with Selina Scott , Mike Smith Daily timetable:
News with Fern Britton
(Debbie Rix , Tues, Thurs, Fri)
6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0, 8.30 with headlines 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, 8.18 Your Stars with Russell Grant :
8.33
Plus today: New Films and' Pop Records between 7.45, 8.0 Ask Alison, your money phone-in with Alison Mitchell , between 8.30 and 9.0
This week in Buxton the Social Democrats meet to decide their policies for the future. This morning's agenda includes the SDP's Parliamentary Report and debates on education and 'Thatcherism'. Reporting team Sir Robin Day and Peter Snow with Vincent Hanna
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including the speech by The Rt Hon Shirley Williams , President of the SDP
with Richard Whitmore and Sandi Marshall plus SDP Conference report Weather IAN MCCASKILL
12.57 Regional News (London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
The popular lunchtime magazine returns with its lively mix of conversation and music from the foyer of the BBC studios in Birmingham. Presented by Paul Coia
Marian Foster , Bob Langley and Donny MacLeod
A See-Saw programme
including debates on unemployment and the GLC
3.48 Regional News
Presenter Carol Chell Guest Fraser Wilson
Story: The Pig and the Peacock (traditional)
(Repeat)
Written by Clive Doig Join Davy Jones and Eileen Fletcher on a two-week package with a difference! On Skully Island they'll be looking for hidden treasure. Each weekday for two weeks you can follow the clues. What is the treasure and whereabouts on the island is it hidden? There's a map of Skully on the back page of this RADIO TIMES and a special prize for the first correct answer. Designer STEPHEN TALBOT Producer MICHAEL FORTE BBC Bristol
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A cartoon series.
Six youngsters set out on a fairground ride and enter the tunnel labelled 'Dungeons and Dragons' without realising they will have to go through many perilous adventures together before they can get back home...
with Simon Groom and Janet Ellis
Safari to Kenya
Every year teams of ornithologists from all over the world compete to see how many birds can be spotted in 24 hours. Simon and Janet head north west out of Nairobi, at the start of their 2,000 mile safari, and track down the man whose team holds the record for 1984.
Terry Stevenson notched up 290 species, but had 1,055 possibilities - Kenya's a bird spotter's paradise! Don't miss today's first report, and catch up with the latest news about the four-legged members of the Blue Peter team - Goldie, Jack and George the tortoise.
Feature: page 88
(Ceefax subtitles)
Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell present the latest pictures, stories and events including a report by David Coss from the SDP Conference
starring
Michael Barrymore
The original young comedy star hosts an exciting new word game for active teams with fast minds. with Julia Gale
Produced in association with TALBOT TELEVISION LTD Music by KEN JONES Programme associate NEIL SHAND
Script associate HOWARD IMBER
Lighting WARWICK FIELDING Sound JOHN DELANY Designer BOB COVE
Director GEOFF MILES
Produced by JOHN FISHER
Limehouse Blues
At the height of its popularity three years ago, the SDP/Liberal Alliance ran well ahead of Labour and the Conservatives in the opinion polls. Since then its support has slipped.
Now the SDP faces a dilemma. One group of SDP activists thinks the party has strayed too far from the ideals of the founding Limehouse
Declaration and become too right wing. Others believe that only a merger with the Liberals can rekindle public enthusiasm.
Fred Emery reports on the arguments inside the SDP and, live from the Party Conference in Buxton, talks to its leader Dr David Owen.
Producer JAMES HOGAN Editor PETER IBBOTSON
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with Julia Somerville and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world including a special report on the SDP Conference at Buxton Weatherman
Starring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones
1884. Frederick Treves, an ambitious young London surgeon, is intrigued by a sideshow freak billed as 'The Elephant Man' and, after the exhibition is closed by the police, pays the owner for a private viewing. To his amazement, he finds behind the appallingly disfigured and brutalised exhibit a person, John Merrick, of an intelligent and sensitive nature, whose rehabilitation he undertakes. How Treves tries to reconcile society with Merrick is the subject of this stunning true story of courage in the most terrible circumstances, with John Hurt brilliantly portraying the trapped soul within 'The Elephant Man'.
(First showing on British television)
Feature: page 29
(Ceefax subtitles)
by Jo Grimond with Keith Kyle
In the first of three programmes Jo Grimond
(although now a life peer he still prefers plain 'Jo'), former Leader of the Liberal Party who doubled their number of seats in the House, and trebled their electoral strength, reflects on his early childhood in St Andrews and upon the influence of his family life and education at Eton and Balliol
College. He talks to Keith Kyle about the events of the 1920s and 1930s and how they shaped his political ideas, which eventually led to his standing for Parliament in 1945. He lost, but won the seat next time; he held it for 33 years as MP for Orkney and Shetland.
Film cameraman COUN DEEHAN Film sound FRED DOWNTON GEOFFREY CUTTING
Research MONA ADAMS Film editor JOHN KENT Producer JOHN WALKER
