in Love on a Ladder
An RKO film
with Jeremy Paxman and John Stapleton
(R)
with Robert Kilroy-Silk
Weather followed by One of the Family Butterflies and Tortoises
The Heliconid is a striking black, yellow and vermillion butterfly from South America. Marian Foster visits the Cotswolds Wildlife Park where John Stone explains how to rear these creatures in your home. He also shows how to look after stick insects and praying mantises. Brian Watkins finds out more about caring for your tortoise from Don Reid.
BBC Pebble Mill (R)
with Andy Crane Play School
Presenter Jane Hardy
Guests Robin Kingsland Nicola Katrak
Story: Bryan and Ryan Keep Fit by SONYA dann (R) and Paddington
Paddington and the 'Old Master' (R)
with Emma Thompson
Weather followed by Bonanza
Ambush at Rio Lobo Written by JOEL MURCOTT
Directed by NICHOLAS COLOSANTO (R) and Cartoon Woody 's Woodpecker Polka
Weather followed by Wild World
On the Edge of Paradise
The Caribbean is one of the world's great tropical paradises. Its coral reefs, sparkling seas and sands attract a growing number of tourists - particularly to the tiny islands of the West
Indies, like Barbados and St Lucia. But behind the idyll the islands are struggling to survive.
Narrated by Hugh Sykes Film cameraman KROV MENUHIN Written and produced by TONY EDWARDS BBC Bristol
with Martyn Lewis
Weather Bill Giles
The purse snatcher is unmasked. An intimate dinner becomes ovecrowded. Madge tries to find the truth behind Helen's return. Written by JEFFREY TRUMAN
With Suzanne Dando and Christopher Lillicrap
Is your health affected by the stars? Are you a bath or shower person?
This week's special guest is
England and Spurs footballer Gary Mabbutt who is a diabetic. The members of the studio audience give their views in 'the Golden Nose Award'.
Producer ALAN RUSSELL. BBC Bristol Helpline for further information about diabetes contact: The [address removed] or telephone [number removed]
USSR: Moscow and Leningrad
Fourteen-year-old Adam and his friend, Ben, explore the golden domes of Moscow before moving on to Leningrad.
Director DAVID PEARSON
Producer PATRICIA HOULIHAN (R)
Leeds(0532)[number removed]
Your daytime gardening forum. John Thirlwell invites you to air your gardening problems live by phone to Geoffrey Smith and Dr Stefan Buczacki. Ring with your questions between 11.30am and 2.30pm Gardening adviser DAPHNE LEDWARD Director MARCEL GUUXOU Producer MIKE ROBERTSON BBC Leeds
Details on Ceefax page 187
Andy Crane - starting with ChuckleVision with the Chuckle Brothers Billy Butler 's on hand with Armchair Theatre and there's magic from Simon Lovell. Producer MARTIN HUGHES
Director CEUA THOMSON (R)
A serial in 13 episodes from a story by JOAN EADINGTON
Part 8 by VALERIE GEORGESON (For cast see page 47) (R)
What a Difference a Day Makes
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
(Ceefax Subtitles)
with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
Weather BERNARD DAVEY
by Charlie Humphreys.
"The vultures are gathering."
(Ceefax subtitles)
Howard Stableford,
Judith Hann , Peter Macann and Anna Walker with everything that's new in science, technology and medicine. This week including Bob Symes with his latest roundup of new inventions; and how to make mines a safer place to work. Producers JACK WEBER
CYNTHIA PAGE. DANA PURVIS Studio director TOM WRAGG Editor RICHARD REISZ
with Magnus Magnusson
Tonight Mastermind reaches the semi-finals.
The venue is St Andrew's College of Education, Bearsden, Glasgow. Henry Boettinger
(consultant and author) The life and work of Thomas Edison Kenneth Gray
(retired schoolmaster) The life and works of Rachmaninov Steve Hall (civil servant) The life and works of Mark Twain
Roy Bailey (film producer) The Poldark novels of Winston Graham Lighting GEOFF HIGGS
Assistant producer MARY CRAIG Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer PETER MASSEY BBC Elstree
by the Social and Liberal Democrats
with Martyn Lewis and Andrew Harvey
Regional News; Weather
starring
Written by ANDREW NICKOLDS and STAN HEY
Leg of Darkness
Alex invests in some meat of dubious origin, so Julie, the kebab house's one-woman Green Party, tries to convince Delbert of the difference between 'crucial' and 'critical'.
Music JOE DWORNIAK
Produced and directed by GEOFF POSNER (R)
*CEEFAX SUBTITLES
The weekly opportunity for the general public to pose the questions and debate the answers with those in power, those who seek it and those who influence events.
Among the guests with Sir Robin Day this evening at the Greenwood Theatre in London are: the Rt Hon Lynda Chalker , mp Lady Antonia Fraser , and Tom Sawyer
Director ANN MORLEY
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL
Robert Stack as Eliot Ness Jack Lord as Bill Hagan Charles McGraw as Barney Birch
The Jake Lingle Killing
The murder of Jake Lingle , a celebrated crime reporter, causes public fury to erupt. What is not known is that
Lingle acted as a broker for the police and Chicago's warring underworld.
Written by ROBERT C. DENNIS and SAUL LEVITT
Directed by TAY GARNETT (R)