6.30-6.55 Business Breakfast
News every quarter hour.
Pipe Dreams. Larry tries to impress Jennifer.
Dr Jim Cox serves a scattered community of hill people.
and Regional News; Weather
With Philippa Forrester.
At the Dot Stop.
Cartoon fun.
Military family humour.
Rescue Mission. An old friend of Mac's is determined to prevent the wedding.
and Regional News; Weather
The classic western series.
During his last robbery, Morgan MacQuarie endangers his hostages.
How to clean a Victorian dressing mirror.
and Regional News; Weather
Extracting this precious metal.
Followed by Weather
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Quiz show with John Sachs. 0 STEREO
Lawfully Wedded. The Williams family are under pressure.
Today's frame features former world champion,
Dennis Taylor against Mike Hallett. With Eamonn Holmes.
With Simon Parkin.
Dooby's Duck Truck
Dooby Duck and friends return to set off on another concert tour.
NEW Orville and Cuddles are having problems with a garden hose.
4.00pm FLIP P
From Jamaica to India, from Manchester to
Venus, lost property is the Federation of Lost International
Property's business. Over the next few weeks, 13 different FLIP teams can be seen at work. This week a mysterious object from the planet Gonar arrives on Venus.
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Cartoon fun as the Chipmunks help a girl to find her brother.
How to make a picture from seaweed and a sculpture from old bicycles. With Tony Hart and Gabrielle Bradshaw.
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News for children.
A 20-part children's drama set in a Tyneside youth club.
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Helen helps Clarrie come to terms with his drink problem, but it seems his troubles are only just beginning. (For cast see Monday. Shown at 1.30pm) ● STEREO
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With Anna Ford and Chris Lowe.
Weather John Kettley
Tonight actress Glenn Close , star of Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons, talks to Terry Wogan about her new film Meeting Venus, a love story in which she plays an opera singer who has a passionate affair with an orchestra conductor. And Irish actor Liam Neeson discusses his role in Under Suspicion. Both films open on Friday.
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The popular science magazine is back with the latest in technology, medicine and the environment.
This week, why fishermen in India no longer need to rely on an astrologer's forecast for early warning of cyclones. And from Switzerland, the cars that run on sunlight. Can they conquer the mountains in a race across the Alps? Plus, the story of the London clinic where surgeons can operate on a tiny foetus inside the mother's womb. New presenters John Diamond and Carmen Pryce join
Judith Hann , Howard Stableford and Kate Bellingham with reports from around the world.
Producer Martin Mortimore
Editor Dana Purvis
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It takes guts, it needs nerve, and a sense of humour to step out of line and become a part-time policeman. But that's what five ordinary people, in the centre of this new 12-part drama series, have decided to do. Specials uses actors whose faces are fresh to television, and is shot in Birmingham.
Special Constables Viv Smith and Freddy Calder find two small children abandoned in a supermarket late at night.
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By the Labour Party.
With Martyn Lewis. Regional News
Weather John Kettley
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Second programme in the documentary series.
London is choked by illegally parked cars. Emergency services are obstructed and public transport hindered. Enter the dreaded 'clampers' and their partners in misery, the 'towers'. Between them they immobilise or remove more than a quarter of a million cars a year, leaving their owners frustrated, fuming and fined.
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With Desmond Lynam.
Golf
In a preview of the Ryder Cup competition, Steve Rider reports live from Kiawah Island, South Carolina. He interviews the players on Bernard Gallacher's European team who begin their defence of the 64-year-old 'pot' on Friday. The Americans have won the cup 21 times in 28 years of competition, but have not tasted success since 1983.
(Live coverage of the Ryder Cup starts on Friday at 1.50pm on BBC1)
Football
Highlights from the Skol Cup semi-finals, and a full roundup of domestic news and results.
A moving drama starring Bette Davis
James Stewart
Two 80-year-olds decide to die together. But when they tell their daughter, she and the authorities try to prevent them. This was the first time
Davis and Stewart co-starred.
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