in A Rented Riot
An RKO film

with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark Sports news from
Archie Macpherson

Weather followed by Open Air

Weather followed by Going for Gold

which stops today at The Playground Stop Presenter
Dave Benson Phillips
Puppeteer JANE EVE
Storyteller Anthony Lapsley Story: Sticky Beak and the Floating Koala by MARCIA VAUGHAN , illustrations by ESTER KASEPUU
Music JONATHAN COHEN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM

A Visit to the Hospital by MICHAEL BOND. Narrated by Michael Hordem (R)

with Estelle Kohler

Weather followed by Open Air
It's your chance to put questions to the Controllers of BBC1 and BBC2, Jonathan Powell and Alan Yentob. Ring Open Air on [number removed]

Weather followed by Daytime Live with Sue Cook and Alan Titchmarsh
The special tranquilliser helpline on 0345- [number removed]is open from 1.00pm-6.00prn Also available is 'Stepping Out',
£1.50, [address removed]

with Philip Hayton
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

Tensions mount in the Robinson household as they wait for news of Lucy. Written by WAYNE DOYLE
Directed by PETER ANDRIKIDIS

Hosted by Henry Kelly
The six remaining contestants compete for the title of European Quiz Champion.
Executive in charge of production BILL MASON Designer
DAVID LASKEY
Associate producer KERENSA BUNCE
Executive producer MICHAEL WHYTE Director STEVE CHILVER
A REG GRUNDY producton in association with BBCtv

starring Paul Henreid Michele Morgan
When the five valiant airmen of RAF
Squadron 701 bail out over France, they head for Paris in the hope ot an escape route to
England. Their leader, Free Frenchman Paul Lavallier arranges refuge in a church through his old friend
Fr Antoine , and while dodging the Gestapo he encounters a beautiful barmaid called
Joan. Their growing love and mutual fight against the occupying Nazis is movingly depicted in this atmospheric and contemporary portrait of the Paris Underground.
Screenplay by CHARLES BENNETT and ELLIS ST JOSEPH
Produced by DAVID HEMPSTEAD Directed by ROBERT STEVENSON
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Circus Today

Andy Crane - starting with

Green Claws with Nick Mercer and Stella Goodier.
Green Claws is having problems with his clocks, so Percy and he try to invent a new clock - after all the Claws family are great inventors. Iris tries to help too, but has no luck. What can Owlma and the Riddle Tree do to solve the problem?
Claws Family stories Sonya Dann Illustrations Jane Gedye Script by Ursula Jones
Produced by Christine Hewitt

4.10pm Touche Turtle Great Double Header
With a cry of 'Touche, away!' the unlikely musketeer Touche Turtle is off to avenge wrongs and protect the weak!

4.15pm The Best-Kept Secret by Emily Rodda
Told for Jackanory by Elaine R. Smith
2: The Time of Your Life

4.25pm Hokey Wolf Booty on the Bounty

4.35pm What's That Noise?
Craig Charles is Head of Backroom today.
1. What does a conductor do?
Ask Martin Andre (Welsh National Opera) to demonstrate with the Welsh Chamber Orchestra.
2. Who are the Sons of Gordon Gecko?
3. Ask Bruno Brookes and Rob Fisher (Climie Fisher ) how to start 'charting'.
4. Que Pasa need to know.
Arthur Baker has done this for loads of groups.
5. Is that Sigue Sigue
Sputnik's Tony James ?
6. Computer versus 'fingers'
Roger - who will win?
NB: All done without a personal organiser!
Format devised by Tim Graham and Richard Addison
Executive producer Christopher Pilkington
Directed by Steve Smith
Produced by Pippa Dyson

5.00pm Newsround

5.05pm Grange Hill Third of 20 episodes by Barry Purchase.
Trevor is convinced that Vince has ESP.

Ceefax subtitles

Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton present the latest news from Britain and around the world. Weather BILL GILES

London Plus, Spotlight, Points West, Look East,
Look North, South Today, North West Tonight, Midlands Today.

Judith Hann ,
Maggie Philbin , Peter Macann and Howard Stableford with a new year round-up of the latest developments in science, technology and medicine. This week: the farm in Hawaii where all the equipment - even the lawn mower - is solar powered. Producers
MARTIN MORTIMORE. CYNTHIA PAGE EDWARD BRIFFA , JACK WEBER Studio director PHILIP DOLLING Editor RICHARD REISZ

by Jane Galletly.
"Can't be more than 12 months ago she's whinging to Angie for a job, now she's running the blooming place."
(Ceefax subtitles)

Questionmaster David Coleman
Tonight Ian Botham lines up with Peter Beardsley , the Liverpool and England striker, and Karen Straker , Olympic Three-Day Event team silver medallist.
Bill Beaumont is joined by Sam Torrance , a member of Europe's Ryder Cup-winning team, and Derek Redmond , European gold medallist in the 4 x 400m relay. Director MICK DEMPSEY Producer MIKE ADLEY BBC North West
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with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

starring
Jamie Lee Curtis Bruce Weitz
Beautiful teenager Dorothy Stratten is befriended by Paul Snider , a small-time hustler with big-time ambitions. After Snider sends some photographs of her to Playboy magazine,
Dorothy is propelled into the world of modelling. Her success is to backfire when Snider's insane jealousy boils over....
Screenplay by DONALD STEWART Produced by PAUL POMPIAN
Directed by GABRIELLE BEAUMONT
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Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week s cinema releases.
The Presidio - the setting for this thriller is a San
Francisco army base where a military policewoman is murdered. Sean Connery , as an Army Marshal, locks horns with a local cop, Mark Harmon. Splashy action sequences abound.
Pascali 's Island -
Ben Kingsley plays Pascali, a seedy Turkish spy, who lives on the Greek island of Nisi in 1908. Into his world comes
British archaeologist Charles Dance , whose appearance changes his life forever.
James Dearden , writer of Fatal Attraction, directs. Director DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE Producer JANE LUSH
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Presented by Hugh Scully and Helen Madden.
Christmas can be a time of crisis. How can parents withstand the pressures?
And when children have to be put in care, how does it affect them? Teenagers in a residential home describe their feelings. Foster carer Marion shows how she helps 8-year-old Tammy through the trauma of separation. But there is a shortage of foster carers; how can viewers help to care for the innocent victims of family breakdown? (R) (e)
For a copy of 'Care for a Child' booklet send a large 22p sae to: [address removed]