with Frank Bough and Debbie Greenwood Timetable:
News on the hour and half hour read by Sue Carpenter
Weather at 6.55, 7.25, 7.55,
8.25, 8.55 with Francis Wilson
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 The morning's papers reviewed at 8.37
Including this morning:
Zoe View - Breakfast Time's teenage correspondent
Zoe Brown files her latest report; Glynn Christian cooks up another early morning recipe; and Richard Smith takes your medical calls on [number removed]
If things grew down, instead of up,
A dog would grow into a pup Presenter lain Lauchlan Guest Cleo Sylvestre
Story: The Magic Growing
Powder by JANET QUIN-HARKIN Illustrated by ART CUMINGS
with Frances Coverdale and Moira Stuart
News Headlines with subtitles
12.55 Regional News
Weather News Ian McCaskill
with Magnus Magnusson Josephine Buchan and Paul Coia
Jill Crawshaw returns for a series on 'stay-at-home' holidays, in which she tries out some of the many activity holidays available in Britain. In the series she will visit Cornwall, Derbyshire, the Lake District and the Scottish Borders, while today she discusses the attractions of a holiday at home.
A See-Saw programme
Ready to fly - up to the sky!
with Chloe Ashcroft and Don Spencer
(R)
Songs from this series on BBC record and cassette REC/ZCM 557 from retailers
Tea-time Television On T. T. V. today, Mr Hiccup makes a welcome return;
Quizzicals, as usual, keep you on your toes; and there's a story about a dad with a rather unusual hobby.
Meanwhile, Scragtag and Tim are both working on inventions - with surprising results!
Scragtag's assistant Marcus Kimber
Anna Nouncer Juliet Prague Story: The Trouble with Dad by BABETTE COLE
Read by Desmond Askew Music by MICHAEL OMER Director ALISON STEWART Produced by ROY MILAN ! Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Texas Pete is foiled when he tries to put an evil spell on SuperTed's own Teddy.
by KENNETH GRAHAME
Told by Bernard Cribbins for Jackanory
Today: Mr Toad (R)
A cartoon space adventure
The Odyssey is caught in a mysterious light-beam and Telemachus, Yumi and Ulysses are miniaturised by an evil high priest ...
with Simon Groom, Janet Ellis and Peter Duncan
Dambusters
Not many gardeners tackle their weeds armed with an abseiling harness and a crash helmet! But how else can you exterminate layers of moss and seedlings from a 100-foot dam? Peter joins the clean-up team at Blackbrook Reservoir for a cliff-hanging weed - without them, the dam would bust!
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The Video Quiz
A video arcade game, pop videos, sports videos, news videos - they're all ingredients in First Class.
Schools from all over Britain are represented by teams of three students, and Debbie Greenwood leads them through this knockout tournament to find the First Class of 1986. Will they be from Wiltshire, Wales, Dundee or Durham?
The winning school will get a microcomputer with disc-drive and monitor.
Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell present the latest pictures, stories and events of the day from Britain and around the world followed by Weather News
London Plus, Spotlight
South Today, Points West Look East, Look North North West Tonight Midlands Today
by Jane Hollowood.
'I don't care what she thinks. I'm not gonna stop riding my bike yet'.
Record or cassette: EastEnders Sing-Along, REB/ZCF 586, from retailers
(Ceefax Subtitles)
with Judith Hann
Peter Macann
Maggie Philbin and Howard Stableford bringing you the new, fascinating and bizarre in the world of science.
This week Howard Stableford goes to New Mexico to visit what was the seashore 100 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Producers
MARTIN FREETH. CYNTHIA PAGE
MARTIN MORTIMORE. DANA PURVIS Studio director NIGEL FINNIS Editor RICHARD REISZ
Books, Tomorrow's World: Medicine, hardback £8.95. paperback £5.95 Tomorrow's World: Energy, hardback £8.95. paperback £5.95, from booksellers
Bill Beaumont and Emlyn Hughes captain two teams including from tennis, the young star,
Annabel Croft ; from athletics, London and Chicago Marathon winner, Steve Jones ; the world's ranked number 3 middleweight boxer, Herol Graham ; and from soccer, the Arsenal and England full-back, Kenny Sansom. Questionmaster David Coleman Director JOHN TArr
Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC Manchester
Answers to quiz - 1: Bill Beaumont with 20. 2: Wyn Davies. 3: Sir Gordon Richards , Lester Piggott 4: Greyhound racing
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with Julia Somerville and John Humphrys Regional News Weather News
with Sir Robin Day
The weekly opportunity for the general public to pose the questions and debate the answers with those in power, those who seek it and those who influence events.
With Sir Robin Day this evening at the Greenwood Theatre in London are: Harriet Harman , mp Norman Lamont , MP Donald Trelford Des Wilson
Director ANTONIA CHARLTON Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL
Six films about turning points in science, presented by Professor Heinz Wolff 2: Keepers of Light
While on honeymoon in Italy, WILLIAM HENRY FOX-TALBOT conceived the idea of making pictures draw themselves by the action of light. By 1835 he had discovered the secret that led to modern photography. Film editor CHRIS GILDERS
Directed by ROBIN MUDGE (R)
Tommy Farr - Boxer
In 1897 Bob Fitzsimmons won the World Heavyweight title, which no Briton has won since then, and only Thomas George Farr has come even close to winning boxing's 'blue riband'.
What a night New York's
Madison Square Garden had in 1937 as the diminutive Farr took on the 'Brown Bomber', JOE LOUIS.
Written by FRANK KEATING Producer JEFF GODDARD
