with Sue Cook and John Mountford Timetable
News on the hour and half hour read by Debbie Rix and Sue Carpenter
Weather with Francis Wilson at 6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 8.25, 8.55
News, weather and travel at
6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Sports news with Bob Wilson at 7.20, 7.45, 8.20
The morning papers: a view from a guest at 8.37
Including this morning:
The latest pop news with Mike Smith at 7.32;
Lynn Faulds Wood at the consumer desk at 8.15;
Russell Grant has your stars at 8.45 and your letters at 9.5 (RADIO TIMESIBreak/ast Time competition winners on page 54)
Presenter Chloe Ashcroft Guest Brian Jameson
Story: "The Lion and the Mouse" (traditional)
Music by Julia Donaldson (rpt)
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with Richard Whitmore and Michael Cole
Weather News BILL GILES
A See-Saw programme. (Rpt)
The Lawn Tennis Championships
The opening day of the world's greatest tennis tournament, direct from the All England Club. Featuring the first round of the Men's 's Singles Championship.
JOHN MCENROE , as defending Champion, has the honour of opening play on the Centre
Court. Since he won his first title here in 1981 he has become the dominating figure of men's tennis, but this year his superiority on grass will be put to the severest test.
As well as last year's finalist JIMMY CONNORS , who has won twice here, and IVAN LENDL , twice a winner over McEnroe this year, there are others emerging as real contenders, including MATS WILANDER, winner of the recent French Championship.
They are just 4 of the 128 contenders for the most prestigious title in tennis.
HARRY CARPENTER introduces live coverage with news and results from all match courts.
0 FEATURE: page 82 and Gerald Williams on Wimbledon: page 42
The third of six programmes Molly and the Seaweed Hypermarket by VICTORIA WOOD
Will Molly Seathwaite 's uncle get his hands on her diamonds and build the Seathwaite Slimy Seaweed
Savouries Hypermarket? And what about the All Laughter Variety Show at the Royalty Theatre? Will it really close because the price of fleas is frightening? Not if Molly can come to the rescue.
Music JONATHAN COHEN Designer RICHARD MORRIS Producer GREG CHILDS Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
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Told by Peter Ustinov
with Simon Groom, Janet Ellis, Michael Sundin
The Battle of Bosworth!
Five hundred years ago this summer, two kings met in battle on a field in Leicestershire and the course of British history was changed forever. Henry Tudor 's defeat of King Richard III ended the War of the Roses, and established the line from which our present Royal Family is descended. Watch Simon's report on the spectactular re-enactment of the battle that will be the highlight of the Quincentenary
Celebrations, and discover which country the team will be exploring for the 1985 Summer Expedition!
Assistant editor LEWIS BRONZE Editor BIDDY BAXTER
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with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell followed by Weather News
More merry banter from
Terry and his guests at the Television Theatre overlooking the bosky grove of Shepherd's Bush Green , alive with the roundelay of nightingale and thrush.
Wishes
Leroy wishes for enough money to pay his back rent; Elizabeth wishes for the chance to prove she's a better administrator than Morloch; Doris wishes she could attract the school's most eligible catch. But when wishes come true, that's when the trouble really starts....
by JEREMY LLOYD and DAVID CROFT
Rene, the cafe proprietor, is captured by German troops while he is attempting to blow up a railway line.
Designer JANET BUDDEN Produced and directed by DAVID CROFT
with John Humphrys Weather News
When the Roof Falls In
The number of home owners who can't pay the mortgage is rising sharply. Last year 11,000 families lost their homes when the building societies repossessed them. Millions more live in crumbling houses they can't afford to repair. As people struggle to buy their own homes, Richard Lindley talks to the families and old people who have found home ownership not a boon but a burden — and more than they can bear.
Producer SARAH MANWARING-WHITE Editor PETER IBBOTSON
Match of the Day
Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM Highlights of the first day's play of these Championships - a day when seeded players are often most vulnerable.
Plus news and comment from
GERALD WILLIAMS.
Editor JOHN ROWLINSON
Video, The Best of Wimbledon
Golden Highlights (BBCV/B 5025) Latest scores, reports, results on Ceefax pages 141-9/241-9
Billy Joel, the American singer/songwriter, in a concert recorded especially for BBC Television at Wembley Arena, presented a catalogue of hits from 'Piano man' to 'Innocent man'.
For the London performance, which was the only European engagement of his 1984 World Tour, Billy Joel included 'Just the way you are', 'Goodnight Saigon' and 'Allentown', along with his latest successes 'Tell her about it', 'Uptown girl' and 'Innocent man'.
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