Cable and Wireless: Highlights of yesterday's Annual General
Meeting of Cable and Wireless pic.
Starting with 6.30-6.55 Business Breakfast
News every quarter hour.
With Philippa Forrester and Toby Anstis. ● STEREO
Defenders of the Earth
Space-age animation.
Including a chance to find out how cartoons are made. ● STEREO
and Regional News; Weather
The Dot Stop.
More contestants go through the obstacle course. ● STEREO
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
and Regional News; Weather
Australian drama series.
The Wrangler's Daughter. The people of Cooper's Crossing are involved in a search for a mentally handicapped girl. 0 STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Today: northern Majorca. (Tomorrow: the Carinthian Lakes)
and Regional News; Weather
In today's holiday special, Alan Whicker introduces his latest
TV series, Around Whicker's World, which begins on ITV on Friday. Plus an interview with actress Honor Blackman.
12.55 pm Regional News; Weather
Followed by Weather
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(For cast see Friday. Rptdat 5.35pm)
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Olive makes a nasty discovery.
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Detective series starring Edward Woodward
Jessica Lundy
Carrie Christmas and a Nappy New Year. Max and Nikki probe the mystery surrounding a mother's disappearance. * STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888
From Stratford-upon-Avon, including a singing bird box and a walking stick made from the stalk of a cabbage.
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With Andi Peters.
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Fantasy animation series. ● STEREO
Children's comedy series starring Bernie Clifton 2: Bernie manufactures a confectionery concoction. With Zap and Russ Stevens. Written by Tony Hare
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News for children.
Another chance to see the six-part adaptation of E Nesbit's classic story.
The children found it when they were digging in the sand. It could grant three wishes but trying to think of a good wish is not as easy as it sounds.
Dramatised by Helen Cresswell.
(Stereo)
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Gemma leaves Ramsay Street for pastures new. Dorothy has arranged some risque entertainment for Helen's hen night.
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With Anna Ford and Chris Lowe.
Weather John Kettley
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Marcus appears on television and Freddie strays into terrible danger. Trish wows the tourists in Joy's Bar, much to Dieter's annoyance.
Rosemary's concern for
Stanley continues; Olive falls asleep on the beach, with disastrous results.
Episode written by Tony McHale
(For cast see Monday. Repeated on Friday at 1. 50pm) STEREO.
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The series in which well-known people reveal how they coped with losing their health.
A three-million-to-one chance saved Desmond Wilcox 's life when an annual medical revealed that he was minutes away from a major heart attack. He tells Lynn Redgrave of the urgent bypass surgery that followed and how his wife
Esther Rantzen reacted. He also returns to hospital to watch the identical operation performed on a fellow sufferer. Of the treatment he received, he says, "If I have a quarrel with our brilliant medical profession it is that the information they have they simply share among themselves. On the whole, the patient is something into which they stick things and from which they take things. They do it all brilliantly but they forget there is a frightened, sensitive, inquisitive person hiding inside." Producer Nicola Glucksmann Cheslaw
Series editor Michael Latham
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● INFORMATION: write to [address removed]; phone [number removed].
Anne Robinson presents a selection of viewers' opinions on BBCtv programmes. Producer Bernard Newnham ● STEREO
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With Martyn Lewis. Regional News
Weather John Kettley
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A documentary series taking a comprehensive look at one of the world's most powerful and mysterious organisations.
Executive Action: An examination of how the CIA developed the techniques and methods for executive action - that is, action designed to make individuals "disappear".
"From time to time," recalls former head of CIA operations Richard Bissell, "individuals would appear on the scene and it would be very important to have them disappear."
Fidel Castro was a prime target for CIA assassination attempts and tonight's programme reveals the full extent of the CIA's efforts to get rid of him and his allies. The assassins ranged from a mistress turned poisoner, to the Mafia and a former physician to the London Commodity Exchange. From Bolivia there's the real story behind the hunt, capture and execution of Castro's ally - Che Guevara; and from Chile the CIA role in the overthrow of President Salvador Allende.
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BBC Book: CIA: A History by John Ranelagh, price £15.95 from booksellers.
A broad comedy of international misunderstanding featuring the star of Batman and the new
Batman Returns, Michael Keaton
The only way to save the waning prosperity of Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, is to send factory foreman
Hunt Stevenson to Tokyo. His mission is to convince the mammoth
Assan Motors to relocate their next factory in his home town.
Director Ron Howard
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