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with Frank Bough Sally Magnusson Jeremy Paxman and Pamela Armstrong
Reports from Peter Marshall Bill Neely , Guy Michelmore Mike Stewart , Margaret Gilmore , Sue Robbie Gail Foley
The latest sports news and comment from Sally Jones

My Father, My Son
J.R. uses his charm to win back his son.
Written by WILL LORIN
Directed by LARRY HAGMAN (R)

Kloot Kounty (R)

with Phillip Schofield

Be a clown, be a clown,
Some are big and some are small,
They can do anything at all - Be a clown, be a clown!
Presenter Stuart Bradley Guest Elizabeth Watts
Story: Jilly You Look Terrible by MARY DICKINSON illustration JOANNA STUBBS (R)

The Comhill Insurance Test Series
England v Pakistan from Headingley Final day
TONY LEWIS introduces live coverage of this morning's play.
Commentators RICHIE BENAUD
RAY ILLINGWORTH Summarisers
TOM GRAVENEY , BOB WILLIS Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE , ALAN GRIFFITHS including at 10.55 and 12.0 News and Weather

First transmitted in 1975, the 150th anniversary of global rail transportation is marked by a visit to India to survey one of the world's most impressive railway networks. Show more

with Martyn Lewis
Weather MICHAEL FISH

Paul's actions create a major feud at home and an argument with Shane. Clive offers Madge a job.

The Comhill Insurance Test Series
England v Pakistan from Headingley Final day
TONY LEWIS introduces further coverage of this afternoon's play.

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 Bungie Brothers Circus.
Today: Race to Riches, Crazy It's Cold Outside, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Zoo
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by BARRY MURRAY starring Paul Daniels
Squidgy Bog Cracks Up
Outside Puzzleopolis lies a dank, wet, oozy purple bog called Squidgy. Professor Doom turns his evil attention to the funky bog. As usual Wooly is unable to answer the Puzzlegate
Keeper's riddle of the day. Can you?
With DEBBIE MCGEE and PATRICK PAGE Produced by CUVE DOIG
Directed by DAVID G.ROSE (R)

written by CLIVE DOIG War and Medicine
Eureka visits the Punjabi border war of 1849, the Franco-Austrian war of 1792 and the Crimean war of 1853. But the inventions connected with those conflicts were hardly as dangerous as Wilf Lunn 's alternative inventions.
With WILFRED MAKEPEACE LUNN as the Doctor of Alternative Invention Designer JOHN ASBWDGE
Produced by CUVE doig (R)

Five explorations of the green parts of the city
Presented by Chris Baines
2: The Meadows of Yesterday Thanks to herbicides, the meadows of Victorian times, carpeted with wild flowers and alive with bees and butterflies, have disappeared. But they could be brought back to urban parks if the grass wasn't mown.
Produced by RON BLOOMFIELD (R)
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with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton

Weather Bill Giles

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 search for great-uncle Herbert turns out to be a wild-goose chase which never laid a golden egg.
Directed by SUSAN BELBIN
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by Juliet Ace.
"We're fast becoming public property, Sharon... and I'm not sure I like it."
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starring with and Abuse by SUSAN PLEAT
Kate allows her instincts to overrule her head on the problems of a family that cannot cope.
Producer GERAINT MORRIS Director JAN SARGENT (R)
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Anne Robinson with your comments in the programme you help to write.
Producer ROBERT TONER Please send letters to:
Points of View, BBCtv Centre, London W12 8QT

with Julia Somerville and Andrew Harvey
Regional News; Weather

A retrospective season featuring the first decade of Dennis Potter's outstanding TV plays continues with a moving drama first shown in 1974.
Starring Freddie Jones as Joe, Angharad Rees as Lucy, Dennis Waterman as Bobby, Christopher Guard as John

Joe's daughter Lucy is dying of cancer above his pet shop. Neither his profound religious convictions nor his son's comic routines are enough to prepare them for the crisis.
"Compassion triumphed, producing an honest attempt to articulate the unspeakable, human reaction to death" (Daily Telegraph)
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A series of six programmes, introduced by Jasper Carrott , in which the boy from Brum heads west to check out the comedy talent on the other side of the Atlantic. Filmed live at The Comic Strip in New York and The Improv in Los Angeles, a collection of America's finest present a fresh, offbeat irreverent and outrageous view of ... well, just about everything.
Featured in tonight's show: Gilbert Gottfried
Jerry Seinfeld , Fred Stoller Joe Bolster and Rita Rudner Produced by JOHN STARKEY. LES WARD
Directed by JASPER CARROTT

In this first programme of this series which introduces the techniques of Chinese cooking, Ken Hom demonstrates his method of preparing Peking Duck and its traditional accompaniments. He also visits a Hong Kong restaurant to see how Peking Duck is served. (R) (e)