in Wholesailing Along
When the Greens need a new bath, Leon decides to install it himself....
Director AL BOASBERG
An RKO film
with Kirsty Wark in London. As the Conservative Party returns to Brighton for the first time since the IRA bomb, Jeremy Paxman is at the Prime Minister's headquarters, the Grand Hotel, to report on the build-up to the conference. Plus national and international news and the latest sports news from Rob Bonnet.
Weather followed by In the Making First of four daily programmes Bells
The Whitechapel Bell
Foundry has made some of the most famous bells in the world, including the Liberty Bell of America and Big Ben of London. Today's film shows the process of making a bell, and features several of the craftsmen who make up this small firm which has been in existence for over 500 years.
Producer ANNE JAMES (R)
The opening session of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, including a major debate on inner cities and a speech by Conservative Party
Chairman, Peter Brooke.
Commentators SIR ROBIN DAY DAVID DIMBLEBY , VIVIAN WHITE Editor JAMES HOCAN including at
10.00am News and Weather
Andy Crane - starting with Play School
Presenters Wayne Jackman and Elizabeth Watts Story: Jonah and the Manly Ferry
Written and illustrated by PETER GOULDTHORPE (R)
10.50am
Jimbo and the Jet Set
April Fools' Day
Director KEITH LEARNER (R)
with John Cording
Weather followed by Conservative
Party Conference Further live coverage from Brighton including at
12.00 News and Weather
Jack's Eye View
Dave Dawson and Pete Thompson are
Somerset steeplejacks.
For them, Truro Cathedral and Glastonbury Tor are jobs. A cathedral spire doesn't seem quite so elegant when worked on from two feet away, and the world doesn't look quite the same when seen from 250ft up. Producer COLIN THOMAS BBC Bristol (R)
with Philip Hayton
Weather MICHAEL FISH
Scott and Charlene are having a battle with their parents to gain some independence.
(For cast see page 64. Repeated at 5.35pm)
starring
218BC: Hannibal's army is advancing on ancient Rome. Amytis, the beautiful and independent fiancee of Rome's dictator, becomes fascinated with Hannibal but her scheme to save the city has unforeseen results!
Screenplay by DOROTHY KINGSLEY based on the play Road to Rome by ROBERT E. SHERWOOD Producer GEORGE WELLS Director GEORGE SIDNEY
* FILMS: page 26
starring
Guilty until Not Proven Innocent IR)
Andy Crane - starting with
PC Pinkerton: Practice Makes Perfect
Today you are invited to a solo lunchtime concert by PC Pinkerton.
With the voices of Ian Lavender, Jessica Martin, Sam Kelly, David Shaw Parker
Devised and written by GEOFFREY BOURNE TAYLOR and JOHN MURPHY EDWARDS
Music JOHN KELHAM
Produced and directed by TREVOR BOND
3.55pm Fireman Sam
Narrated by John Alderton (R)
4.05pm Ratman
starring Roland Rat Superstar with Pamela Stephenson as Wombat Woman in Money and Wombats Don't Mix
Written by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and DAVID CLARIDGE
Producer OLIVER MACFARLANE Director PETER LESLIE (R)
4.15pm Beat the Teacher
Presented by Bruno Brookes The Jackson Five with I Want You Back is today's featured pop video and as an added bonus it's also a cartoon. Don't miss it!
4.35pm Chegwin Checks It Out
In the fifth of six programmes Keith Chegwin explores fear. Why do people - especially children - love being spooked by horror stories or terrified by fairground rides? And does it do them any harm? Film editor CHRIS TONGE Producer KIRSTIE FISHER Director PAM O'BRIEN
5.00pm Newsround
5.10pm Grange Hill
Ninth of 20 episodes by MARGARET SIMPSON
Gonch's strip-hire service runs into even more trouble and Ronnie and Fiona practice their hip-hop. They get an offer of help from an enthusiastic Danny. This week's cast:
Producer RONALD SMEDLEY
Director ROBERT GABRIEL (R)
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Nicholas Witchell and Mike Smartt present the latest pictures, stories and events from Britain and around the world.
Weather BERNARD DAVEY
Sir John Gielgud and Jeremy Irons are just two of the stars of classic television clips the Moran family from Dalton and the Hatcher family from Newport watch, as Noel Edmonds quizzes them in the search for the Telly Addicts champions of 1988. Director NICK HURRAN Producer TIM MANNING
Executive producer JOHN KING BBC Pebble Mill
by Gilly Fraser.
"You can't let one man ruin the rest of your life... You're a good-looking woman and what's wrong with that?"
Video: 'EastEnders - The Queen Vic' BBCV B 4024, available from retailers
(Ceefax Subtitles)
Fifth of a six-part series by JOHN ESMONDE , BOB LARBEY with N.V. Standish discovers that William is ill and receiving no attention in his squalid digs, so he decides that
William could benefit from a little of Louise and Mary's 'hospitality'. He does, however, neglect to tell anyone that William is in his room. William's illness stretches out interminably and N.V. eventually has to find a way of sending him home.
Film cameraman KEITH BURTON Designer TIM GLEESON Produced and directed by GARETH GWENLAN
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with Martyn Lewis and Mike Smartt
Regional News; Weather
Last of four episodes starring Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Ben Masters and John Rhys-Davies
The bitter rivalry between Dunross and Gornt comes to a fatal head at the Happy Valley racetrack and old wounds are reopened.
Line is not disturbed by the truth about Orlanda as their affair increases in passion and feelings become real. And as the Noble House teeters on the brink of collapse there are dangerous rumbles of a deadly kind in the hills above Hong Kong.
Screenplay by Eric Bercovici based on the book Noble House by James Clavell
CEEFAX SUBTITLES
starring with The Jack 'Legs'Diamond Story
1934: the big-league criminals of the day all have notoriety, but few have the celebrity granted to Jack Diamond.
Not all his partners in crime welcome Jack's fame - a weakness that Eliot Ness exploits on a major drug-smuggling case....
Written by CHARLES O'NEAL
Director JOHN PEYSER