with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For timetable of regular features see Monday. Plus today:
Pop with Mike Smith between
7.30 and 8.0
The That's Life file with Esther Rantzcn between 7.30-8.0, 8.30-9.0
with Magnus Magnusson Contestants
Hilary Aslett , Paul Brighton Tom Chitty , Isabelle Heward
Director LAURENCE VULLIAMY
Producer ROGER MACKAY
Presenter Elizabeth Watts Guest Andrew Secombe
In today's programme ASHOK RAMPAL talks to MADHUR JAFFREY about her career as an actress and a cookery writer.
Music is provided by RAM NARAYAN on sarangi.
Producer WASEEM MAHMOOD
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale Weather MICHAEL fish
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
Lisa Kinsman concludes her Chinese cookery series. Music comes from Kay Starr , chart-topping singer of the 50s.
A See-Saw programme
Lots of things growing today - potatoes, flowers and huge turnips!
With Carol Chell and Don Spencer
A film report which looks at the pleasures and problems of the people who produce and sell English wines. More English wine is flowing from the vineyards of the south of England than has done for centuries, and there are vines growing today exactly where Romans and Cistercian monks once tended their grapes.
Film editor BEV AMBROSE Producer MALCOLM ADAMS
with Gloria De Haven
George Murphy , Adolphe Menjou
Fast-talking theatrical producer Miller has a show but no money. His problem is two-fold-to coax cash from a reluctant banker and to stall the eviction of his company from a smart hotel. Help arrives in the shape of 01' Blue Eyes himself in this energetic musical version of the Broadway farce Room Service.
Screenplay by WARREN DUFF , PETER MILNE Produced by ROBERT FELLOWS Directed by TIM WEIELAN
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' What's new? ' asked shrew
' I've had a sore throat' said stoat Presenter Fraser Wilson Guest Sarah Long
Story: Two Can Toucan
Written and illustrated by DAVID MCKEE
A cartoon series
with Bill Oddie
The BFG by ROALD DAHL 3: Dream-catching
Today Brian Trueman welcomes four Scottish children and puts to the test their powers of observation. The schools involved are DYCE ACADEMY, ABERDEEN, and MAXWELLTOWN HIGH, DUMFRIES. The Third Day, in the tradition of the true horror classics, by Young Film-maker James Hegin botham, is also shown.
Director SID WADDELL
Producer TONY HARRISON BBC Manchester
News reports and background on Oeetax
by Roy Russell
Cheryl is an outstanding athlete. Her PE teacher thinks she has a very promising future. Her parents, as ex-athletes, are naturally keen for her to succeed in the 1500 metres. Her schoolmates think she's going to the Olympics. Cheryl, though, has other ambitions.
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The News with tonight's Weather and Regional Magazines
Nick Ross , Desmond Wilcox , Beverly Anderson and Sally Magnusson present the issues of the hour and some stories with a smile - a lively mix of news, views and topical features from Britain and around the world including national and international news read by Moira Stuart.
Sixty Minutes reporters travel far and wide to bring you the people and the places that are making the news, at home and abroad.
HUGH SCULLY with latest investigations from the Watchdog unit, and contributions from The Special Correspondents, Sixty Minutes' own team of humorists, with some less serious observations on the day's events.
Your countdown through Sixty Minutes
5.40 The News
5.53* Regional Magazines
6.15* Weather
6.38* Closing headlines
The All Winners Match
Robert Robinson takes the chair as this year's winners challenge last year's winners-the JACOBS FAMILY from Lewes in Sussex-to an exciting contest as a finale to the present series.
Researcher VANESSA COURTNEY Producer INDIA MCCARTNEY
Executive producer MARK PATTERSON
Join Russell Harty and his guests in London's Greenwood Theatre for TV's liveliest half-hour.
As always there'll be music, good conversation, and Harty's usual collection of the unusual.
Director RON ISTED
Producer JON PLOWMAN Editor TOM GUTTERIDGE
by Roy Clarke
Starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
A drama in six parts adapted from the book by TOM KEENE With BRIAN HAYNES with 2: The British trawler Caistor has disappeared in the Barents Sea. Martin Taylor , son of the Chief Engineer, waits for news in the ship's home port with Suzy, an old schoolfriend.
Now the official search has been abandoned, a private expedition to Norway is being organised by Tom Silvers , brother of one of the crew, but both British and Soviet Intelligence are determined to suppress public anxiety. As the official inquiry is announced, a lifebuoy is found by a Norwegian fisherman ...
Script JAMES MITCHELL
Additional material ROBERT SMITH
Music and title song RICHARD HARVEY Dubbing mixer DAVID DAUMBER Film sound JOHN GILBERT Designer MYLES LING
Producer COLIN ROGERS
Directed by MICHAEL CUSTANCE BBC Pebble Mill
with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman
Introduced by Harry Carpenter
Championship Boxing
'Live' from Belfast: Barry McGuigan (Ireland) v Valerio Nati (Italy) for the European Featherweight Championship
A spectacular fight in prospect for this vacant title bringing together two men who have lost only one fight each in their professional careers. Nati is the more experienced, having fought 30 times, including five times in defence of the European Bantamweight title. In moving up a weight he meets the big-punching Barry McGuigan, five years younger, and winner of a Commonwealth Games gold medal.
Commentator Desmond Lynam
(Boxing sponsored by Smirnoff)
Harry Carpenter's Videobook of Sport Volumes 1-2 (BBCV 5011 and 5019) from retailers
Sports Personality of the Year voting coupon on page 15
with Mike Harding
He Was a Ladies' Man
Mike Harding is halfway through his Lincoln night and welcomes his audience back from the interval with a touch of classical music!
Director KEITH MACKENZIE Producer CYRIL GATES
Record, Flat Dogs and Shaky Pudden (REH/ZCR 479) from retailers