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6.34-6.55 Breakfast Business All the latest business and financial news from
Paul Burden , Fiona Foster and the Breakfast Business team.
6.55 Weather, local news and travel.
7.00 Nicholas Witchell and Kirsty Wark with the most comprehensive television news programme available in the morning.
Newspaper reviews by Paul Callan.
Headlines and summaries: headlines every quarter hour, summaries at 7.30 and 8.30. Business news at 7.12, 7.40,
8.12 and 8.40.
Sport news at 7.23, 7.52, 8.23 and 8.52.
Weather, regional and traffic news at 6.55, 7.55 and 8.25. Editor BOB WHEATON
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Jayne Irving and Eamonn Holmes look back at comedy over the years. Call with your questions and comments on [number removed].
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Fred becomes a reluctant rodeo star.
Introduced by Simon Parkin and starting with Playbus
Where the Why Bird discovers that having fingers can be useful sometimes.
Puppeteer FIONA BEYNON BROWN Music RICHARD BROWN
Producer BARBARA RODDAM (R)
The adventures of the family of monsters that live in Loch Ness and their two friends Elspeth and Angus. Ferocious-Ness
Changes Colour (R)
With Peter Tuddenham. Producer RALPH ROLLS
A Forge production for BBCtv
Today's programme brings you the results of the Radio Times scriptwriting awards and takes a look at comedy over the years. The lines are open now on [number removed]. Producer PAULA TRAFFORD Editor SUSAN L. WOODWARD BBC North West
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With Sue Cook and Andy Craig.
The lunchtime magazine live from Pebble Mill.
Today's programme includes the latest from people's reporter Tina Baker , plus music from the hit musical
South Pacific. Editor SIMON SHAW
Series producer PAM CREED
Philip Hayton presents the latest news.
Weather Bill Giles
Gail discovers the identity of Paul's mysterious woman. Mike's university friends upset Bronwyn. Beverly gets a phonecall which could place her future in jeopardy.
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Henry Kelly introduces seven new contestants from Wales, Scotland, England, Italy, the Republic of Ireland, Austria and Switzerland. Join them as they compete for a place in this week's heat final.
Producer KERENSA BUNCE Director JOHN M.A.LANE
A Reg Grundy production for BBCtv
Written by Mark Rodgers
Ironside investigates a curious connection between a policeman's widow and the youth accused of his murder.
With guest stars Vera Miles and Brandon de Wilde.
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A Hero
After shooting an escaped convict Putnam decides he's not cut out for life in the force.
Written by MARK ROTHMAN
Directed by DAVID CROSSMAN
Olympinks (R)
Introduced by Andy Crane and starting with:
Barney: Barney's Winter Holiday
With the voices of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Harry Enfield, Jan Ravens and Enn Reitel. (R)
Village
'I knew a bear who ate an eclair.'
Lindsey and Boz go shopping for shoes and have a cream tea. With Lindsey Coulson and Bill Wallis as Boz. Video effects ADAM MCINNES Director NEL ROMANO
Preparations are under way for the fishing festival.
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Based on Allan Ahlberg 's books, dramatised by Vicky Ireland.
Mr and Mrs Hay the Horse (1) When Harry Hay meets Hilda Straw , it is love at first sight and, as soon as they are married, they come up with an ingenious plot for working together permanently.
Puppets ROBBIE BARNETT Music by RICHARD ATTREE Lighting MIKE MANNING Design MARY GREAVES
Associate producer LYNN HORSFORD Executive producer ANGELA BEECHING
Director ROGER SINGLETON-TURNER (Part 2 tomorrow)
Michelle Rivera regards her father Paco as a coward because he refuses to fight. When Michelle is captured by Sandstorm, BraveStarr helps Paco learn that sometimes you have to fight.
Helen Rollason and Roger Finn keep you up-to-date with events. Producer SUSIE STAPLES
Series producer NICK HEATHCOTE
With Caron Keating , Yvette Fielding and John Leslie.
Producers OLIVER MACFARLANE and ANDREW WHITMAN
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Peter Sissons and Moira Stuart present the latest news from Britain and around the world. Weather Suzanne Charlton
Guy Michelmore keeps you in touch with what's going on around the capital region of the country. With reports from around the south east, Michael Wale on the local sports scene and Cathy McGowan around town.
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Join Terry and his guests for the best in conversation and entertainment direct from the Television Theatre. Producer GRAHAM OWENS
Executive producer PETER ESTALL
The show that's on your side, with Britain's leading consumer couple, Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton , campaigning on your behalf. From hazards in the home to horrors in the High Street, here are revealing investigations and stories from your letters and calls, all aimed at giving you a better deal.
Editor SARAH CAPUN
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London W12 7RJ, or ring [number removed]if you have something that needs investigating.
There's rib-tickling comedy of the highest order on the menu tonight, along with classic American hokum and a couple of shows that haven't seen the light of day since daylight was invented!
It's tense, nail-biting stuff - the final of the search for the Telly Addicts family of 89. Having been rubbed down with a couple of vintage copies of the Radio Times, these eight gogglebox buffs are ready to answer any TV questions thrown at them by Noel Edmonds. Director NICK HURRAN
Producer RICHARD L. LEWIS
Odd Noses of Borneo
No one knows why this nose grows, but grow it does. Huge, pendulous and distinctly odd, it belongs to the male proboscis monkey, the most bizarre of the creatures that live in the suffocating mangrove swamps of Borneo, and it may be so big that the monkey has to hold it out of the way to eat.
Here, glutinous mudflats heave with fish and multicoloured crabs signal with grotesque claws.
Narrator David Attenborough. Produced by MICHAEL ROSENBERG Series producer DILYS BREESE A Partridge Films production for BBCtv (R)
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With Martyn Lewis.
Regional News; Weather
Armscor is the South African state organisation with the task of beating the UN arms embargo. Ulster Resistance is an equally shadowy paramilitary group formed by Protestant extremists in Northern Ireland. Last April, representatives from both sides were arrested in Paris allegedly negotiating an arms deal - the first sign of a secret weapons-trading alliance. Robin Denselow 's investigation takes him through France, Switzerland, Greece and Northern Ireland as he tells the story of two unlikely allies in arms. Producer TRICIA LAWTON Editor TIM GARDAM
The Dream Team stars
Michael (Batman) Keaton and Christopher (Back to the Future) Lloyd as residents of a psychiatric hospital who become separated from their therapist en route to a baseball game. Lost in New York, they find themselves framed for murder.
Oliver and Company is the 27th full-length cartoon from the Walt Disney Studios.
This Christmas offering is a re-working of the classic Dickens tale.
Plus, subtitling - a Film 89 report into the process of adding subtitles to foreign language films and the difficulties encountered. Director ALEXANDRA BEAZLEY Producer BRUCE THOMPSON
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Starring and Telly Savalas as Albain. As the world watches on television, Capricorn One, the first manned mission to Mars, lands on the angry red planet. But deep in the Arizona desert three astronauts plant the American flag on a film set, aware that their aborted mission is now a fake - a top secret cover-up.
An original and exciting thriller which features a remarkable climactic chase.
Written and directed by PETER HYAMS Produced by PAUL N. LAZARUS
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