with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
See Wednesday for timetable. Today: Alan Titchmarsh on gardening; Glynn Christian on shopping; Mike Smith on pop; Lynn Faulds Wood at the consumer desk. Plus
In Vision, with David Wheal
You're a Good Sport
Charlie Brown
(Repeat)
with the Bristol gang
Mike Jordan forsakes Wildtrack, and Hank wins a prize at a pet show. And get your ear-plugs ready for the Why Don't You...? orchestra!
by J. M. BARRIE. Read by Jan Francis for Jackanory 5: The Return Home
Paddington Buys a Share
Presenter Carol Leader Guests Wayne Jackman Fraser Wilson
Story: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (trad)
Today: Silence at Stillwater Candy wakes one morning to find himself in jail and can't discover why.
The Mouse. When Jamie brings a pet mouse home,
Irma and Alice want it out - that means trouble for Harry!
with Moira Stuart and Frances Coverdale Weather BILL GILES
In Bavaria
Bob Langley and Paul Coia are joined by one of Germany's top TV presenters, Claudia Pohrings , in a special programme from the German ski resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen at the foot of the Bavarian
Alps. Travel correspondent Jill Crawshaw reports on the range of resort activities including ski-ing; there's also a visit to a miniature schloss. built by the eccentric King Ludwig n. A look at the work of top winter sports fashion designer
Willy Bogner , and an interview with Jurgen Prochnow , star of the successful German film The Boat.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
A See-Saw programme
The World Young Masters from the National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham
Live coverage of this afternoon's quarter-final matches in this tournament, which for the first time brings all the leading 21 and under players together.
What's New?
Presenter Stuart McGugan
Guest Sarah Long
Story: "Great Grandpa Meets Alexandra May" by John M.A. Lane
(Repeated next Friday morning)
Hula-hoop Havoc
The Hunter spins his hula-hoop all the way to
Hawaii in search of the Fox.
by Richmal Crompton
Adapted and told by Martin Jarvis for Jackanory
Today: The Christmas Truce
Giscard O'Hitler , otherwise known as Richard Stilgoe , returns with a new series of this electronic quiz. Be ready with paper and pencil for the giant anagram quiz - you could win a computer. Designer CHRIS WEBSTER Producer IAN OLIVER
Every Friday the Newsround team takes a closer look at one of the big stories, exciting events or fascinating personalities that are making eye-catching news.
From the remote South
American country of French Guiana, once the setting of the dreaded French prison colony Devil's Island, John Craven reports this week on Kourou, the space city in the heart of the jungle. In a swampy clearing wild creatures have made way for the modem launch site of Europe's Ariane space rockets.
Producer NICK HEATHCOTE Editor ERIC ROWAN
by ROBERT WESTALL dramatised in six parts by WILLIAM CORLETT
1: The year is 1941. Tyneside is suffering some of its heaviest bombing of the war. The morning after a raid Chas goes looking for war souvenirs and finds something really big.
Executive producer PAUL STONE Director COUN CANT
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Tom and Jerry play cat and mouse.
Introduced by Jimmy Hill The FA Cup Third Round Traditionally the most enthralling stage of the season, as First and Second Division clubs join the 20 survivors from the Leagues' lower reaches and beyond. Match of the Day kicks off the third round tonight with live coverage of one of the most absorbing ties.
Commentator JOHN MOTSON Studio director MURRAY NEEDHAM Series producer JOHN SHREWSBURY Editor BOB ABRAHAMS
with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents
Weekend Weather BILL GILES
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The two tough but friendly cops starring
The Plague: part 2
The plague carrier is still loose, Hutch is hours from death and, for Starsky, the hopes of saving his partner are slipping away.... (For cast see page 128) (Repeal)
*CEEFAX SUBTITLES
The World Young Masters from the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
With the quality of entry so high, the competition for places in tomorrow's semi-finals is bound to be intense. Tonight you can see how it all turned out.
Introduced by BARRY DAVIES Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT
MARK COX, GERALD WILLIAMS (Sponsored by The Belgian
American Investment and Trade Organisation)
starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
It's a case of instant mutual attraction when internationally famous actress Anna Kalman is introduced to charming American diplomat Philip Adams.
Though Philip tells Anna he is married, she is not in the least deterred.
Screenplay by Norman Krasna from his play Kind Sir
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