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with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson and Jeremy Paxman Timetable:
News on the hour and half hour
Weather at 7.25, 7.55,
8.25 and 8.55 with Francis Wilson
Sports news with Sally Jones

'Fascinating Aida' are three girls who sing witty, mordant, and original songs. After the nomadic years in the transit, on the night club and festival fringe circuit, opportunity has knocked. The girls are contracted to make their first pop record. Will this be the breakthrough? Or will the trio be homogenized? Dillie, Marilyn and Adele all have their doubts ...
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Director MARK CHAPMAN

Paul Clark and Eileen Evason answer questions on social security problems. Editor KEITH BAKER
BBC Northern Ireland

with Children's BBCtv programme news and your birthday greetings.

Presenter Chloe Ashcroft. Guest Ben Thomas.
Story: "The King Who Liked Jellies" by Julia Michaels

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with Alan Bennett

A series of five films
Dennis Silk is the 14th Warden (or headmaster) of Radley: a teacher, administrator and court of last resort. He is a prop to the college's morale, a guardian of its standards, its spokesman, advocate and vindicator.
A staunch Christian, a brilliant cricketer, and a lover of gardening and English literature, in this portrait he is observed as he copes with Radley's day-to-day chores and problems.
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Alan Titchmarsh joins Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes for the weekend edition of Open Air - your chance to talk back to the producers, directors and TV executives who have been responsible for your week's viewing. The Open Air open line number is [number removed]

- a live celebration of birds with Tony Soper and Nick Davies
At the end of the 40thanniversary week of the Wildfowl Trust, Sir Peter Scott is joined by Chris Packham for a round of 'Desert Island Bird Movies.' Cast away with a favourite film what would they choose? And the latest count for the bewick swans. BBC Bristol
12.55 Regional news and Weather

with Martyn Lewis Weather BILL GILES

Julie gets a proposal. Anna is accused of stealing.

A See-Saw programme
by David McKee
King Rollo finds out which dog he likes best.
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A See-Saw programme
by Joanne and Michael Cole
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by CARLA LANE and MYRA TAYLOR starring Polly James as Beryl and Nerys Hughes as Sandra The Good Samaritans
Designer ALLAN ANSON
Produced by SYDNEY LOTTERBY (R)

starring guest stars
Silver Shadows
When Abby is wooed by an ageing movie director because of her resemblance to a silent screen star she begins to cast avaricious eyes on his fortune; but she has a competitor ...
Written by RAY GOLDSTONE and ROCCI CHATFIELD
Directed by NICK SGARRO

hosted by Emlyn Hughes A family quiz played as a strategic board game with moves dependent on correct answers to questions put by Dr Sue Kingsman of Trinity College, Oxford. Today sees the outcome of the battle between the reigning champions, James Colgan 's team from Bridlington, and the challengers,
Jennifer Barclay 's team from Lanark. The winners have the chance to win prizes on the computer game and will then play the new challengers, Greg Humphries his brother
Nick and uncle Joe Hurley from Mansfield.
Director JEREMY MILLS
Producer HENRY MURRAY

Phillip Schofield - starting with:

Jimbo and the Jet Set: Holiday Weather
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with Johnny Ball
When the white kitten with green eyes returns, then you know it's time for another tale from Johnny about adventures down on the farm. Today Philomena finds out who's who and what's what when the farm is at work.

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Told by Tony Robinson
Who is the sinister one-eyed man? Why is Achilles dressed in women's clothes? And where is Troy?

A new series of real-life animal adventures
Starring Roger Daltrey as the voice of Falco the kestrel, Twiggy as Fala the kestrel and Anthony Valentine as the buzzard

Falco the kestrel is a hunter, and during the summer he has four chicks to hunt for as well as himself. There may be voles a-plenty on the ground, but catching them isn't easy, especially when there's no wind. Meanwhile back at home the kestrel chicks find their tree is occupied by a mysterious stranger.
BBC Bristol
Woddis On: page 97 and Back Pages: 102

by Barry Purchese
A series of 24 programmes

A rainly day at Grange Hill; will Ant apologise to Mr Bronson or will he be suspended? Will Robbie and Ziggy find out the truth about their letter from Buckingham Palace?
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Presented by Angela Rippon Teams tonight will be choosing from Food and Drink, History, The 1970s and Television, as well as other categories, when individual team members are put under the Spotlight.
Also fast general knowledge rounds called Team Challenge and rounds that will put you and the teams In a Spin.

Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell present the latest pictures. stories and events from
Britain and around the world. WeatherIAN MCCASKILL

London Plus, Spotlight
South Today, Points West Look East, Look North North West Tonight Midlands Today

or: Every Second Counts
Join in at home as tonight s lucky guests attempt to get a word in edgeways between the blarney. Points awarded for spontaneous applause; a major prize for reducing Terry to silence.

Starring Les Dawson
Join Les and his friends for lots of fun and frolics in another edition of Blankety Blank.
His special guests this week are Floella Benjamin, Barry Cryer, Jenny Hanley, Tom O'Connor, Greg Rogers, Dinah Sheridan
Produced in association with MARK GOODSON and TALBOT TV LTD Sound MICHAEL MCCARTHY Lighting PETER WESSON Designer CHRIS WEBSTER Director BRUCE MILLAR
Producer STANLEY APPEL
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Last in the present series starring
The Vendetta
The final, bloody battle commences as Alexis plots her ultimate revenge that will leave Blake with insurmountable debts.... and only one alternative.
Written by EDWARD DEBLASIO Directed by IRVING MOORE
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with John Humphrys and Andrew Harvey Regional News
Weekend Weather

On Christmas Day 1932 King George V spoke on the wireless. 'It was stunning,' remembers Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, 'the voice of the monarch actually entering our own home!' It was also the first royal landmark for the fledgling BBC. Then in 1937, George VI's coronation procession marched across several thousand small screens and 'the magic of television' had arrived. Ever since those first words and pictures the public have wanted more. For over 50 years the BBC and the Palace have developed a very special understanding of mutual dependency, walking a tightrope between access and intrusion, popularity and mystique. Tonight's anniversary programme goes back over those 50 years of BBC coverage of royal occasions, with memories of the grand ceremonial as well as some moments from behind the scenes, including July's wedding of the year.
Written and narrated by David Jessel
Film editor CHRISTINE PANCOTT Producer MARYSE ADDISON

Rodin 1840-1917
As London sees the first major Rodin exhibition for 16 years, at the Hayward
Gallery, Omnibus looks at the life and work of the 'greatest sculptor since Michelangelo.' With recently discovered archive film of Auguste Rodin himself, and many preparatory plasters and drawings, some of them shown for the first time on television, this documentary looks at the creator of 'The
Kiss', 'The Thinker', 'Balzac', the 'Gates of Hell', and some of the most powerful representations of the human figure and of erotic love. Rodin's sculpture was specially filmed for this programme in two Paris locations, at the Musee Rodin and at his private house at Meudon. The sculptor's life, full of public scandal, passionate affairs, and tireless innovation in his art, is told in Rodin's own words and through the writings of his contemporaries. And, in a unique filmed memoir from the 1950s, a British painter, the late Sir Gerald Kelly , RA remembers his own meetings with the great sculptor.
Voice of Rodin Joss Ackland Readings by Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Shanks
Film cameraman JOHN HOOPER Film editors
DAVID KITSON , DAVE KING
Associate producer ANN TURNER Producer LESLIE MEGAHEY

A dramatised account in five parts.
4: Bradman returns to the Australian team for the Second Test and although Jardine's tactics find brief success, they are destined to alienate him from friends and foes alike. But it is not until the Third Test that the pain of Jardine's methods is fully felt and a cricket ground in Adelaide becomes a crucible in which emotions boil over and threaten to tear apart the bond between two nations ... Directed by CARL SCHULTZ and LEX MARINOS
(Final part tomorrow)
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