6/6 Series one. This week's episodes dramatised by Helen Cresswell.
Dinah has cracked the code.
Series two starts tomorrow
(S)
Triple bill.
Edie does woodwork.
The pilot episode of the sitcom about family life starring Damon Wayans.
(R) (S)
(Repeats are not indicated)
10.30 Let's Write a Story
Four editions.
(ages 9-11)
11.50 Primary Geography: World Environmental Changes: Somerset Levels
(ages 7-11)
TC takes on con-men.
(R) (S)
Followed by The Witness
(R) (S)
Featuring phones tycoon John Caudwell and one of the oldest makers of town clocks.
(S)
Repeats are not indicated
1.00 Maths Channel - Year 1 (ages 5-7) Triple bill.
Followed by The Witness
Fritz Lang's brooding western starring Marlene Dietrich and Arthur Kennedy.
When a woman is murdered in a Wyoming town, her fiance swears vengeance. But his only clue to the killer's identity is the peculiar phrase "chuck-a-luck".
Review page 50.
(1952, PG)
6/10. What happens to all the manure in racehorse valley? Clare Balding finds out.
Married six weeks after they met, Dave and Barbara now want to buy their first home in the Lincolnshire Fens.
Brian Turner and Antony Worrall Thompson mix it up.
Caustic quiz.
New series 1/10. John Humphrys , Clarissa Dickson Wright, Ulrika Jonsson , Keith Allen and Radio 1's DJ Nihal are put to the test at the prestigious Chelsea College of Art and Design. Can they transform from novices to exhibiting artists in just two weeks?
Series producer Philip Whelan ; Exec producer Gavin Henderson Art and the man: page 19; Who painted what?: page 57
4/6. Dog trainer Annie Clayton devises a training programme for Elaine, whose husband Ron has a love in his life that he refuses to give up: his horse.
Producer Kate Brown ; Executive producer Nichola Hegarty
5/6. Celebrating the magic of mushrooms, Paul Merrett shows how to make a perfect warm salad, unveils the science behind spices used in a bhaji, reveals the secret of the ultimate risotto, and creates the best ever mushrooms on toast.
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2/8. Timothy Pont 's Map of Scotland (1580s/90s).
Wolves roamed the Highlands and clan rivalry made it treacherous to travel. But, when Timothy Pont graduated from St Andrew 's in 1583, he set off to survey Scotland. Over 18 years he made 77 maps, with exceptional detail and information. His maps include 350 mountains, some of which have yet to be identified. Nicholas Crane follows in his footsteps. Director/Series producer Michael Waterhouse
13/13. The Privy Council Office battles it out with the Romantic Novelists' Association in a bid to be series champs. Jeremy Paxman fires the questions. The regular University Challenge returns next week.
Gripping documentary about the 1974 kidnapping of American newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Taken at gunpoint, the teenager was embroiled in a bizarre episode in US history. The radical kidnappers robbed banks, killed innocent people and, most famously, converted their hostage and victim Hearst, inciting perhaps the first modern media frenzy. Showing in the Storyville strand. Review page 50.
Director Robert Stone (2004,12) More from Storyville with Werner Herzoq 's The White Diamond on Wednesday at 9pm on BBC4
Sitcom set in the world of film and TV extras. At long last Andy Millman gets his big acting break - working with TV and tabloid legend, Les Dennis. Show more
Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
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Political comedy featuring Sam Neill , Rachel Griffiths and Geoffrey Rush. Joan is a fanatical communist whose devotion to the party is rewarded when she is invited to meet Stalin. The two have an affair that produces "Little Joe" - who demonstrates serious political ambitions of his own. Review page 50.
Director Peter Duncan (1996)
Followed by The Witness
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Languages and Travel
(Repeats are not indicated)
1.00 Talk Greek
Beginners' course.
With in-vision subtitles.
3.00 Talk Portuguese
Beginners' course, based in Portugal and Brazil. With in-vision subtitles.
4.30 Talk French
With in-vision subtitles.
