starts your day with news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers.
Weather followed by Swim
Beginners
Andrew Harvey introduces the first of ten daily programmes for swimmers and non-swimmers of all ages. (R)
Presented by Ian McNaught Davis with resident experts
Professor Eric Laithwaite William Woollard and guests
Joan Bakewell
Dr Magnus Pyke.
A daily panel game featuring the identification of extraordinary inventions of the past and present. (n)
Weather followed by Dr Kildare
A Few Hearts, a Few Flowers In the first of this four-part story, the stormy marriage of an author and a wealthy socialite finds a new battleground at the hospital. (R)
Simon Parkin - starting with Playbus
The Why Bird Stop
Puppeteer
FIONA BEYNON BROWN Director CLARE BRADLEY
Producer PENNY LLOYD (R)
10.50am The Wombles
Autumn Leaves (R)
with Dora Bryan
Producer RALPH ROLLS (R)
First of five daily programmes.
Introduced by Stuart Storey.
Allan Wells tries to turn six top sportsmen and women into sprinters. They are: Sean Kerly, Lisa Opie, Steven Redgrave, Gaynor Stanley, Neil Adams and Liz Hobbs.
BBC Northern Ireland (R)
Allan Beswick follows some of the residents in their daily lives to bring you a week's events in Lovat Road, Preston. Producer TONY WILKIE. MILLAR
Weather followed by Treasure Island
Have Map, Will Travel An adventure in the Pacific with the actress Moira Lister.
The lure was solid gold - a life-size Madonna stolen two centuries ago from Lima cathedral and buried on Cocos Island, an oceanic speck 300 miles out in the Pacific.
Producer RICHARD LIGHTBODY Series editor TIM SLESSOR
Bungay Fire
Bryan McNerney recounts the dreadful events of 300 years ago when the town of Bungay on the Norfolk-
Suffolk border was destroyed by fire.
Producer BRYAN MCNERNEY
with Philip Hayton
Weather IAN MCCASKILL
Tony and Sally become rivals. Eileen realises she is dependent on tranquillisers. This week's cast:
Written by LOIS BOOTON Directed by CHRIS SHEIL
A feature-length episode starring and Return to Camelot
... where foreign interference shakes the kingdom and even JR must ally with Cliff Barnes and the other oil barons to protect their interests.
Written by LEONARD KATZMAN and MITCHELL WAYNE KATZMAN
Directed by LEONARD KATZMAN (R)
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Highclere Castle
Lady Victoria Leatham looks around one of the latest stately homes to open its doors to the public; Highclere Castle, near Newbury, the home of the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon. John Bly looks at two exotic desks. James Stourton reveals some of the tricks used by 18th-century portrait painters, and retired butler Robert Taylor tells how some Egyptian treasures were lost for over
60 years.
Producer BRIAN FAWCETT
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Andy Crane - starting with
The Family Ness: Thirsty-Ness and the Part-Time Witch
with the voices of Susan Sheridan , Peter Hawkins
Written and drawn by PETER MADDOCKS
Music by ROGER GREENWAY AND GAVIN GREENWAY (R)
4.00pm Batty Adventures: The Empire Strikes Batty
by CHRIS ALLEN
Batty (and other voices) played by C. J. Allen
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director MARILYN FOX (R)
4.10pm Defenders of the Earth: The Carnival of Dr Kalihari
On an outing to a carnival, the older Defenders become part of the freak show when they shrink to three inches!
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4.35pm The Bartons: Musical Rooms
Up until now, older brothers Anthony and Paul have shared a room. Elly has her own and so does younger brother Douglas. But with Anthony's study load, Mr and Mrs Barton decide he needs a room of his own.
Director MANDY SMITH
Executive producer NOEL PRICE
5.00pm Newsround
with John Craven, Roger Finn and Helen Rollason
Producer SUSIE STAPLES Editor JOHN CRAVEN
5.05pm Blue Peter
with Mark Curry, Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie
Producers NICK HEATHCOTE ANDREW WHITMAN
OLIVER MACFARLANE. ROY MILANI Editor LEWIS BRONZE
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with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
Weather MICHAEL FISH
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.
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Billy Graham , the world-renowned evangelist, joins Terry tonight to talk about his life and work and forthcoming Mission 89 in the UK.
featuring, among others,
Joan Sims , Kenneth Williams Phil Silvers and Roy Castle. A compilation of some of the most outrageous moments from the riotous Carry On films.
Produced by PETER ROGERS
Directed by GERALD THOMAS (R)
written by CARLA LANE
Title music by DAVID MACKAY Designer PAUL TRERISE
Produced and directed by ROBIN NASH (R)
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with Martyn Lewis The latest news and comment from Britain and around the world.
Regional News; Weather
Reporter Hugh Prysor Jones
Alan Young comes from Bedlington near Newcastle. His father was a miner, his mother works at the local hospital. Alan is one of Oxford's brightest mathematicians. But will there be any more like him?
The Government plans a revolution in the universities, with more students doing what industry wants. In future, employers, parents and students themselves must pay.
Hugh Prysor Jones puts the Government's radical plans to the test.
starring and Vote of Confidence
When the Vice Squad put the brakes on a rolling railroad bordello, they look like derailing the candidacy of a politician.
Written by JOHN SCHULlAN Directed by RANDY ROBERTS
Presented by Gaz Top and Dr Marsha Morgan. Alcohol and Men
A look at the macho image of male drinkers, how alcohol affects people's moods, the extent to which alcohol causes violence and whether drink really does 'wrinkle your winkle'.
Providing the comedy are Harry Enfield as Buggerallmoney,
Rowan Atkinson , Moray Hunter and John Docherty , Griff Rhys Jones, Helen Lederer , Norman Lovett and John Sparkes.
Script editor ABI GRANT
Director RICHARD TRAYLER SMITH Producer TONY MCAVOY
A PROSPECT pictures production for BBCtv
with Claudia Roden Spain Authentic dishes are cooked on a wood fire in the open air. Series producer
MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE
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