starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers whether or not they have teletext sets.
with Nick Ross and Sue Cook 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 and features with Archie Macpherson 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 answers your letters at 9.5
Month by Month:
Alan Titchmarsh takes his July walk down by the coast.
You can't see air, but you show that it's there,
Each time you whistle all your cares away!
Presenter lain Lauchlan Guests
Jane Hardy , Fred Harris Story: The King and the Canary by SHEILA FRASER
from Lord's
Fourth day
Peter West introduces the whole of this morning's play.
with Frances Coverdale
Weather News Michael Fish
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
A See-Saw programme
by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate
(Repeat)
Cricket: Second Test: The Cornhill Insurance Test Series: England v Australia
Peter West introduces the start of this afternoon's play.
Wimbledon 85: The Lawn Tennis Championships
The second week of Wimbledon gets under way and, for those who have survived the early rounds, thoughts will begin to stray to the possibility of reaching the semi-finals, perhaps even the final. Live coverage from the Centre and No 1 Courts.
Commentators Dan Maskell, John Barrett, Gerald Williams, Barry Davies, Mark Cox, Bill Threlfall, Ann Jones, Virginia Wade.
Introduced by Harry Carpenter
The fourth of six programmes The Boy Who Hated Shopping by ERIC CHURCH
How was Mr Pickup to know that 'someone to run all boring errands' would land him in court for causing an affray? Inventing a domestic robot to do the shopping seemed like such a good idea at the time.... Drop into
Neatways supermarket Up Our Street for the full story.
Costume designer COLIN LAVERS Designer RICHARD MORRIS Producer GREG CHILDS Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
A new drama serial in eight parts
'Sleep is Necessary' - the Latin motto that Stanley and Tommy put at the top of a letter they sent from Blitz-torn London to the President of America. But in 1942 a journey across the Atlantic was fraught with danger....
and AUDREY STARK, NICHOLAS LAURENTZ, CLARE MARSHALL, JULIE MARSHALL, JONATHAN TAYLOR, PAT SAUNDERS, PETER TUNSTALL, DAVID ABBOTT, RONALD FRANCE and DERMOD JUDGE
Directed by NATHANIEL GUTMAN Produced by ELISABETH WOLTERS-ALFS
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Safari to Kenya with Simon Groom and Janet Ellis
Flamingoes, Snakes and Njemps!
Lake Nakuru's sensational pink flamingoes are only one of the 1,055 species of birds keen ornithologists can spot in Kenya. Simon and Janet meet a Champion Spotter and report from the shores of Lake Baringo where the Njemp tribe is battling against Africa's terrible drought.
Producer MICHAEL TURNER Editor BIDDY BAXTER
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with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell followed by Weather News
Terry welcomes his guests to the Television Theatre,
London, set amid the verdant meadows of Shepherd's Bush Green , decked with the blossom of eglantine and woodruff.
Director KEVIN BISHOP Series producer
FRANCES WHITAKER
starring, as the staff and students of New York's celebrated dream factory, the High School for the Performing Arts
Who am I Really?
Nicole faces a dilemma when her real mother returns and her adopted parents feel they have to compete for their daughter's love. Meanwhile - and much to the school's pleasure - Morloch loses his voice....
Written by MICHAEL MCGREEVEY Directed by RAY DANTON
Record, Kids from Fame compilation, REH/ZCR 447, from retailers
by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft
René, thinly disguised as his own twin brother, is faced with arranging his own funeral.
with Julia Somerville
Weather News
Selling Star Wars
President Reagan believes his 'Star Wars' defence initiative may end the threat from nuclear weapons. His critics say that the massive research programme could upset the balance of terror with the Soviet Union and make war more likely.
Tomorrow Vice-President Bush arrives in London, campaigning for support. Fred Emery reports on the debate, and discovers how scientists and businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic are getting in on the race for the new technology. Producer PETER CERESOLE Editor PETER IBBOTSON
Match of the Day
One of only eight ladies can now win the Ladies' Singles title. Weather permitting,
DESMOND LYNAM introduces highlights from today's play, with news and comment from GERALD WILUAMS.
Editor JOHN ROWLINSON
The second part of Billy Joel 's sell-out concert last summer at Wembley Arena, recorded especially for BBCtv, in which the American singer/songwriter, on the only European date of a world tour, performed all of his outstanding compositions and chart successes.
Executive producer Jim DUMIGHAN Producer JOHN G. smth BBC Pebble Mill