with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For regular features see Monday Plus today:
The New Top 20 with Mike Smith between 7.55 and 8.0 and Mother to Be between 8.30 and 9.0
Glynn Christian's Best of Breakfast Time Cookbook, 11.75 from booksellers
A cartoon series.
Tarzan witnesses the test of kingship in the land of the Red Gorillas but is forced to break the sacred law of the Amulet. (Repeat)
with David Yip
Dragon Stories by ANN JUNGMANN The Dragon Joins the Army
with Tony Hart and Morph and The Tin Pots Ageing
Old wood, rusty metal, dead bark, autumn leaves, shelves that collapse, skeletons that fall to bits, strange clocks that show the passing of time, and someone wishes it wasn't their birthday.
by ELISABETH BERESFORD
Loneliness is a problem which is on the increase for the elderly Asians in this country. In today's programme TAJ HASNAIN chairs a discussion on how people in this position are learning to cope. Also taking part are RAMA RAMCHARAN, KAILASH PURI,
RATNA PRABHA and MADHURI MEHTA
ASIAN UNIT presentation. BBC Pebble Mill
with Chris Lowe and Frances Coverdale Weather MICHAEL FISH
1.27 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
A See-Saw programme by DAVID MCKEE
Narration RAY BROOKS
A See-Saw programme with BRIAN CANT
Harry the Hatter gets a harness for his horse and deposits a heap of hats in return. Help hunt out some more Bric-a-Brac that begins with 'H'.
Designer MARY PENLEY-EDWARDS
Written and produced by NICK WILSON
written by PATRICK O'DONOVAN Narrated by Michael Parkinson
It is a tiny village in the Yorkshire Pennines yet it was already established when the Domesday Book was compiled. Its land was farmed by Vikings and usurped by Normans; today its farmers grapple with the Common Market. It has sent men to the wars from Agincourt to Alamein. 'Nobody's ever heard of Lothersdale' says a local farmer. But if the spirit of England is alive and flourishing it is in a place like this. With the voices of: Olive Gregg and Vernon Joyner
Film cameraman TOM INGLE
Produced by PATRICIA MEEHAN
The first of three films starring
Jane Russell with Gilbert Roland , Richard Egan and Lori Nelson
When two ex-marines working in the tourist trade off Cuba come across evidence of a sunken galleon, they set off on an underwater search for a famous lost treasure. Accompanied by two beautiful women - one of them the irrepressible Jane Russell-and a priest, their reward seems close but for the unwanted interest of some local fishermen ...
Screenplay by WALTER NEWHAM Based on a story by HUGH KING and ROBERT E. BAILEY
Produced by HARRY TATELMAN Directed by JOHN STURGES Films: page 12
What can a cow do but moo, moo, moo? Presenter Brian Jameson Guest Floella Benjamin
Story: The Cow who Fell in the Canal by PHYLLIS KRASILOVSKY
Illustrated by PETER SPIER
(Repeat. Repeated next Wednesday morning)
Milk Run Mayhem
Heathcliff delivers the final blow on the milkman's last round.
Anything a computer can do the boys can do better.
with Howard Stableford
An adventure story from Australia in three parts.
2: Jim Mason is a young boxer living in the harbour area of Sydney. He was asked to 'throw' a fight and as a result owes money to the bookmaker Bell and he can't pay. Now Jim has a fresh chance to make good. Mr Mason has given him a new job on board the tug-boat Platypus. But it seems Jim's troubles aren't yet over....
Director PETER MAXWELL
with Moira Stuart ; Weatherman
(For regional details see Tuesday)
The second heat of BBCtv's international motorcycling competition for the Lombard Tricity trophy has riders from the UK, Italy and Holland going over this unique course of natural and man-made obstacles. Commentators
PETER PURVES and JACK STITES
(Heat 3 tomorrow at 6.25)
starring Warren Oates , Lisa Pelikan Whisky-drinking, one-eyed Rooster J. Cogburn rides again. This time into a depressed mining town, where bandits continually steal the gold shipments. In company with his young friends 'Rooster' decides to wipe out the gang for good....
Written and produced by SANDOR STERN Directed by RICHARD T. HEFFRON Films: page 12
Warning: space can damage your health Peter Macann reports from Houston, Texas, on the sinister side of space travel.
Weightlessness produces puzzling effects in the body. Some, like space sickness, are merely uncomfortable; others affect the astronaut's heart, muscles and bones. They may even cause permanent damage. The race to find solutions is now more urgent after President Reagan's announcement that NASA will launch a manned space station in 1992. Peter Macann risks life, limb and lunch as he
-floats weightless
-spends a day seeing backwards
-and is strapped into a washing machine all in an effort to decide whether space flight too should be given a government health warning.
Film editor KEN BERRY
Executive producer DAVID filkin Producer JACK WEBER
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
with Julia Somerville and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman
A two-part dramatisation of the life of one of the most powerful and controversial women of the century. starring with and Part 1
In the poor Argentine village of Junin a young and impressionable peasant girl is seduced by the glamour of a travelling tango singer. Following him to Buenos Aires, Eva Duarte finds herself abandoned in a tough and corrupt city. However, fate and lust for fame give her the chance she needs in a meeting with one Colonel Juan Peron. ...
Written by RONALD HARWOOD Directed by MARVIN CHOMSKY (Part 2 tomorrow at 9.25)
Bob Monkhouse presents another edition of the show in which he introduces the best comic talent from both sides of the Atlantic. Tonight the irreverence of Bernard Manning the versatility of Paul Squire and from the USA the eccentric unpredictability of 'The World's Foremost Authority' Professor Irwin Corey
Programme associate NEIL SHAND Script associates
DENNIS BERSON , SPIKE MULUNS Director GEOFF MILES
Produced by JOHN FISHER
(Postponed from 8 August)