with Frank Bough and Fern Britton
For regular features see Monday Plus today:
Gardening Tips from Alan Titch marsh between 7.30 and 7.45
Pop News between 7.45 and 8.0
Food and Cooking with Glynn Chris tian between 8.30 and 9.0

Now is the winter of our discontent cheered up enormously by this son of Blackburn - yes, Russell Harty in deepest Shakespeare land-but there will not be a doublet in sight as he mingles with custard pies, penny far-things and punts in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Produced by JOHN ROONEY and KEN STEPHINSON
BBC Manchester

Presenter Lionel Morton Guest Carol Chell

The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v West Indies from Headingley Second day
PETER WEST introduces the whole of this morning's play. Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD , JIM LAKER
TOM GRAVENEY , RAY ILLINGWORTH
Television presentation:
BILL TAYLOR , MIKE ADLEY , KEITH MACKENZIE Executive producer NICK HUNTER

with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale Weather IAN MCCASKILL

(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)

A See-Saw programme written by JULIE HOLDER The Cloud
It's an 'umpty' day for Perkin Flump. He's going round 'under a cloud'. Posey and Pootle wish they had a cloud of their own following them. Narration GAY SOPER Music
PAUL READE
Animation DAVID KELLEHAR
Producer DAVID YATES.

Further coverage of play on the second day of the Third Test.

Presenter Ben Thomas Guest Shireen Shah
Story: Steve the Steeplejack by MOLLY COX
Musical director PETER PONTZEN Percussionist LYN EDWARDS Photographer JOHN JEFFORD
Producers CHRISTINE HEWITT. ANN REAY Series producer ANNE GOBEY
Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE

Hot Race to Chillicothe
A Little League game interrupts the race as it proceeds to Chillicothe, Ohio.

Every Friday the Newsround team takes a closer look at one big issue that people really care about. John Craven and Paul McDowell , helped by BBC reporters around the world, bring you the stories, cover the events, and meet the personalities that are making your kind of news.
This week Paul reports from New York on Children's Express, the news service where children are the reporters and editors. Their stories are read by millions of people in 2,500 newspapers worldwide.
Editor ERIC ROWAN

A serial in 13 parts
Doomy Dwyer 's deals are always suspect. He is trying to sell land to Sir Charles which the Maoris claim is theirs and sacred. Tom's gang believe Doomy has an illegal distillery and at last they discover the store of drink. 7:Dark Secrets
Written by ROGER SIMPSON
Executive producer JOHN MCRAE
Producer ROGER LE MESURIER

Alien Planet
Eric Twinge is just another schoolboy, but when danger calls, a few mouthfuls of his special bananas and hnc is Bananaman. with voices of TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR , BILL ODDIE GRAEME GARDEN, JILL SHILLING
Written by BERNIE KAY Music by DAVID COOKE
Produced by TREVOR BOND Directed by TERRY WARD 101 PRODUCTIONS

including
The News with tonight's Weather and Regional Magazines
Presenters Nick Ross,
Sarah Kennedy and Sally Magnusson National and international news read by Jan Leeming
Sixty Minutes reporters bring you the people and places making the news.
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
5.54* Weather
5.55* Regional Magazines
6.38* Closing headlines
(For regional details see Monday)

Tom and Jerry play cat 'n' mouse

[Starring] Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant, Lee Curreri as Bruno Martelli, Cynthia Gibb as Holly Laird, Erica Gimpel as Coco, Albert Hague as Shorofsky, Billy Hufsey as Christopher Donlan, Carlo Imperato as Danny Amatullo, Carol Mayo Jenkins as Elizabeth Sherwood, Valerie Landsburg as Doris, Gene Anthony Ray as Leroy

Lydia is hired to teach dance to a professional basketball team but finds herself getting involved with S.T. Gray, the one player who refuses to come to class. Lydia is torn between her feelings and her professionalism, because if she reports S.T. to the coach he will face a fine and possibly a suspension. Meanwhile Shorofsky is astonished when Doris refuses to perform for a Jewish benefit, rejecting her heritage.

from Crystal Palace
The Peugeot Talbot Games
Athletes from all over the world gather in south London tonight as the build-up to the Olympic Games reaches a peak. STEVE OVETT , STEVE CRAM and DAVID MOORCROFT are joined by top-ranking men from China, the United States, and even the Soviet Union, despite their Olympic boycott. Commentators
DAVID COLEMAN , RON PICKERING
STUART STOREY , BRENDAN FOSTER
Producer JOHN SHREWSBURY (Organised by the AAA)

with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weekend Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Tough and rough -but likeable and friendly. Two young cops walk a tight-rope in the world of crime. starring
Silence
Larry Horvath has no power of speech nor hearing. He is good-natured and trusiting-which makes him an ideal
Pawn for a ruthless racketeer who is masquerading as a kindly priest ...
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170

A six-part comedy by ALEX SHEARER starring Robin Nedwell with David Battley
Jacqueline Tong , David Williams Special guests
Michael Howard , Jack Watson
4: Having been 'promoted to office duties to keep him out ot trouble, Harry finds that his genius is not being fully exploited ...
Designer DINAH WALKER
Produced and directed by ALAN J. W. BELL

from Crystal Palace
The Peugeot Talbot Games
Highlights of tonight's major invitation meeting, which featured some of our top competitors.