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Regional News and Weather
Simon Parkin , Andi Peters and Stephanie Lowe present a whole morning of summer entertainment with loads of your favourite programmes and all the news and information you need for a bank holiday. Starting with The Raccoons and the Lost Star
With the voices of Rich Little, Dottie West and John Schneider.
The crazed Cyril Sneer plots to conquer earth from his mountain fortress on a faraway planet. Can the heroic Raccoons thwart his evil villainy?
Written and directed by KEVIN GILLIS
8.00am News
Regional News; Weather followed by Bugs Bunny Double Bill
8.30am Lassie
More adventures with everyone's favourite canine superstar. (R)
8.55am Regional News and Weather
9.00am News
Weather followed by Rolf Harris Cartoon Time
More animated antics with Rolf. Today: Tom and Jerry in Tennis Chumps
Woody Woodpecker in After the Ball Fox Terror
9.25am
Why Don't You...?
Double trouble for Ben in the cellar.
Director MOIRA BROWN
Producer KIRSTIE FISHER BBC North West (R)
10.00am Charlie Brown and Snoopy
Shaking (R)
10.30am Playbus
The Why Bird Stop
Where Simon needs to sew a button on - but Why has filed the sewing basket.
Puppeteer:
Fiona Beynon Brown. Producer BARBARA RODDAM Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
A FELGATE production for BBCtv (R)
10.52am Weather
Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v Australia from the Oval.
Fourth day.
Tony Lewis introduces live coverage of the whole of the morning's play.
Scorer: Malcolm Ashton Commentators: Richie Benaud
Jack Bannister. Summarisers:
Ray lllingworth Tom Graveney.
Television presentation
ALAN GRIFFITHS and SIMON WHEELER Executive producer KEITH MACKENZIE
with Philip Hayton.
Weather Michael Fish
Des and Carol Barker clash over Jamie.
Written by HELEN BOYD Directed by COLIN BUDDS
(Cast page 36. Repeated at 5.25pm) 9 CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Introduced by Bob Wilson. Timetable*
1.40 Cricket; 1.55 Racing
2.05 Cricket; 2.25 Racing
2.35 Cycling; 2.55 Racing
3.15 Cricket; 3.40 Cycling
3.55 Football; 4.00 Cricket
4.35 Final score
"Timings are subject to change
Cricket: Sixth Test
Comhill Insurance Test Series England v Australia from the Oval.
Cycling
World Cycling Championships from France.
How the medals were won on the roads round Chambery. Commentators: Phil Liggett and Hugh Porter.
Racing from Ripon.
2.00 Bonusprint Handicap Stakes (6f)
2.30 Rapid Raceline Rowels Handicap Stakes (lm)
3.00 Bonusprint Champion 2-y-o Trophy (6f)
Commentators: Julian Wilson and Jimmy Lindley. Television presentation: Cricket KEITH MACKENZIE Cycling LA5, France
Racing KEITH PHILLIPS
Producer MARTIN HOPKINS Editor JOHN PHILIPS
with Philip Hayton. Weather Bill Giles
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Dear Jimmy Savile,
Please may I ... build an igloo? Take my teacher out to dinner? Refuel a plane in mid-air?
Jim shows how these and other dreams were fixed.
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Narrated by Desmond Morris. Is man's best friend just a wolf in dog's clothing? Producer MIKE BEYNON BBC Bristol (R)
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A bank holiday special.
Words and music by Terry Wogan and Elton John. Producer GRAHAM OWENS
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starring
On a spectacular island in the Adriatic, a group of the wealthy (and not so wealthy) gather in a luxury hotel.
They are all connected with one of the guests and for one of them the connection is a deadly one.
Screenplay by ANTHONY SHAFFER Produced by JOHN BRABOURNE and RICHARD GOODWIN
Directed by GUY HAMILTON
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with Philip Hayton.
Regional News; Weather
Fifty years ago tonight, Britain was just one week away from war. No one knew what the next seven days held.
Tonight and every night this week, Sue Lawley brings you the news of exactly 50 years ago - as though it were happening today. Britain tells Herr Hitler 'we stand by Poland'...
Parliament in emergency session, telegrams flying between London and Berlin, gas masks, evacuation and record sunshine. Recapture the mood of the country as it goes to war, through the actual film shot in 1939, presented by today's top news correspondents, Charles Wheeler , David Sells , Tim Sebastian , Christopher Jones , Christopher Lee and Paul Burden.
Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer STEPHEN PHELPS
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A special bank holiday edition of That's Life! presented by Esther Rantzen. Reporters: Gavin Campbell ,
Adrian Mills , Grant Baynham and Doc Cox.
Director STEPHEN STEWART Producer ESTHER RANTZEN
Deputy editor BRYHER SCUDAMORE Editor SHAUN WOODWARD
Acclaimed for his performances of the Gershwins, Berlin and other masters of the American popular song, pianist and singer Michael Feinstein is now well established on the US concert circuit. He entertained
President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher at the White House last October, and made his British debut in last year's Royal Variety Performance. This recording is from a concert given earlier this year at
London's Dominion Theatre. Musical director JOHN ODDO Sound JOHN CAULFIELD Lighting STAN SNAPE Designer DACRE PUNT
Produced and directed by BRIAN WHITEHOUSE
starring with The Dog and Pony Show
When Rockford reluctantly agrees to help a psychiatric patient who believes her life is at risk, he sparks off a bizarre national intelligence investigation into an underworld figure....
Written by DAVID CHASE
Directed by REZA BADIYI (R)
Make Money Make Money Greed and Fear.
The two ruling passions among Chicago futures traders are greed and fear - greed for more money, fear that they will lose it all in seconds. Futures and options are some of the most volatile markets that the small investor can put money into. Andrew Neil looks at how
Chicago invented futures and why the rest of the financial world was forced to follow. Producer ALAN HAYDN GRIFFITHS (R) (e)