starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers whether or not they have teletext sets.
with Frank Bough and Nick Ross
Including this morning:
Gardening advice from Alan Titchmarsh down on Titch's Pitch; Advice Line: the expert panel answers your calls and offers advice; Glynn
Christian cooks up some more recipe ideas.
How many animals can you count?
Presenter Brian Cant Guest Sarah Long
Story: Mog the Forgetful Cat written and illustrated by JUDITH KERR
Director JOHN M.A. LANE
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v Australia from Trent Bridge Fifth day
PETER WEST introduces the whole of this morning's play.
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale
Weather News BILL GILES
(London and SE: Financial
Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
A See-Saw programme
Pat thought his birthday a well-kept secret. But as he goes on his round, Alf Thompson, The Rev Timms, Granny Dryden, Miss Hubbard, everybody he meets, knows about it and buys him presents. How did they all find out?
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England v Australia
PETER WEST introduces the start of this afternoon's play Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD , JIM LAKER
TOM GRAVENEY , BOB WILLIS Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE , MIKE ADLEY
Executive producer NICK HUNTER
Swans whistle, geese honk, dogs bark, pigs grunt, stags bellow, but 'silence too has a tale to tell'.
Written and produced by Michael Cole
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Laurel and Hardy head for a fall when looking for a pot of gold in "Leaping Leprechaun".
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A cartoon series in which Kwicky the clever koala bear, Crazy Claws the wild cat, and the city's own gutter-pup, Dirty Dawg, each have their own adventure stories brought to you by kind permission of the Bungle Brothers Circus.
The latest news on our wildlife with Su Ingle and Michael Jordan
Just an ordinary bird table, in an ordinary garden, with ordinary birds - sparrows, robins, blackbirds - until the woodpeckers arrive. They're greater spotted woodpeckers: a male, a female and a young bird. As Mike watches, the male feeds the baby on the bird table only feet away from him.
And at the Wildtrack sparrowhawk nest in Bristol, how the most celebrated chicks in the country are getting on with their new foster mother.
Producer MIKE BEYNON BBC Bristol
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
followed by Weather News
by Valerie Georgeson.
'So why did you marry me?'
(Ceefax Subtitles)
Noel Edmonds re-creates a special moment in the life of Chay Blyth
Featuring August 1971
Highlighting the fashions, crazes, styles, pop charts, films, radio, television, and news stories of the time.
Discovering what happened to the people in the headlines with Maureen Blyth
The Rt Hon Edward Heath mp Nicolette Milnes-Walker and clacker champion Tony Boasman.
This week's guest reader was himself making news. Music from St Cecilia Research JENNIE BOND Assistant producers
UNDA MCCARTHY. DAVID NICOLSON Produced and directed by HENRY MURRAY
Bob Monkhouse presents another edition of his international comedy showcase, this week featuring the stylish humour of top American comedy star Martin Mull the infectious hilarity of Britain's own Su Pollard and the musical urbanity of Kit and the Widow with THE HARRY STONEHAM BAND Programme associate NEIL SHAND Script associate DENNIS BERSON Director GEOFF MILES
Produced by JOHN FISHER
with Julia Somerville Weather News
from Nice
Introduced by david ICKE and BRENDAN FOSTER
The world 1500 metres record is again threatened in a race which pits STEVE CRAM against two Olympic champions, SAID AOUITA of Morocco and Brazil's JOAQUIM CRUZ , at this evening's Nikaia event - part of the new Mobil Grand Prix circuit covered by BBCtv this summer. Commentators DAVID COLEMAN
RON PICKERING , STUART STOREY Editor JOHN ROWUNSON
Italy today seen through the lives of ten different Italians 8: The Sister of Spoleto
Sister Genoveffa Cali has been a nun for 35 years. Her father fought her decision, but she wouldn't be stopped. She acts as social worker and psychotherapist, and she is now also a novice mistress in a small convent outside
Spoleto with six young girls in her charge. She hasn't always found the life easy, but today she is serene - and as irrepressible as ever. Narrated by Michael Pennington Written by DAVID WILLEY
Series producer JEREMY BENNETT Producer ANNE WEBBER
An enchanting study of a novice mistress in a small convent.
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Jim's Mario's
Jim buys Mario's restaurant and bar in order to prove to older brother, Tom, that he is not squandering his inheritance. Tom's reaction - 'It's the sleaziest dive I've ever seen' - is disappointing, but Jim is able to make Tom eat his words.
Written by KEN ESTIN and SAM SIMON Directed by DANNY DEVITO
Presented by Brian Redhead British companies that made it - their story of recovery from recession.
2: The New Look:
TI 'New World' Gas Cookers How the battle has been fought against years of complacency and heavy losses. TI's gas-cooker factory in Warrington has won new management, new designs and new production methods. Assistant producer FIONA PITCHER Producer BRIAN DAVIES
