(R)
with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson Jeremy Paxman and Pamela Armstrong
The latest sports news and comment from Sally Jones
The Farlows make a fight of it.
(R)
Live pictures of the wild animals featured at 5.35 pm.
with Phillip Schofield
A hot yellow sun in a clear blue sky
No sign of a cloud drifting by Presenters Floella Benjamin Fred Harris
Story: The First Rains by PETER BONNICI and USA KOPPER (R)
The Comhill Insurance Test Series
England v Pakistan from Lord's Final day
TONY LEWIS introduces live coverage of this morning's play. Commentators RICHIE BENAUD
RAY ILLINGWORTH Summarisers
TED DEXTER. JACK BANNISTER including at 10.55 and 12.0 News and Weather
with Martyn Lewis
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Helen finds out the bitter truth for herself.
The Lawn Tennis Championships from the All England Club First on Centre Court this afternoon is
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA who begins the defence of her singles title. The world's finest woman player needs one more title to equal the record of eight championships set between the wars by the' great Helen Wills Moody. Martina's perennial rival
CHRIS EVERT will be trying to add to her own tally of three titles, but many believe that STEFFI GRAF will pose a bigger threat. The West German is learning to cope with the attention normally reserved for her compatriot Boris Becker , and earlier this month she won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open.
HARRY CARPENTER introduces live coverage and provides news and results from today's matches. Commentators
DAN MASKELL. JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS , BARRY DAVIES
MARK COX, BILL THRELFALL
ANN JONES , VIRGINIA WADE Television presentation
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON. FRED VINER ALASTAIR SCOTT. WENDY SHEPPARD Producer MARTIN HOPKINS
Executive producer JOHN ROWUNSON
Phillip Schofield - starting with:
The Kwicky Koala Show
A cartoon series in which Kwicky the clever koala bear, Crazy Claws the wild cat, and the city's own gutter-pup, Dirty Dawg, each have their own adventure stories brought to you by kind permission of the Bungle Brothers Circus.
Today: Collector's Item, See-Saw Claws, Lo-cal Pals
(R)
by Barry Murray
Starring Paul Daniels
Spoof and Bluff get into a very nasty situation.
with Debbie McGee and Patrick Page
(R)
written by CLIVE DOIG Music
To celebrate his birthday, Mr Dunn plays his 150th character, the Marquese di Francesco Scipione Maffei, in the story of the piano.
With WILFRED MAKEPEACE LUNN as the Doctor of Alternative Invention
Assistant producer PETER LESLIE Produced by CLIVE DOIG
with Michael Jordan and Nick Davies
The osprey chicks are starting to look like fluffy young birds. Not far away, the adult ospreys are fishing - swooping down to take trout from a local pond.
There's an ambitious scheme to reintroduce Britain's rarest butterfly, the large blue, from Sweden to sites in this country. And as the International Whaling
Committee meets this week, how you can contribute to an international survey on dolphins and porpoises around the British coastline. Producer PAUL APPLEBY
Series producer MKE BEYNON BBC Bristol
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Weather Bernard Davey
London Plus, Spotlight Points West, Look East
Look North, South Today North West Tonight Midlands Today
by JON WATKINS starring William Gaunt and Patricia Garwood
The continuing saga of a happy family and their unrelated relatives with an unexpected ending.
Designer PAUL ALLEN produced and directed by ROBIN NASH (R)
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by Jane Hollowood.
"Oh dear, excuse me, but you two! Talk about two naughty boys caught with their hands in the sweetie jar."
(For cast see page 61)
(Ceefax subtitles)
A programme in which the new Doctor Who and the old Frank Sinatra are revealed. Thrill to romance, villainy, sport, drama, guppies. (There must be some mistake. Ed.) (No there isn't. Bert)
Starring Lenny Henry with special guests Loose Ends and Kathryn Apanowicz, Norman Beaton, Robbie Coltrane, Lee Cornes, Brian Croucher, Dawn French, Steve Nallon, Jadie Rivas, Ivor Salter, Paula Tilbrook
Also ROBERT BATHURST, LYNDAM GREGORY, CARLA MENDONCA, MADELEINE NEWBURY
Written by LENNY HENRY, KIM FULLER, GEOFF ATKINSON, JAMES HENDRIE, TONY SARCHET, ANDREA SOLOMONS
Script editor KIM FULLER Music PETER BREWIS, RICHARD CURTIS, PHILIP POPE
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER (R)
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with Martyn Lewis and Andrew Harvey
Regional News; Weather
DESMOND LYNAM introduces highlights of today's action which earlier saw
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA opening her bid to win her eighth singles title. GERALD WILLIAMS assesses the news and talks to the people making that news.