6.34-6.55 Business Breakfast
Business and financial news from
Paul Burden and Fiona Foster.
Followed at 7.00am by the 200th edition of the morning news and analysis programme with Laurie Mayer and Jill Dando. Headlines or news summaries every quarter hour. Business news: 7.12, 7.40, 8.12,
8.40.
Sport: 7.23, 7.52, 8.23, 8.52.
Weather, regional and traffic news:
6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 8.25.
Weather: Michael Fish.
Weather
Presented by Simon Parkin , Philippa Forrester and Claudia Simon.
Starting with
The animated story of a young boy in seach of his mother. (R)
... turn off your TV set and do something less boring instead. Director Pam O'Brien
Producer Trevor Stephenson Long (R)
Weather followed by The Jetsons
Hi-tech cartoon high jinks with the funniest family of the future.
The Playbus stops today at the Playground Stop. Today's story is Alex's Outing by Mary Dickinson. With Dave Benson Phillips and Elizabeth Watts. (R)
Jill Pirrie 's pupils from Halesworth Middle School, Suffolk, winners of the Young Writers Competition, present their own poetry.
Weather followed by Peaceable Kingdom
A family drama set in the Los Angeles zoo.
Bison. Rebecca faces the crisis of losing the zoo's herd of bison.
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Weather followed by The Garden Party
Robert Kilroy-Silk has a lunchtime date with ex-madam
Cynthia Payne. Molly Weir shows how to make Britain bloom. Musical entertainment is provided by Leo Sayer. Paul Coia , Jayne Irving and Denis Tuohy at Glasgow's Botanic Gardens in Europe's 1990 City of Culture.
With Philip Hayton.
Weather John Kettley
Henry gets his sprinklers in a twist. Beverly comes to terms with a personal problem.
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The third in a cycle of six programmes following Tony Butler across the Midlands on his butcher's bike. Today's journey follows a winding route from Staffordshire into the Black Country. Along the way Butler comes across a marathon runner playing a clarinet and a group of men dancing with horns on. He discovers a private collection of extraordinary memorabilia, and finds out why marbles roll uphill in a village pub.
Director John S W Taylor Producer Peter Hiscocks
England v India
Further live coverage of the final day in the the Cornhill Insurance
Test Series from Lord's. Introduced by Tony Lewis. Commentary by Richie Benaud and Jack Bannister.
Introduced by Andi Peters and starting with:
The All New Popeye Show
More misadventures with that spinach-guzzling cartoon sailor. (R)
Winner of the 1989 Bafta award for
Best Children's Educational
Programme. More gripping stuff this week: the world's strongest crab - with 50kg of pinch-power; and a trip into the future to find out more about the 'greenhouse effect'. Everything from robots to sealions, and some real owl television when five barn owls fly free in the studio.
With Terry Nutkins , Nicola Davies and Chris Packham Producer Paul Appleby (R)
The news show for children.
An Australian drama in seven parts. 6: There is another major setback for the friends of the train Wombat when it is discovered that an old council bylaw stipulates that not only must Wombat run before midnight on Monday, it must run profitably.
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With Peter Sissons and Jill Dando.
Weather Ian McCaskill
A comedy series.
Oh Shut Up and Eat Your Choc Ice
Not only has the farm changed over to those new-fangled hay bales but - as Seymour is first to notice - one of them has been left dangerously near a steep slope.
Written by Roy Clarke
Director/Producer Alan J W Bell (R)
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Michelle gives the Mitchell brothers the lowdown on the council offices. All they have to do now is get the lowdown on Stuart Kendle.
Episode written by Michael Russell.
(For cast see Thursday)
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A comedy series starring Penelope Keith Peter Bowles
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton defends her pride and prejudices against the modern world in the shape of nouveau riche Richard DeVere.
Written by Peter Spence
Producer Gareth Gwentan (R)
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Set in the black community of Notting Hill, this series follows five families during the months leading up to last year's carnival.
Albert's Story. Albert is 20 years old. Frustrated and angry, he sees a whole world against him. He lifts weights, works out, he is fit, but for what? For a young black, what is left to believe in: crime, drugs, street life or music? Producer Ted Clisby
Executive producer Paul Watson
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With Martyn Lewis. Regional News
Weather Ian McCaskill
First showing on network television. Starring
Farrah Fawcett
John Shea
Ryan O'Neal
A film in two parts. On the night of 13 May 1983, Diane Downs , a distraught mother of three, is found in her car outside the emergency room of her local hospital. Her children are with her, all shot, one of them mortally, in the most mysterious of circumstances. Were they attacked by the unknown stranger Diane describes, or is there an altogether more sinister explanation?
Director David Greene (Part 2 tomorrow)
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The Volvo Seniors Open
Championship from Turnberry.
The great names of golf do not stop competing just because they leave the main arena. Arnold Palmer ,
Gary Player, Bob Charles and Bill Casper are among the entrants at the beautiful Ailsa Course at the Turnberry Hotel. Introduced by Peter Alliss.
Producer Barbara Slater