Today's television and radio programmes

Edited by Peter Dear

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6.00 Ceetax AM.

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; sport at

6.40 and 8.40; regional news, weather and traffic at 6.45,

7.15, 7.45 and 3.15; television preview at 6.55; the days

papers reviewed at 7.18 and t.18; Mike Smith's pop news

between 7.45 and 6.00; Esther Rantzen's That's Life file

between 7.30 and 8.00 with a follow-up 'phone-in between

8.30 and 9.00; and horoscopes at 8.35,

9.00 Animal Marvels. Tony Soper

examines creatures that live in climatic extremes (r) 9.25

Ceetax 10.30 Play School,

presented by Carol Chell (r) 10.55 Gharbar. Magazine

programme for Asian viewers. Today there is a discussion on the problems of the elderly 11.20 Ceefax.

12.30 News After Noon with Richard

Whitmore and Michael Cole.

The weather prospects coins from Jim Bacon 12.57

Regional news 1.00 Pebble Mill at One includes a recipe from the cooking canon of

Carlisle 1.45 Bod. a See-Saw

programme for the very young. 2.05 That Was the Year. Chris

Serle takes a modern look at

the headlines of the year 1553 (r) 2.30 Film: Sons of the

Musketeers (1952) starring Maureen O'Hara and Cornel

Wilde. Swashbuckling period piece directed by Lewis Allen 3.48 Regional news (not London).

3.50 The Amazing Adventures of

Morph, introduced by T'ony Hart (r) 3.55 Play School,

presented by Floella Benjamin 4.20 Heethchffe the Cat. Cartoon adventures of a maramalade torn 4.25

Jackanory. Cecile Paoli tells the story of The Hunter.

4.40 Grandad. Comedy series

starring Clive Dunn 5.05 John Craven's Newsround 5.10 Think of a Number. Johnny

Ball with another in his series exploring science and

numbers 5.35 Willo the Wisp. 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 news headlines at 6.38

6.40 Harty. His guests are Maureen

Lipman, Derek Nimmo and Spike Milligan.

7.15 Madical Express. The first of

a new series of magazine

programmes on matters that concern our health. With Jill

Cochrane, Nigel Farrell and Dr Michael O'Donnell. (See Choice).

7.45 Taxi. American comedy series

about the drivers of the

Sunshine Cab Company of New York. This week the libidinous Louie is caught

looking through the keyhole of the ladies' room.

8.10 Cockles. The entertainments

committee of the seaside

resort of Cocklesea decide to resuscitate the King Neptune Angling competition.

9.00 News with John Humphrys. 9.25 Whicker's World. Alan

Whicker completes his South Sea cruise on the Queen Elizabeth 2 with visits to

Hongkong and the Communist Chinese port of Qingdao.

10.20 Sportmnight introduced by

Harry Carpenter. Live

coverage of the featherweight

contest between the European title holder, Barry McOuigan

and Zambia's Charm Chiteule. Also on the bill is a flyweight

contest between Kelvin Smart and Hugh Russell. There is

also coverage of the Benson and Hedges Masters first

round game between Steve Davis and Tony Meo and highlights from one of

tonight's football matches.

12.00 News...