6.30-6.55
Business Breakfast
Business and financial news from Paul Burden and Fiona Foster. Followed at
7.00am by the morning news programme with Nicholas Witchell and Jill Dando.
Headlines or news summaries every quarter hour.
Business news:
7.12, 7.40, 8.12, 8.40.
Sport: 7.23, 7.50, 8.23, 8.50
Weather, regional and traffic news:
6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 8.25.
Weather: Francis Wilson.
Editor Bob Wheaton.
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Judi Spiers and Tim Grundy in Birmingham, and Adrian Mills and Debi Jones in Manchester take a lively look at the day.
Regional News and Weather
The quiz from Liverpool presented by Andy Craig.
An Action Time production for BBCtv
Prepared by Rosemary Moon.
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Adrian Mills and Debi Jones share information, news and views across the United Kingdom. Including Kitchen Call on [number removed].
Regional News and Weather
Introduced by Simon Parkin.
Playdays
The Playbus stops today at the Why Bird Stop. Why Bird learns how crayons are made and Stuart Bradley shows how to make a Playdays calendar. Today's story is "Good Days, Bad Days" written by Catherine Anholt.
With Ellie Darvill.
MAGAZINE: Playdays Magazine 45p, on sale Wednesday from newsagents.
Cartoon about a clumsy elephant. (R)
The second edition of the show about daily life.
Regional News and Weather
The topical discussion programme presented by Robert Kilroy-Silk .
A Kilroy production for BBCtv
Conversation with Judi Spiers and Adrian Mills , while
Tim Grundy reveals the winner of today's Brainwave quiz.
Regional News and Weather
Classic moments from the Natural History Unit archive presented by Fergus Keeling. Speeding Up Time. Time-lapse photography reveals some of the secrets of a seemingly static world.
Producer Michael Bright
The daily entertainment show live from the Pebble Mill studios. Presented by Judi Spiers and Tim Grundy.
Executive producer Olwyn Hocking
Editor Steve Weddle
With Philip Hayton.
Weather Ian McCaskill
Henry makes a date with a lonely woman.
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Henry Kelly with seven new European quiz contestants.
Director John M A Lane
Producer Kerensa Bunce
A Reg Grundy production for BBCtv
Murder on Stage 17. 7. Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser ) and Hutch (David Soul ) investigate a series of fatal accidents involving a group of actors. (R)
American comedy series set in a class of gifted students.
The Ring of Darlene M
Darlene's (Robin Givens ) inherited ring goes missing.
Paradise Club star Don Henderson cooks for saints and sinners. The Fresh Start trio meet with employment counsellor Natalie Rein ; and DIY man Doug Smillie solves a winter warmth problem.
Presented by Nerys Hughes.
Director Isabella Epstein
Series producer Erica Griffiths
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Introduced by Andi Peters.
In the autumn Trundle the Tractor needs looking after. With Mike Amatt and the voices of Bob Peck and Anna Carteret.
Producer Celia Bonner
Cartoon about an aeroplane. (R)
Skulduggery written and told by Tony Robinson. Short John Silver 's first day at school. Director Nigel Douglas
Producer Angela Beeching
• CHILDREN: page 14
• PICTURE STORY: page 61
Cartoon. (R)
Cartoon about super-hero cats.
The news programme for children with Roger Finn and Juliet Morris.
Editor Nick Heathcote
Magazine programme for children presented by Yvette Fielding , John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan.
Producer Oliver Macfarlane
Editor Lewis Bronze
BOOK: The Blue Peter Green Book. £4.99, from retailers.
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With Peter Sissons and Moira Stuart.
Weather John Kettley
Presented by Guy Michelmore and Louise Batchelor.
Editor Fiona Chesterton
Film director Sydney Pollack , whose credits include The
Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor and Out of Africa, talks to Terry Wogan. Plus music from Chris Isaak.
Producer Graham Owens
Executive producer Peter Estall
Consumer champions Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton continue their investigations and campaigns on your behalf. Reporters
Sue Bishop and Bill Hanrahan take up the issues that matter. Editor Sarah Caplin
TOPICS: if you have something that needs investigating, write to Watchdog. BBCtv, London W 12 7RJ. or telephone the Watchdog hotline 08 1-[number removed].
A comedy series by Paul A Mendelson about romance across the generation gap.
Starring Anton Rodgers Lesley Dunlop
Too Close for Comfort. Alec believes he and Zoe are the only tolerant people left in Pinner - until his family puts him to the test.
Director Paul Harrison Producer Sharon Bloom
A Cinema Verity production for BBCtv
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The Haunted Huntress
Fast, sleek and elegant, cheetahs are the supreme athletes of the animal world.
But paradoxically they are also the hunted. This intimate portrait of a cheetah and her two cubs reveals the fierce and intense struggle for survival. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Photography Owen Newman
Series producer Mike Beynon
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● PICTURE STORY: page 61
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With Michael Buerk.
Regional News
Weather John Kettley
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Project Babylon
The full story of Saddam Hussein 's supergun is revealed. With previously secret documents and interviews with some of those most closely involved, Panorama shows how the Iraqis ordered three different guns, how
British companies helped build the parts, and how confusion and rivalry in Whitehall nearly led to lethal technology falling into Saddam's hands.
Jane Corbin reports.
Producer Mark Killick
An American drama series starring Robert Loggia
When a local cop - a friend of Nick Mancuso (Robert Loggia) - is murdered, Mancuso takes up the case.
1978: 90 years of white rule ends in Rhodesia and in Iran anti-Shah demonstrations reach epic proportions.
The music: Kate Bush , Tom Robinson , Blondie, the Jam, Boomtown Rats, Police, Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
Producer Sue Mallinson (R)
Advice Shop finds out what steps can be taken to build a future for people left without jobs when it visits the Scottish steel town of Ravenscraig.
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