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Adrian Chiles introduces action and reaction from tonight's final round of matches in Group A, as co-hosts
Switzerland take on much-fancied Portugal, and Turkey play the Czech Republic.
With only the top two in the group progressing to the quarter-finals, it is likely to be a pivotal evening with
qualification still to be decided. The Swiss kicked off in Basel, attempting to qualify for the knockout stages of
this tournament for the first time. Beset by injuries in the build-up to the tournament, they will be relying on
the predatory instincts of Alexander Frei as he looks to become Switzerland's record goalscorer. The 2004
finalists, Portugal, have never failed to reach the quarter-finals and boast several potential match-winners,
spearheaded by Premier League and Champions League winner Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Czech Republic are without much of the attacking talent that took them to the semi-finals four years ago, but
Turkey must get past the brilliant Petr Cech in goal if they are to entertain hopes of winning this fixture for the
first time in 50 years.
Coverage of the match is also available on the BBC HD Channel.
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BBC Two presents highlights of last week's Triathlon World Championships in Vancouver, which attracted more than
3,000 athletes from 45 countries.
Triathlon (a 1,500m swim, 40km bike ride and 10km run) has only been an Olympic discipline since 2000, but the sport dates back to the Seventies. The Vancouver event was the 20th World Championships. With the 2008 Olympics less than two months away, the Canada event marked an
excellent opportunity to assess the form of the leading contenders for the Beijing Games.
Britain's Tim Don was defending his world title at last year's World Championships in Hamburg but could only manage
10th place, with compatriots Will Clarke and Stuart Hayes both finishing above him. Portugal's Vanessa Fernandes,
who is one of the favourites for gold in Beijing, won the women's event in 2007, having been the runner-up the year
before.
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Sue Barker presents live coverage of the final of the Artois Championships at Queen's Club in London.
If the final is half as exciting as last year's, then viewers are in for a treat – Andy Roddick came through
an epic battle with little-known Frenchman Nicolas Mahut to claim his fourth Queen's title. The American faced a
match point in the second set tie-break but showed his fighting spirit to land the spoils.
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Ray Mears Goes Walkabout – Rock Art Ep 4/4
Sunday 15 June
8.00-9.00pm BBC TWO
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Ray Mears's walkabout
concludes with a trip to see
the rock art of Kimberley
Britain's foremost survival expert, Ray Mears, follows in the footsteps of William Dampier, the first Englishman to
set foot in Australia, as he concludes his walkabout of the Outback.
Dampier landed in north-west Australia over 80 years before Cook claimed the continent for the Crown. Ray
approaches the coast by sailing lugger as he embarks on his own exploration of the area.
A remarkable man – part botanist, part privateer, part explorer – Dampier was also a meticulous author
who recorded all his experiences of these first explorations – including what Ray considers as possibly the
earliest written record of how to make fire by friction.
The land Dampier saw was uninviting – a vast, desert-like bush. Ray enters the top end of the Great Sandy
Desert and meets Pat Lowe, an author who lived in the desert as the wife of Jimmy Pike, a now-famous Aboriginal
artist.
North-west Australia is world famous for its art, and the most renowned is the rock art of the Kimberley area
– something Ray has wanted to see for years. There are several different styles going back tens of thousands
of years, and among them may be clues to some of the first travellers to this continent. Ray joins artist Juju
Wilson for a journey through this landscape of rocky gorges, rivers and waterfalls as they discuss the art and the
very real part it still plays in Aboriginal culture.
Coming full circle, Ray visits the final rock art site on the coast, seeing truly ancient images of boats and
canoes. He ponders whether they were drawn by the first travellers to Australia, recording their arrival, or by
natives witnessing Dampier setting foot on an Australian beach.
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BBC FOCUS ON CHINA
Wild China – Tides Of Change Ep 6/6
Sunday 15 June
9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO
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Monkeying about in Wild China The coast of China – the area undergoing the fastest development – concludes the series gaining access
and insight into all of this vast country.
From the eastern end of the Great Wall, China's coast spans 14,500km and more than 5,000 years of history.
This is a place of huge contrasts: futuristic modern cities jostling with traditional seaweed-thatched villages,
ancient tea terraces and wild wetlands where rare animals still survive. Here, Chinese white dolphins, red-crowned
cranes, deadly vipers, giant sturgeon and sabre-wielding monkeys struggle to eke out a living, faced by competition
from almost three-quarters of a billion people, widespread pollution and over-fishing.
This last episode in the series investigates how China is managing environmental concerns with the needs of its
population.
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| BBC THREE Sunday 15 June 2008 |
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Greek – Picking Teams Ep 4/10
Sunday 15 June
9.15-10.00pm BBC THREE
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Casey's loyalties are put to the test over the approaching hockey competition between her boyfriend's fraternity,
Omega Chi, and her brother's – and ex's – Kappa Tau, as the US comedy drama following the lives of
young people on a university campus continues.
The ZBZ girls' historical alliance with Evan's house decides it for her and Casey sets up the Kappa
Tau boys for a fall, goaded on by a bit of skulduggery on Rebecca's part.
Harnessing the ZBZ girls' natural assets, Casey leads them on a little jaunt to visit the boys at Kappa Tau –
the night before the game. If sport is all about discipline – eating healthily, drinking water and staying
away from girls – the Kappa boys have none, and the prospect of a party is too tempting to refuse. When the
sun rises and the morning of the big game comes around, they can hardly stagger out of bed.
Cappie's resources will be sorely stretched if he's to pull his decimated team back from the brink of humiliating
defeat...
Spencer Grammer plays Casey, Jake McDorman plays Evan, Dilsad Vadsaria plays Rebecca and Scott Michael Foster plays
Cappie.
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