starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel - available to all viewers whether or not they have teletext sets.
with Selina Scott and Mike Smith
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 has news and reports from the consumer unit; the latest pop news from Steve Blacknell : Russell Grant starts the day with a guide to what the stars have in store for you; and Anne Robinson presents her TV choice.
The start of another great week for BBC3 with the rodent superstar and his friends in charge of holiday programmes. Plus cartoon adventures.
Rat Timetable*
9.20 Lassie
No Margin for Error
Lassie helps a US Forest
Ranger when he defuses a forgotten bomb on an abandoned Air Force bomb range. (R)
9.45 Why Don't You ... just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?
Games, tricks, puzzles and posers, presented by the Belfast gang.
Learn how to turn a newspaper into a ladder, and a tin of tuna into a tuna delight!
Producer BRIAN WILLIS Series producer PETER CHARLTON
Today's recipe, and details of the three Why Don't You .. ? competitions are on Ceefax page 184.
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10.15 Simon and the Witch by MARGARET STUART BARRY Told by Nerys Hughes for
Jackanory Simon is very pleased to have a witch as his friend - but she can be very troublesome at times.
Today: The Backwards Spell (R)
10.30 Play School
The spring is sprung, The grass is riz ...
Presenter lain Lauchlan Guest Chloe Ashcroft
Story: Titch by PAT HUTCHINS
'Subject to Roland's watch
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale
News Headlines with subtitles
Weather News JOHN KETTLEY
Bob Langley and Josephine Buchan present the programme live from
HMS Ark Royal under way in the Channel, as she prepares to leave on her first tour of duty. What is life like for the sailors and airmen of today on board the Navy's most modern carrier? How does she compare with her famous predecessors?
Join Samantha Fox and cookery expert Michael Smith for a day at sea with the Royal Navy.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
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A See-Saw programme
Written by Julie Holder
It's an 'Umpty' day for Perkin Flump. He's going round 'under a cloud'. Posey and Pootle wish they had a cloud of their own following them.
(R)
from Goring and Streatley
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Stilgoe On is a series of eight programmes about what to do if you're stuck indoors, and it's presented by Richard Stilgoe.
Today's programme has a 'magical' twist with a guest appearance by The Great Soprendo.
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A series of the cartoon adventures of Petey the puppy, and his worldwide search for
Tommy, his young owner.
A cartoon series about International Space Rescue in the year 2086. The Thunderbirds are a special Rescue Squad of crack pilots dedicated to the service of mankind.
with Simon Groom, Janet Ellis and Peter Duncan
(Ceefax subtitles)
starring
The Wrong
Guy Jill and Stan Pembroke greatly approve of Lila's new boyfriend but take an instant dislike to his weird friend.
Unfortunately, it is the weird friend whom Lila wants to date.
Written by FREDRIC WEISS and JEFFREY FERRO Directed by ALAN RAFKIN
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 DAVE STANFORD Editor PHILIP HARDING
Captain
Thomas Wogan signed the death warrant for Charles I, but despite years of being a Roundhead, he turned Royalist and supported the monarchy.
Unfortunately, after several months of desultory warfare in which his skill and courage gained him the highest reputation, he had the misfortune to be dangerously wounded and, no surgical assistance being within reach, his short but glorious career was terminated. Are there lessons to be learnt from the lives of these other Wogans?
Taking 1956 as the start of the new era, this series links the events of the time with the music, in their chronological relationship.
The news - Khruschev stays at Claridges, Frogman Crabb disappears, Russia crushes Hungary while Britain retreats from Suez, Diana Dors proves she can act, Bardot pouts a lot and ERNIE is introduced.
The music - Bill Haley, Lonnie Donegan, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, Little Richard
(R)
Don't Leave Home without It
When Norman gets a new credit card, it means two things - a romantic weekend alone with Eileen and freedom from Matt's economic clutches.
Written by KATHERINE GREEN Directed by JOHN PASQUIN
Julia Somerville and John Humphrys present the day's news with BBC teams at home and abroad
Regional News Weather News
Make 'Em Work
More than three million people in Britain are unemployed. The cost to the taxpayer is £6.75 billion a year.
In Ronald Reagan 's America, the unemployed are now forced to work for their state benefits. Twenty-two states now make people earn their welfare. Unemployed miners are made to pick up garbage, single mothers to put their babies in day care and look for jobs. And those who refuse have their benefit cut off. It's called Workfare and Paul Barry reports that its results have been extraordinary.
Producer CHRIS OXLEY Editor DAVID DICKINSON
starring
Bryan Brown Helen Morse
A powerful drama set against the exotic background of far eastern political intrigue, which re-unites the stars of A Town Like Alice.
Journalist Peter Reeves and his wife, Jo, are in the fleshpots of South East Asia to research political corruption.
One night they wander into the Koala Club, a backstreet night spot run by an Australian Vietnam veteran and local 'fixer', Morgan Keefe. Morgan and Jo recognise each other immediately - neither has forgotten their affair of years before.
This tense triangle takes a desperate turn when Peter becomes dangerously involved with the underground movement, and Morgan is the only one who can help him.
Produced by RICHARD MASON Written and directed by JOHN DUIGAN
(First showing on British television)
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