introduced by Simon Parkin and Andi Peters - starting with

Playbus
Stops today at The Why Bird Stop
Simon discovers that the lost property filing isn't as easy as he had expected.

7.55am Is That a Fact?: Finn McCool
Taking a look at legends.
with George the computer and UK-9 and children from Bushmills Primary School, Bushmills.

8.10am The Hallo Spencer Show!
From Spencerville, Ohio, it's the wildest, zaniest, most adorable group of puppets. Hosted by the world's worst dresser and biggest know-it-all, Mr Hallo Spencer.

8.35am Umbrella
What can you give to help the hungry, and will your prayer be shown this week?
BBC North West

8.50am Smoggies
Cool builds an experimental harp whose sounds have disastrous effects on their environment.

9.15am Visionaries: The Overthrow of Merklyn
With the aid of the Wizard Falkama whom they captured in a previous episode, the Darkling Lords trick Merklyn out of his crystal ball and go on a spree of mischief.

9.40am Blue Peter Omnibus
A chance to catch up on the best of last week's programmes, with Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie.

10.30am Rally Report
Early this morning, 190 cars left Nottingham at the start of the Lombard RAC Rally, the final and arguably the toughest round of the 1989 World Rally Championship. Over the next five days the competitors will travel nearly 2,000 miles around Britain before the finish in Nottingham on Thursday afternoon.
William Woollard introduces live coverage of the fourth special stage at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire with commentary from Barrie Gill and Tony Mason, and reports from Alan Douglas.
BBC Pebble Mill
(Highlights at 11.30pm)

11.20am Ovide
Run for Your Lives (R)

11.30am Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: 1: How the Band Got Together
by Tony Robinson.
From the ashes of King John's underpants a legend is reborn.

11.55am The O Zone
Music news and features with Andy Crane.

Comedy drama series loosely based on the legend of Robin Hood. Marian sets about recruiting her band of merry men.

An updated edition of Wednesday's Reportage with all the latest developments in the stories covered, the final result of the phone poll and some of your views. (R)revised

starring and Recently jilted, Diana takes on a job in the backwoods of New South Wales as teacher to three children who are being brought up by their uncle, Timber Marlow. Her search for a new life - and romance
- is set against the spectacular background of rural Australia.
Screenplay by MARK EGERTON Directed by MARK EGERTON
•FILMS: page 28

Best Friends
Seven sets of best friends reveal the delights, the fun and the intimacy of their close friendships.
Producer JULIA MCLAREN
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written and read by Laurie Lee.
A Celebration of His Journey In 1934, Laurie Lee left home in the village of Slad in Gloucestershire and set out to see the world.
Young Laurie Lee. ... JOHN WILD Produced and directed by JOHN KING
BBC Pebble Mill (R)

in Kicking the Crown Around Directed by SAM WHITE An RKOfilm
(R)

featuring
Ireland v All Blacks and Bristol v Gloucester
For the second international of their tour, the New
Zealand All Blacks have crossed the Irish Sea.
Willie Anderson captains an Irish team keen to re-establish themselves after poor results last season. At the top of the Courage
League Division 1 there is a logjam, so Gloucester's visit to Bristol has added importance.
Introduced by Chris Rea.
Commentators: Bill McLaren and Nigel Starmer-Smith . Executive producer
JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

With Jools Holland.
He discusses the week's new singles with four diverse panellists. A mystery guest adds intrigue.
Director PHIL CHILVERS
Series producer SHARON ALI

The top stories in and behind the news from the worlds of business, finance and economics - reporting and analysis from Britain's leading business programme. Reporters: Robin Aitken
Peter Eustace , Tom Maddocks John Pennycate ,
Michael Robinson and Nisha Steyn. Deputy editor
ALAN HAYDN GRIFFITHS Editor DAVlD NISSAN

Amazon: the Flooded Forest Narrated by Anthony Hopkins.
The first of two films about some of the most extraordinary areas of the Amazon rainforest. Vast stretches, flooded by up to
12 metres of water for half the year, are home to a range of remarkable creatures.
Dolphins weave through the maze of tree trunks and fruit-eating fish swim between the branches. In the canopy above water lives the strangest monkey in the world - the white-furred, bald-headed uakari. Executive producer MICHAEL ROSENBERG
Series editor MIKE SALISBURY A Partridge Films production for BBCtv
0 EARTHWATCH: page 107
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from Leicester.
Third Special Olympic Games In August of this year more than 1,750 athletes from all over the United Kingdom assembled for a week of competition. The Third
Special Olympic Games for the mentally handicapped, was the largest event of its kind outside the USA.
Commentators:
Stuart Storey and Helen Rollason.

How I'd Love to Feel Free
Tonight's programme presents an insider's view of music from the South African townships. Cape Town-born director Jimi Matthews takes us into the shebeens, clubs and dance halls to celebrate the resilience and vitality of this flourishing musical scene. The film focuses on six groups who play everything from traditional rhythms to the infectious modern dance beat of mbaqanga. Artists featured include the Soul Brothers, who have been favourites on the South
African scene for over a decade: veteran blues singer Tandie Klaasen : and Peto, a band of young black and white musicians who believe that music can be a powerful unifying force.
Director jimi MATTHEWS Producer H.O. NAZARETH
A Penumbra production for BBCtv

starring and Driving his open-top Thunderbird through
Arizona, Beckman Hallsgood Jr is shot by a bunch of rednecks in a '57 Chewy.
Forced to stop in a one-horse town he meets Johnny Hart , an ex-rock 'n' roller with a past, and Jesse and Melissa, two sisters with a future.
And round the corner is the Route 66 Rally, a chance to race classic cars and settle a score or two.
This rarely seen road movie features the stars of Last Temptation of Christ and Vice Versa and includes the music of the Pretenders, Dave Edmunds and Los Lobos.
Screenplay by GALEN LEE and GEORGE SIMPSON
Directed by JOHN MARK ROBINSON (First showing on British television) • FILMS: page 28
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Lombard RAC Rally
A full round-up of the first day's events in the Lombard RAC Rally. William Woollard reports from rally headquarters in Nottingham, with commentary on the special stages from
Barrie Gill and Alan Douglas. Tony Mason follows the teams through the Midlands to the overnight halt at Telford.
(Further coverage tomorrow 7.10pm)

presented by Antoine de Caunes.