With Philippa Forrester.
Poddington Peas
Animation. Rpt
Today: the Tent Stop. A Felgate production for BBCtv
More adventures with the spinach-guzzling sailor.
Animation.
Rita and Mavis are trapped in the cellar.
Written by Valerie Georgeson. from story by Joan Eadington Rpt
Return of the series in which youngsters play time-travelling detectives.
A Broadsword production for BBCtv
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Cartoon fun. Stereo
Series three from 1980. An environmental studies trip nearly leads to disaster. Episode written by Phil Redmond
Today: elephants, rhinos and hippos. With Terry Nutkins.
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The final from the Savoy
Hotel. Stereo
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Guests include Right Said Fred.
(Stereo)
Live coverage of the race from Suzuka, Japan. (Highlights at 7.40pm on BBC2)
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Life with a group of students. (Revised 's programme)
The return of the southeast's political review.
With Susannah Simons , plus reports from Jonathan Beale and Tim Friend.
REGIONAL PROGRAMME
Live coverage of the final holes in the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth. Plus, the latest news from the snooker grand prix at the Hexagon, Reading.
Featuring London and South-East Division v New Zealand.
Executive producer Johnnie Watherston
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Phil Drabble is back with a new round of sheepdog trials featuring top UK handlers. Today, the English heats.
Virgin Atlantic's owner Richard Branson is adding new services to Hong Kong and San Francisco, doubling his fleet of planes and flying in the face of the worst-ever recession in air travel.
Tessa Curtis reports on a strategy that could cost him his fortune.
Producer Dale Templar
Editor Jane Ellison
Highlights from Suzuka, Japan. Producer Mark Wilkin
Executive producer Jim Reside
What would have happened if Mrs Thatcher hadn't won the 1979 General Election?
Would we have fought the Falklands War? Would the Big Bang have detonated? Would we have an "underclass"? How would Britain look now if there'd been no Thatcher years?
The Independent's Andrew Marr presents his personal alternative history of the 80s as they might have been, and politicians, historians and journalists speculate on whether there really was "no alternative". With Norman Tebbit, Denis Healey, Neil Kinnock, John Biffen, Ian Gilmour, Shirley Williams, John Mortimer, Casper Weinberger, John Pilger and Hugo Young.
Producers Martin Davidson, Rosaleen Hughes Executive producer Janice Hadlow
In a Britain of the future, a family goes on an incredible journey through the nation's newest and most exciting themepark - Thatcherworld pic. They encounter the Spitting Images of Kinnock,
Hattersley, Major, Heseltine - and, of course, Margaret Thatcher herself. But as scenes from her glorious years flash by, something strange begins to happen. With
Gary Olsen , Frances Barber , Edna Dore. A Spitting Image production for BBCtv
An Open Space special which explores the murky background to the notorious "ice-cream wars" in Glasgow which reached a tragic climax nine years ago when a family of six were burned to death. It seemed that justice had been done when
Joseph Steele and Thomas Campbell were given life sentences. Both men, however, have protested their innocence, and this film looks at the reasons why family and friends are so determined to show that a miscarriage of justice has taken place. Producer Kevin Allen
Executive producer Giles Oakley
Robert McKee introduces the second in a season of outstanding feature films. Producer Nick Freand Jones
Romantic comedy starring
Woody Allen
Diane Keaton
Woody Allen 's Oscar-winning film about successful nightclub comedian and comedy writer Alvy Singer who lives alone.
Into his life comes Annie Hall , a beautiful, insecure woman with ambitions to be a singer.
(1977) Subtitled
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A roundup of the week's play.
Highlights from Reading.
