ROY CASTLE finds out how exercise can help you feel better and get more out of life. Heart specialist DR PETER CARSON explains why he jogs every morning, and ROLF HARRIS and LIZA GODDARD also give their reasons for taking exercise.
Director BRIAN DAVIES
Producer PETER RIDING
with Noel Edmonds
Who's going to be first caller this morning? Whose letter will be read out first? Who's going to make the first swap? Will it be you? Join in all morning with Noel and his guests by phone or by letter. If you're going to try and give us a ring, lines are open from 9.30 on [number removed]. Swaporama with Keith Chegwin
We don't know where he's going until he gets there! He could be in a town, in a village, by the sea or even on an island. Find out about 9.40 this morning - he may be just round the corner from you.
9.45* Secret Squirrel
It's a multi-coloured mystery! It's Yellow Pinkie!
News Swap with John Craven
Here's your chance to make the news. Write to John with your local news story and your views on the topics of the day.
It's 'Rama Lama Ding Dong!'
Swap of the Pops with Rocky Sharpe and the Replays and there's a load more music today. Keep an ear open for your favourite sound and have a look at the Top Ten Swaps. You might win all this week's top ten singles.
10.45* Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch with The Bear Who Came To Dinner. Will those grizzlies get their chips?
Star Swap with the multi-talented Marti Caine
Is there anything you want to know about how to make people laugh? Then ring Marti! She'll be waiting to hear from you around midday and offering up a swap which someone's going to win. Noel packs in as much of your post as he can between breakfast and lunch, so thanks for all your letters, cards and drawings. Keep them coming because we enjoy every single one. If you're thinking of writing, here's the address: Multi-Coloured Swap Shop [address removed].
Introduced by Frank Bough
12.20*
Football Focus with BOB WILSON
12.50; 1.25; 2.0*
Racing from Ascot
1.0 The Durham Rangers Novices' Hurdle Race (2m)
1.35 The Philip Comes Novice Hurdle Race (Qualifier) (2im)
2.10 The Blue Circle Cement Handicap Steeple Chase (2m) Commentators JOHN HANMER
RICHARD PITMAN
1.10*
Rugby League
Challenge Cup Draw
' Live' in the Grandstand studio, the draw for the first round of the competition which reaches its climax at Wembley in May.
1.15; 1.45*
International Ski-ing from Wengen
"The Lauberhorn '-Men's Downhill Today's World Cup event is one of the classics of the downhill circuit. Commentator DAVID VINE
2.20*
American Football from Pasadena: The Rose Bowl
University of Southern California v Michigan
The famous Rose Bowl final is one of the greatest spectacles in American sport. The leading two colleges travel to the Pasadena Bowl to compete in a final that is traditionally the finest display of open running American Football.
3.5*
Rugby League from Naughton Park, Widnes
John Player Trophy - Semi Final Widnes v Bradford Northern
Widnes, having won the BBC2 Floodlit Cup and the Lancashire Cup already this season should be favourites to win today.
Commentator EDDIE WARING
3.50*
China Emerges
China are almost certain to compete in next year's Olympic Games in Moscow. While it is unlikely that they will make a big impression after so long in the international wilderness, the recent Asian Games in Bangkok showed that they are improving fast. Reporter RON PICKERING
4.5*
International
Table Tennis from Brighton
The Norwich Union Championship This year sees the largest-ever entry with 17 nations sending competitors, including Kuo Yao -Hua of the People's Republic of China, runner-up in the World Championships. Commentators
TONY GUBBA and ALAN RANSOME
4.40* Final Score
Today's timetable:
12.20 Football Focus; 12.59 Racing
1.10 Rugby League Challenge Cup Draw
1.15 Ski-ing; 1.25 Racing
1.45 Ski-ing: 2.0 Racing
2.28 American Football
3.5 Rugby League: 3.50 China Emerges
4.5 Table Tennis: 4.40 Final Score
* Timings are subject to alteration Television presentation:
Football Focus MIKE MURPHY Racing DENNIS MONGER
Ski-ing SWISS TELEVISION SERVICE American Football NBC TELEVISION Rugby League KEITH PHILLIPS Table Tennis BOB DUNCAN
Grandstand producer MARTIN HOPKINS Editor HAROLD ANDERSON
Soccer results and pools news on Ceefax
Today: Pink Punch; Napoleon Blown Aparte; Vitamin Pink
Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman
with Jimmy Savile , OBE
If you want to ride in the real Wild West,
Or firing a cannon is what you like best,
If you want to drive the James Bond car,
Or be a silent movie star, Jim'll Fix It.
Have you got an unusual or special wish? Jimmy will try to make it come true.
Sound ALAN MACHIN
Lighting JIMMY PURDIE Designer
BARBARA GOSNOLD Studio director PAUL CIANI Producer ROGER ORDISII
starring Jeff Chandler with Ty Hardin , Peter Brown
Andrew Duggan , Will Hutchins and Claude Akins
Burma 1944: ' Merrill's Marauders ', a crack US army unit under Brigadier General Frank Merrill, capture a strategic village. Suffering from mental and physical exhaustion after months of hard jungle warfare, the Marauders are desperately in need of rest. But Merrill must ask for one last supreme effort from his men - and from himself.
Screenplay by MILTON SPERLING and SAMUEL FULLER from the b\>ok by CHAKLTON OGBURN, JR
Produced by MILTON SPERLING Directed by SAMUEL FULLER Films: page 19
Tough and rough - but likeable and friendly. Two young cops walk a tightrope in the world of crime.
Starring Paul Michael Glaser as Starsky, David Soul as Hutch
with Kenneth Kendall Weather
Join Michael Parkinson and his guests of the week for conversation. entertainment and the occasional surprise.
Music HARRY STONEHAM Director IAN HAMILTON Producer JOHN FISHER
