A Fly in the Pink
The Ant from Uncle Pink Finger (R)
with Frank Bough and Jeremy Paxman and Election news from James Cox
Introduced by Sir Robin Day
Lines open from 8.0 am
(A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 4)
with Phillip Schofield
Presenters Chloe Ashcroft and lain Lauchlan
Story: When Annabel was Rani for a Day by SHEILA FRONT
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11.0 News and Weather
2: Satan's Web
Lance and Claire plan to trap Captain Mephisto, but the tables are turned and it is Claire who is caught by the transmuted mastermind. (R)
The Flying Bear (R)
The best and latest in DIY. Presenter Pattie Coldwell tries installing a new telephone extension.
Harry Greene selects the essential items for a basic tool kit and joins Rick Ball to grapple with fixing kitchen wall units to a partition wall. In Room for a Change
Gilly Love gets to grips with some decorative dilemmas and inspires a couple from Birmingham to transform their gloomy old parlour into a light and airy sitting room. (R)
Letters and fact sheet requests, with large sae please, to: [address removed]
Tea at Wilton
Arthur Negus enjoys the company of Michael Smith , the television cook, who in previous series has provided Arthur with an 18th-century dinner and a 19th-century breakfast. This time they discuss tea.
As tea became more and more fashionable, so English craftsmen turned to making more and more tea ware. (R)
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A competition where everyone can do their bit towards making Britain a better place in which to live. Part 2
Pamela Armstrong and Chris Baines look at three more winning finalists in the Royal Society for Nature
Conservation awards. They come from Belfast, Cheshire and Birmingham, and the overall winner is announced today.
Producer PETA NEWBOLD Director DI REED
with Martyn Lewis and the latest from the Election campaign
Weather IAN MCCASKILL
Charles Durham and Barbara Hill continue their search for Terry's mysterious tape. Jim visits Philip Martin in hospital.
A See-Saw programme
by Joanne Cole and Michael Cole
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A See-Saw programme
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Starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Katherine Ross
1865: the end of the American Civil War. Two brothers, one a Yankee soldier, the other a rebel, return home to discover that their family has been kidnapped by a marauding gang of rebel guerillas intent on continuing the struggle. Mac and Dal set off to rescue their family.... This spectacular Western adventure is based on a book by the best-selling Western writer Louis L'Amour.
Screenplay by JIM BYRNES Produced by VERNE NOBLES and DENNIS DURNEY
Directed by ANDREW V. MCLAGLEN
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Phillip Schofield - starting with:
Bertha: The Burglars
A See-Saw programme by Eric Charles
Two burglars try to steal the factory wages....
Narrator Roy Kinnear with Sheila Walker
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A 20-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
17: Rita and Mavis have gone down to the cellar to ice the anniversary cake - and find themselves trapped. and Fizzy as Razzle
Fizzy supplied by PAULINE CUIT Producer ANGELA BEECHING
Director CHRISTINE SECOMBE (R)
starring David Copperfield with Sally Dewhurst Antony Howes
Wendy Leavesley Michael Seraphim
Guests Michael Fish Richard Gauntlett Hollywood Beyond
There is a circus feel to the show today as Sally shows off her high wire talents and the cast tries to walk on stilts.
Sound ALAN STOKES
Lighting DON BABBAGE Designer ROBERT STEER Director STEVE SMITH
JUDY WHITFIELD
Dear Peter....
What is a dare?
'Dear Peter, would you ... lie on a bed of nails? Wear a beard of bees? Walk over hot coals? Let a tarantula walk across your bare chest?'
All these ideas came from
Duncan Dares viewers who felt that up till now he was getting off lightly. Join Peter in the last programme of the series as he faces up to what the viewers think is daring. Film editor TERRY GABELL Producer ROB BENFIELD
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with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton and the latest from the Election campaign
Weather
with Sue Lawley
As the Election campaign reaches its height, viewers throughout the nation put their questions to the Leader of the Liberal party,
The Rt Hon David Steel , and the Leader of the Social Democratic Party, The Rt Hon David Owen. Director VICTOR MELLENEY Editor ELLIE UPDALE
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by Gilly Fraser.
"The last time you were in a church I expect the vicar was pouring water on your head."
(For cast see page 61)
(Ceefax Subtitles)
This week's crossword
1: Across Tina Turner, as you've never seen her before (5, 5)
2: Down Is Captain Furillo over the Hill? (5)
3: Diagonally Deakus with stout and whiskers (2, 4)
Answers upside down starring Lenny Henry
with special guests Alison Moyet, Darts
and Helen Atkinson-Wood, Jane Bertish, Roger Brierley, Ed Devereaux, Mark Elliott, Stephen Fry, Gareth Hale, Vincent Marzello, Norman Pace, Christopher Ryan
also ROBERT BATHURST, LYNDAM GREGORY, CARLA MENDONCA, MADELEINE NEWBURY
Written by LENNY HENRY, KIM FULLER, GEOFF ATKINSON and ANDREA SOLOMONS
Script editor KIM FULLER
Music PETER BREWIS
Choreographer NICKY HINKLEY
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)
by the Conservative Party
David Dimbleby and Julia Somerville present the latest news from the campaign trail including special reports on the key issues and interviews with leading politicians.
Peter Snow reports on how the opinion polls reflect the ups and downs of the campaign.
Plus all the other national and international news of the day.
Regional News Weather
by GRAHAM REID With and With Norman happily married to Mavis and living in Manchester with the young girls, and Billy living with Pauline, Lorna is left to care for Uncle Andy. Now Lorna wants a new life for herself. The repercussions are traumatic for all - especially for Lorna herself.
Designer DIANE MENAUL
Lighting ALAN HENDERSON
Executive producer KEITH WILLIAMS Director JAMES ORMEROD BBC Northern Ireland
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The fourth play in the 'Billy' series tells Lorna's story and brings the viewer up to date with the Martin family's lives. Lorna has been left to care for Uncle Andy, but now wants a life for herself. Show more
with Barry Norman
The Morning After - Jane Fonda plays an alcoholic actress caught up in a murder and Jeff Bridges co-stars as an ex-policeman who befriends her.
Sidney Lumet directs.
Three Amigos! is a spoof Western starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short as singing cowboy stars of the silent screen who find themselves in Mexico to deal with banditos.
Director BRUCE THOMPSON ProducerJANE LUSH
Increasing numbers of very elderly people living at home have needs that the statutory services cannot always meet. How much additional help can be provided by neighbourhood volunteers?
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