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With Chris Jarvis.

7.30 Tales of the Tooth Fairies
Stereo Animation. Gisele and Martin collect teeth for Queen Elise's collection.
(Repeat)

7.35 Bump
Cartoon.

7.40 Blinky Bill
Animated adventures of the koala bear. Rpt stereo ...........

8.05 New series: Wishing
Live action and animation for young viewers. Today, Becky plays with her twin friends.

8.15 Playdays
The Tent Stop.

8.35 Moomin
Family cartoon.

Contributors

Presenter ("Children's BBC"):
Chris Jarvis

Animation about the animal inhabitants of Busytown.
9.25 Bitsa: With Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe.
9.40 Stone Protectors: Cartoon.
10.00 TimeBusters: Interactive time-travelling game
10.25 Grange Hill: Another chance to see the school drama series from 1983.
Gripper's bullying gets worse.
Written by Jane Hollowood
10.50 The Boot Street Band: Second of a six-part comedy drama. The recycling machine spells trouble for Mr Cramp. Shown last Thursday on BBC 1
11.20 Artrageous: Comedy art series. Kate tries her hand at performance art, Zack plays Rembrandt and Miller discovers why early painters of galloping horses got it wrong. With Tyler Butterworth, Joanne Heywood and Howard Lew Lewis.
See Children: page 62
11.45 The O Zone: Music news, featuring East 17, Suede and Elvis Costello.
Shown last Friday Stereo

Contributors

Presenter ("Bitsa"):
Caitlin Easterby
Presenter ("Bitsa"):
Simon Pascoe
Writer ("Grange Hill"):
Jane Hollowood
Stewpot:
Mark Burdis
Duane:
Mark Baxter
Clare:
Paula Ann Bland
Gripper:
Mark Savage
[Actor] ("Artrageous"):
Tyler Butterworth
[Actor] ("Artrageous"):
Joanne Heywood
[Actor] ("Artrageous"):
Howard Lew Lewis.

Good Morning, Peoria. 9 September 1959: Sam becomes the manic mouthpiece of rock 'n' roll when he leaps into the life of a disc jockey. With Scott Bakula , Dean Stockwell and a guest appearance by Chubby Checker.

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Bakula
Unknown:
Dean Stockwell

High-speed live action from the Clumber Park stage on the first day of the RAC
Rally. Tony Mason and Barrie Gill watch the world's leading drivers take on the muddy tracks of the forest section while
Steve Lee introduces the best of the rest, from rally headquarters in Chester.
Director Philip Thickett

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Mason
Unknown:
Barrie Gill
Introduces:
Steve Lee
Director:
Philip Thickett

Introduced by Steve Riderfrom Leeds.
2.35 Rugby League Live coverage of the third and final Test between Great Britain and Australia from Elland Road , Leeds. Commentary by Ray French , Joe Lydon and Steve Simms.
4.20 Snooker Action from today's third round matches in the UK
Championship from the Guild Hall , Preston. TV presentation (Rugby League)
Malcolm Kemp ...................................

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Riderfrom Leeds.
Unknown:
Elland Road
Commentary By:
Ray French
Commentary By:
Joe Lydon
Commentary By:
Steve Simms.
Unknown:
Guild Hall
Unknown:
Malcolm Kemp

Highlights from the first meeting for 25 years between Scotland and South Africa, which took place on the day of the official opening of the new West Stand at Murrayfield. Plus the opening matches in England of the Divisional Championship, and Welsh action with Swansea taking on Neath in the Heineken League. Presented by John Inverdale, with comments and news from studio guests.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Gerard Lane

" It's good to talk," says BT, but increasingly people are using rival phone companies to do it. Cable TV is signing up thousands of phone customers each week. New technology could soon make existing networks obsolete. As the telephone business becomes inextricably linked with entertainment and computers,
Nils Blythe asks, "What future is there for BTin a multi-media world?"
Producer David Akerman ; Editor Jane Ellison
Subtitled......................................... TRANSCRIPT: fora a transcript of this programme please write to BBC. PO Box 5080, London W 12 6AJ (telephone [number removed]).

Contributors

Unknown:
Nils Blythe
Producer:
David Akerman
Editor:
Jane Ellison

Ordinary people from all over the country, armed only with a camcorder, film the events of the past week and their responses to them.

Among those appearing this week are a retired tea-planter in Devon, an out-of-work office manager in Yorkshire, a single mother in Edinburgh and a Belfast GP. They and others reflect the week as it really was for a diverse cross-section of people living in Britain.

Contributors

Producer:
Chris Mohr
Executive Producer:
Bob Long

Another chance to see the five-part portrait of the British and their cars. It Gets You Out of the House. A comedy of manners about the hopes and dreams of seven youngdrivers and the anxieties of their parents as they set off on the road to independence and adulthood.
Director Nicholas Barker ; Assistant producers Jackie Humphries , GabrielleOsrin

Contributors

Director:
Nicholas Barker
Producers:
Jackie Humphries

Contemporary music series featuring talented young musicians playing in locations that complement the music. Joanna MacGregor is joined by Chi-Chi Nwanoku who performs Failing by Tom Johnson - a piece which requires the performer to play the double bass and tell a story simultaneously.

Contributors

Music:
Joanna MacGregor
Unknown:
Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Unknown:
Tom Johnson

UK Championship action from the Guild Hall, Preston where, last season, Ronnie O'Sullivan astonished everyone by lifting the UK trophy at the age of 17. Introduced by David Vine.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine.

A film about the horrors of the English Civil War, using letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary people in 17th-century England. The historical characters of Parliamentarian Lord Saye and Sele, and Royalist Sir Edmund Verney, are represented by their own descendants. Other characters - a soldier, a lawyer, and a political activist - are represented by their modern day counterparts.

See This Week: page 10

Contributors

Producer:
Catrine Clay
Editor:
Laurence Rees

Stanley Kubrick 's thriller opens a late-night double bill of the director's early work.
Starring Sterling Hayden
Jay C Flippen
Ex-convict Johnny Clay devises a daring plan to steal$2 million from a heavily-guarded racetrack. The gang he assembles to make "the killing" includes the track cashier, a crooked cop, a bartender, a reformed alcoholic and a hired gunman.
(1956) B/W Subtitled .................... ♦ FILM REVIEWS pages 69-74

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Kubrick
Unknown:
Sterling Hayden
Unknown:
Jay C Flippen
Unknown:
Johnny Clay
Johnny Clay:
Sterling Hayden
Marvin Unger:
Jay C Flippen
Sherry Peatty:
Marie Windsor
George Peatty:
Elisha Cookjr
Fay:
Coleen Gray
Val Cannon:
Vince Edwards
Randy Kennan:
Ted de Corsia
Mike O'Reilly:
Joe Sawyer
Nikki:
Timothy Carey
Maurice:
Kola Kwarian

Stanley Kubrick's second feature film concludes a late-night double bill of his early work.
Drama starring
Frank Silvera
Jamie Smith
Irene Kane
When boxer Davy Gordon becomes friendly with Gloria Price, he makes an enemy of heremployer, dance-hall owner Vincent Rapallo. And Rapallo turns out to be a violent enemy, determined to have his revenge.
With Jerry Jarrett , Mike Dana , Felice Ortandi and Ralph Roberts.
(1955) B/W * FILM REVIEWS pages 69-74

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Silvera
Unknown:
Jamie Smith
Unknown:
Irene Kane
Unknown:
Davy Gordon
Unknown:
Vincent Rapallo.
Unknown:
Jerry Jarrett
Unknown:
Mike Dana
Unknown:
Felice Ortandi
Unknown:
Ralph Roberts.

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