Simon Parkin - starting with:

Popeye and Son
Bluto's Wave Pool; Here Today Goon Tomorrow

9.55am Blue Peter Omnibus
Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding

10.45am Ovide
The Creature of the Cave

11.00am Windmill
with Chris Serle
(R)

12.00 Sky Pirates
An adventure story about diamond smugglers and a group of children who belong to a radio-controlled model-plane club.
FILMS: page 26

from Wembley Arena A chance to relive the highlights of this year's show with Keith Chegwin. Producers WENDY SHEPPARD and HUW JONES

Dolebusters
A film watching the people who watch the unemployed. Producer STEPHEN LAMBERT
40 Minutes editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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Rothmans Grand Prix from the Hexagon, Reading Final
After 126 matches of this tournament there are just two players left to contest the final, for a prize of E65,000 for the winner.
Last year, STEPHEN HENDRY was the youngest Grand Prix champion. He's still young this time, perhaps he would like to keep the trophy.
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators
TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON
Television presentation
WENDY SHEPPARD , PETER HAYWARD Executive producer KEtTH MACKENZIE

This week Music in Camera travels to Canada to visit a festival in the Northern Ontario lakelands. Festival director James Campbell brings together artists from all over the world for his 'festival of friends'. Many have become regulars, relishing the opportunity to make music together in such beautiful surroundings.
Artists JAMES CAMPBELL, ANTON KUERTI, BORODIN TRIO, ALLEGRI QUARTET, ANDRE LAPLANTE
Sound BRUCE GRAHAM
Cameraman DAVE DOHERTY
Producer MIKE NEWMAN
Series editor KEITH ALEXANDER
A CBC (Canada) production in association with BBC Scotland

England B v Australia
Bridgend v Western Samoa Ulster v Connacht
The third match of the Wallabies' tour should give some indication as to their potential in today's match against England B at Sale. The Western Samoans continue their tour with a visit to Bridgend and we cross the Irish Sea for the first time this season with action from a first-round inter-provincial championship game.
Introduced by CHRIS REA Commentators
NIGEL STARMER SMITH
MARTYN WILLIAMS and JIM NEELY
Executive producer
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

A series of 13 programmes 2: Soups and Stocks
Albert and Michel Roux , famous chef-restaurateurs, dip into the stock pot; pull apart some bouquets garnis; argue about the way to make watercress soup, and clarify consommes.
But whatever the arguments, both brothers agree that the important thing is to enjoy cooking. As Albert says, good food is a pleasure that transcends national boundaries. You don't have to be French to be good at it! Director SARAH NOVELLO RUCKLEY Producer JILL MARSHALL
A HAWKSHEADIFRANCES WHrTAKER production for BBC Wales

Boom or Gloom?
What's really driving the current consumer boom? As the City assesses the Chancellor's Mansion House speech, Nisha Steyn reports from the boardroom and the shop floor on the problems and prospects of the British economy.
Producer MARK WAKEFIELD Editor DAVID NISSAN

A Passion for Grouse Every year in August wealthy sportsmen from around the world gather for the annual pilgrimage to the grouse moors of Britain. The cost is enormous, perhaps £2,000 for a single day's shooting. Why do they do it? What makes the grouse so special? This programme explores the remarkable natural history of the grouse and the wild heather moorlands where it lives, and look back in time to discover just how it came to be the world's most desirable game bird.
Narrator Sally Magnusson
Wildlife photography Ian McCarthy Written and produced by Martin Hughes-Games Series editor Andrew Neal BBC Bristol

A series of eight films exploring the way women's lives have changed in the 20th century.
3: Thinking of England
'I'd never seen a man in the nude. I'd got seven brothers and I didn't know they'd even got ankles.'
In the days when chaste respectability was every girl's goal, a veil of silence cloaked all sexual matters. Girls were told that being alone with a man was dangerous, but not why. Few were told the facts of life.
While a man with a roving eye was considered a bit of a lad, a girl showing sexual awareness was in danger of being dismissed as a floosie or tart. Sixty years on, innocence is no longer seen as a virtue. From the days of chaperones through the swinging 60s to the AIDS era, frank reminiscences interwoven with contemporary documentary and feature film charts the course of the changing moral climate and the influences behind it.
Film research CHRISTINE WHITTAKER Film editor JIM LATHAM
Producer NIKKI CHEETHAM
(An exhibition based on the series can be seen at London 's National Theatre and a book, same name, is available, £6.95, from booksellers)

Grand Prix from the Hexagon, Reading Final
The last session of the 19-frame final which will produce the 1988 Grand Prix Champion.

Continuing a season of outstanding films from key directors of the 70s starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow.

One night, movie sound man Jack Terry accidentally records a car crash in which a leading politician is killed. But his own death may soon follow when he discovers that the crash was no accident. There on Jack's tape is the chilling, unmistakable sound of a high-powered gunshot....
This tough and stylish thriller mixes bravura set pieces, high tension and very black humour - all De Palma trademarks.

(First showing on British television)
(Films: page 26)

Rothmans Grand Prix from the Hexagon, Reading Final
The conclusion of the Grand Prix final, with highlights of this evening's play.
Introduced by DAVID VINE
Commentators
TED LOWE . JACK KARNEHM and CLIVE EVERTON