(R)
with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson Jeremy Paxman and Pamela Armstrong
National and international news and analysis on the hour and half hour
The latest sports news and comment from Sally Jones
Barbecue Two
The Ewing barbecue coincides with Jock's homecoming, then Miss Ellie receives shocking news.
Written by ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Directed by LEONARD KATZMAN (R)
Live pictures of the wild animals featured at 5.35 pm.
Phillip Schofield with programme news and your birthday greetings
Keep it secret, keep it mum; Not a word, act quite dumb. Presenters
Carol Chell , Wayne Jackman Story: Surprise Party by PAT HUTCHINS
(R)
with Geoffrey Wheeler
A 15-part serial starring
11: Satan's Shadow
In which a vital roll of film is sought by the dreaded Capt Mephisto and Lance is sent spinning over a cliff edge.
A REPUBLIC serial
Live pictures of the wild animals featured at 5.35 pm.
Presented by Pattie Coldwell and the team.
Harry Greene fits an outside tap and prescribes treatment for rotting window-frames. Hilary James offers sewing tips, and Rick Ball and GUly Love create a teenage retreat. (R)
Letters and fact sheet requests (with large sae) please to:
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Deene Park,
Northamptonshire
Arthur Negus and his guest John Bly visit the home of the Earl of Cardigan who led the charge of the Light
Brigade. Sixteenth-century furniture contrasts with the more refined style of the 'Age of Elegance' - the Georgian and Regency periods. In the great hall, they admire one of the finest hammer-beam roofs in the country.
Director DAVID MITCHELL BBC Bristol (R)
(Tomorrow: Corsham Court)
Kuiseb - The Vanishing River Narrated by David Attenborough
A battle is being waged between the Kuiseb River and the red desert sands of Namibia.
For thousands of years, each has fought to stop the other's flow. But now the balance is changing - for most of the year the river is dry.
Remarkably, in this hostile African wilderness, baboons and frogs, zebras and dragonflies manage to survive while they wait for the river to flood. Directed and photographed by RODNEY BORLAND
Produced by CAROLINE WEAVER (R) (Tomorrow: Gently Smiling Jaws)
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with Martyn Lewis Weather BILL GILES
It's a new-look Neighbours in a new-look Ramsay Street as three new people arrive in Melbourne's most famous cul-de-sac. Max begins to worry about property values and Paul returns from a three-week convalescence. (For cost see page 37. Shown again tomorrow at 10.5 am)
The Latun Tennis Championships
If the weather has been kind, there should be quarter-final matches in the men's and ladies' singles championships this afternoon.
HARRY CARPENTER introduces the live coverage, and provides all the latest news from the outside courts. Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS , BARRYDA VIES MARK COX, BILL THRELFALL
ANN JONES , VIRGINIA WADE
Phillip Schofield - starting with:
The Kwicky Koala Show
Today: Robin Hoodwink, Lookout Crazy, Dirty Dawg's Faux Paw
(R)
by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels A Game of 'Hanki-poo'
Professor Doom elicits the help of two very shady characters to bamboozle poor old Wooly, the white rabbit. Wonderful Wizbit comes to the rescue with some magical 'hanki-poo' of his own. with DEBBIE MCGEE and PATRICK PAGE
Produced by clive DOIG
Directed byDAVID G. ROSE (R)
Written by Clive Doig
The teddy bear - how was it invented? Whose brainwave was the football net? These monumental questions of invention are answered by the intrepid team at the Eureka Museum.
with
The video eye on nature with Michael Jordan and Nick Davies
The osprey chicks have got their adult feathers and are getting big. With the female always present, there's not much room in the nest.
Rhododendrons - a recent addition to wild Britain. Are they welcome invaders or a hidden menace?
Why an Asian animal - the muntjac - may soon become Britain's most numerous deer. And just a chance that the second 'livewatch' on the east coast may have live pictures of seals.
Producer PAUL APPLEBY
Series producer MIKE BEYNON BBC Bristol
with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather John Kettley
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 arrival of a new secretary in Arthur's office leads to misunderstandings and jealousy at home.
Directed by SUSAN BELBIN
Produced by ROBIN NASH (R)
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by Bill Lyons.
"You never took marriage that seriously - I can't see divorce getting in your way."
(Ceefax subtitles)
The jewel is finally discovered in India's passage. But who put it there? Delbert Wilkins , Tony the Bouncer, the Badger or the Fox? See the Night of a Million Stars for the answer. (We never did find out what it all meant.) Starring Lenny Henry with special guests Five Star and Johanna Hargreaves
Daniel Hill , The Mint Juleps Nick Lyndhurst Tony Robinson
Also CHRISTOPHER BARRIE
ROBERT BATHURST
LYNDAM GREGORY
CARLA MENDONCA
MADELEINE NEWBURY Written by LENNY HENRY
KIM FULLER. GEOFF ATKINSON JAMES BIBBY. LAN
BROWN CARY CHAMBERS. HUNTER AND DOCHERTY. JAMES
HENDRIE TONY SARCHET. ANDREA SOLOMONS Script editor KIM FULLER Music PETER BREWIS
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER (R)
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with Martyn Lewis and Andrew Harvey
Regional News; Weather
A retrospective season featuring the first decade of DENNIS POTTER 'S outstanding TV plays begins with a film based on Father and Son by EDMUND GOSSE , first shown in 1976. With
A lot of love but not much fun for Edmund growing up in a house without a wife or mother. His father thinks he knows how to make the boy happy, but the shapes on an 8-year-old's horizon change rather quickly.
A memorable television event, unauestionably the best drama productton of the year DAILY TELEGRAPH Witty lovely and easy GUARDIAN Music by CARL DAVIS
Directed by BRIAN GIBSON
Produced by KENITH TRODD (R)
Wimbledon 87
Match of the Day
Eight ladies were battling for places in the semi-finals this afternoon. DESMOND LYNAM introduces highlights from those matches while GERALD WILLIAMS collates the news of the day and looks ahead to the quarter-finals of the men's singles championship.
International Athletics from Stockholm
The start of a busy week of track and field events from this important Grand-Prix meeting which sees world
1500m champion STEVE CRAM back in international competition for the first time this season. Also in action tonight, European 5000m champion JACK BUCKNER , along with a host of other potential world championship gold medallists. Commentators
DAVID COLEMAN
STUART STOREY