(R)
with John Stapleton and Kirsty Wark
What did you think of last night's television programmes? Eamonn Holmes is ready to receive your calls on [number removed].
with Robert Kilroy-Silk
starring with guest stars
1: From Nigeria with Love In this four-part story, the arrival at Blair Hospital of a renowned but irascible anthropologist and a romantically inclined young girl poses problems for an already overworked Kildare.
(R. Part 2 tomorrow at 10. mam)
Simon Parkin - starting with which stops today at The Playground Stop
The children go looking for a lost toy, and Lizzie finds someone she didn't expect.
Presenter
Dave Benson Phillips Puppeteer JANE EVE
Storyteller Anthony Lapsley Story Sticky Beak and the Mystery of the Missing Toys by MARCIA VAUGHAN , illustrated by ESTER KASEPUU Music JONATHAN COHEN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM
Comings and Goings at No 32 by MICHAEL BOND (R)
with Nicola Pagett
Hosted by Eamonn Holmes and Bob Wellings.
with Sue Cook ,
Alan Titchmarsh and Judi Spiers. The daily magazine including today Stepping Out - advice for tranquilliser users. An advice line is open from 1 00pm to 6.00pm on [number removed] - calls charged at local rates.
with Philip Hayton
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Henry and Helen have a plan to save Scott and Charlene's marriage.
Written by RAY HARDING Directed by TONY OSICKA
(Cast page 47. Repeated at 5.35pm)
Over the next three days
120,000 people are expected to attend the 1989 National
Hunt Festival at Cheltenham. Over 300 horses will compete including more than 30 from Ireland.
BBCtv's outside broadcast cameras will bring you all the top racing over the three days. Julian Wilson introduces the races on today's card.
2.15 Waterford Crystal
Supreme Novices Hurdle (2m)
2.50 Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase (2m)
Sabin Du Loir is a strong favourite to give record-breaking trainer Martin Pipe his first Cheltenham success since 1981.
A Newsnight special in which Chancellor Nigel Lawson delivers his sixth successive Budget amid fears about rising interest rates and inflation. David Dimbleby introduces live coverage of the Chancellor's speech plus instant reaction from leading financial journalists, businessmen and trade unionists.
Peter Snow provides immediate analysis to the Budget's key measures and gauges who's better off as a result.
And live from Westminster, leading politicians give their first response to the Chancellor's strategy. Producers NEIL ECCLES
ANDREW THOMPSON. DOMINIC
CAMERON. CHRISTINE CHAPMAN Studio director ROB HOPKIN Deputy editor ALEX GERLIS Editor JAMES HOGAN
0 PETER BROOKES : page 18.
0 ROGER WODDIS : page 94
with Nicholas Witchell and Anna Ford
Weather BILL GILES
Judith Hann. Maggie
Philbin Peter Macann and Howard Stableford with a round-up of the latest developments in science, technology and medicine. This week: the computer programme which is planning the east coast's new defences against the rising North Sea. Producers JACK WEBER
MARTIN MORTIMORE. CYNTHIA PAGE EDWARD BRIFFA
Studio director PHILIP DOLLING Editor RICHARD REISZ
by Gilly Fraser.
"Ain't you got no vision Pat? I'm doing you the honour of sharing me dreams, this is just the beginning."
(For cast see page 75)
(Ceefax subtitles)
by JOHN ESMONDE. BOB LARBEY starring
A Tug of the Forelock
To be in service is one thing, but to be servile is another. Designer PAUL MUNTING
Producer JOHN HOWARD DAVIES (R)
Questionmaster David Vine. Ian Botham lines up with rugby union's Brendan Mullin, the Irish centre three-quarter, and swimmer Suki Brownsdon, double World Cup champion.
Bill Beaumont's guests are Bruce Grobbelaar, the Liverpool goalkeeper, and athlete Mark Rowland, Olympic 3.000-metre steeplechase bronze medallist.
BBC North West
(Ceefax subtitles)
with Martyn Lewis
Regional News; Weather
A statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon
Nigel Lawson , MP, on behalf of the Government.
by DAVID MAMET starring and Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her money?
Lighting cameraman ALEX SCOTT Designer CAMPBELL GORDON Producer SUSANNA CAPON Director BILL BRYDEN BBC Scotland
(Bill Bryden is on 'Open Air' tomorrow at 11.00am)
0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Terry Gilliam's extravagant re-telling of this traditional fairy tale stars John Neville as the eccentric Hungarian baron who sets out on a spectacular adventure in search of his long-lost servants.
Problems during the film's production sent it wildly over budget, making it the most expensive European film ever made. Film 89 investigates.
Twins - a wacky comedy with Danny de Vito and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the unlikely role of siblings separated at birth and reunited 35 years later.
Barry Norman: page 21
from Paris
Featuring
Pairs Original Programme It's Paris in springtime and Barry Davies reports from the heart of the French capital on the budding new skating stars in this post-
Olympic year. Witt, Boitano, Bestemianova and Bukin have moved on but Olympic Champions Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov are back in a bid to regain their World crown. Alan Weeks is back too - beginning his fourth decade at the BBC rinkside microphone.
Television presentation A2F (FRANCE) Producer ALASTAIR SCOTT
Executive producer JIM RESIDE
Highlights of today's races at the National Hunt Festival featuring the Waterford
Crystal Champion Hurdle and the Arkle Trophy Chase. Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN with BILL SMITH and TOMMY STACK
Reporter Jonathan Powell Producer KEITH MACKENZIE
A round-up of the main points of today's Budget in British Sign
Language. Presented by Maureen Denmark and Clive Mason , with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing.
