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Tennis: Queen's

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Action from the prestigious Queen's Club grass court tournament.

Action from the prestigious Queen's Club grass court tournament. The traditional warm-up for Wimbledon with some of the biggest stars in men's tennis.

Queen's: 2009

Tennis: Queen's: 2009: Day One: Part 1

08/06/2009

Day One: Part 1

2009

BBC Sport - Tennis: Queen's, 2009, Day One: Part 1

Sue Barker hosts as the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club, London, get under way.

Sue Barker hosts coverage as the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club, London, gets underway. Commentary comes from Andrew Castle, Mark Petchey, John Lloyd and Pat Cash.

Sue Barker hosts coverage as the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club, London, get under way. As always, there will be a world-class field taking part, with players not only hoping to win this prestigious title but also anxious to get a feel for the grass surface ahead of Wimbledon. 

Rafael Nadal made an impressively swift transition from clay to grass last year, coming to London straight from winning the French Open to triumph at Queen's - it was his first grasscourt title and he landed another at Wimbledon weeks later. 

Commentators are Andrew Castle, Mark Petchey, John Lloyd and Pat Cash.

Tennis: Queen's: 2009

BBC Two

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

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

Tennis

Tennis: Queen's: 2009: Day One: Part 2

Day One: Part 2

BBC Sport - Tennis: Queen's, 2009, Day One: Part 2

Grandpa In My Pocket

Children's comedy about a grandpa with a big secret - he can magically shrink.

Grandpa In My Pocket: Series 1

Grandpa In My Pocket: Series 1: Episode 15: Trouble for Bubbles

Episode 15

Episode 15: Trouble for Bubbles

Grandpa in my Pocket - CBeebies - BBC

Spoilt boy-next-door Troy turns up and causes trouble for Bubbles the babysitter.

Comedy drama featuring a grandpa with a shrinking cap. Bubbles the babysitter arrives to take care of Jason and his friend Josh. Then spoilt Troy turns up.

The delightful Bubbles the babysitter arrives to take care of Jason and his friend Josh. Everyone is having a great time until spoilt boy-next-door Troy turns up and starts causing trouble for Bubbles. It's Grandpa to the rescue!

Trouble for Bubbles

Series 1

CBeebies

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes.

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes, dedicated to delighting and surprising its pre-school audience.

Comedy drama featuring a grandpa with a magical shrinking cap

Comedy drama featuring a grandpa with a magical shrinking cap that only his grandson knows about

Grandpa in My Pocket

Nina and the Neurons Go Inventing

Nina and the Neurons Go Inventing: Episode 16: Buckle Up

Episode 16

Episode 16: Buckle Up

Buckle Up

CBeebies - Nina and the Neurons Go Inventing, Buckle Up

Fabulous Felix is at hand to help out as Nina takes apart a seatbelt in her workshop.

Nina looks at different household inventions and finds out how they work. Friends Ryan and Jed ask Nina: How does a seatbelt in a car work?

Nina looks at different household inventions and finds out how they work. With the help of her trusty neurons she examines the items to answer children's questions.

In this episode of Nina and the Neurons Go Inventing, Ryan and Jed ask: How does a seatbelt in a car work? Fabulous Felix is at hand to help out as Nina takes apart a seatbelt in her workshop. They then take a trip to a climbing centre to see something else that uses the same science. 

This episode is all about torsion and to find out what torsion is and how you can make your very own seatbelt, sit back and strap yourself in to today's exciting show.

Nina looks at different household inventions and finds out how they work

Nina looks at different household inventions and finds out how they work. With the help of her trusty neurons she examines the items to answer children's questions

LazyTown

Fun with pink-haired eight-year-old Stephanie and superhero Sportacus.

Fun with pink-haired eight-year-old Stephanie and superhero Sportacus

LazyTown Extra

LazyTown: LazyTown Extra: Episode 6: Clean Up

Episode 6

Episode 6: Clean Up

Clean Up

CBeebies - LazyTown, LazyTown Extra, Clean Up

Ziggy learns about washing things and Sportacus shows how to do a special move.

Spin-off series. Ziggy learns about washing things and discovers why it is best to wash an apple before eating it, while Sportacus shows how to do a special move.

A spin-off series in which the LazyTown characters have fun finding out about different sports and activities. 

Ziggy's UK adventures continue when he joins friends to learn about washing things. With their help, he discovers why it's best to wash an apple before eating it and why soap is really important. He also gets himself in a muddle with his favourite blanket.

Meanwhile, Sportacus does an amazing Sportacus move in his airship, and Stephanie and Trixie keep clean in the kitchen. Stingy gets mixed up and thinks that it's necessary to have a bath before you eat. Sportacus also shows how to do a special move with his friends, and even Robbie Rotten shows an interest in cleaning when he tries to set a world record in his lair.

LazyTown: LazyTown Extra

Spin off series featuring the characters from LazyTown.

Spin off series from LazyTown in which the characters have lots of fun finding out about different sports and activities.

Doctors

Drama series set in a Midlands practice following the lives of the staff and patients.

Your regular appointment in Letherbridge. In a busy Midlands GP practice, the turbulent lives and loves of the staff and patients mean there's always humour and heartbreak.

Doctors: Series 11

Doctors: Series 11: Episode 43: No Rest For the Wicked

Episode 43

Episode 43: No Rest For the Wicked

Series 11

No Rest For the Wicked

BBC One - Doctors, Series 11, No Rest For the Wicked

Zara must act when a mother goes to extreme measures to maintain her family's lifestyle.

Zara must act when a mother goes to extreme measures to maintain her family's lifestyle, while Simon tries to save his friendship with Cherry.

Zara is forced to take action when a mother goes to extreme measures to keep her family in the life to which they are accustomed. 

Meanwhile, Simon tries to save his friendship with Cherry, and Daniel receives some bad news about a patient, which hinders his flirtation with Zara.

BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

Drama series following the lives of the staff of the Mill Health Centre.

Doctors: Series 11: Episode 44: Chicken Boy

Episode 44

Episode 44: Chicken Boy

Chicken Boy

BBC One - Doctors, Series 11, Chicken Boy

Jimmi helps a troubled family to communicate, while Daniel has an unexpected windfall.

Jimmi helps a troubled family to start communicating, smoothing ruffled feathers. Daniel comes by an unexpected windfall, and Zara wins grudging respect from Michelle.

Jimmi helps a troubled family to start communicating, smoothing ruffled feathers. 

Daniel comes by an unexpected windfall, and Zara's take-no-prisoners attitude wins grudging respect from Michelle.

The Chase: 10/12

The Chase

Drama series set around a country veterinary practice

The Chase: Series 2

The Chase: Series 2: Episode 10

Episode 10

Series 2

BBC One - The Chase, Series 2, Episode 10

Drama series set around a country veterinary practice. Deborah fires Clare.

Drama series set around a country veterinary practice. Tempers become heated at The Chase as Deborah fires Clare while Rick stands helplessly by.

Drama series set around a country veterinary practice. Tempers become heated at The Chase as Deborah fires Clare while Rick stands helplessly by. Anna and Sarah move from one crisis to the next as the mediation over George’s estate leaves Claudie holding all the cards. Tom, desperate to escape Fiona's mind games, makes a last-ditch attempt to persuade Anna to move to Botswana. Rick is devastated to see Clare with a mystery man.

Drama series set around a veterinary practice in the countryside

Last of the Summer Wine

Touring Britain

Touring Britain: Episode 1: The Victorian Way

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Victorian Way

The Victorian Way

BBC Four - Touring Britain, The Victorian Way

David Heathcote uses a 1887 Baedeker Guide to explore modern-day Britain.

Cultural historian David Heathcote uses a 1887 Baedeker Guide to explore Britain, discovering hidden treasures popular with Victorians but rarely visited today.

Cultural historian David Heathcote uses his favourite old 1887 Baedeker Guide to explore modern-day Britain, discovering unexpected delights and hidden treasures which were popular with Victorian tourists but are rarely visited today.

Following in the footsteps of early American tourists who arrived off the boats in Liverpool, he takes the advice of the Guide and discovers 'the most fashionable of Welsh watering places'. The Guide then recommends a trip to the salt mines, popular with American visitors 100 years ago and, surprisingly, just as interesting today.

He then travels on to Manchester, recommended by Baedeker as a hotbed of music, politics and radical thinking and discovers that the spirit of what attracted the curious visitors 100 years ago lives on.

The journey ends in York where modern day tourists follow in the footsteps of their Victorian counterparts and enjoy the magnificent medieval city and cathedral.

As he travels, Heathcote explores the story behind the guide books that were so influential in creating the independent traveller as we know it today.

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.

Cultural historian David Heathcote uses old travel guide books to explore Britain

Cultural historian David Heathcote uses old travel guide books to explore modern-day Britain

Touring Britain: the Victorian Way: 1/2

Silent Witness

Drama series about a team of forensic pathologists.

Forensic pathologists face personal and professional challenges in a moody, tense thriller that moves from the crime scene to the lab.

Silent Witness: Series 12: Safe

Silent Witness: Series 12: Part 1: Safe, Part 1

Part 1 Part 1: Safe, Part 1

Series 12

Safe, Part 1

BBC One - Silent Witness, Series 12, Safe, Part 1

Leo does community service on a rough estate after being done for drink-driving.

Drama series about a team of forensic pathologists. Leo does community service on a rough estate after being done for drink-driving.

Leo is stopped for drink-driving and finds himself having to do community service in a rough part of South London, answering to a tough-talking community worker named AJ who is not happy to be saddled with a 'drunk whitey'.

Leo tries to keep his head down, do his hours and get out. But when one of the lads is stabbed near their playing fields, Leo steps in and saves the boy's life, winning him new respect from AJ and the kids.

Nikki, meanwhile, investigates the death of a young girl from the same area who, it seems, was murdered.

Silent Witness: Series 12

Drama series about a team of forensic pathologists

In Search of Wabi Sabi with Marcel Theroux

Marcel Theroux travels across Japan in an attempt to understand Wabi Sabi.

Marcel Theroux travels across Japan in an attempt to understand Wabi Sabi, a theory of Japanese aesthetics in which imperfection and transience are the touchstone of beauty.

In Search of Wabi Sabi with Marcel Theroux: Part 3

Part 3 BBC Four - In Search of Wabi Sabi with Marcel Theroux, Part 3

Marcel Theroux visits Japan in an attempt to understand Wabi Sabi, a theory of aesthetics.

British novelist Marcel Theroux is fascinated by Wabi Sabi, a theory of Japanese aesthetics in which imperfection and transience are the touchstone of beauty. 

The Japanese say that if you can understand Wabi Sabi, you will understand Japan and the Japanese. Yet at the same time they have immense difficulty in explaining the concept themselves, so Marcel travels across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and then on to the mountains of Fukui, trying to unravel the meaning of this baffling concept that is at the heart of what makes the Japanese tick. 

It is a challenging, funny and ultimately moving journey that starts under the bright neon lights and craziness of Tokyo and ends in an austere Zen Temple in the snowy foothills of Japan's eastern mountains.

in Search of Wabi Sabi with Marcel Theroux

the novelist learns about the Japanese art

A Little Later

Vintage performances from the Later... with Jools Holland archives

A Little Later: Portishead

28/06/2000

Portishead

BBC Two - A Little Later, Portishead

Portishead perform Machine Gun on Later... with Jools Holland, from April 2008.

A Little Later...

Cinderella Man

07/09/2008

BBC Two - Cinderella ManSearch BBC

Biopic of legendary 1930s boxer James Braddock, who returned to the ring after retirement.

Biopic of legendary 1930s boxer James Braddock who returned to the ring after retirement as the underdog contender for the heavyweight championship.

Biopic of legendary 1930s boxer James Braddock, who returned to the ring after retirement as the underdog contender for the heavyweight championship. After losing everything during the Depression, Braddock makes a last ditch attempt to pay off his debts that leads him on a path to a title shot against the overwhelming favourite, Max Baer.

FILM Cinderella Man ****

Biographical boxing drama. Film of the Day: p36

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