With Nicholas Witchell and Laurie Mayer.
6.34-6.55 Business Breakfast
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With Robert Kilroy-Silk.
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The word power quiz game with Rob Curling.
Introduced by Simon Parkin.
Playdays
The Playbus stops today at the Playground Stop, where Dave joins in a chasing game, Liz makes paper move as if by magic and Lizzie sings a song. Presenters:
Dave Benson Phillips and Elizabeth Watts.
Producer Barbara Roddam (R)
Cartoon with voices by Peter Hawkins and Sue Sheridan. (R)
Passover with Cyril Shaps. Producer Ralph Rolls
A Forge Productions programme forBBCtv
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Eamonn Holmes and Gloria Hunniford take your queries and comments on last night's television. Call [number removed].
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Featuring the first in a series of reports from the 'animal advocate', Jim Cronin. With Andy Craig and Judi Spiers.
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With Philip Hayton.
Weather Michael Fish
Nick tells Helen it's about time she stood on her own two feet. Paul and Gail are stunned by an unexpected setback.
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Today's words are arc and eve.
With Rob Curling.
Starring Diane Lane
Success in a beauty pageant plunges Sally Butterfield into a world of commercial exploitation, threatening all she holds dear.
Films: pages 17-19
Introduced by Andi Peters and starting with:
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Children's comedy series.
Bodger and Badger are in charge today and all is quiet - for about ten seconds.
(R)
Between the mad marshes and the Venetian Jetty, the Virgin Forest and the mysterious caverns, there's no shortage of adventures for Ovide the duckbilled platypus.
(R)
A 13-part serial by Valerie Georgeson from a story by Margaret Stuart Barry.
What do you do with a witch who has trouble with her 'spelling'? Simon decides that she should go to school.
(R)
While the Turtles, in disguise, are at a movie and a pizza parlour, Shredder interrupts a press conference to steal a new medi-laser to heal a computer needed to return the Technodrome to the surface of the earth. April discovers a module that Shredder will need to make the medi-laser work and a trap is set.
The news show for children.
Real life stories about children today, told by children themselves.
Today: making people laugh - that's the aim of both Alex [text removed] and Paul [text removed]. The Lowdown follows Alex at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and watches Paul on Glasgow's comedy circuit. But breaking into alternative comedy is no laughing matter - especially if you are 14. Also appearing are Red Dwarf's Norman Lovett, Blackadder's Richard Curtis, Jeremy Hardy and Emo Philips.
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With Peter Sissons and Anna Ford.
Weather Bill Giles
Before satellites, the Azores played a vital role in transatlantic telephone calls; today they remain the favourite port of call for yachtsmen crossing the Atlantic. Kathy Tayler finds them not as a haven but as islands of outstanding natural beauty.
John Diamond 's relatives fled from Russia a century ago to settle in the United States. So strangely his first visit to New York is one of pure nostalgia.
David Jessel lets the train take him and his car from
London to Inverness.
With Anne Gregg and Eamonn Holmes.
Producer Richard Lightbody
Series producer Patricia Houlihan
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Episode by Tony McHale.
Pete and the market traders face an uncertain future, and Diane finds she can't escape the past.
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A comedy series by Peter Spence.
Starring Penelope Keith Peter Bowles
Richard hosts the Hunt Ball but forgets to invite Audrey.
Music Ronnie Hazlehurst Designer Ian Rawnsley
Producer Gareth Gwenlan (R)
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With Bill Beaumont: Kevin Ratcliffe
Everton and Wales captain; Dennis Taylor
1985 World Snooker champion. With Ian Botham :
Peter Elliott
1500m silver medallist; Richard Dunwoody 1986 Grand National winning jockey. Questionmaster: David Coleman.
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Regional News; Weather
Look Who's Talking stars John Travolta as a New York cab driver who becomes babysitter to Mikey. Bruce Willis supplies the baby's voice. Also set in New York is Enemies, a Love Story, with Anjelica Huston as a Jewish refugee escaping from a Nazi concentration camp to begin a new life in America.
Barry Norman: page 17
UK Dance Championships from the Bournemouth International Centre.
Angela Rippon introduces the Professional Modern competition, with England's John Wood and Anne Lewis hoping to add the title to their list of successes.
Commentators:
Charles Nove with Lindsey Hillier. Music Charles Barlow Orchestra Director Peter Fitton Producer Simon Betts
Event sponsored by Pioneer High Fidelity (GB) Ltd
(Amateur Modem Thursday 11.00pm)
West Indies v England
Highlights of the fifth and final One-Day international from Bridgetown, Barbados. Introduced by Tony Lewis. Television presentation TWI