Eleanor celebrates her 12th birthday. With Sam Nixon, Mark Rhodes and Ayesha Asantewaa.
Also on the CBBC channel
Digital viewers can enter a gardening competition offering the chance to work at Windsor via the red button
Double bill.
Jim, Ripple and Rover are trapped in a cave.
A look at weather and frogs.
The pluses of being cuddly.
Repeats are not indicated
10.30 Megamaths
(ages 7-9) Double bill.
Westminster news.
Business issues with Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw.
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1.00 KS2 Science Clips
(ages 7-9) Triple bill.
Vertical gardening.
Biographical drama starring Jay Underwood and Renee Faia as pop duo Sonny and Cher, whose success belied a volatile relationship. Review page 50. Director David Burton Morris
(1999, PG)
Plants that "look after one another".
(Revised repeat)
While in West Sussex, presenter Paul Martin visits a reproduction of the Sistine Chapel. (5)
Swapping words for whisks are Nicholas Parsons and author
Marian Keyes. IS)
More caustic quizzing. (5)
By the Labour Party.
A fresh batch of brainy upstarts challenge the team of general knowledge goliaths.
It's all very fishy up north tonight with chefs Simon Rimmer and Marcus Wareing. Simon creates an Indian spiced halibut with Southport shrimp biryani while Marcus is looking for the best fish to make his wild sea bass glazed with a pine nut crust. 55 RT DIRECT: for a whole host of cookware offers and ideas, visit www.blueshoots.com/rtdirect
4/6. The Winter of Discontent. It's a tough job persuading the bank to support remortgaging part of the castle. But just as fortune seems to be smiling, an unannounced visit from the council planning department throws all into disarray.
Director Ant Palmer ; Executive producer Richard Klein
5/7. The Strawbridge family take a huge step forward in their quest for a green life - they switch off mains water and install a E200 wind turbine to pump water from a spring. So it's free water on tap, once the kids have done the dirty work and dug a trench for the pipes - through the pigs' field.
Producer Susanna Handslip ; Series producer Lynn Barlow RT DIRECT: the accompanying hardback book is E16.99 incl p&p (UK delivery only). To ordercall [number removed] quoting RT (landline calls cost max 8p per min) or visit www.rtdirect.sparkledirect.com
3/3. Gretna Green to John o' Groats. On the final leg of his journey presenter Dan Cruickshank arrives in Scotland. Amid breath-taking scenery, he travels from the Lowlands to the Highlands, meeting the descendants of hunters, dockers and zoo keepers. Dan Cruickshank returns next week with a new series, Marvels of the Modern Age.
Producer Annabel Hobley ; Series producer Emma Hindley
All the Friese-Greene footage can be viewed at www.bbc.co.uk/history
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4/8. The Elson Family. Matt and Mandie Elson wanted a third child but had triplets. [text removed] are now three and they're running riot. Mum and dad are at breaking point dealing with five kids. Can Dr Tanya Byron help to sort things out? Producer Carrie Rose ; Series producer Sacha Baveystock
First shown on BBC3
Presented by Jeremy Paxman.
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David Lodge and Doris Lessing are among those praising the brilliance of Dame Muriel Spark , who died last month, aged 88. This Bookmark profile, first shown in 1996, features a revealing interview with the author at her home in Tuscany.
Director Eleanor Yule ; Editor Roland Keating
www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone
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2.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision Maths 1 - Number and Measures 23406 4.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision Maths 2 - Algebra
