(R)
with Kirsty Wark and Jill Dando.
Weather
Starting with:
Heathcliff: Teed Off
(R)
9.25am Record Breakers
Mickey Mouse is 60 and the record-breaking screen star has been celebrating in style, with a few surprises from the Record Breakers' team. In New York, Roy Castle encounters a multiple record holder whose latest record attempt at the Empire State Building has to be seen to be believed, and a man who makes the biggest bubbles in the world. In the studio, Cheryl Baker 's cooking up a record attempt with a champion pancake tosser.
Producer GREG CHILDS
Executive producer ERIC ROWAN (R)
10.00am News
Weather followed by Cartoons
10.30am Playbus
The Playground Stop where Dave helps the children fly their kites, Liz makes a paper spinner and Lizzie discovers that air is everywhere.
Presenters: Dave Benson Phillips, Elizabeth Watts.
Puppeteer: Jane Eve.
Story: Spondooliks and the Wizzywig by Bill Bridges.
Music JONATHAN COHEN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM
10.55am Five to Eleven
with pupils from Adwick-le-Street Comprehensive School, Doncaster.
11.00am News, Weather
followed by Popeye Double Bill
11.15am The 0 Zone
with Andy Crane.
11.25am Superman: Joey
Starring George Reeves as the Man of Steel.
11.50am Bananaman: Mummy's Curse
with the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Jill Shilling. (R)
Weather followed by The Garden Party
Caron Keating ,
Eamonn Holmes and Paul Coia with the news and views of today - and the people shaping both. Has press intrusion into private lives gone too far? How far and how fast will South Africa go towards a society of equal rights?
Today's Mr Ambassador, His Excellency P.R. Killen of South Africa, discusses his country and its image abroad. In the Botanic Gardens of Glasgow, Walter Gilmour explores the sights and scents of the summer of 89.
with Michael Buerk
Weather Ian McCaskill
'If you try and split us up, you'll have a fight on your hands.'
Written by DAVID PHILLIPS
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN
(Cast page 33. Repeated at 5.35pm)
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7: Blisland
Michael Newman visits a Cornish manor, home of Beryl and Michael Ward-Lee . Beryl runs her own antiques business and keeps a special collection of pretty things. (R)
0 ANTIQUES: page 88
Film. Starring Phyllis Calvert as Lydia, James Donald as Heathley
Healthley, a brilliant young inventor, is absorbed in his latest project - the M7, a new high-speed jet aircraft. A long-standing argument with his director, Carrington, only begins to be resolved when Carrington dies in a mysterious accident.
Films: page 17
(R)
Presented by Andy Crane, starting with:
Ewoks: Land of the Gupins
(R)
4.35pm The Really Wild Show
How fast do greyhounds run? The only way a human can keep up is on a scrambling bike, so British champion Kevin Phillips joins the team! In the studio there's a bald eagle, a raccoon and a poisonous snake.
And we build a jungle to show what happens when rainforest is destroyed.
Presented by Terry Nutkins Nick Davies , Chris Packham.
Producers PAUL APPLEBY ALASTAIR FOTHERGILL
(R) BBC Bristol
5.00pm Newsround
5.10pm Gentle Ben: Flamingo Flats
The Wedloes determine to rehabilitate a Seminole Indian who is embittered with civilisation for having turned his son into a mute.
Produced by GEORGE SHERMAN Directed by GERD OSWALD
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with John Humphrys and Moira Stuart.
Weather Bernard Davey
Written and narrated by Peter Tinniswood.
Uncle Mort and the Brandon family, exploring with their creator Peter Tinniswood the places of his youth, complete their journey at Sheffield, where Peter began his writing career. 'The good old north of England. All conflict. Men against women. Town against country. Poor against rich. Trouble and turmoil. How I love it.'
Film cameraman KEITH MASSEY Film editor MIKE DENBY Producer ALLAN KASSELL Director ROGER KEECH BBC Leeds
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by Tony McHale.
"Nobody used you, Cindy. You knew exactly what the score was."
(For cast see page 50)
(Ceefax subtitles)
starring Paul Daniels with the superb trick cycling of Kid Lima and on the trapeze, the Ayak Brothers.
Featuring Debbie McGee. Musical director BURT RHODES
Programme associate ALI BONGO Technical consultant GIL LEANEY Designer JAMES GRANT
Produced and directed by GEOFF MILES (R)
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Presented by Anne Robinson.
Write to: Points of View, [address removed]
Radio Times Letters: page 76
with Michael Buerk
Regional News; Weather
The story of a Mafia wife.
Starring Melissa Gilbert as Marian
When young, naive Marian Winslow meets Ed Moran, she is immediately attracted by his suave, successful sophistication. After a passionate affair, the pair marry and Marian begins her new life as a successful businessman's wife. But why are his family so secretive, what does Ed do for a living, and why is somebody trying to kill her?
(First showing on British television)
Films: page 17
(Ceefax subtitles)
A series in seven parts presented by David Dimbleby.
Roosevelt's pledge to Churchill committed America to a close and generous alliance with Britain. But the two countries had very different ideas of how the world should be when the war was over. Tonight David Dimbleby charts the changing relationship, not only at the top but among the ordinary men and women who lived and fought together until Hitler had been defeated.
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)