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Ends 7.00.

Big Cook Little Cook
Muddy footprints need cleaning.

6.20 Tots TV
Highland dancing proves irresistible.

6.30 Bobinogs
Ogi gets nervous before a concert.

6.45 Wide Eye
It's time for a clearout before the spring fair.

Ends 10.00.

Short Change: the Fat Nation Challenge
A host of fun ways of learning about food.

7.05 Snailsbury Tales
Eric wishes his pimple would vanish.

7.15 Arthur
The kids prepare for TV stardom.

7.30 I Love Mummy
A dressing-up game cheers up Nuff.

7.55 Newsround

8.00 The Scooby and Scrappy Show
A ghoul causes havoc.

8.20 All or Nothing
Winners take all in the fun game show.

8.50 Looney Tunes
Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner's race is sabotaged.

9.00 Big Wolf on Campus
Tommy finds himself abducted by the Werewolf Syndicate.

9.20 Watch My Chops
Corneil gets a hairdresser scare. (AD)

9.35 Taz-Mania
Bushwhacker Bob spies a lucrative financial opportunity.

Ends 11.00.

Balamory
A puddle provides Archie with inspiration for an invention.
(For cast see Friday)
Balamory Magazine: £1.60, monthly

Followed by CBeebies Birthdays

10.20 Come Outside
Rubbish occupies Auntie Mabel's day.

10.40 Tweenies
A strange noise leads Fizz to Max's door.

Contributors

Writer (Balamory):
Johanna Hall

Second World War spy drama starring Anna Neagle , the first of four films this week marking the 100th anniversary of the actress's birth. A suspected Nazi sympathiser gets caught up in a dangerous plot when she leaves Britain for Canada. Review page 56. Director Herbert Wilcox (1943, U)
(BW) Irene with Anna Neagle , tomorrow. 2pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Neagle
Director:
Herbert Wilcox
Unknown:
Anna Neagle

The successful left-wing coup in Nicaragua that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power led to the US sponsoring anti-Sandinista contra-guerrillas throughout much of the 80s. Ben Anderson now finds a democratic
Nicaragua where coffee exports are worth millions. But farmers are starving while millions of dollars of cocaine are washed up on the coastline every week.
Series producer Frank Smith ; Editor Karen O'Connor (Revised repeat)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Anderson
Producer:
Frank Smith
Editor:
Karen O'Connor

5/6. Essex girl Faye McLean is drawn to Gucci and Harvey Nichols as much as she is to cocktails and canapes. But the Billericay big spender doesn't have the salary to match her expensive tastes and mum Linda - used to shopping on a shoestring - is called in to stop the splurges. Producers Mike Taylor and Katya Nelhams-Wright
Series producer Helen Bullough

Contributors

Unknown:
Faye McLean
Unknown:
Harvey Nichols
Producers:
Mike Taylor
Producer:
Helen Bullough

2/10. A nervous Amanda Redman digs into her family's history, uncovering the world of strict Victorian values that affected her disciplinarian grandfather William. Delving deeper, she unearths the double life of her illegitimate uncle Cyril and traces the unusual roots of her Protestant heritage. See also Family Ties, on BBC4 at 11pm. Director Riete Oord ; Series editor Ben Gate
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Contributors

Unknown:
Amanda Redman
Director:
Riete Oord
Unknown:
Dr Nick Barrett

With no former winners on the shortlist, the field is wide open for Achmat Dangor, Sarah Hall, Alan Hollinghurst, David Mitchell, Colm Toibin and Gerard Woodward to claim the £50,000 prize. Kirsty Wark will have the first live interview with the winner following chairman the Rt Hon Chris Smith's announcement, with coverage continuing on BBC4.
Alan Titchmarsh on novel-writing's feelgood factor: page 42

Contributors

Music by:
Tony Royden
Director:
Janet Fraser Crook
Producer:
David Okuefuna

Ends 12.15. www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour
Historians of Genius - in Their Own Words 1/3. The work of three of the UK's greatest historians brought to life.
Samuel West plays Lord Macaulay in the rip-roaring story of the Monmouth Rebellion, as presented in his History of England.
Producer Jonathan Gili ; Exec producer Laurence Rees (AD) Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is tomorrow, 11.20pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel West
Producer:
Jonathan Gili
Producer:
Laurence Rees
Unknown:
Edward Gibbon

A classic of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut 's poignant drama stars Jean-Pierre Leaud as a young boy, neglected by his parents, who plays truant from school and descends into petty crime. In French with English subtitles. Film of the Week: page 47. (1959, PG) (BW) (Analogue W)
Truffaut's Shoot the Pianist is tomorrow at 12.10am

Followed by The Witness A historical event recalled.

Contributors

Unknown:
Francois Truffaut
Unknown:
Pierre Leaud

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