With Justin Webb and Jill Dando.
Topical discussion.
Regional News; Weather
With Chris Jarvis
Playground Stop.
Including 10.40 Problem-solving with Will Hanrahan 10.45 Needlecraft 11.00 News
(Subtitled) Regional News; Weather 11.10 Star Guest of the Day 11.20Touch of Love 11.30 Patric Walker 's Video Horoscope 11.40
Obsessions 11.50 Agony Phone-in 12.00 News (Subtitled) Regional News; Weather
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Judi Spiers introduces more star guests and surprises.
(Details at 5.35pm) Stereo
The first of the quarter-finals in this general knowledge quiz.
Try and Catch Me. Top actress
Ruth Gordon plays a crime writer who hatches her own murder plot to avenge the death of her niece. But with Columbo on the case, the closing chapter is not a happy one. With Peter Falk and Mariette Hartley.
Cartoon fun.
With Toby Anstis.
Animation.
Live action cartoon starring Kate Copstick.
Written by Roy Apps
Third of a 12-part sci-fi comedy thriller. Watt's hunger leads him to take risks. Written by Pip Baker. and Jane Baker.
Cartoonfun. Rpt
Children's documentary series.
Happy Birthday to You. A fast-moving and thought-provoking snapshot of how children celebrate their favourite day. It also looks beyond the cards, presents and parties to uncover some unusual and touching stories - potent reminders that birthdays are about much more than presents.
Debbie tells Rick about her feelings for Harvey. Gaby finds good reason to question
Philip's managerial ability.
With Martyn Lewis and Andrew Harvey.
(Subtitled)
Weather Penny Tranter
Another chance to see the second series of this popular comedy, first screened in 1991/2 and starring Chris Barrie
Back from the Dead. The centre is unusually popular.
Word is out that Brittas is dead.
Written by Richard Feegen and Andrew Norriss Director/Producer Mike Stephens
Sharon and Michelle want an early night, but the unpredictable Dougie has other plans.
The programme that goes behind the scenes in the worlds of science, sport, medicine and show business. With
Desmond Lynam and Jenny Hull.
Producers John Longley , Gill Stribling-Wright Executive producer Alan Boyd
A Reg Grundy/Telepictures production for
BBCtv Stereo
Anne Robinson presents viewers' opinions on BBC programmes. This week the people of Truro in Cornwall air their views.
Producer Bernard Newnham
WRITET0: Points ofView, BBCtv Centre. London W 12 7RJ; or phone or fax on: [number removed].
With Michael Buerk.
Subtitled
Regional News
Weather Penny Tranter
Acclaimed comedy starring Patricia Routledge
Another chance to see the six-part series that first launched the delightfully fragrant Hyacinth Bucket onto an unsuspecting world in 1990. Tonight's introduction to Hyacinth reveals her as a woman obsessed with image, whose quest for perfection is not always successful.
Written by Roy Clarke
Director/Producer Harold Snoad
The first episode of the comedy series about fastidious housewife Hyacinth Bucket sees Hyacinth's father have a nasty accident with a milk bottle.
Gielgud: Scenes from Nine Decades
From the stage of the Old Vic Theatre , where he first walked on in 1921, one of Britain's greatest actors Sir John Gielgud reflects on a career that has spanned over seven decades.
Shown to coincide with Gielgud's 90th birthday this week, the programme, narrated by Kenneth Branagh , includes footage of his key performances as well as past interviews with him where he discussed his work, his life and his world. It also gives an insight into the actor and the man through the views of colleagues such as Sir Peter Hall , who reveals that he sometimes thinks of Gielgud as a "terrible old rascal sitting in the rehearsal room doing The Times crossword with an enormous fag ash hanging out of his mouth!" and Sir Alec Guinness who describes Gielgud's voice as "like silver trumpets muffled in silk".
From mainstream Hollywood to avant garde theatre,
Gielgud's appetite for work seems insatiable - in fact, while filming this documentary, he also recorded a radio version of King Lear (heard on Sunday on Radio 3), a television play and a cameo in the new sequel to Gone with the Wind.
Producers Charles Chabot and Ann Hummel
Series editor Nigel Williams
Andrew Duncan interview with Sir John Gielgud
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The hit comedy in which John Gielgud, subject of this evening's Omnibus, gave an Academy Award winning performance as the gentleman's gentleman. Co-starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli
Spending money like water and drinking like a fish, playboy Arthur Bach will flush his chances of inheritance down the drain unless he marries a respectable heiress. Instead, Arthur falls for impoverished Linda Marolla.
Director Steve Gordon (1981)
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