with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
Including this morning:
Month by Month features motoring with Sue Baker ; Denise Robertson and Sally Hawkins with their regular Advice Line phone-in; Alan Titchmarsh in his garden and Glynn Christian cooks up some more recipe ideas.
The rodent superstar continues his new career running Britain's newest and liveliest TV station.
Rat Timetable*
9.20 Lassie: Chase
Two thoughtless young men on noisy snowmobiles chase a deer but Lassie sees them and alerts the Forest Rangers just in time. (R)
9.45 Why Don't You...
just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?
Find out who is the Why Don't You..? Mastermind champion and discover the secrets of Blackpool rock.
10.15 Handles
by Jan Mark, told by Brian Cant for Jackanory
Today: Elsie's Kingdom (R)
10.30 Play School
Come on everybody, Have a celebration
Presenter Sheelagh Gilbey
Guests Ben Bazell, Saeed Jaffrey
Story: The Festival by PETER BONNICI (R)
* Subject to Roland watch
with Richard Whitmore and Sue Carpenter
News Headlines with subtitles
Weather News JOHN KETTLEY
with Magnus Magnusson ,
Marian Foster and Paul Coia
Today comedian Reg Varney is Ashley Jackson 's celebrity artist in the last of his current series; and astronomer Heather Couper is Seeing Stars when she returns with her monthly guide to what's up in the sky this April.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
A See-Saw programme (R)
from Bury St Edmunds
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Mr Macadoo, Mr Baskerville and 'Long Distance Clara' help a pigeon realise that it can't take to water like a duck or a gull.
(R)
What Fur
by ALF PROYSEN
Told by Thora Hird for
Jackanory Mrs Pepperpot has an uneventful sort of life, doing the housework and the cooking, until the day when she suddenly shrinks to the size of a pepperpot ... Today: Little Old Mrs Pepperpot
With the voices of TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR
BILL ODDIE, GRAEME GARDEN
JILL SHILLING
Written and presented by Johnny Ball
Are you talented, artistic, creative? Johnny discovers these are just some of the job qualifications for an advertising copywriter.
A series in which Johnny explores the future possibilities of a variety of jobs from catering, highway construction to today's industry: advertising Also taking part: the children of GREAT LINFORD COUNTY
COMBINED SCHOOL and HOLNE
CHASE COMBINED SCHOOL Milton Keynes.
Music PETER GOSLING
Graphics designer MIC ROLF Producer ANN REAY
Director JANE TARLETON
Episode 24 by DAVID ANGUS
Last in the present series
A nice summer's day, and it's time for Grange Hill's first great fun run. It's not supposed to be a race, but Banksie and Mr Kennedy have other ideas. This week's cast:
Devised by PHIL REDMOND
Production associate DAVID LEONARD Designer JOHN ASBRIDGE
Producer RONALD SMEDLEY Director MARGIE BARBOUR
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A Newsround/Drugwatch Special
A follow-up to Grange Hill's story of Zammo McGuire and his serious problem with drugs.
Presented by John Craven and Nick Ross
Grange Hill is just a story but the drugs problem is all too real. Most people don't mess around with them, but still need to know why and how to 'just say no' to drugs.
With members of the Grange Hill cast in the studio, and the launch of a brand new record they've made of the song 'Just say no'.
Director STEVE HAGGARD Producer ERIC ROWAN
For a free fact sheet please send a sae to: [address removed]Helpline open from 5.35 until 9.0 pm [number removed](London)
[number removed](Scotland)
⢠INFO: page 77 and BACK PAGES: 86
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with Nicholas Witchell and Frances Coverdale 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 DAVE STANFORD Editor PHILIP HARDING
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
When jet aircraft appeared on the travel scene - especially the wide-bodied 'jumbos' - they signalled the end of the old trans-Atlantic liners, or so it seemed. But one at least survives to carry on the tradition. Cliff Michelmore reports on a travel experience which combines the luxury of the QE2 and the style of New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
There's more to Tunisia than the resorts of its
Mediterranean coastline.
There's the fascinating interior of the country and in particular the oasis resorts. Anne Gregg braved the rigours of the desert to report from Tozeur.
In the studio, advice and information to help you make the most of your holiday. Producer TOM SAVAGE
by Jane Hollowood.
'I don't want any more violence, Tony. Please, I couldn't bear it'.
(For cast see page 60)
(Ceefax Subtitles)
A serial in 12 episodes based on the Zoo Vet books by DAVID TAYLOR
9: Dangerous Practice by JOHNNY BYRNE starring with and A domestic cat has managed to infiltrate the lion enclosure and, unknown to anyone, has settled in the lion night house....
Produced by BILL SELLARS
Directed by MICHAEL E. BRIANT (R) * CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Barry Took with your comments in the programme you help to write.
Producer PENELOPE MILLS
Soaps - soporific or stupendous? Points of View lets you air your opinions. tomorrow at 8.45 pm)
John Humphrys and Andrew Harvey present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad
Regional News Weather News
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
with Michael Parkinson
The programme that keeps you in touch with the world of cinema.
Absolute Beginners - a new
British musical set in Soho in the 50s.
Super-8 films may seem like a thing of the past in the video age but surprisingly there are a growing number of collectors who prefer to see their feature films in the old fashioned way. Film 86 reports.
Director BRUCE THOMPSON Producer JANE LUSH
for the Epson Trophy
Can you play out of a bunker with a three iron? Can you putt out from 20 feet with a five iron?
Former Open Champion,
Severiano Ballesteros and Lee Trevino , can do just that and challenge some of the world's best players to beat them at their own game. Each player selects one club before the match and uses it for every shot. Today, over the Old Course at St Andrews,
Seve and Lee meet Britain's Nick Faldo and Japan's Isao Aoki.
Introduced by Peter Alliss Producer RICHARD TILLING Executive producer
HAROLD ANDERSON. (R)
