(R)
with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark
Weather followed by Open Air
with Robert Kilroy-Silk
Weather followed by Dr Kildare
1: Something Old, Something New
In this two-part story, Kildare becomes involved in the strained relationship between an irrational mother and her daughter ... (For cast see page 68) (R)
Simon Parkin - starting with Playbus which stops today at The Playground Stop where the children are playing in the sandpit and with building blocks, and Lizzie finds herself in a muddle.
Presenter Dave Benson Phillips Puppeteer JANE EVE
Producer BARBARA RODDAM (R)
10.50am
Rupert Based on the stories by ALFRED BESTALL
Storyteller Ray Brooks
Rupert and Ozzie Kangaroo (R)
with Leonard Fenton
Weather followed by Open Air
Eamonn Holmes and Susan Rae go behind the scenes at Newmarket. Guests include Bill Waddington (
Percy Sugden of Coronation Street) and Frazer Hines (Joe Sugden of Emmerdale Farm).
Weather followed by World Snooker
Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
Day four and two former World Champions are in action this morning. Terry Griffiths concludes the match he began last night, while on the other table,
Joe Johnson joins the battle. Matches are over the best of 19 frames ... which might well have won a title in many other tournaments. Here it's just for a place in the last 16. Presented by David Icke. Commentators
TED LOWE. JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON
Producers KEITH PHILLIPS
MIKE ADLEY , PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE
with Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES
The Robinson family learn the startling truth about Paul and Gail.
Written by RAY KOLLE
Directed by TONY OSICKA
(Cast page 55. Repeated at 5. 35pm)
Tenerife
Presented by Penny
Junor John Kettley , Matthew Collins
I starring
Norman Wisdom. Crossed in love,
Norman Puckle joins the Navy. The admiral calls for an ordinary, simple-hearted sailor to man an interplanetary rocket, and new recruit Norman is put into training with predictably hilarious results.
Screenplay by JACK DAVIES.
HENRY BLYTH and NORMAN WISDOM Produced by HUGH STEWART Directed by ROBERT ASHER
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Andy Crane - starting with ChuckleVision starring the Chuckle Brothers with Billy Butler. Writer JOHN SAYLE
Designer PAUL MONTAGUE Producer MARTIN HUGHES BBC North West (R)
4.10pm Hokey Wolf West of the Pesos
4.20 Jonny Briggs
5: Albert has a bright idea. (For cast see page 74) (R)
4.35pm
Belle and Sebastian
Make New Friends and Keep the Old
5.00pm Newsround
5.05pm The Lowdown
Bring Me Sunshine
The Variety Club of Great Britain introduced the idea of Sunshine Coaches for children, especially the handicapped, who could not get out and about. The
Lowdown meets children at
Woodlawn School, which has just received a new coach. Also appearing are well-known Variety Club supporters, including
Mrs Thatcher, Lindisfarne, Faith Brown ,
Bonnie Langford and Ernie Wise. Film editor STEVE SCALES
Director CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
Executive producer ERIC ROWAN
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with Nicholas Witchell and Anna Ford
Weather BERNARD DAVEY
with Maggie Philbin , Peter Macann , Howard Stableford and Judith Hann. This week: how measurements of the horse power of a horse - or a cow - are helping in the design of new agricultural tools for use around the world.
Producers EDWARD BRIFFA
MARTIN MORTIMORE. JACK WEBER CYNTHIA PAGE
Studio director PHILIP DOLLING Editor RICHARD REISZ
by Gilly Fraser.
"You feel a damn sight too much, boy. It's about time you started to think."
(For cast see page 74)
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Living with Waltzing Matilda Alan Whicker talks to a cross-section of enterprising poms who have gone to live and work down under.
Jane Makim , born in London, lives a hard life in the rugged outback of New South Wales. In 1986 she was in London on important family business - the wedding of her younger sister. But this was no ordinary wedding: her sister, Sarah Ferguson , was marrying Prince Andrew. Back at the ranch in the drought plain on the Queensland border Jane reflects on a lifestyle that could hardly be less like that of her more famous sister. Capt John Alliston , RN also decided to settle with his wife Eleanor in a remote corner of Australia. On a deserted island off Tasmania, they eked out a precarious living and raised a large family. Producer ROGER MILLS (R)
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with Anne Robinson.
A new day, but the usual topical mixture of viewers' comments, criticisms and commendations.
Producer WARWICK CROSS
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BBCtv Centre, London W12 8QT.
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with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather
by GUY HIBBERT starring Kenneth Cranham Kenneth Colley ,
Carol Drinkwater , John Duttine. Teddy Rose 's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, one of which he and his family inhabit with conspicuous success. Then one Saturday morning a violent street encounter starts a chain of events which calls into question his every assumption and changes his life for good.
Music by COLIN TOWNS
Lighting ROD LITHERLAND
Script editor HILARY SALMON Designer MICHAEL EDWARDS Producer MICHAEL WEARING Director PEDR JAMES BBC Pebble Mill
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Barry Norman presents his review of the week's releases. The Tall Guy - television comedian Mel Smith makes his directorial debut with a comic love story starring Jeff Goldblum , Rowan Atkinson and Emma Thompson.
Charlie Chaplin was born in London 100 years ago this week. In honour of the occasion the Museum of the Moving Image is mounting a special exhibition and there are screenings of his masterpiece City Lights, accompanied by a full orchestra playing the score written by Chaplin himself. Film 89 joins the celebration of a cinema genius.
Director DOMINIC BRIGSTOCKE Producer JANE LUSH
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Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship with David Vine.
Three more matches will have been decided by the end of the day, three more are under way, and the last two start tomorrow.