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Words and Pictures

Educational entertainment for six- to seven-year-olds, with Sophie Aldred

Words and Pictures: Words and Pictures: Phonics Special: Ee,Oo

12/01/1999

Phonics Special: Ee,Oo

BBC Two - Words and Pictures, Words and Pictures, Phonics Special: Ee,Oo

A phonics special where Sophie Aldred looks at words with long vowel sounds.

A phonics special where Sophie Aldred looks at words with long vowel sounds and visits a vet and a farm in Wales looking for words with an "ee" sound.

Words and Pictures: Words and Pictures

BBC Two

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.

The Good Life

Classic sitcom about a pair of diverse couples living next door to each other

Classic sitcom about a middle-class couple who decide to turn their home into a self-sufficient farm, starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington

The Good Life: Series 1: Episode 4: Pig's Lib

Episode 4

Episode 4: Pig's Lib

Series 1

Pig's Lib

BBC One - The Good Life, Series 1, Pig's Lib

Margo is horrified when she hears of Tom and Barbara's decision to keep pigs.

Seventies sitcom about a couple who decide to become self-sufficient. Margo is horrified when she hears of Tom and Barbara's decision to keep pigs in the garden.

The Goods' garden is now well under way and Tom is managing to barter reasonably successfully. Margo is horrified when she hears of Tom and Barbara's decision to keep pigs in the garden and enlists the help of the local residents' association in an effort to scupper the plan.

The Good Life: Series 1

BBC One

Tom Good and his wife leave the rat race and try to become self-sufficient.

Fed up with making a living designing plastic toys to be given away in cereal boxes, Tom Good decides to pack in the rat race and become self-sufficient.

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Weird Nature: Devious Defences

Weird Nature: Episode 2: Devious Defences

Episode 2

Episode 2: Devious Defences

Weird Nature

Devious Defences

BBC Four - Weird Nature, Devious Defences

A look at some of the bizarre ways animals defend themselves from predators.

Series exploring strange animal behaviour reveals the bizarre ways animals defend themselves, from skunks that do handstands to crabs that dress up.

Series exploring bizarre behaviour in the animal kingdom looks at creatures that employ camouflage, armour and other methods to ward off predators. Discover skunks that handstand, crabs that dress up and fish that are slime monsters. Meet an armadillo that can roll into an impregnable ball, owls and frogs that puff themselves up and a cobra that spits venom. There are fish that can copy a chequered board, octopus that shape-shift and creatures that can turn inside out. There are even birds that use projectile vomit or repulsive missiles and creatures that turn playing dead into a performance to die for. Using new filming techniques and some extraordinary special FX, this is nature as never seen before.

BBC Four

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

Series exploring bizarre behaviour in the animal kingdom.

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Learning and Number Skills

08/03/2001

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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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