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| BBC ONE Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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Matt Roberts presents live coverage from the Malaysian MotoGP. Casey Stoner won at Sepang last year, becoming the first rider to win all three classes in the Malaysian event as he continued his march towards his first MotoGP crown. But the Australian has found defending his title a much harder proposition.
Highlights can be seen on BBC Two at 1.40am tonight.
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Adrian Chiles presents highlights from today's two Barclays Premier League matches, which saw Hull host West Ham and Tottenham visit Stoke.
Hull have made the best start of the three promoted sides – could they keep it up in their first meeting with West Ham for 17 years? Many predicted Stoke would struggle in their first season in the Premier League but few imagined that today's opponents, Spurs, would also have made such a stuttering start to the campaign.
There is also a chance to see all the goals from yesterday's top-flight games and a look at the offbeat side of the weekend's football action in 2Good 2Bad.
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Stephen Fry In America – The Deep South Ep 2/6
Sunday 19 October
9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE
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A flavour of the South: Stephen
Fry is shown around the
Woodford Reserve bourbon
distillery in Versailles, Kentucky "For years," says Stephen Fry, "I have been intrigued and enriched by what seems to be America's most characterful region. A place of cotton, courtesy, gospel music, mint juleps, divine accents and sultry southern belles."
In the second episode of his tour of America, Stephen gets back into his trusted taxi and heads for the Deep South – a distinctive part of America that has always intrigued him. Starting in West Virginia, where 50 per cent of the energy comes from coal, he joins a shift of coal miners on a trip deep underground. It's hot, dark and, for a man of Stephen's height, very uncomfortable.
From Virginia it's on to Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Derby, where Stephen visits the auction house where the most expensive horse flesh in the world is traded.
In Tennessee he experiences the highs and lows of life, from a Bluegrass music jamming session to a more sombre scientific site known as a "body farm", where a team of scientists help in murder cases by work with corpses to research "time since death".
Needing a lift from grim thoughts of mortality, Stephen takes to a hot air balloon across the skies of North Carolina.
Stephen spends Thanksgiving in Georgia before heading to Miami where, as he drives his taxi along Miami Beach, he reveals his disdain for the southernmost part of America: "I'd rather be curled up in a snowy cabin with a hot whisky or, quite frankly, a Horlicks than I would spend half an hour in this rotting place."
Finishing up in Alabama, Stephen enjoys the extraordinary hoopla of a college ball game, complete with air-force jets.
Stephen Fry was very nearly an American. Just before he was born his father was offered, but turned down, a job at Princeton University. In this six-part series, the writer and actor explores the country that he might have called home.
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| BBC TWO Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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Some of the world's leading gymnasts compete in the Glasgow Grand Prix and BBC Two brings highlights of the event from Kelvin Hall.
The main attraction for home fans will be Louis Smith, who became the first British gymnast to win an Olympic medal for 80 years when he took bronze on the pommel horse in Beijing in August. The 19-year-old won silver on the same piece of apparatus in Glasgow last year. There will also be a lot of local support for Daniel Keatings, the Scottish 18-year-old who reached the all-around final at the Olympics.
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BBC Two presents highlights from today's action in Sepang, Malaysia, where round 17 of this year's MotoGP championship took place.
The race was screened live on BBC One at 6.45am.
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