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6.00am Business Breakfast

7.00 Breakfast News

9.05 The Morning on BBC1 featuring at

9.05 Kilroy

10.00 News; EastEnders - The Early Days

10.35 Good Morning...with Anne and Nick

12.00 News; Pebble Mill

12.55 Regional news

1.00 One O'Clock News

1.30 Neighbours

1.50 Going for Gold

2.15 FILM: Bonanza: the Next Generation

3.50 Children's BBC

3.50 Jackanory

4.00 Robinson Sucroe

4.25 Animal Hospital with Rolf Harris

4.35 Mud

5.00 Newsround

5.05 The Machine Gunners

5.35 Neighbours

6.00 Six O'Clock News with Anna Ford and Jill Dando

6.30 Regional news magazines Newsroom South East, Spotlight, News West, Look East, Look North, South Today, North West Tonight, Midlands Today, Wales Today, Reporting Scotland, Inside Ulster

7.00 Top of the Pops

7.30 EastEnders

8.00 Animal Hospital Week

8.30 Crown Prosecutor

9.00 Nine O'Clock News with Michael Buerk

9.30 Absolutely Fabulous

10.00 Men Behaving Badly

10.30 Question Time with David Dimbleby

11.30 Cagney and Lacey

12.15am FILM: The Club

1.50-1.55 Weather

6.20am Open University

8.00 Breakfast News

8.15 Westminster On-Line

9.00 Daytime on Two 9.00 Square One TV 9.20 Mathsphere 2 9.40 You and Me 9.45 Come Outside

10.00 Children's BBC: Playdays

10.25 Daytime on Two 10.25 Teaching Today 10.55 Watch 11.10 HealthE 2 11.30 Landmarks 11.50 Mad About Music 12.10pm Short Circuit

12.30pm Working Lunch

1.00 Daytime on Two 1.00 Lifeschool 1.25 History File 1.45 Storytime

2.00 Children's BBC: Stoppit and Tidyup;
Puppydog Tales

2.10 Made By Hand: the Cartwright

2.30 From the Edge

3.00 News; Westminster with Nick Ross

3.50 News; regional news

4.00 Today's the Day

4.30 Ready Steady Cook

5.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show

5.40 Glynn Christian's Entertaining Microwave

6.00 Quantum Leap

6.45 Lifeswaps with Lily Savage

7.00 Waiting for God

7.30 Regional variations (South East: First Sight)

8.00 A Little Local Difficulty

8.30 Top Gear

9.00 The Glam Metal Detectives

9.30 Vietnam Stories: Timewatch

10.15 Russian Wonderland

10.30 Newsnight

11.15 The Late Review

11.55 Weatherview

12.00 Open University

12.30am-1.00 The Record

4.00am Bruno Brookes

6.30 Steve Wright in the Morning

9.00 Simon Mayo

12.00 Lisa I'Anson incl 12.30 Newsbeat

2.00pm Nicky Campbell

4.00 Clive Warren: sits in for Mark Goodier, incl 5.30 Newsbeat

7.00 Evening Session

9.00 Soundbite

12.00-4.00am Mark Tonderai

RADIO 2

6.00am Martin Kelner: sits in for Sarah Kennedy

7.30 Sarah Kennedy: sits in for Terry Wogan

9.30 Ken Bruce

11.30 Jimmy Young

3.30 Ed Stewart

5.05 John Dunn

7.00 Marc Blake's Whining for England

7.30 The Great British Country Music Awards

9.00 Paul Jones

10.00 British Country

10.30 The Jamesons

12.05am Colin Berry: for Steve Madden

3.00am-6.00 Alex Lester

March 1995 highlights

Anne and Nick were still dominating mornings on BBC1 in 1995 - but not the ratings - and there were two lots of Animal Hospital, in CBBC at 4.25, then Animal Hospital Week at 8.00. Top of the Pops was still in its traditional Thursday slot, but who remembers the 'fast-moving drama series set in a local crown prosecution office' at 8.30?

Children's BBC still started at 3.50; it was extended back to 3.30 later in 1995, but CBBC Breakfast on BBC2 was only present from 7.00-8.00 when there was no Open University. Talking of education, BBC2 would go 24 hours (weekdays only) later on this year with the launch of The Learning Zone.

Surprisingly BBC2 was showing The Oprah Winfrey Show, more traditionally a Channel 4/Channel 5 stalwart; following this was Glynn Christian's Entertaining Microwave - did it sing and tell jokes then? Also on 2, the influence of the internet was starting to make its presence known, with Westminster On-Line.

Terry Wogan was back on Radio 2 (but not this particular week), but Radio 1 - on the verge of dropping its '1FM' pseudonym - was going through more painful changes. Another revolution was just around the corner - within four weeks Steve Wright and Bruno Brookes would be gone, with Chris Evans and Dave Pearce taking their places...

And in Radio Times 25-31 March 1995 Price 65p

Radio Times had received its latest, and rather unattractive, revamp the previous autumn (left), and also the first change in its logo since 1972.

The latest series of Absolutely Fabulous was on the cover, and Julia Sawalha was interviewed inside (right). Jonathan King 'had finally got his hands on A Song for Europe' which was shown this week (Love City Groove were the eventual winners of the radically updated contest); "I'm doing this because I love music," said King. And BBC Radio 5 Live marked its first birthday, with controller Jenny Abramsky talking up the station's success over the past year.

There was praise for Dangerfield in the Letters pages, and also for Animal Hospital Week which the writer hoped would be 'given a permanent weekly transmission in future' - her wish was certainly granted!

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