(R)
with Laurie Mayer and Jill Dando.
National and international news and analysis from the BBC's correspondents and reporters. Summaries read by Jillian Carter on the hour and half hour. With the latest sports news from Sally Jones. Weather forecasts from
Francis Wilson at 7.25, 7.55 and 8.25.
Regional news and travel updates at 7.27, 7.57 and 8.27.
Weather
with Simon Parkin ,
Andi Peters and Stephanie Lowe - starting with HeathcliffandCo
City Slicker Cat
House of the Future (R)
9.25am
Record Breakers with Roy Castle Cheryl Baker.
When thousands of tap-dancers turn out on the streets of New York, you can bet Roy will be in on it somehow. Meanwhile
Cheryl's been motorbiking on a mean machine - the biggest bike you've ever seen, and the smallest are there, too. Some British girls get in a spin trying to top the Americans at baton twirling, and Manjit Singh , 'The Iron Man' attempts a high-speed gymnastic record. Producer GREG CHILDS
Executive producer ERIC ROWAN (R)
10.00am News
Weather followed by Tom and Jerry
A triple helping of cat and mouse games.
10.30am Playbus The Playground Stop
Presenters Dave Benson Phillips, Elizabeth Watts Puppeteer JANE EVE
Story: Spondooliks and the Black Knight by BILL BRIDGES
Music JONATHAN COHEN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM
10.55am Five to Eleven with Peter Egan
11.00am News
Weather followed by Popeye Double Bill
11.15am The 0 Zone with Andy Crane.
Britain's first daily environment-friendly pop magazine.
11.25am Superman
The Girl Who Hired Superman
11.50am Bananaman
Big Breakout (R)
Weather followed by Dallas
The Ten Percent Solution JR might be playing a percentage game, but his scheming knows no limits when it comes to his arch enemy. Donna reaches a decision over playing politics and Southfork becomes the target of a festering grievance. Meanwhile, is BD really RIP?
Written by SUSAN HOWARD
Directed by MICHAEL PREECE (R)
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with Philip Hayton
Weather JOHN KETTLEY
Harold socks it to Lou while
Madge dampens their ardour. This week's cast:
Written by RAY HARDING Directed by TONY OSICKA
St Michael's Mount
Michael Newman presents the first of nine programmes from some of the most beautiful homes in the West Country.
Today he joins Lord and Lady St Levan at one of the nation's most romantic castles. St Michael's Mount is full of objects which reflect the changing history and fortunes of the St Levan family, and Michael finds there is a story to tell about each one. Director MIKE BOW
Producer HOWARD PERKS (R)
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starring
Katharine Hepburn John Beal.
Babbie, a mysterious gypsy lass, turns up to warn the weavers of the Scottish village of Thrums that the local laird
Plans to send soldiers to curb their rebellious spirit. Her good-natured and independent ways eventually win the heart of the new minister - much to the consternation of the sober community ...
Screenplay by JANE MURFIN
SARAH Y. MASON and VICTOR HEERMAN Based on the play by JAMES M. BARRIE
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Andy Crane - starting with Ewoks
The Travelling Jindas
The Jindas, a travelling circus band, arrives in the Ewok village to perform. (R)
4.35pm
The Really Wild Show with Terry Nutkins Nick Davies and Chris Packham.
Does your dog howl at the television? A wolf shows us why! And there's a laughing horse, a smiling chimp and a keen photographer.
Leon Pickthall goes in with the lions for a really wild close-up!
Imagine eating something the size of a football in one gulp - no problem for the egg-eating snake - the biggest mouth on the show?
Producers ALASTAIR FOTHERGLLL PAULAPPLEBY BBC Bristol (R)
5.00pm Newsfound with Roger Finn and Helen Rollason. Producer SUSIE STAPLES
Series producer NICK HEATHCOTE
5.05pm Gentle Ben
Keeper of the Glades (1)
Game warden Tom Wedloe suspects that his friend,
Boomhauer, is responsible for disrupting a road building project in the Everglades.
Produced by GEORGE SHERMAN Directed by LAWRENCE DOBKIN
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with Nicholas Witchell and Philip Hayton
News and comment from
Britain and around the world. Weather IAN MCCASKILL
written by JANEY PREGER starring Kathy Staff. To up her chances of promotion at the art college Kate is required to produce a home video, and Suzy arranges an end of term party - Molly becomes instrumental in both.
Design ANTONY THORPE Produced and directed by MANDIE FLETCHER (R)
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by Gerry Huxham.
'I think that cooker's beginning to haunt me.'
(Ceefax Subtitles)
starring
Paul Daniels who tonight introduces from Hawaii, the hilarious Michael Marlin and from Taiwan, the death-defying acrobatics of the Hsiung Brothers. Featuring
Debbie McGee
Rosemary Daniels.
Musical director BURT RHODES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Design JAMES GRANT
Produced and directed by GEOFF MILES (R)
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Presented by Tony Robinson , probably better known to BBC viewers as 'Baldrick' of Blackadder fame. Producer IAN STUBBS
WRITE TO: Points of View,
BBCtv Centre, London W12 7RJ
RADIO TIMES LETTERS: page 90
Martyn Lewis presents the latest national and international news.
Regional News; Weather
A true case of fatal attraction in two parts. Starring
Keith Carradine ,
Jobeth Williams and Terry Kinney.
1: Emporia, Kansas, is a small Midwestern town where nothing ever happens. That is until Tom Bird , a charismatic Lutheran minister, meets Lorna Anderson. Both married, the two begin a passionate, illicit affair ...
(Part 2 tomorrow at 9.30pm)
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A second chance to see
David Dimbleby 's much acclaimed series in seven parts on Britain and America.
1: Hats Off to Mr Wilson
Tonight's programme tells how the Americans were dragged reluctantly into the First World War, of their nightmarish journey across the Atlantic, their welcome in Liverpool - and their disillusion when the war was over. For President Woodrow Wilson , victory had turned sour, but America had started its journey towards world leadership.
A formidable work NEW YORK TIMES Compulsively watchable
DAILY EXPRESS
Executive producer GEORGE CAREY Producer ADAM CURTIS (R)
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Comhill Insurance Test Series England v Australia from
Edgbaston Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the day's play.