Ceefax AM starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel - available to all viewers, whether or not they have teletext sets.
Sally Magnusson and Mike Smith with a Monday morning mix of news, comment and guests Timetable:
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
News, weather and travel from local BBC studios at
6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Sports news at
7.20 and 8.20
Including this morning:
Lynn Faulds Wood with news and reports from the Consumer Unit;
Mike Smith with the latest pop news and Russell Grant with a guide to what the stars have in store for you today.
What can you see that's old? Presenter Ben Thomas Guest Elizabeth Watts
Story The Fat King and the Thin Cook by DONALD BISSET
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale
News Headlines with subtitles
12.55 Regional News
Weather News Michael Fish
Magnus Magnusson returns to his native Iceland to relate a boyhood adventure: he turned detective in search of an ancient altar piece in a hostile landscape. And
British Film Year comes under the spotlight in the first of a regular series of Film Focus.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
A See-Saw programme (R)
Six programmes on how micro-technology can help disabled people to live more independent lives.
1: Christopher's Magic Cupboard
Christopher is 4 years old.
He's bright, mischievous and full of life but he's severely physically handicapped. Now, micro-technology is beginning to change his life. With the 'chip' blind people can read, deaf people can use the telephone and people who couldn't speak or write can contact the outside world. Britain leads the world in the invention of micro-technology aids for disabled people. But can the miracle chip reach all who need it?
Film editor JOHN BILLINGHAM Producer ANNA JACKSON
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Queries about any aspect of disability and micro-technology will be dealt with if you write to the above address * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
from Letterkenny
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with Stuart Bradley
How many rainbow colours can you spot growing from your window? Jot them down and join Caterpillar Trail.
Michael Hordern tells Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.
with Paul Jones
Will Gary Tootell continue to get the answers right or will the challenger from Matlock win the day?
Devised by cuve DOIG
with Paul McDowell
with Simon Groom, Janet Ellis and Peter Duncan
Coral Paradise!
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest living organism, famous for the multi coloured fish that swim among its coral. From Heron Island, a tiny coral cay that juts out of the ocean, Simon and Janet explore the Reef and discover what's being done to safeguard the future of its wildlife.
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Rolf Harris uncovers trouble in the world of books when Jerry Mouse writes an hilarious best seller
Life with Tom. Sniffles and the Bookworm spend a hair-raising night in a bookshop and Bugs Bunny relates autobiographical hare-raising stories of life in Manhattan.
Videotape editor ROY DEMERY Director BRUCE MILLAR Producer DAVID PLATT
Sue Lawley and Andrew Harvey present the latest pictures, stories and events of the day from
Britain and around the world followed by Weather News
Jeremy Paxman brings you tonight's headlines and tomorrow's talking points. The London Plus reporters are with the people making the news. Plus sport with MICHAEL WALE and the stars and stories from the world of entertainment.
Producer DAVID STANFORD
South East editor PHILLIP HARDING
Desirable detached residence on Shepherd's Bush Green , conveniently situated from Central and Metropolitan
Underground stations and LT bus routes 220, 207, 12 and 88. Easy access to M40. New occupant required for one week only.
Director KEVIN BISHOP
Series producer FRANCES WHITAKER
Partners and friends - two young cops find themselves on the line in the deadly world of crime. starring
A Body Worth Guarding
Threats against the life of a visiting Russian prima ballerina throw Starsky and Hutch into two wars: a hot one with some sinister political fanatics and a cold one with the lady herself. But then Hutch starts indulging in a little cultural exchange....
Written by RICK EDELSTEIN and SAM PALEY
Directed by RICK EDELSTEIN (R)
with Julia Somerville and John Humphrys followed by Weather News
Maggie's Market Forces
What should the Tories do to get out of the slump they are in with the voters? Is it merely a matter, as Mrs Thatcher maintains, of getting the policies across better, of sharper marketing of basically the same policies or is pressure building up within the party for a change in policy?
On the eve of the Tories' Conference in Blackpool, Fred Emery interviews both the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon
Margaret Thatcher MP. and The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit MP, the new Tory Chairman. He also reports on the Tory mood around the country. Editor DAVID DICKINSON
Producer MICHAEL DUTFIELD
from Wembley Arena, featuring The Raffles Classic. HRH The Princess Anne attends tonight's gala opening of this world famous horse show. Each night the show jumpers top the bill but the supporting cast are becoming equally famous - the heavy horses, the Pony Club and the aristocrats of the equestrian world in the show classes.
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD STEPHEN HADLEY
Producers JOHNNIE WATHERSTON ALASTAIR SCOTT
The stories behind the pages of America's top weekly glossy magazine starring and tonight's guest stars Dorothy McGuire
Genie Francis , Millie Perkins John Saxon , Michelle Phillips The Matriarch
'Secrets of a bestselling author: the "ghost" that pushes Judd Kolvak on to greater success.'
'Amelia Braedon at 70 - as birthday celebrations begin, we uncover the truth behind the image of one of America's most influential families.' All in the latest edition of Glitter magazine.
Written by JEFF STUART
Directed by JOHN PATTERSON
(Another edition on Thursat 11.5pm)
