(R)

with Sally Magnusson and Laurie Mayer.

Weather

Starting with:

Boss Cat: Dibble Double
(R)

9.25am Why Don't You...?
The last day and there's loads to get through. (R)

10.00am News, Weather followed by Cartoons
Misterjaw Supershark, Blue Racer and Sheriff Hoot Kloot.

10.30am Playbus
which stops today at The Patch Stop at the Parkland Walk, north London.
Patch's friend COLIN KERRIGAN Storyteller: Sophie Aldred. Story: When Willy Went to the Wedding written and illustrated by Judith Kerr.
Music JONATHAN COHEN Producer ANNE GOBEY

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. Simon Bates's last Round the World Challenge report.

11.30am Handles: 2
The workshop is like a magic cave. (R)

11.50am Bananaman: Operation Total
(R)

Weather followed by The Garden Party Eamonn Holmes and Paul Coia with the sights and sounds of summer.
Fifty years ago, as the Second World War was about to begin, the girls of Laurelbank School were evacuated to the countryside. Today they are reunited at the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. In Survivors,
Mavis Nicholson meets
Judy Taylor , who was 52 when she saw her husband and two sons for the first time. She had been blind from infancy until one day something miraculous happened. 0 CEEFAX SUBTITLES

with Philip Hayton. Weather Bill Giles

'Now I know what
Frankenstein felt like.' Written by DAVID PHILLIPS
Directed by KENDAL FLANAGAN
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starring
When Neil Emery 's
: body is discovered in Trinidad, his death is recorded as suicide; but the local police believe him to have been murdered and hire his estranged wife to infiltrate the gang.
Screenplay by OSCAR SAUL and JAMES GUNN
Produced and directed by VINCENT SHERMAN
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Baby Wants Spinach and Ancient Fistery.

Leeds(0532)[number removed]John Thirlwell hosts daytime's popular gardening forum. Air your problems live by phone to Peter Seabrook and Tom Leigh. Ring in with your questions between
11.30am and 2.30pm.
Gardening adviser DAPHNE LEDWARD Producer MARCEL GUILLOU Director ANN BROCKWELL
(Details on Ceefax page 187)
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Andy Crane - starting with Hokey Wolf
Poached Yeggs
He's been called the fastest talking con artist ever dressed in wolfs clothing, but whatever else he may be,
Hokey Wolf is full of fun. (R)
4.20pm
Simon and the Witch
The last programme in a 12-part serial by Valerie Georgeson from a story by Margaret Stuart Barry.
Can Lady Fox-Custard use her influence with the police to close down Valdini's?
Producer ANGELA BEECMNG Director DAVID BELL (R)
4.35pm Mysterious Cities of Gold
Esteban and his friends travel over the Andes. (R)
5.00pm Newsround
The up-to-the-minute news service for Britain's children.
5.05pm Move It with Andy Nulty and Fiona Lee Fraser.
Ten champions from the Move It summer gather at
Center Pares near Nottingham for the Moovy Megathon. The winner of the seven-event competition becomes
Champion of Champions. Director ALAN YARDLEY Producer CHRIS FEAR BBC North West

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with John Humphrys and Jill Dando.
Weather Bernard Davey

by Tony Jordan.
"Did you, or did you not, try to have it away with my wife's rings."
(For cast see page 37)
(Ceefax subtitles)

Host Frank Bruno is joined by Jeni Barnett ,
Lucy Pilkington , Chris Serle and others.
Sally Glasson is separated from her husband - a fireman in Pennsylvania. She is fighting him for custody of their twin sons in a US court. In that much-loved series of the late 60s, Children
Talking, Donald (aged 7) wanted to be a tourist guide; Janice wanted to marry
Brian; Valerie wanted to be a vet. What happened to them? And will Chris Serle be trusted to show a prize-winning Friesian?
Series producers PETER BAZALGETTE and NICK HANDEL

with Martyn Lewis.
Regional News; Weather

WWII Thursday
31 August 1939 The Royal Navy is mobilised ... Evacuation of three million people from towns begins tomorrow ... An extra £21 million is withdrawn from banks ... Sue Lawley with the news of exactly 50 years ago.
Ceefax subtitles

I starring
Seven paratroopers are sent on a seemingly impossible mission - to enter a previously impregnable Nazi stronghold to rescue a high-ranking American officer. Their dangerous task is further threatened by a traitor in the group.
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