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with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For timetable of regular features see Monday Plus today:
Titch's Pitch, your gardening phone-in with Alan Titchmarsh between
8.30 and 9.0
Food and Cooking with Glynn Christian between 8.30 and 9.0
Robert Robinson takes the chair for the second semi-final. Today THE HOULTON FAMILY from Sheffield challenges THE MARKS FAMILY from London for the remaining place in the final.
Producer LINDA MCCARTHY
Presenter Ben Thomas
Guests Ben Bazell , Liz Millbank Story: A Hump-Backed Bridge by WILMA HORSBRUGH
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v West Indies from Headingley Fifth day
PETER WEST introduces the whole of this morning's play.
Commentators RICHIE BENAUD
JIM LAKER , TOM GRAVENEY
RAY ILLINGWORTH
Television presentation
BILL TAYLOR , 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 by PETER FIRMIN and OLIVER POSTGATE Bagpuss, an old cloth cat, lives with his friends in the window of Emily's shop ... where anything can happen.
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series England v West Indies from Headingley
PETER WEST introduces the start of this afternoon's play.
Presenter Floella Benjamin Guest Ben Thomas
Story: The Rusty Knight by JUDY WHITFIELD
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Trains
In the last programme of the series Mark Curry looks back at some classic silent comedies featuring thrills and spills on tracks and trains.
Compiled by PHILIP JENKINSON Edited by PETER MARSH
Directed by MARTIN HUGHES
Producer JOHN BUTTERY. BBC Manchester
with Su Ingle and Michael Jordan
After Wildtrack's stunning film on the pine martens last week there's another unique piece of wildlife photography today when Mike Jordan tracks down a wild white badger. And Su and Mike complete their trip to the Farne Islands, where anyone with the price of the boat fare can see breathtakingly spectacular seabird colonies: puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes, shags and arctic terns.
BBC Bristol
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The News with tonight's Weather and Regional Magazines
Presenters Nick Ross, Sarah Kennedy and Sally Magnusson News read by Moira Stuart
The return of the classic space adventure series chronicling the adventures of the captain and crew of the USS Enterprise.
A straightforward mission to pick up a scientific team from the dying planet Psi 2000 goes terribly wrong when a strange virus invades the Enterprise. Soon Kirk is faced with an insanely delirious crew and a ship spiralling to destruction....
starring Eddie Large and Syd Little with Nicholas Parsons
Bruce Thompson , Musical Youth and MAUREEN MORELAND
DANIEL PEACOCK , CLEO ROCOS
CORRINE RUSSELL , PATSY SMART Special guests The Searchers Written by GAVIN OSBON
WALLY MALSTON and ERIC MERRIMAN
Music RONNIE HAZLEHURST AND HIS ORCHESTRA Produced by BILL WILSON , BRIAN WHITEHOUSE
from Meadowbank
The Edinburgh Games
The last major meeting in Britain before the Olympic Games gives our selected athletes, and many other top-liners, a final taste of high-level competition to take to Los Angeles. Commentators
DAVID COLEMAN , RON PICKERING STUART STOREY , BRENDAN FOSTER
Producer JOHN SHREWSBURY
Introduced by Bernard Falk
The team of adventurers from Britain and America receive more clues as to the whereabouts of the defecting biochemist.
Their overnight stop on a deserted island proves to be an interesting challenge. Builder Tony Jones comes into his own and Jane, the vet, shows off her professional skills.
The biggest problems arise when they discover their canoes have been stolen by the enemy. So how will they get back to the mainland?
The Americans are full of bounce and good humour and still holding on to their substantial lead.
BBC Pebble Mill
with Nicholas Witchell and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman
starring Leonard Rossiter
A comedy by Richard Harris
High-tech spare-part surgery keeps Grandad alive, but the strain of caring for him and his dog is killing Arthur and Beatrice. Until their helpful neighbour Henry uses his influence at the highest level to bring them a special kind of help...
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from Meadowbank
The Edinburgh Games
Further highlights of tonight's major meeting in Edinburgh.
A film made for television starring Richard Boone , Patty Duke For some years Anton Solca , a Russian army officer who defected during the Hungarian uprising of the late 50s, has been living incognito in California. But his life is unexpectedly threatened by a mysterious assailant and he finds that the US intelligence are no longer holding his identity a secret....
Richard Boone plays the craggy Solca and Patty Duke a young hippie who befriends him in this tense thriller.
Screenplay by DANIEL ULLMAN , based on the novel Watcher in the Shadows by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD
Produced by ANTHONY WILSON
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