starts your day with half-an-hour of news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers, whether or not they have teletext sets.

with Frank Bough and Fern Britton Daily timetable:
News with Debbie Rix
(Fern Britton Tues, Wed)
6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0, 8.30, with headlines on every quarter hour.
Weather with Francis Wilson : 6.31,
6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Sport with David Icke and Bob Wilson : 6.40 and 7.40
Regional News, weather and traffic:
6.45, 7.15, 7.45, 8.15 TV Choice at 6.55
Review of the Papers: 7.18 and 8.18
Your Stars with Russell Grant : 8.33 Plus today:
New Films and Pop Records between
7.45 and 8.0
Ask Alison, your money phone-in with Alison Mitchell , between 8.30 and 9.0
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from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton , Clay Jones and Anne Mayo
As the Starting from Scratch garden nears completion the team choose herbaceous plants and shrubs for it.

Presenter Ben Thomas Guest Liz Millbank Story: Small Pig by ARNOLD LOBEL

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

with Richard Whitmore and Michael Cole
Weather BILL GILES

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

A See-Saw programme with FRED HARRIS
Chock-a-Block has a stock of blocks chockablock with pictures for words that rhyme.
Music PETER GOSLING Director NICK Wilson
Producer MICHAEL COLE

England v West Indies
The start of this afternoon's play.

Presenter Carol Leader Guests Wayne Jackman Kenny and Caz
Story: Josh Jolly Gives a Party by JOYCE TOMSETT

starring Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin in an entertainment of comedy, jokes and music with Delia Morgan Keith Woodhams and this week's guest Tony Robinson and Jonathan Cohen with the Play Away Band
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Producer JOHN smith
Series producer ANN REAY
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The adventures of some kids who happen to live on the same street in Toronto - Degrassi Street. 2: Cookie Goes to Hospital
Ida hates Cookie's dolls but when Cookie suddenly has to go into hospital Ida changes her mind.
Producers KIT HOOD and LINDA SCHUYLER A PLAYING WITH TIME film

including
The News and tonight's Weather with Nick Ross , Sarah Kennedy and Sally Magnusson
News read by Moira Stuart During the week:
HUGH SCULLY with Watchdog; plus The Special Correspondents.

The merchants of Chinatown are held in terror by 'The Dragon', a sinister underworld boss. Unable to find anyone prepared to testify against the tyrant, Jonathan Chase must play him at his own game. He is soon studying the movements of animals in combat with renewed interest...

The first of six programmes
A bike ride through 1,500 miles of America with Mike Harding

Mike arrives in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, and bases out with a Phillie fanatic called Gloria to watch America's favourite pastime. He looks in on a community which has turned its back on the 20th century, and meanders down to the Shenandoah river, where he swaps pedals for paddles and a ride on the rapids. Dusk falls with the rain as Mike samples his first wet hamburger.

BBC Manchester

Feature: page 80

with Nicholas Witchell and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world

Weatherman

The feature film starring Ben Gazzara, Paul Sorvino, Robert Vaughn

After 15 unblemished years in the New York police department Joe DeFalco yearns for a major case that will lift him into the big time. His chance comes when a tip-off leads to an international narcotics dealer. But the man has political connections and a trap is set for Joe by government officials determined to find evidence of police corruption.

Pyramids and Poultry
If you want 90 million eggs a year produced in the middle of the desert, get in touch with Geoff Ward. The Egyptians did, and he and his righthand man John Buckley have built and bartered their way into more and more business along the banks of the Nile.
Reporter Philip Wrixon
Film cameramen
MIKE WILLIAMS , NIGEL DAVEY
Film editors SHARON PEMBERTON , JOHN BLAND Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill