With Nicholas Witchell and Jill Dando.
6.34-6.55 Business Breakfast (Far details see page 33)
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8.55am Regional News and Weather
Weather followed by Open Air
Call Jayne Irving on [number removed].
Join Robert Kilroy-Silk and his studio audience.
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Weather followed by Turnabout
A quiz game that tests your word power and vocabulary. With Rob Curling.
Introduced by Simon Parkin and starting with:
Playdays
The Playbus stops today at the Playground Stop where Dave and his friends are making sandwiches.
Presenters: Dave Benson Phillips and Sue Monroe.
Puppeteer: Jane Eve.
Storyteller: Sophie Aldred. Story: "Dilly's Picnic" by Tony Bradman.
Voices: Peter Hawkins and Sue Sheridan. Written and created by Peter Maddocks
Director Keith Learner (R)
Extracts from the Gospel of Mark read by Gary Watson.
Weather followed by Open Air
Actress Julie Walters joins Gloria Hunniford and Jayne Irving.
Producer Malcolm Betney
Weather followed by Daytime Live
Style expert Steve Whately joins Judi Spiers and Andy Craig and gives advice on male grooming.
Executive editor Sieve Weddle
With Philip Hayton. Weather Bill Giles
Paul tells Gail they have competition for the ownership of Lassiters.
Harold discovers what being in a soap means.
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The word power quiz game with Rob Curling. Today's words are eel and ace.
Starring
Humphrey Bogart Lee J Cobb
Damascus, 1925: arms smuggler Harry Smith risks compromising himself to attract Violette, a French intelligence officer's girlfriend.
Director Curtis Bernhardt
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Introduced by Andi Peters.
Bodger and Badger
Children's comedy series.
7: Automation comes to Troffs Nosherama.
(R)
He's the fastest-talking con artist ever dressed in wolfs clothing. (R)
By William Steig.
Told for Jackanory in five episodes by John Sessions. 2: A serious talk with Mr Badger the pig leads Dominic into another adventure.
Yogi has a dream in which he sees himself and Cindy walking up the aisle and the Ranger catches the bouquet.
Why is there a husky sledge in the studio? Why do ladybirds have spots?
How do salmon leap up waterfalls? How can animals see things that we can't? Why do green turtles cry?
Why are ants' legs so strong? Why are caterpillars more muscular than we are and how do wolves outrun all other dogs? Answers are in today's show. With
Terry Nutkins , Nicola Davies and Chris Packham.
Producer Paul Appleby BBC Bristol
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The news show for children.
Comedy series by Martin Riley.
5: If the Tresswells had not been interested in UFOs, Gruey and co would not have got mixed up in clog dancing - nor more daft dares with Nidgey.
With the Rumworth Morris of Bolton.
Music Roger Limb
Executive producer Paul Stone
Director Roger Singleton-Turner (R) (Part 6 on Friday)
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Peter Sissons and Anna Ford present the day's top stories and reports from the BBC team of correspondents at home and abroad.
Weather Ian McCaskill
EastEnders' Ethel, Gretchen Franklin , takes a holiday away from Albert Square and visits Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. It proves to be the highlight of her Weekender break.
Kathy Tayter visits
Venezuela, where Angel
Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, falls dramatically nearly 3,000 feet from a high plateau into a tributary of the Orinoco. She also meets Indians at
Kavac and discovers some of the quietest beaches on the Caribbean.
Venezuela is named after
Venice, yet two more differing destinations you can't find. David Jessel loves the European version and has discovered a cheap way for a family to appreciate the Italian city. With Anne Gregg and Eamonn Holmes.
Producer Richard Lightbody
Series producer Patricia Houlihan
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Episode by Tony McHale.
While Frank waits anxiously at King's Cross station for Diane to turn up, she is reliving the memories of her three months away from the Square. Will she ever be ready to go home?
This week's cast:
(Ceefax subtitles)
A comedy series by Peter Spence. Starring
Penelope Keith Peter Bowles
Audrey objects to her position on the estate being usurped by Richard, who moves his grocery business to the manor.
Designer Ian Rawnsley
Producer Gareth Gwenlan (R)
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With Ian Botham :
Rory Underwood , Leicester, England and Lions winger; Steve McMahon , Liverpool and England midfielder. With Bill Beaumont :
Karen Briggs , five times world judo champion;
John Regis , Olympic silver medallist and 200m indoor world champion. Questionmaster: David Coleman.
Producer Mike Dempsey
Executive editor Mike Adley
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With Martyn Lewis.
Regional News; Weather
Lenny Henry in Uganda The first of five daily programmes reporting how your donations to Comic
Reliefs 1989 Red Nose Day appeal are being spent. Last year you gave more than 926 million. Instead of a full-scale appeal in 1990, Comic Relief is presenting a week of documentaries following the noses to where the money raised is at work. 1: Tonight, Lenny Henry bounces and bumps his way by truck around Uganda, where your money is helping to build a more positive future.
Executive producer Nick Handel Series producer Christopher Salt (Griff Rhys Jones tours the UK tomorrow at 9.35pm)
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Times'. The series will be repeated with sign language and subtitles in 'Sign Extra' next Sunday.
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The Story of the Novelist Who Would Be President
Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's greatest writer. In April
1989, he decided to stand as a candidate in next month's presidential election. This exclusive documentary follows Vargas Llosa through the most turbulent year in his life and compares the fictional creations of the writer with the realities of his life and his experiences. Written and narrated by Nicholas Shakespeare. Producers/Directors
Paul Yule and Andy Harries Editor Andrew Snell
A Berwick Universal Pictures production/or BBCtv
Last night the Oscars were awarded in Hollywood.
British hopes rested with Pauline Collins for "Shirley Valentine", Kenneth Branagh for "Henry V" and Daniel Day Lewis and Brenda Fricker for "My Left Foot". Tom Brook reports. Plus a special report from Dublin on the Sullivan Bluth Studio, the largest animation studio in Europe.
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(Barry Norman: page 18)
(Repeated tomorrow 5.00pm BBC2)
West Indies v England Tony Lewis introduces highlights of the fourth day of the Third Test from Port of Spain.