With Philippa Forrester and Toby Anstis. Phone in on 081.[number removed]for a chance to play Maggot Moments. ● STEREO
Animation.
The Playground Stop.
A Felgate production for BBCtv
The perils of pesticides.
What happens when you're a guest for dinner and there's no food? Philip Hawthorn relates. ● STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888
The pair go on a picnic. (Rpt;
Recycling ideas with Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe. ● STEREO
American series about a boy and his pet bear.
Mark's lured to the Everglades. With Dennis Weaver. ● TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Children's splash hit game show.
Lion-0 and Snark are captured by a space mercenary.
A six-part comedy drama. 2: The boat's been sold and Kevin's thoughts turn to a faster type of transport.
(Shown last Thursday on BBC1. Next episode and cast details this Thursday at 4.30 on BBC1)0 STEREO: TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p888
A roundup of last week's shows. ● STEREO
Music news and features.
(Stereo)
the Animated Tales
The Tempest. Prospero, a powerful magician, lives on an island with his daughter
Miranda. They are served by Caliban, a hideous monster, and Ariel, a wild, discontented spirit.
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Supermarionation series. Operation Crash Dive
A supersonic plane disappears in mid-flight.
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American sci-fi drama.
Labyrinth. David finds a way to prove the aliens do exist.
Of Sport and Funerals. The tale of Barry "Bazza" Bagshaw, the world's greatest sumo-wrestling centre-forward. ● STEREO
Fifth round of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship, from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Live coverage of the first day of the Lombard RAC rally. With Barrie Gill, Tony Mason, Steve Lee, and analysis from Australian rally ace Ross Dunkerton.
(Further coverage tonight at 10.15pm)
Motoring: page 16
Further action from Preston.
Wales v Australia
Leicester (Bath Wales get a chance to avenge their last few defeats by the Wallabies. Highlights also of the match between Leicester and Bath, both contenders for the Courage Clubs Championship. Executive producer Johnnie Watherston STEREO
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Cyprus. Reports from Kyrenia and Famagusta, the little-known resorts of Polis and Latchi, and a look at the life of a British family living in Nicosia. Presented by Penny Junor . Executive producer Tony Moss
Series producer Rachel Hebditch
Down and Out?
British consumers have had a battering from high debt, falling house prices and fear of unemployment. Yet unless they start spending, the economy will remain comatose. Steve Levinson
investigates the state of the consumer.
Producer Subniv Babuta
Editor David Nissan
Six programmes on the art of comedy in which
Rowan Atkinson examines the talents, techniques, styles and secrets of some of the laughter industry's biggest stars.
Visual Comedy - a Lecture by Rowan Atkinson , MSc (Oxon) All you ever needed to know about how to be funny without saying a word. A university lecturer leads us through the silent world of visual humour with the help of Kevin the mime artist. Also featuring Buster Keaton , Jacques Tati , Peter Sellers , John Cleese , Steve Martin and many more. Director David Hinton
Senes producer Sarah Williams A Tiger production for BBCtv ● COVER STORY: page 24
Jeremy Paxman and guests look back at the week's television.
Editor Anne Tyerman ● STEREO
An Open Space special which follows singer Phil Burdett 's struggle to clinch a record deal. With radio DJ Mary Costello he attempts to show just how much the influence record companies have in deciding which music the public hears. In his film he also reflects on his home town of Basildon. "Every song I've written is haunted by this town," he says. Producer Ray Hough
Series producer Giles Oakley
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Highlights of the Lombard RAC Rally. With Steve Lee.
Last in the season of films about racism, this adaptation of Thomas Keneally 's novel, set in turn-of-the-century Australia, is a powerful portrayal of the violent reaction of a half-Aborigine enraged by years of exploitation. With
Tommy Lewis , Freddy Reynolds , Ray Barrett , Jack Thompson , Julie Dawson and Peter Carroll.
Director Fred Schepisi ● FILMS: pages 51-60
