BBC Two

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

BBC Two England

England

CBeebies: Lunar Jim

Animation about a spaceman and friends.
Repeated Tue at 7.45am
Kids' TV Choices: page

CBeebies: Little Robots

CBeebies: Tots TV

CBeebies: Boogie Beebies

There's a thief about.
Repeated Wed at 7.45am

CBBC: Mona the Vampire

CBBC: What's New Scooby-Doo?

CBBC: Best of Friends

CBBC: Fairly Odd Parents

CBBC: Level Up

Viewers discuss life dilemmas, careers, games and gadgets in an interactive magazine hosted by Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes.
Also on the CBBC channel
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Digital viewers can find out how to join in with the show, and a Football Focus commentary competition, via the red button
Kids' TV Choices: page

CBBC: The Story of Tracy Beaker

Charlie's Ghost Story * *

Supernatural comedy drama. Exploring a cave in Colorado, young Charlie makes a spooky discovery. Review page 51. 
Director Anthony Edwards (1994. PG) 
 Followed by The Witness

Working Lunch

All this week Rob Pittam spends time on a farm as newborn lambs come into the world.

The Flying Gardener

Sister Kenny

Biographical drama starring Rosalind Russell as Elizabeth Kenny , an Australian nurse whose pioneering treatment of polio led her into conflict with the medical establishment. Review page 51. Director Dudley Nichols (1946) 
(BW)

Stately Suppers

New series 1/10. Alistair Appleton uncovers a tale of royal murder at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, while James Martin rustles up a tasty venison Wellington.

Escape to the Country

In Wiltshire, space for a pony and a quad bike top the wish list.

Ready Steady Cook

Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes

Ready Steady Cook: Series 15

Ready Steady Cook: Series 15: Episode 113

Episode 113

Series 15

BBC Two - Ready Steady Cook, Series 15, Episode 113

Presented by Ainsley Harriott with chefs Paul Rankin and Antony Worrall Thompson.

Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes. Presented by Ainsley Harriott with chefs Paul Rankin and Antony Worrall Thompson.

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Ainsley Harriott presents more chefs battling to create delicious dishes in 20 minutes

Ainsley Harriott presents more chefs battling head-to-head to create delicious dishes in 20 minutes

Paul Rankin and Antony Worrall Thompson get busy.

Weakest Link

Flog It!

While a Clarice Cliff coffee service sets the bidders' pulses racing as the series hits Reading, Paul Martin visits the town's Old Royal Berkshire Hospital. With experts Thomas Plant and Adam Partridge. 
Series producer Peter Smith ; Executive producer Tom Ware

The Schools Lottery

2/2. Moving house, changing religion, paying for extra tuition - such are the measures many parents take to find the best secondary school for their kids. Greg Dyke, Sandie Shaw, Nick Ross and Trevor Baylis are among those contributing to this comparison of the 11-plus system 40 years ago with the experience of their modern-day counterparts. Has selection via 11-plus been replaced with choice by postcode?

(Don't Mess with Miss Beckles continues tomorrow at 9pm)

Today's Choices: Documentary - The Schools Lottery 7.00pm BBC2
Wouldn't it be marvellous if parents could confidently send their little treasures off to the nearest state school and that was that? So much for the gist of this timely film, which catalogues in often painful detail how, instead, schools admissions are a mad scramble to jump through selection hoops, move house, pass admissions exams, find religion, or do whatever else is necessary to shoehorn your child into a half-decent establishment.
Throwing your hands up in despair, as the film keeps doing, isn't very constructive, but parents who have been through all this may be glad someone feels their pain. The trouble is, by using celebrities as its way in to the story, the film can't quite resist the implication that with luck and good teaching today's very best kids could end up being as eminent as, say, Nick Ross or Sandie Shaw. Could we aim even higher? (David Butcher)

Elephants of Samburu

2/2. With darkness falling and the elephant orphan still on the loose, the calf's life depends on whether Saba Douglas-Hamilton and her team can effect a rescue in time. Plus crippled elephant Babel, who encounters crocodiles and a hostile fellow elephant in her struggle to survive in northern Kenya. 
Producer Lucinda Axelsson ; Series producer Wendy Darke

University Challenge

TV's toughest quiz team tournament. Amol Rajan asks the questions as students from across the UK face the most fiendish of tests.

University Challenge: 2005/2006

University Challenge: 2005/2006: Episode 24

Episode 24

2005/2006

BBC Two - University Challenge, 2005/2006, Episode 24

The University of Lampeter takes on the University of Hertfordshire.

Student quiz hosted by Jeremy Paxman. The final second-round match as the University of Lampeter takes on the University of Hertfordshire in a bid to reach the quarter-finals.

Jeremy Paxman asks the questions as two teams of students battle it out.

In the last of the second-round matches, students from the University of Lampeter take on their counterparts from the University of Hertfordshire. Jeremy Paxman impatiently awaits their answers. 
Director Vernon Antcliff ; Producer Irene Daniels

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

4/7. Xfm DJ and CD:UK presenter Lauren Laverne is the guest host with the thankless task of trying to maintain order in the face of Fightstar's 
Charlie Simpson , Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson , Mint Royale's Neil Claxton and comedian Rhod Gilbert. The team captains are Bill Bailey and Phill Jupitus. Director John L Spencer ; Producer Lucy Clarke 
Repeated next Saturday  Phill Jupitus on Ray Davies 's Other People's Lives: p40

Man Stroke Woman

4/6. The angst-ridden life of the 30-something modern adult is the focus of this sketch show from the producer of The Office. Home-grown comedy talent on show includes Spaced's Nick Frost , Nathan Barley's Nick Burns and Teachers's Amanda Abbington. Director Ric Cantor : Series producer Ash Atalla 
First shown on BBC3  www.bbc.co.uk/manstrokewoman

The Office

4/6; series one. David Brent uses staff-training day as a platform to undermine the management consultant. It all proves too much for Tim, who takes drastic action in a bid to preserve his sanity. Writers/Directors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant 
Producer Ash Atalla

Newsnight

Gypsy Wars

3/3. Out on the open road with the cousin of an Irish traveller who was shot dead in suburban Surrey, the documentary series concludes with the inside story of gypsy life - searching for work, setting up camp in parks and dodging both the police and bailiffs. Producer Richard Parry ; Executive producer David Henshaw 
First shown on BBC3

BBC News 24

BBC Learning Zone

www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone 
Schools Repeats are not indicated 
1.00 L8r Teen video dramas following five friends.  15181 2.00 History - Britain 1906-1918  4DO History - Britain 1750-1900

BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)

Lunar Jim

Lunar Jim: Jim Gets Mucky

03/04/2006

Jim Gets Mucky

CBeebies

Little Robots

07/01/2003

BBC Two Northern Ireland

Tots TV

Tots TV: House in Space

25/08/1999

House in Space

Boogie Beebies

Boogie Beebies: Space Walking

06/06/2005

Space Walking

Lunar Jim: Moon Thief

Moon Thief

Mona the Vampire

Mona the Vampire: Series 1

Mona the Vampire: Series 1: Episode 19: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

Episode 19

Episode 19: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

CBBC

Series 1

What's New Scooby Doo?

What's New Scooby Doo?: Series 3

What's New Scooby Doo?: Series 3: Episode 7: Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend

Episode 7

Episode 7: Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend

Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend

Series 3

Best of Friends

Best of Friends: Series 1

Best of Friends: Series 1: Episode 13

Episode 13

Fairly Odd Parents

Fairly Odd Parents: Series 3

Fairly Odd Parents: Series 3: Where's Wanda?/Imaginary Gary

11/12/2003

Where's Wanda?/Imaginary Gary

Level Up

The Story of Tracy Beaker

The Story of Tracy Beaker: Series 3

The Story of Tracy Beaker: Series 3: Episode 1: Leavin' on a Jet Plane/Supernatural Shelley

Episode 1

Episode 1: Leavin' on a Jet Plane/Supernatural Shelley

Leavin' on a Jet Plane/Supernatural Shelley

Charlie's Ghost Story

17/06/2002

Working Lunch: 08/07/1997

08/07/1997

06/05/2004

17/07/2000

Escape to the Country: Series 3

Escape to the Country: Series 3: Maidenhead to Wiltshire

Maidenhead to Wiltshire

BBC Two Wales (Analogue)

BBC Two Scotland

Until 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales (analogue) was known simply as BBC Two Wales. BBC Two Wales (digital) was BBC 2W. From 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales schedules on both analogue and digital became identical

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