Today's television and radio programmes

Author: Peter Dear
Date: Jan. 18, 1984
From: The Times(Issue 61741)
Publisher: NI Syndication Limited
Document Type: Article
Length: 103,401 words
Source Library: Times Newspapers Limited
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Today's television and radio programmes

Today's television and radio programmes

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Edited by Peter Dear

Edited by Peter Dear

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6.00 Ceeftx AM. News headlines,

weather, traffic and sports bulletins. Also available to

viewers with television sets without the teletext facility. 6.30 Breakfast Time with Frank

Bough and Selina Scott. News from Fern Britton at 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00 and 8.30 with headlines on the quarter

hours: sport at 6.40 and 8.40,

the day's television previewed al 6.55; a review of the

morning papers at 7.18 and

6.1t8: Mike Smith's pop news

between 7.30 and 7.45; Esther Rantzen's That's Life file

between 7.30 and 7.45 with a follow-up phone-in between 8.30 and 9.00; horoscopes at 8.35.

9.00 Mind How You Go. Hints on

how to avoid road accidents from Jimmy Savile (r) 9.10

Animal Marvels. In part two Tony Soper investigates animal language (r) 9.35

Ceetax 10.30 Play School,

presented by Chris Tranchell

(r) 10.55 Oharbar. The week's star guest is dress designer Sukvinder Kaur Rayit. She talks about her career to

Samina Mir and Chhaya Arya 1 1.20 Ceef ax.

12.30 News After Noon with Richard

Whitmore and Francis

Coverdale. The weather

prospects come from Michael Fish 12.57 Regional news

(London and SE only: Financial report followed by news

headlines with subtitles) 1.00 Pebblh Mill at One includes guests Gay Search and the

cooking Canon from Carlisle 1.45 Sod (r).

2.00 Circus Life. John Allin's

portraits and reminiscences of two seasons with Gerry

Cottles Circus (r) 2.20 Fllm:

The Big Street' (1942) starring Henry Fonda and Lucille BSall. A shy bus boy at a nightclub falls for the star singer.

Directed by Irving Rees 3.48 Regional news (not London). 3.50 The Amazing Adventures of

Morph (r) 3.55 Play School,

presented by Carol Chell 4.20 Heathctift. Cartoon

adventures of a marmalade cat 4.25 Jackanory. Tony

Aitken reads two stories 4.35 Grandad starring Clive Dunn 5.00 John Craven's

Newsround 5.10 Think of a

Number. A lighthearted look at science with Johnny Ball. 5.40 Sixty Minutes includes

international news from

Richard Whitmore at 5.40;

weather at 5.54; regional news magazines at 5.55; and closing headlines at 6.38.

6.40 Harty His guests are actor

Elliott Gould and a performing dog called Russell.

7.05 Olivia Newton-John In

Concert. Recorded at the

Weber State College, Utah, before a 14.000-strong audience.

8.05 Cockles. Comedy series set in

the seaside holiday resort of Cocklesea. This week a

beauty contest is the reason for a little bribery.

9.00 News with Sue Lawley.

9.25 Whicker's Wortd. On the third

leg of his South Sea cruise

aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 Mr Whicker and the cameras follow the crew as they make

for the red-light district of Thai port Pattya which is gaining a reputation once enjoyed by pre-Castro Havana.

10.20 Sportenight. The 500th edition

looks back at some of the sporting highlights of the

series and of one of tonight's Milk Cup matches. There are

also interviews with Bob Willis and Seb Coe talks via satellite to a surprise guest (see Choice).

11.35 Phil Silversa as...

Source Citation

Dear, Peter. "Today's television and radio programmes." Times, 18 Jan. 1984, p. 21. link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS352554546/AONE?u=gale&sid=bookmark-AONE. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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