with Frank Bough and Debbie Greenwood
News reader Sue Carpenter Including this morning:
Dr Richard Smith takes calls about this week's medical Problem on [number removed]
Mick Morton was a natural runner - and winner. He was a world champion at 18. Then a freak injury stopped him in his tracks.
For four years and through five operations, Mick Morton fought to keep his dream alive. Presented by Harold Williamson (R)
Presenters Elizabeth Watts Wayne Jackman
Story: The Emperor's New Clothes (trad) adapted by BARBARA RODDAM
with Moira Stuart and Laurie Mayer
News Headlines with subtitles
Weather News michael FISH
A See-Saw programme
by Eric Charles
(R)
International Snooker
The Rothmans Grand Prix WILLIE THORNE and NEAL FOULDS are the seeded players who would be most disappointed if they were not on duty this afternoon on one table. DAVID VINE has news ot this match, together with the names of the contestants on the other table, as he introduces live coverage from the Hexagon, Reading. Racing from Newbury
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
2.30 The Hogg Robinson Handicap Stakes (5f)
3.0 The MatchmakerMorris Hill Stakes (7f, 60yds)
One of the last chances to find a classic colt for 1987. Previous winners include Persian Bold, Kris and Calaglow. The prize is more than 00,000.
3.30 The Rochford Thompson Newbury Stakes (7f, 60yds) (Coverage continues on BBC2)
In an effort to tidy up all his books, Scragtag decides to build a bookcase. Pausing only to watch The Wummies, Quizzicals and Peregrine Piecrust on TTV he arrives at the moment of truth. It's time for the first book to be placed on the shelf...
Story: Open Wide
with Michael Barrymore
7: The Rabbit Who Ate Paper
Fred the hungry rabbit's eternal quest for food leads him to an important job with the government. Can you guess .. ?
Sebastian illustrates the story and Michael tries his hand as a magician.
with Paul Jones
How many answers can you get right in today's quiz?
(R)
with Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Mark Curry
Free-fall Janet! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it's intrepid Janet Ellis making her final bid to create a new free-fall parachuting record. If she drops 20,000ft or more from her C-130 Hercules, all those months of training will have paid off and Janet will be the only female in Britain to have achieved a 90-second free-fall through the skies, before pulling her rip cord!
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Presented by Angela Rippon Last night a game was left half-finished. The best team must win because the search is on for the Masterteam of 1986.
NicholasWitcheUand
Philip Hayton present the latest pictures, stories and events from Britain and around the world.
Weather News JOHN KETTLEY
London Plus, Spotlight
South Today, Points West Look East, Look North North West Tonight Midlands Today
by Bill Lyons.
'If you don't go I'll start screaming and I won't stop till someone comes...'
(Ceefax Subtitles)
with Judith Hann, Peter Macann, Maggie Philbin and Howard Stableford, bringing you everything that's new in science, technology and medicine.
This week: how dancers can turn light into music, and an astonishing shipping plan which could keep Reykjavik at the centre of world attention.
Written by BARRY CRYER and NEIL SHAND , with ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
High drama at D'Iddley
Manor when the lights go out and Lady D'Iddley's precious stone - the 'Pahsing Water' - disappears. Kenny gets a taste of 3D-television and Hot Gossip begin to feel the cold.
Choreographer ARLENE PHILLIPS Musicaldirector MIKE MORAN Lighting BILL MILLAR Designers
JOHN BRISTOW , RICHARD MORRIS Directed by KEVIN BISHOP Produced by JOHN BISHOP
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with Julia Somerville and John Humphrys Regional News Weather News
DENNIS TAYLOR and JIMMY WHITE were seeded to be playing on separate tables tonight. TONY MEO and MIKE HALLETT were expected to be their opponents in the second round.
DAVID VINE has the names as he introduces the frames.
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. Director ANN MORLEY
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL
Vanished
A desperate Michael Hoyt seeks Houston's help when his daughter becomes the third victim in a series of child abductions and, for once, must accept the detective's unorthodox methods in the tracking of a psychopath ...
Written by MICHAEL FISHER Directed by DON CHAFFEY
