with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For regular features see Monday Plus today:
The Breakfast Time Doctor between 8.30 and 9.0 and Glynn Christian with handy cooking hints
While matters of state are often forgotten after the breakfast time news, some subjects can still rouse even the quietest people to passion. Live every Thursday morning and broadcast simultaneously on BBC1 and Radio 4, an audience of 150 start their day with a chance to say what they think about issues which guarantee a good argument long after the headlines have faded.
Paul Sieghart puts their opinions to the test. Research JUDY HILL and ANN CHANCELLOR DAVIES Producers
JULIET MAY, ELAINE BEDELL
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX A Radiovision Unit production BBC Pebble Mill
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with Moira Stuart and Frances Coverdale Weather JIM BACON
12.57 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial
Report, and News Headlines with Subtitles)
An all-star line-up featuring Brook Benton , Paul Daniels and theatrical impresario Michael White
A See-Saw programme
Are you bloated, bewildered or just plain bored? Then this might be the programme for you.
Presented by Barbara Dickson and Penny Junor
Today they look at
The Truth About Jogging: good for your mind but bad for your body?
Getting Off Heroin: what hope is there for addicts and their families?
Plus Vernon's Postbag: television's first agony uncle, Vernon Coleman, answers your letters; and People in View:
Bill Paterson , star of the new film Comfort and Joy, reflects on his career and ambitions. Studio director JOHN ADAMS Producer MARIANNE BAIRD
Series editor GORDON MENZIES If you would like further information on the subjects featured in the programme write to: Network. PO Box. Glasgow G12 9JQ or telephone [number removed]
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in Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow and Love and Hisses
Presenter Ben Thomas
Guest Elizabeth Millbank
Story: Mrs Brown 's Hat Goes on Holiday by MRS L. TRUMAN
Eric is just another schoolboy - but when danger calls, a few mouthfuls of his special bananas and Eric is Bananaman.
With the 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
Round 3 of this week's game of wits, logic and awful groan-making questions! How many P's in a pod?
Only one of course (unless your spelling is really atrocious)!
Devised by CLIVE DOIG Designers
VIC MEREDITH , LES MCCALLUM Producer LAN OLIVER
(Round 4 tomorrow at 4.15 pm)
The crew of the research ship Calico can call on their friendly deep-sea monster
Godzilla whenever they are in danger. In today's cartoon story Godzilla himself is nearly extinguished by a dangerous pink mist.
with Simon Groom, Janet Ellis and Michael Sundin
Over The Top!
To restore a huge Edwardian office block in the heart of the City of London, a 100-tonne tower crane had to be swung in ten sections over a 108-foot wall! Simon joined the team masterminding this colossal leap-frog and picked up a few tips from Billy Dalton, whose precision and skill helped to make the whole manoeuvre possible.
Assistant editor LEWIS BRONZE Editor BIDDY BAXTER
*CEEFAX SUBTITLES
by BOB GODFREY The Hot Day
Narration BOB GODFREY Music PETER SHADE
Production BOB GODFREY
with Sue Lawley and Jeremy Paxman
Presented by Peter Macann Maggie Philbin Judith Hann
Kieran Prendiville Producers
MICHAEL COYLE , HENRY CAMPION MARTIN MORTIMORE , DANA PURVIS Studio director SMART MCDONALD Editor CYNTHIA PAGE
by George Layton
Starring Tony Britton and Nigel Havers
Father and son, Toby and Tom Latimer, return to London from a weekend at a medical conference. Toby's intention to have a romantic reunion with his estranged wife, Angela, went sadly awry. And Tom, recently divorced, didn't fare much better when his girlfriend Madeline - his father's secretary - walked out on him. But there are more problems ahead.
This week's episode features Dinah Sheridan, Richard Heffer
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(Ceefax subtitles)
with Julia Somerville Weatherman
by ALICK ROWE starring
2: Lee has reluctantly agreed to stay with Morgan, his uncle, a hill-farmer in Wales. The city boy finds the remote way of life strange and disturbing.
Music composed and conducted by RICHARD HARVEY
Studio lighting BARRY CHATFIELD Designer LAN ASHURST
Script editor JENNY SHERIDAN Producer GERARD GLAISTER Directed by JOHN GORRIE *CEEFAX SUBTITLES
with David Jessel
The New Frontiersmen
'By the end of the century we'll be as ashamed of frontiers as we now are of slavery.'
Jim Corbett , quaker, breaks the law. From the terrors of Central America he smuggles entire families into the US, hiding them from the Border Patrol in churches and safe houses.
David Jessel tells of the Christians who, in direct challenge to President
Reagan s foreign policy, risk a future in prison in the name of God and humanity.
Film editor MICHAEL ALOOF
Series producer COLIN CAMERON
As the political year gets under way Sir Robin Day returns with a new series of Question Time.
His guests tonight at the Greenwood Theatre are: George Galloway Robert Maxwell Polly Toynbee
The Rt Hon David Young , mp Director ANNE MORLEY Producer LIZ ELTON
Editor BARBARA MAXWELL
Richard Hoggart and Fay Weldon explore the dilemmas of reconciling feminism with a middle-class lifestyle. 5: Mums and Minders with Sara Neville as the businesswoman
'God can't have it so arranged as to make it difficult for me to have a baby and an interesting well-paid job. Can he? Can he?'
Researcher GILL HAARHOFF Producer JULIAN STENHOUSE