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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
● CEEFAX BREAKFAST SERVICE: call up page 400 on teletext.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Burden
Unknown:
Nicholas Witchell
Unknown:
Jill Dando.
Unknown:
Francis Wilson
Editor:
Bob Wheaton

Introduced by Simon Parkin.

Playdays
The Playbus stops today at the Why Bird Stop. Stuart Bradley and the Why Bird recycle their old newspapers and make a Playdays mobile. Today's story, Why Bird Visits Radio 5, is written by Mark Pickett. With Ellie Darvill.
Magazine: Playdays Magazine, 45p, on sale Wednesday from newsagents.

Contributors

Presenter (Children's BBC):
Simon Parkin
Presenter (Playdays):
Stuart Bradley
Presenter (Playdays):
Ellie Darvill
Writer (Playdays - Why Bird Visits Radio 5):
Mark Pickett

Classic moments from the Natural History Unit archive presented by Fergus Keeling. Against All Odds. Wildebeest herds confronted by rivers, penguins riding on surf, and newly-hatched goslings that jump off cliffs.

Contributors

Presented By:
Fergus Keeling.

The daily entertainment show live from the Pebble Mill studios. Presented by Judi Spiers and Tim Grundy. Executive producer Olwyn Hocking Editor Steve Weddle

Contributors

Presented By:
Judi Spiers
Presented By:
Tim Grundy.
Editor:
Steve Weddle

Who is the person writing to Dear George ... and why?
Stefan Dennis's Kind of Day: page 98
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Madge Bishop:
Anne Charleston
Harold Bishop:
Ian Smith
Jim Robinson:
Alan Dale
Beverly Marshall:
Shaunna O'Grady
Paul Robinson:
Stefan Dennis
Helen Daniels:
Anne Haddy
Des Clarke:
Paul Keane
Todd Landers:
Kristian Schmid
Bronwyn Davies:
Rachel Friend
Sharon Davies:
Jessica Muschamp
Nick Page:
Mark Stevens
Joe Mangel:
Mark Little
Toby Mangel:
Finn Greentree Keene
Kerry Bishop:
Linda Hartley
Hilary Robinson:
Anne Scott-Pendlebury
Matthew Robinson:
Ashley Paske
Melissa Jarrett:
Jade Amenta
Melanie Pearson:
Lucinda Cowden
Lee:
Maree Akehurst
Lucy:
Sasha Close
Cody Willis:
Anita Frid
Lochy:
Amber Kilpatrick
Deborah Turner:
Daisy Cameron
Gloria:
Beverley Phillips

Dreaming of a place in the sun of your own? This year's competition offers you the chance to win just that. The prizes on offer are a two-week time-share for life in a villa in the Portuguese Algarve; a two-week holiday for four people in Barbados; and a two-week holiday for six in a farmhouse in Tuscany. Anne Gregg and Kathy Tayler give you a glimpse of these extravagant prizes and Eamonn Holmes provides the clues that could make your dreams come true.
Producer Jean Macfarlane
Series producer Patricia Houlihan ● COMPETITION: page 52

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Kathy Tayler
Unknown:
Eamonn Holmes
Producer:
Jean MacFarlane
Producer:
Patricia Houlihan

Join Nerys Hughes in the marketplace of ideas to save you time, effort and, above all, money around the home. Director Tina Fletcher
Senes producer Erica Griffiths
* PROGRAMME NOTES: please send a 17p A4 sae to [address removed]
0 FAMILY MATTERS: page 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Nerys Hughes
Director:
Tina Fletcher
Producer:
Erica Griffiths

Introduced by Andi Peters and starting with Forget-Me-Not Farm Scarecrow and the crows,
Dandelion and Burdock, all live on Forget-Me-Not Farm. Today Scarecrow is fed up with standing in the rain but Trundle the Tractor and Portly the Pig like splashing in the mud. With Mike Amatt and the voices of Bob Peck and Anna Carteret.
Producer Celia Bonner

Contributors

Introduced By:
Andi Peters
Unknown:
Mike Amatt
Unknown:
Bob Peck
Unknown:
Anna Carteret.
Producer:
Celia Bonner

Written by George MacDonald. Told for jackanory by Jane Asher in five daily parts.
1: Princess Irene is never allowed out after dark.
Director Christine Secombe
Executive producer Angela Beeching 0 PICTURE STORY: page 59

Contributors

Written By:
George MacDonald.
Unknown:
Jane Asher
Director:
Christine Secombe
Producer:
Angela Beeching

Magazine programme for children presented by Yvette Fielding, John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan.
BOOK: The Blue Peter Green Book, £4.99. from retailers.
CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Presenter:
Yvette Fielding
Presenter:
John Leslie
Presenter:
Diane-Louise Jordan
Producer:
Oliver MacFarlane
Editor:
Lewis Bronze

Every minute of every day a child is injured on and around
Britain's roads - walking home from school, cycling, playing in the street and, of course, in cars. In a special award-winning edition of Watchdog, first shown last year, Lynn Faulds Wood and John Stapleton report on why we have one of the worst road safety records in Europe and how so many of these accidents are preventable. Editor Sarah Caplin (R) revised ● SURVEY REPORT: page 25 ● PICTURE STORY: page 59

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stapleton
Editor:
Sarah Caplin

A comedy series by Paul A Mendelson.
Starring Anton Rodgers Lesley Dunlop
The Way You Look Tonight Zoe doesn't mind being the second love in Alec's life but she won't be second best.
Director Paul Harrison Producer Sharon Bloom
A Cinema Verity production for BBCtv * CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul A Mendelson.
Unknown:
Anton Rodgers
Unknown:
Lesley Dunlop
Director:
Paul Harrison
Producer:
Sharon Bloom
Alec Callender:
Anton Rodgers
ZoeAngell:
Lesley Dunlop
Miss Flood:
Frances White
Hilary:
Rebecca Lacey
Jamie:
Paul Venables
Simone:
Carolyn Pickles
Debbie:
Chrissie Cotterill
Anthony:
Alan Gilchrist
Mrs Hodgkinson:
Jo Powell

Enter the Dragons
A worldwide search for the prototype 'dragon' focuses on monitor lizards. From
Australian lace monitors to a gang of komodo dragons, are these carnivores the best candidates for the dragons of myth? Narrated by David Attenborough. Producer Nigel Marven
Series producer Mike Beynon ● NATURE: page 8
● PICTURE STORY: page 59 ● CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Attenborough.
Producer:
Nigel Marven
Producer:
Mike Beynon

David Dimbleby presents analysis and discussion of the latest events in the Gulf.
Executive producer Alexandra Henderson Editor Mark Thompson

Contributors

Unknown:
David Dimbleby
Producer:
Alexandra Henderson
Editor:
Mark Thompson

Tonight's match in the Masters sees Jimmy White up against Martin Clark.
Tony Gubba introduces highlights of this best-of-nine-frames match. Commentary by Ted Lowe , Jack Kamehm and Clive Everton. Summaries by John Spencer and Ray Edmonds.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy White
Unknown:
Martin Clark.
Introduces:
Tony Gubba
Commentary By:
Ted Lowe
Commentary By:
Jack Kamehm
Unknown:
John Spencer
Unknown:
Ray Edmonds.

The programme that helps you to help yourself to a better deal on welfare rights, public services and day-to-day living. Presented by Helen Madden and Jacqui Harper.
PROGRAMME NOTES: please send a 17p A5 sae to [address removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Helen Madden
Presented By:
Jacqui Harper.

BBC One London

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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