Little Bear
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6.25 Popeye and Son
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6.50 There's a Viking in My Bed
Siggy seeks revenge. (R) (S)
7.05 Yvon of the Yukon
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7.30 I Love Mummy
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7.55 Newsround
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Big Cook Little Cook
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8.20 Tots TV
Making hats.
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8.30 Boo!
On a hill.
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8.40 Pingu
Stinky fun.
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8.45 Little Red Tractor
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9.00 Balamory
PC Plum investigates.
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9.20 The Roly Mo Show
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9.40 Tweenies
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10.00 Sergeant Stripes
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10.10 Yoho Ahoy
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10.15 Bob the Builder
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Followed by CBeebies Birthdays
Westminster news.
Business reports.
Repeats are not indicated.
1.00 Watch (ages 5-7) Double bill.
Followed by The Witness
19trHcentury sports.
Comedy with Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll. A cowardly entertainer gets mixed up with Nazis. Review page 56. Director Sidney Lanfield (1942)
(BW) Bob Hope also stars in Road to Singapore tomorrow at 2.05pm Film Trivia: page 51
Penguins and seals enliven Antarctica's short summer.
Nick Baker visits.
It's babies galore at Longleat, with wolf cubs, sea lion pups and young deer.
With Antony Worrall Thompson and James Tanner.
Elimination quiz.
Will Bristol's unwanted antiques be turned into wanted profit? With Paul Martin. (Revised repeat)
2/2. Concluding the story of Caroline, the single mum with terminal cancer who wants to sing a song to surprise her parents.
Lucy Benjamin , Jessica Taylor and Jo Whiley guest. With Matt Lucas , Will Self and Ulrika Jonsson.
Director Richard Valentine ; Producer Lisa Clark Matt Lucas also stars in Little Britain on Friday BBC1 at 9.30pm
What is the potential outcome of the Pentagon's decision to delegate a war to private contractors, rewarded with money rather than medals? This World's Max Jourdan visits Colombia, where companies jostle to combat guerrillas and cocaine barons. Are profits put before safety?
Producer Bruno Sorrentino : Series producer Sandy Smith (AD)
7/7. Diarmuid Gavin 's 21st-century garden is a contemporary design that draws inspiration from creations showcased in previous episodes. As a nation of passionate gardeners, we're as likely to plunder the past for ideas as the present. Jane Owen sees how fashions repeat and evolve, ponders the role of the modern-day plant hunter and predicts how gardens may look in the future. Director Richard Wallis ; Series producer Hannah Wyatt RT DIRECT: Gardens through Time book is £20 (RRP £25) inc p&p. To order call [number removed] (national rate)
10/10. Jim Moir - aka comedian Vic Reeves - would love to unearth scandal in his hazy family history, driven by the rumour that his mother's father was a bigamist. His compelling odyssey also examines the 19th-century world of domestic service. The series returns next year.
See also Family Ties at 10pm on BBC4.
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What will Vic Reeves find when he goes in search of his past, to his teenage years (inset) and before?
History: Who Do You Think You Are? 9.00pm BBC2
Jim Moir, the surreal comedian most of us know better as Vic Reeves, is the last celebrity to delve back into his past for this series. So, while his second wife Nancy was contemplating nipping off to Australia for I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Jim had the alluring prospect of taking off to the north of England. (Although as RT went to press, it was confirmed that he was going to join Nancy.)
Jim wants to learn more about his elusive maternal grandfather Simeon Leigh, a relative he's has always found fascinating because he was "a spinner of yams" and, in a photo that Jim has seen, he looks very dapper - even sporting spats and a buttonhole while on the beach.
Jim's not keen on actually meeting up with any living relatives he may discover ("Living people freak me out... dead ones are all right!") but he is hoping to unearth some dark secrets: maybe a murder or two. And although there's no murderer in the Moir closet, it turns out h is grandfather did have a couple of skeletons lurking in there. For one thing, he didn't marry Jim's grandmother until he was 50 and, as Jim suspected, it seems that at the time he was still married to his first wife.
It's an interesting finale to what has been a superb series, but don't expect Vic Reeves-style comedy. Away from the cameras, Jim Moir (or Rod, as his family rather confusingly call him) is a very different man indeed. (Jane Rackham)
With Gavin Esler.
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3/4. Profiling the ex-soccer star, whose football boot "The Pig" secured a nomination for 2004's Designer of the Year award. With EkowEshun.
Series producer Paul Kerr First shown on BBC4 (AD)
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Painting Flowers 3/4. The use of the white lily in religious art to symbolise sanctity and innocence. Director Paul Islwyn Thomas ; Producer Ceri Sherlock [Web Address Removed]
Monty Don looks at how artists such as Sandro Botticelli and John Singer Sargent depicted the lily.
Languages and Travel Repeats are not indicated.
2.00 Living the Dream Field of Dreams 48486 3.00 How to Learn a Language <S) 52738 4.00 Profile Jose Bove 99405 4.30 Working with the French 75283 5.00 Omnibus Mad about Monet
