Starting with 6.30-6.55 Business Breakfast Business and financial news.
Followed at 7.00 by the morning news programme. Headlines; news summaries every quarter hour.
Business: 7.12, 7.40, 8.12, 8.40. Sport: 7.23, 7.50, 8.23, 8.50. Weather, regional and traffic:
6.55,7.25,7.55,8.25,8.55. Editor Bob Wheaton
Gloria Hunniford returns with a new series of discussions about lives and lifestyles with celebrity guests and her studio audience. Taking part in today's discussion on sibling relationships are actress
Frances de la Tour and her actor /playwright brother Andy, broadcaster Ned Sherrin and his retired farmer brother
Fred, and the singing Nolans.
Open ravioli with chicken livers.
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The Why Bird Stop.
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Cartoon.
Word game with Kenny Everett. A Celador production for BBCtv ●STEREO
and Regional News; Weather
One more quarter-final place is decided this morning.
Including at 12.00 News and Regional News; Weather
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Quiz with Rob Curling.
A Turnabout production for BBCtv
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Without a Clue. Jill, still striving to prove that she didn't try to murder Val, volunteers to take a lie-detector test.
Partner's Investment. Having invested his own and Oscar's money in a Japanese restaurant, Felix gets into trouble when the staff walk out.
Today: Lesley Waters invites Edd the Duck and-Wilson into the kitchen to cook food that even the most fussy child will eat. Dr Stefan Buczacki and Ann Davies plan a vegetable garden in containers, and Alison Mitchell reveals how to borrow money at just one per cent interest. Plus, Doug Smillie offers some spring decorating tips. Presented by Nerys Hughes.
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With Andi Peters.
Simon makes a mashed potato cake for a visiting mayor. Written by Andy Cunningham • STEREO
Spoof horror cartoon. Things go wrong when the pupils start taking driving lessons.
Third of a 12-part drama about a boy who gets caught up in a scientific espionage plot.
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With Yvette Fielding,
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Joe tries aversion therapy to stop Toby from smoking.
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With Peter Sissons and Moira Stuart.
Weather Suzanne Charlton
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Terry Wogan 's guests tonight include the much-loved racehorse Desert Orchid - now retired from steeplechasing.
And to perform her latest single Make It Happen, American
Grammy Award-winning singer Mariah Carey.
Producer Natalie Elsey
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Phillip Schofield surveys the most-watched programmes in the history of British television. 1962. His guests are: Brian Blessed of Z Cars, Lord Callaghan, whose party political broadcast was one of the five most-viewed shows of the year; and Norman Vaughan, host of Sunday Night at the London Palladium and the Royal Variety Performance.
Plus clips of Frank Sinatra making his first personal appearance on British TV, US President John Kennedy speaking on the Cuban missile crisis and Desmond Wilcox recommending that his This Week audience go on holiday to New York's Times Square.
Director/Producer Bill Wilson
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Comedy series about two incompatible neighbours written by Richard Ommanney, creator of Three Up, Two Down, and starring Gareth Hunt, Louisa Rix
The newly-widowed Gilly Bell has many problems but she can always rely on her neighbour Vince to add to them.
Producer Nic Phillips
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With Martyn Lewis. Regional News
Weather Suzanne Charlton
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Not a Drop to Drink
Summer has not yet arrived but already large areas of southern Britain are subject to hosepipe bans and other restrictions on the use of water. The south has suffered its lowest rainfall for
200 years, rivers have run dry and the water table is at an all-time low. But is nature alone to blame?
Nisha Pillai investigates why water has become so scarce in parts of a country renowned for its rainfall, and asks what can be done to supply water to the regions suffering shortages. Producer Narinder Minhas
Editor David Jordan
American police drama series, starring Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly
The two detectives find the task of hunting a thief who has stolen some plutonium hindered by government interference.
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March. Continuing the series in which a walled garden is restored and worked as it was
100 years ago. With Peter Thoday and head gardener Harry Dodson.
Producer Keith Sheather
Andrew Sachs visits the Costa Brava.
Producer Bernard Adams
