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in Quiet Please
An RKO film

with Kirsty Wark and Jeremy Paxman

Weather followed by Open Air
What entertained, annoyed or provoked you on last night's television? Phone
Susan Rae on [number removed]and let her know. Producers
TONY HARRISON , MALCOLM BETNEY KAREN BLUMENFELD , LIZ MCCALLUM ROGER WILKES
Director ROGER NEALE
Editor SUSAN WOODWARD BBC North West

with Robert Kilroy-Silk .
Lively and topical discussion on the subjects you are talking about.
Directors LINDA NASH , ANN MORLEY Deputy editor JOHN GETGOOD Editor DAVID WICKHAM

Weather followed by The Pink Panther Show
Today: Pink Quackers Jet Feathers
Pink and Shovel (R)

Andy Crane - starting with Playbus stops today at
The Why Bird Stop where Why Bird and the bus driver sort out lost property and find a surprise parcel. Stories: Noisy Natalie - a Shopping Trip by WENDY CRAIG.
Conrad the Big-Headed Ant by ROBIN KINGSLAND.
Bus driver Brian Jameson Puppeteer
FIONA BEYNON BROWN Title music RICHARD BROWN Title design PAUL JOHNSON Designer TONY LAWRENCE Director CLARE BRADLEY Producer PENNY LLOYD

Please Look After This Bear

with Amanda Redman

Weather followed by Open Air
As the television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's
The Rainbow breaks over
BBC1, Susan Rae visits the Lawrence Museum at Eastwood in Nottinghamshire to hear comments and queries.

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Sue Cook , Judi Spiers and Simon Potter.
Join the lunchtime team for Britain's brightest magazine. Including today the latest pop news and gossip with Simon Potter.
Editor STEVE WEDDLE BBC Pebble Mill

with Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES

Madge averts a disaster at the Coffee Shop. Lucy tries her hand at matchmaking. Written by MAUREEN ANN MORAN (Cast page 93. Repeated at 5.35pm)

European Quiz.
What Metal Age immediately followed the Bronze Age? Find out the answer in today's Going for Gold as Henry Kelly introduces seven new European contestants.
Production executive (GRUNDY TV) BILL MASON Designer
DAVID LASKEY
Director (BBC) STEVE CHILVER
Executive producer (GRUNDY TV) MICHAEL WHYTE
Question writer DR NIGEL LEIGH
Associate producer KERENSA BUNCE A REG GRUNDY production in association with BBCtv

starring with Grandmother's House.
Ironside attempts to recover jewels before an elderly victim's business associates accuse her of mental incompetence based on the loss.
Written by PRESTON WOOD Directed by DON WEIS (R)

Peter Hudson and David Halls go home to
New Zealand to begin their Christmas celebrations with a party on a friend's boat.
A FRIDAY PRODUCTIONS programme for BBC North West
Produced and directed by ALAN WALSH (R)

Join Judi Spiers in the weekly marketplace of ideas. Items this week include the finishing touches to
Deltha McLeod 's dazzling party look from Barbara Daly and top hair stylist John Frieda. Geoffrey Smith suggests Christmas garden gifts to make your friendships grow. The Hearty Eater truckers return.
Look out for the Bazaar
BBCtv Hearty Eater stickers in roadside restaurants - your guide to a meal high in fibre, low in fat and moderate in calories.
Producer ELIZABETH CRETCH
Series producer ERICA GRIFFITHS (e)
For Bazaar Extra factsheet send a large 14P sae to: [address removed]
Details on Ceefax page 187

Andy Crane starting with:

Stoppit and Tidyup: Take Care
Narrated by Terry Wogan. It's Birthday Day in the land of Do-As-You're-Told, and Take Care has the job of delivering the presents - but unfortunately he mixes them all up!

with Lindsey Coulson and Bill Wallis as Boz
'Keep a poem in your pocket and a picture in your head.' Lindsey and Boz pick up poems everywhere and put them in surprising places. Grandpa's Toffees by DAVID ORME Make-up designer
CHRISTINE WALMESLEY-COTHAM Executive producer ANGELA BEECHING
Producer MARGIE BARBOUR Director NKL ROMANO

Based on the stories by Alfred Bestall.
Storyteller Ray Brooks.

in The Finks Robbery (R)

Mandrake and Lothar join forces with the beautiful
Atascadero to find the lost jewels of Tibet.
Ceefax subtitles

Seventh of a 12-part serial by VALERIE GEORGESON from a story by MARGARET STUART BARRY.
Things are going badly for the Witch. Her wand is missing, and, to make things worse, she hasn't even been invited to Cuthbert's birthday party.
Designer STEVE SHARRATT Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director DAVID BELL (Cast page 70)

with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Appeal Latest: Join in the bring-and-buy sale for Kampuchea and send off for the do-it-yourself kit. Write to: [address removed]

(Ceefax Subtitles)

with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton

Richard Bath, Penny Bustin, and Deborah Hall bring you tonight's news and views from London and the south east. Plus sport from Michael Wale
Editor FIONA CHESTERTON
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Welcome Terry back for conversation and entertainment live from the Television Theatre.

with Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton campaigning on your behalf on the things that matter to you. On offer are revealing investigations from the crack Watchdog reporting team, and stories from your letters and calls. Reporters
MIKE EMBLEY
SARAH SPILLER. Editor NICK HAYES
Write to Watchdog. BBCtv,
London W12 8QT, or ring the hotline on 01- [number removed].

with Martyn Lewis
Regional News; Weather

Council Housing: The Last Frontier
Council estates are the Conservatives' next political battlefield.
Once, council housing, subsidised and secure, symbolised the Welfare State. But the Government has cut back council housing and introduced the right to buy; and now the Tories plan to sell off whole estates to new style 'social landlords'. If the Tories replace council-house culture by enterprise culture, who will lose and who will gain? Vivian White reports.
Producer DANIEL BRITTAIN-CATLIN Editor TIM GARDAM

A serial in seven parts by ANDREW DA VIES. Starring
Peter Davison with Graham Crowden Barbara Flynn
David Troughton Amanda Hillwood John Bird.
5: Contact Tracer.
Stephen and his colleagues have a crisis on their hands when an epidemic hits the campus, but trying to trace the source proves as difficult as keeping the news from the vice-chancellor.
A very particular programme -
FINANCIAL TIMES
The funniest 50 minutes in weeks -
DAILY MIRROR
Produced by KEN RIDDINGTON Directed by DAVID TUCKER
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Guinness Soccer Six. Tonight's six teams - Norwich, Millwall, Luton, Sheffield Wednesday, QPR, and the wild card entry Manchester City - play a series of 15-minute matches for a place in Wednesday's final round.
The commentators at the G-Mex Centre are John Motson and Tony Gubba.

Sixth in a series of ten programmes about computers in society with Fred Harris.
In a London squat, two musicians built themselves a drum kit from cheap and freely available parts - silicon chips. They realised they had a winner on their hands, and joined up with a marketing company to sell large numbers to eager buyers. But attempts to build on this success have not gone so smoothly.

(For accompanying notes, send a cheque or PO for £1.50 to [address removed].)