4.50 Ever Wondered?
5.00 The Authentick& Ironicall Historie of Henry V
5.50 Ever Wondered?

Contributors

Unknown:
James Lovelock
Unknown:
Hubbard Brook

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