_ Today's television and radio programmes

6.00 Ceefax AM. News headlines, 6.30 Breakfast Time with Frank

IBough and Selina Scott. News

with Fern Britton at 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00 and 8.30 with headlines on the quarter

hours: sports news at 6.40 and 8.40; regional news, weather and traffic at 6.45, 7.15, 7.45 and 8.15 the day's television

previewed at 6.55: a review of the morning papers at 7.18 and 6.18; Esther Rantzen's

That's Life file between 7.30 * and 7.45 with a follow-up

phone-in between 7.45 and

j .00: and horoscopes at 6.35.

9.00 The New Adventures of Flash

Gordon. 9.25 Why Don't

You ... ? Ideas for bored youngsters from Scottish

children. 9.50 Wacky Races (r). 10.00 Play Chess! Advice for beginners from Bill

Hartston. 10.10 Jackanory. Bernard Cribbins reads part three of The Mystery of Mr

Jones's Disappearing Taxi (r). 10.25 Peddington visits the Bank (r). 10.30 Play School. 10.55 Gharbar. A magazine

programme of interest to Asian women. Today's

programme is devoted to music with singers and

musicians from the subcontinent. 11.20 Mary

Chipperlield's Trunk Call to Sri Lanka. Miss Chipperfield

observes the olephants of the island. 12.00 Look Back with John Noakes along the South Downs.

12.30 News After Noon with Richard

Whitmore and Frances

Coverdale. 12.57 Regional

news (London and SE only): Financial report followed by

news headlines with subtitles). 1.00 Pebble Mill at One includes singer Bertice

Reading and the cooking

canon from Carlisle. the Rev John Eley 1.45 Sod (r).

2.00 Film: Merry Andrew (1958)

starring Danny Kaye as a

teacher who joins a travelling circus. Directed by Michael Kidd. 3.40 Cartoon: Househunting Mice. 3.48 Regional news (not London) 3.50 Ivor the Engine (r).

3.55 Play School presented by

Stuart McGugan. 4.20

Heathclif1. Adventures of a marmalade cat. 4.25

Jackanory (r). 5.05 John

Craven's Newaround. 5.10 Think of a Number. Johinny Ball begins a new series of

lighthearted explorations of science and numbers.

5.40 Sixty Minutes includes

national news from Moira Stuart at 5.40.

6.40 1983 Team Disco Dance

Championships. The finals introduced by Peter Powell fromii the Powerhouse.

Birmingham. The guests are singing group, Bucks Fizz. 7.10 So You Think . . . You're

Switched On? A quiz about television presented by Cliff Michelmore. The panel

consists of Esther Rantzen.

Toyah. Barry Cryer end Lenny Henry.

8.05 Cockle*. The flrst of a new

comedy series about the faded seaside resort of Cocklesea. Starring James Grout, Joan Sims and Norman Rodway. 9.00 News with Sue Lawley.

9.25 Whicker's World. This first of

a new series finds the

indefatigable traveller on a Fast Boat to China (see Choice).

10.20 Sportanight introduced by

Harry Carpenter. Tennis and

darts are teatured tonight with action from the Barratt World Doubles Championship at the at the Albert Hall and The

Embassy World Professional

Darts Champlonship at Stokeon-Trent.

11.10 The Rockford Fies. The off-

beat detective is hired to acquire a cormorant (r). 12.00 News and weather.

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6.25 Good Moming Britain

presented by Nick Owen and John Stapleton. News with

Gavin Scott...