with Frank Bough and Nick Ross Timetable:
Live reports from Blackpool and the TUC conference including a review of the papers at 7.37 and 8.37
News on the hour and half hour read by Sue Carpenter
Weather with Francis Wilson at 6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 8.25, 8.55
Nationwide news, weather and travel from your local BBC studio at 6.57, 7.27,
7.57 and 8.27
Including this morning:
The Top 20 - a look at the new chart at 7.32
Ask Alison - Alison Mitchell presents her weekly money advice and takes your calls on [number removed]
Live coverage of the morning's debates in Blackpool.
Now Mary wishes no friends around
'Friends', she'd say, 'just let you down'
Presenter Stuart McGugan Guest Liz Watts
Story: A Cat's Tale by RIKKI CATE
Illustrated by SHIRLEY HUGHES (R)
Further live coverage from Blackpool
Reporting team Vincent Hanna Nicholas Jones
with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart
1.24 Regional News
Weather News BILL GILES News Headlines with subtitles
A See-Saw programme
...shake it all about and you turn around - that's what it's all about!
with Chloe Ashcroft and Don Spencer (R)
The First Ten Years
Live coverage of the afternoon session.
by David McKee (R)
with Brian Cant
Polly the parrot from Peter's Pet Shop parades on her perch by the piano. Perhaps you can point out some bric-a-brac that begins with P.
(R)
chase a would-be killer in Defective Story (R)
A Swarm of Alien Beetles A swarm of giant beetles descends on Earth from outer space, bringing terror and destruction. What is the real mission of these awesome winged attackers? (R)
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with Paul McDowell
with Dennis Weaver and Clint Howard
A series of outdoor adventure stories about a boy and his giant pet bear. The Ransom
Ben is stolen and the thieves demand ransom money, but Tom Wedloe has other ideas about how to get the bear back.
Producer GEORGE SHERMAN
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Jabba-dabba-doo! Roll on down to Bedrock to meet that "lost modern of Stone Age families.
Barney the Invisible
Barney's hiccups refuse to be cured until ever-ingenious
Fred experiments on his puddy with his latest Invention.
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
followed by Weather News
Autumn approaches and Terry enrols us all in his very own series of thrice-weekly evening classes. Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
Narrated by David Attenborough
Killer shrimps? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water along comes one of these deadly creatures with a knockout punch that would make Barry McGuigan gasp in amazement - claws! They're called mantis shrimps and their strike is one of the fastest animal movements known - its impact is the equivalent of a .22 calibre bullet. They use jagged spears or huge clubs with devastating results.
They can even punch through glass and often batter their way out of aquaria. After this a plate of scampi will never taste the same again!
BBC Bristol
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(Ceefax subtitles)
For viewers who missed it, a chance to catch up with the opening episode of a new drama serial in 13 parts devised by GERARD GLAISTER and ALLAN PRIOR and written by JILL HYEM
(Shown last Sunday at 7.45pm, episode 2 next Sunday)
(Ceefax subtitles)
This week Andrew Sachs takes a turn at tackling thepostbag. producer BERNARD NEWNHAM
Please send letters to: joints of View, BBC Television Centre, London W12 8QT
Julia Somerville and John Humphrys present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad followed by Regional News and Weather News
The second of two parts Freddy Kassab , by now convinced that his son-in-law is guilty of the murder of his family, is determined to see Justice done. After being frustrated by bureaucracy and the complexity of the case Kassab seems to have finally succeeded when in January 1975, five years after the killings, MacDonald is charged on three counts of niurder. However, some clever manoeuvring and an obscure judgment are to
Prevent a trial once again....
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George Burns is still one of the world's greatest sex symbols - even though he now has to work nights to maintain this position.
But what is a sex symbol? With the help of fellow victims to their own fatal charms - John Schneider from The Dukes of Hazzard, Bernadette Peters, Dynasty's Linda Evans and a mystery guest star - George Burns sets out to discover what it is that makes a sex symbol so seductively sexy. Produced by IRVING FEIN and WALTER C. MILLER Directed by WALTER C. MILLER
