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with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark

Weather followed by Open Air with Eamonn Holmes and Natalie Anglesey

with Robert Kilroy-Silk
Directors LINDA NASH. ANN MORLEY Editor JOHN GETGOOD

Weather followed by Dr Kildare
The Encroachment
In this daily five-part story, the lives of a young dancer and two doctors become linked at Blair Hospital. (R)

Simon Parkin - starting with Playbus
The Why Bird Stop
The Why Bird helps the driver sort out lost property.
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Producer PENNY LLOYD
A FELGATE production for BBCtv (R)
10.50 am
Stopplt and Tldyup Wash Your Face
Narrated by Terry Wogan. It's a rainy old day and Stoppit and Tidyup have forgotten who comes out after it rains ... (R)

with Rosalind Ayres

Weather followed by Open Air with Eamonn Holmes and Bob Wellings
Senior director ROGER NEALE Producers HUGH FAUPEL DON JONES. ROGER WILKES
MALCOLM BETNEY , TONY HARRISON Editor SUSAN L. WOODWARD BBC North West

Weather followed by World Snooker
World Professional Snooker Championship Round 2
Day 10: it's a matter of five down and three to go, to decide the last eight players to have made it to the quarter-finals.
Join David Icke at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

with Philip Hayton
Weather IAN MCCASKILL

'What you're trying to say is you think he may have drowned.' This week's cast:
Written by JEFFREY TRUMAN Directed by TONY OSICKA

Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship Round 2
David Icke with further coverage. At around 2.30pm in Snooker Break viewers can test their judgment against the experts in 'Shot of the Championship' and win an all-expenses-paid trip to the two-day final at the weekend. Entries on postcards only to: Shot of the Championship,
Crucible Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S14 7UP (Coverage continues on BBC2)

Mark and Willie's Day Off Willie talks Mark into playing truant.
Written by ZACK WESCHLER and JAY ABRAMOVYTCH
Directed by HOWARD STORM

A series of ten programmes. 4: Hatfield House
Lady Victoria Leatham calls at the home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury. Hatfield is where Queen Elizabeth I grew up. The house that was built in the grounds of the royal palace has secret rooms and staircases. Antique furniture expert John Bly makes another discovery.
Producer BRIAN FAWCETT

Andy Crane - starting with Barney with the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor , Harry Enfield , Jan Ravens and Enn Reitel. Barney on TV
Barney is excited as he prepares for his first television job.
Directed by BOB BALSER
Produced by JOHN COATES (Postponed from 17 April)
4.00pm
Batty Adventures by CHRIS ALLEN
Today's adventure: The Good, the Bad and the Batty in which Batty goes West and goes for his buns.
Batty (and other voices) played by C. J. Allen
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director MARILYN FOX (R)
4.10pm
Defenders of the Earth
The Ghost Walks Again Jedda, who believes her father is dead, must make an important decision - is she ready to assume the role of the phantom?
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4.35pm The Bartons
A series of 12 programmes. 4: Mr Snoller 's Black Bag
Every day Mr Snoller leaves home with his black bag - and every day he comes back home with it. Elly is puzzled. She is convinced there is something wrong.
Director RICHARD SARRELL
Executive producer NOEL PRICE
5.00pm Newsround with John Craven , Roger Finn and Helen Rollason
Vital world events, happy happenings, and the latest in sport, in school and in space. Producer SUSIE STAPLES Editor JOHN CRAVEN
5.05pm Blue Peter with Mark Curry , Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding
Producers NICK HEATHCOTE
OLIVER MCFARLANE. ROY MILANI Editor LEWIS BRONZE
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with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton Weather BILL GILES

Guy Michelmore keeps you in touch with what's going on around the capital region of the country.
With reports from studios around the south east.
Michael Wale on the local sports scene and Cathy McGowan around town.
0 WRITE TO: Newsroom South East, BBC Elstree Centre. Clarendon Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
WD6 1JF if you have any news.

with guest Jason Donovan

featuring Bernard Bresslaw , Kenneth Connor , Charles Hawtrey , Frankie Howerd , Hattie Jacques.
Sidney James , Terry Scott ,
Joan Sims , Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor.
A compilation of some of the most outrageous moments from the Carry On films. Produced by PETER ROGERS
Directed by GERALD THOMAS (R)

written by GEORGE LAYTON starring Tony Britton and Nigel Havers featuring Dinah Sheridan , Simon Williams.
Events serve to remind Tom of the differences between the NHS and private practice.
Designer DEREK EVANS
Produced and directed by HAROLD SNOAD (R)
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Under the Weather Narrated by David Attenborough
We discuss it, complain about it, try to forecast it, but at least we can shelter from its worst excesses. For wildlife, there's little escape from the weather. Can animals predict it? The Victorian Dr Merryweather thought so; his 'Tempest Prognosticator' relied on the prophetic powers of medicinal leeches. Even today, some people foretell the weather by watching rooks, cows, or spiders.
How does a change in the weather affect wildlife? From the Caribbean to Connemara, from Cornwall to Caithness, here is an animal outlook on our capricious climate. Film editor CHRIS ORRELL Written and produced by PELHAM ALDRICH BLAKE
Series producer DILYS BREESE
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with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather

Classic sitcom set in south London. Del goes ahead with the biggest job of his life, but does he know what he's buying?

No Spring in Prague
In the aftermath of elections in the Soviet Union, the whole of the Soviet Eastern European Empire is in increasing ferment.
Gavin Hewitt reports from Czechoslovakia where
Soviet tanks crushed the experiment of 'Communism with a human face' in 1968. Today the Government in Prague, paralysed by the fear of change, has embarked on a new repression. But even here, the basic beliefs of 40 years of Communism are under challenge.
Producer CHARLES FURNEAUX Editor TIM GARDAM
(Postponed from 10 April)

with guest star
Missing Hours
The disappearance of a body, the appearance of a former soul star and strange lights over Miami; Crockett and Tubbs investigate a society devoted to close encounters.
Written by THOMAS M. DISCH Directed by ATE DEJONG

from the Cafe Royal in London's West End, the Variety Club of Great Britain hosts a tribute luncheon, to honour one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, the dynamic Lulu!
Assistant producer MAGDA GULVIN Sound CHRIS HOLCOMBE
Lighting PETER GREENYER Director BOB WILD
Producer SIMON betts

Presented by Hugh Scully and Helen Madden.
This week, health and safety at work. A look at the rights of employees who fall ill as a result of their work.
And there's benefits and tax advice for single parents. Series editor CHRIS LENT (e)
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