in Home Work
An RKO film
with John Stapleton and Sally Magnusson
Weather followed by Open Air
Susan Rae and Mike Shaft are in the Open Air studio to take your calls about what's on television. Ring on [number removed]. Producers
TONY HARRISON. CHARLES BRUCE KAREN BLUMENFELD and LIZ MCCULLUM
Director ROGER NEALE Editor SUE WOODWARD BBC North West
with Robert Kilroy-Silk
Weather followed by Going for Gold
Andy Crane - starting with
Playbus: The Patch Stop
Sam Patch meets a seagull, a lugworm and a crab.
Story: King Greenfingers
10.50am Gran
Gran's Pets
Gran makes up for all the time she has lived without animals. (R)
with Robert Eddison
Weather followed by Open Air
Mavis Nicholson ,
Bob Wellings and Mike Shaft are in the studio to take your calls. And it's your chance to vote for a viewer's choice of programme to be shown this afternoon. All you have to do is ring the number listed below for the film you would most like to see:
0[number removed]for Berlin Express
0[number removed]for Hotel Reserve 0[number removed]for The Siege of Sidney Street
For details of the films see billings at 2.15pm.
Weather followed by Daytime Live with Alan Titchmarsh and Judi Spiers
The lunchtime team is joined by resident style supremo Samantha Meah to cast an ear on British accents. Plus further advice for tranquilliser users.
with Philip Hayton
Weather Bernard Davey
Daphne tells Mrs Mangel the bitter truth.
Written by RAY KOLLE
Hosted by Henry Kelly
This week's heat finalists compete for a semi-final position.
Question writer DR NIGEL LEIGH Director STEVE CHILVER Designer DAVID LASKEY
Production executive BILL MASON
Executive producer MICHAEL WHYTE Associate producer KERENSA BUNCE A REG GRUNDY production in association with BBCtv
Today Open Air viewers have the chance to phone in and vote for the film they would like to see this afternoon. The choice is between:
Berlin Express starring Merle Oberon Robert Ryan
A group of passengers travelling through post-war Europe find themselves at the centre of a murderous plot to prevent the unification of Germany.
Screenplay by HAROLD MEDFORD Produced by BERT GRANET
Hotel Reserve starring James Mason Lucie Mannheim Clare Hamilton
An Austrian refugee in France is falsely accused of being a Nazi agent. He sets out to prove his innocence. Screenplay by JOHN DAVENPORT from the novel Epitaph for a Spy by ERIC AMBLER
Produced by VICTOR HANBURY Directed by VICTOR HANBURY
LANCE COMFORT and MAX GREENE
The Siege of Sidney Street starring Peter Wyngarde Donald Sinden
Kieron Moore
Reconstruction of the famous events in 1911, when undercover policemen infiltrated an anarchist group led by Russian exiles. Screenplay by JIMMY SANGSTER and ALEXANDER BARON
Produced and directed by ROBERT S. BAKER and MONTE BERMAN 0 FILMS: page 25
Andy Crane - starting with Charlie Chalk written by JOCELYN STEVENSON The Sneezes
Charlie has the dreaded sneezes and has to cancel an expedition to find the Bye Bye Beast. However, his luck changes when Trader Jones produces a miracle cure. Voices Michael Williams John Wells
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Music and lyrics by MIKE REDWAY Director of animation DEREK MOGFORD
Film editor MARTIN BOHAN Song vocals KEN BARRIE
Created, designed and produced by IVOR WOOD
4.05pm The Snorks
Deep under the sea in the mystical underwater world of Snorkland lives a society of tiny creatures called Snorks. Snorkin' Surf Party
4.20pm
What's Your Story?
Sylvester McCoy presents the final part of the live mystery drama.
What has happened?
Who is Quint? Is he still there? Will all be revealed in today's episode based on your own ideas? Who knows .. ?
The Company BILL STEWART SUSIE BAXTER , BEN BENSON TIM DIGGLE , LISA ROSE STEPHEN TREDRE
GRACE WILKINSON Executive producer
CHRISTOPHER PILKINGTON Script editor PETER COREY Designer ROB HINDS
Producer RICHARD SIMKTN
See Ceefax page 238 for tomorrow's potential scriptwriters
4.35pm Bad Boyes A ten-part series by JIM AND DUNCAN ELDRIDGE 4: The Holiday
Gran exclaimed: 'Tent! What tent?! You never said anything about a tent.' And this is how the Boyes's holiday became not what they expected.
Incidental music JONATHAN COHEN Film cameraman PETER HALL Designer DINAH WALKER Producer JEREMY SWAN
5.00pm Newsround with John Craven Roger Finn and Helen Rollason
The up-to-the-minute news service for Britain's children. Editor JOHN CRAVEN
5.05pm Blue Peter with Mark Curry Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding Appeal Surprise!
Mark, Caron and Yvette make their most important announcement of the year - the subject of the Blue Peter Appeal. Be sure to watch and find out how you can help. producers NICK HEATHCOTE ANDREW WHITMAN and OLIVER MACFARLANE Editor LEWIS BRONZE
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with Nicholas Witchell and Andrew Harvey
Weather BILL GILES
by Mark Thomas.
"You reckon he needs the love of a good woman? Actually, I was thinking more of me."
(Ceefax subtitles)
Maggie Philbin Peter Macann
Howard Stableford and Judith Hann with a round-up of the latest developments in science, technology and medicine. This week: how muscles designed for a puppet are helping the disabled. Producers
MARTIN MORTIMORE , CYNTHIA PAGE EDWARD BRIFFA. JACK WEBER
Studio director PHILIP DOLLING Editor RICHARD REISZ
with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather
The first of six programmes with Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Joanna David, Brian Hibbard, Phyllida Law, Eleanor McCready, Stephen Moore, Imelda Staunton and Sophie Thompson
Join Emma for: Self-Defence in the Kitchen I Hate the Way I Love It Total Environment Ladies Who Lunch Hostess What's Yours Is Mine Have a Little Faith in Me Victorian Mouse and Horror
A Humphrey Barclay production for BBC North West
FEATURE: page 11
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with Sir Robin Day
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.
With Sir Robin Day this evening at the Greenwood Theatre in London are: Janet Daley
Simon Jenkins
Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman , MP and David Mellor , mp Director ANN MORLEY
Producer ANNA CARRAGHER Editor BARBARA MAXWELL
Presented by Kirsty Wark Haig Gordon and Scottish political correspondent Brian Taylor
Fifteen years ago the electors of Glasgow Govan overturned a large Labour majority to elect a Scottish Nationalist. The result was a sensation and heralded SNP victories at the subsequent general elections.
Tonight Labour wait to see whether they have headed off another nationalist onslaught led by a former Labour MP, the husband of the SNP victor in 1973. Executive producer KENNETH CARGILL
Studio director NORMAN BOYLE Outside broadcast producer TORQUIL REOCH
Producer BRIAN CURRIE BBC Scotland