starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers.
in Art in the Raw
An RKO film
with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark
Eamonn Holmes and Susan Rae visit the ancient market town of Tring in Hertfordshire.
Weather followed by The Flintstones
Andy Crane - starting with:
Playbus
which stops today at The Why Bird Stop.
Stories: The Car Wash by JANE LITHERLAND.
A Voyage of Discovery by PETER LLOYD BENNETT illustrated by J. G. WEED. Driver Simon Davies Puppeteer FIONA BEYNON BROWN Title design PAUL JOHNSON Designer TONY LAWRENCE Director CLARE BRADLEY Producer PENNY LLOYD
10.50am Paddinoton: Paddington Goes to Court
(R)
Viewers' Own Poetry: (2) with Nicolette McKenzie and Edmund Pegge
Weather followed by Open Air
How well does television tackle issues related to the countryside? Eamonn Holmes and Susan Rae seek the answers in a live discussion from Tring.
Hugh Scully drops in on John Bly at his antiques shop to answer your questions on the Antiques Roadshow.
Weather followed by Daytime Live with Sue Cook and Judi Spiers.
The latest chart news with Simon Potter.
Plus Tina Baker on another assignment.
12.55pm Regional News and Weather
with Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES
Jane finally grows up when her childhood dreams are shattered.
Written by CHRIS MCCOURT
Directed by PETER ANDRIKIDIS
(Cast page 57. Repeated at 5.35pm)
Hosted by Henry Kelly
Starring Raymond Burr as Robert T Ironside
with Don Galloway as Det Sgt Ed Brown, Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield, Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger
(R)
starring with Liars and Other Strangers
David is in danger of ruining a girl's reputation by maintaining a silence to boost his reputation. Written by DAPHNE POLLON and DAVID CASTRO
Directed by HOWARD STORM
Judi Spiers and Rob Curling find out how to save time, effort and above all money. Make a mystery meal with Joanna Ashbourn ; join Sally Ann Voak who helps three viewers keep that New Year resolution to give up smoking; make that door really secure with Steve Crouch and Alison Mitchell helps control your debts. Madge from
Neighbours will be giving you all the details to enter the Good Neighbours competition - there's still time and don't forget to look out for Bazaar's healthy, 'Hearty Eater' meals in restaurants throughout the country.
Producer STACEY ADAMS
Series producer ERICA GRIFFITHS (e)
For 'Bazaar Extra factsheet send a large 14p sae to: [address removed]. Details on Ceefaxpage 187.
Andy Crane - starting with
Pigeon Street: A Light in the Sky
With the voices of George Layton and John Telfer (R)
4.05pm Wizbit: Origami War: 2
by Barry Murray.
Starring Paul Daniels
Wizbit comes to the rescue of Puzzleopolis in a most unusual, magical, origamical way. (R)
4.15pm Touche Turtle: Loser Takes All
With a cry of 'Touche, away!' the unlikely musketeer Touche Turtle is off to avenge wrongs and protect the weak!
4.20pm Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl.
Told in five daily parts by Joss Ackland for Jackanory.
A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants - and deserves - is a parent who is Sparky. Today: My Father's Deep Dark Secret
4.35pm Defenders of the Earth: Battleground
Ming uses his freeze-ray weapon to capture unstoppable alien creatures, transport them to earth and unleash them on the world.
(Ceefax subtitles)
4.55pm Newsround
5.05pm Blue Peter
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
3,2,1... Blast Off!
Yvette has got a terrific idea for a game which will keep everyone happy for hours.
You'll need some cardboard tubes from toilet rolls, a large cardboard box, a garden cane and some coloured sticky tape and string.
(Ceefax subtitles)
with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather MICHAEL FISH
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
Join Terry and his guests for conversation and entertainment live from the Television Theatre.
Have you splashed out yet on your yearly dose of summer sun? Does 1989 promise the holiday of a lifetime or a nightmare of air traffic chaos and clogged roads?
Watch tonight's special on holidays for the answers, as Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton bring you their selection of holiday horrors and cautionary travellers' tales. Reporters MIKE EMBLEY , MICHAL LEVIN Deputy editor MIKE KAVANAGH Editor NICK HAYES
Write to Watchdog, BBCtv,
Lime Grove, London W128QT, or ring the hotline on [number removed]
with Michael Buerk Regional News Weather
President Bush -
Challenging the Future
In four days, George Bush becomes the 41st President of the United States, taking office at a time of momentous change in the structure of world power. His America has crippling budget and trade deficits, faces an imminent trade war with Europe and ferocious competition from Japan.
Tom Mangold reports from across the United States from Wall Street, a cowboy ranch bought by the Japanese, from the deck of a mighty warship, symbol of America's former glory, and from the classrooms of America to ask, must the new President preside over the slow decline of a superpower, or can his United States challenge and win the future?
Producer JENNY CLAYTON Editor TIM GARDAM
('US Presidential Inauguration' Friday 4.30pm BBC2)
JEFFREY ARCHER 'S international bestseller adapted for television in three parts. Episode 3.
1953: Kane's attempts to punish Abel for the Atlantic Airlines fiasco backfires - which is not the only time the mastermind of Baron
Hotels displays his powers of persuasion. Their war rages on and both men seek solace in their children, but in 1955 Richard Kane and Florentyne Rosnovski meet in New York and the two men come to realise that 30 years of fighting on the principle of an eye for an eye has left them both blind ...
(For cast see page 18) (R) 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
A series of ten programmes with Fred Harris.
When all else fails, a computer-controlled brain can at least be made to 'fail safe', which means in an emergency it simply stops. But it is more difficult to apply this principle to a computer-controlled plane.
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