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David Jessel takes a "fly-drive" holiday to Malaysia. Plus different ways to spend a weekend in Brighton. With Anneka Rice.
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● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
● BBC HOLIDAYS MAGAZINE: £1.40, from newsagents.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Anneka Rice.

On this second day of the Festival HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother gives her name to today's two-mile chase. Introduced by Julian Wilson.
2.15 Sun Alliance Novices Hurdle
(2½m)
2.50 Queen MotherChampion Chase (2m)
3.30 Coral Golden Hurdle (3m If) Commentary by Peter O'Sullevan and Richard Pitman. With Jonathan Powell. ● STEREO

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Wilson.
Unknown:
Queen Motherchampion Chase
Commentary By:
Peter O'Sullevan
Commentary By:
Richard Pitman.
Unknown:
Jonathan Powell.

Fourth in a six-part children's drama set in 1900. Willy has been very ill.
Written by Gillian Avery , dramatised by Julia Jones STEREO
● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 ● CHILDREN: page 11

Contributors

Written By:
Gillian Avery
Dramatised By:
Julia Jones
Willy Overs:
Lee Brennan
George Overs:
Robert Curley
MrOvers:
John Flanagan
Mrs Overs:
Alice Martin
Uncle Harold:
Christopher Benjamin
Aunt Kitty:
Sue Wallace
Stan:
Paul Sarginson
Mr Church:
Richard Huw
Mr Ramsbottom:
David King
Doctor:
Hugh Walters
Carter:
Chris Haigh
Mrs Jericho:
Lottie Ward

Cody has become a saint, but how long will it last?
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● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page888

Contributors

Madge Bishop:
Anne Charleston
Harold Bishop:
Ian Smith
Jim Robinson:
Alan Dale
Paul Robinson:
Stefan Dennis
Helen Daniels:
Anne Haddy
Todd Landers:
Kristian Schmid
Joe Mangel:
Mark Little
Matthew Robinson:
Ashley Paske
Melissa jarrett:
Jade Amenta
Melanie Pearson:
Lucinda Cowden
Caroline Alessi:
Gillian Blakeney
Christina Alessi:
Gayle Blakeney
Ryan McLachlan:
Richard Norton
Dorothy Burke:
Maggie Dence
Gemma Ramsay:
Beth Buchanan
Cody Willis:
Amelia Frid
Doug Willis:
Terence Donovan
Adam Willis:
Ian Williams

With Jessica Tandy , the Oscar-winning star of Driving Miss Daisy, and her husband
Hume Cronyn , who co-starred with her in Cocoon.
Plus music from singer-songwriter Mark Cohn. ● STEREO

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Tandy
Unknown:
Hume Cronyn
Singer-Songwriter:
Mark Cohn.

The live magazine show which covers the latest in technology, medicine and the environment.
This week, battling the Barber of Brazil: how South Americans hope to beat the insect which has brought death and disease to more than 16-million people. And a sail board for all seasons: a wind surfer with two sails in one.
Producer Richard Dale
Editor Dana Purvis
● STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888 ● INFORMATION LINE: 0898.[number removed].
Calls are charged at 36p a minute cheap rate, 48p at another times.

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Dale
Editor:
Dana Purvis

Investigative science series.
When It Happens to You. Chris Brotherton is 46 when he is told he only has a few months to live. For Chris, his wife Annette, and their 10-year-old son [text removed], the following weeks are full of emotion as they cope with his illness and the strains it produces. A brain tumour affects his speech and family roles change as communication becomes difficult. But Chris fights back and they go on a last holiday.
Acceptance of death is an issue we all have to face. Chris and his family made this film in the hope that it would help others in a similiar position.
Producer Malcolm Brinkworth Series editor David Filkin
A Touch production for BBCtv
● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Brotherton
Producer:
Malcolm Brinkworth
Editor:
David Filkin

Drama based on a true story starring
Holly Hunter AmyMadigan
1970: Ellen Russell embarks on a legal battle for the right to have an abortion - illegal in her home state of Texas. Featuring an early role for Kathy Bates , who starred in Misery.
Director Gregory Hoblit ● STEREO
● FILMS: pages 35-42

Contributors

Unknown:
Holly Hunter
Unknown:
Ellen Russell
Unknown:
Kathy Bates
Director:
Gregory Hoblit
EIlenRussell:
Holly Hunter
Sarah Weddington:
Amy Madigan
Jimmy Russell:
James Gammon
Jay Floyd:
Terry Oquinn
Jessie:
Kathy Bates

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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