Thu. 07

Springwatch

8PM BBC2

Bill Oddie and Kate Humble return to Devon, where they use fibre- optic cable and 50 mini-cameras to follow the lives of numerous animals including blue tits, swallows, barn owls, buzzards, badgers and otters. Simon King spends three weeks observing creatures on the Hebridean island of Islay and Gordon Buchanan reveals how foxes cope with city life in a diary from Glasgow.

Bust My Ass

9PM BBC3

Journalist Sam Delaney and a group of unlikely "criminals", who have all been arrested for minor misdeamours ranging from wearing offensive T-shirts to heckling, set out on a mission to keep on acting freely while avoiding trouble. Sam is surprised to discover the limits people are forced to stay within to avoid a criminal record.

Mission: Impossible

1AM ITV2

Tom Cruise stars as a secret agent who gets embroiled in a deadly scheme while hunting a spy intent on selling a list of the world's undercover operatives to the highest bidder. Also stars Jon Voight.

Radio: Current Puns

11.30PM RADIO4

Yes, we British have an irresistible attraction to wordplay, even though it makes us wince. In the course of a half-hour groaning with puns, read with a heavy heart by comedian Arthur Smith, Stephen Fry traces the history of the Christmas cracker joke and meets monster punster Tim Vine.

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